Sukta 19

Mantra 1

अपामार्गः। उतो अस्यबन्धुकृदुतो असि नु जामिकृत्। उतो कृत्याकृतः प्रजां नडमिवा छिन्धि वार्षिकम्

Apāmārga—moreover thou mak’st a friend; moreover, now, thou mak’st a kinsman. Moreover, as worker against the Kṛtyā, cut off the folk’s year-haunting ill, as one would cut a reed.

Mantra 2

ब्राह्मणेन पर्युक्तासि कण्वेन नार्षदेन । सेनेवैषि त्विषीमती न तत्र भयमस्ति यत्र प्राप्नोष्योषधे

By holy spell thou art encompassed—by Kaṇva, by Nārṣada. Like an army thou advancest, full of flashing might: no fear is there where thou attainest, O Herb.

Mantra 3

अग्रमेष्योषधीनां ज्योतिषेवाभिदीपयन्। उत त्रातासि पाकस्याथो हन्तासि रक्षसः

Foremost thou goest of herbs, as with a light thou shinest forth against (the foe). And thou art guardian of the household’s food; moreover thou art the slayer of the Rākṣasas.

Mantra 4

यददो देवा असुरांस्त्वयाग्रे निरकुर्वत । ततस्त्वमध्योषधेऽपामार्गो अजायथाः

When yonder, in the beginning, the Gods by thee thrust forth the Asuras, thence wast thou born, O Herb, as Apāmārga.

Mantra 5

विभिन्दती शतशाखा विभिन्दन् नाम ते पिता। प्रत्यग् वि भिन्धि त्वं तं यो अस्माँ अभिदासति

Splitting-asunder, hundred-branched—‘Splitter’ was the name thy father gave thee. Turn back and split in twain that man who bears us malice and assails us.

Mantra 6

असद् भूम्याः समभवत् तद् यामेति महद् व्यचः । तद् वै ततो विधूपायत् प्रत्यक् कर्तारमृच्छतु

From the earth the Unbeing came together into being; it goes its course, great and wide-spreading. Then indeed it smoked forth; let it reach back upon the doer (of the harm).

Mantra 7

प्रत्यङ् हि संबभूविथ प्रतीचीनफलस्त्वम्। सर्वान् मच्छपथाँ अधि वरीयो यावया वधम्

For thou hast become turned back, with backward-bearing fruit. Over all the curses aimed at me be thou the stronger; drive thou away the deadly harm.

Mantra 8

शतेन मा परि पाहि सहस्रेणाभि रक्ष मा । इन्द्रस्ते वीरुधां पत उग्र ओज्मानमा दधत्

With a hundredfold guard encompass me; with a thousandfold defend me from assault. Indra, the fierce, hath for thee—O lord of plants—set in place the might of strength.