Sukta 20

Mantra 1

पिशाचक्षयणम्। आ पश्यति प्रति पश्यति परा पश्यति पश्यति । दिवमन्तरिक्षमाद् भूमिं सर्वं तद् देवि पश्यति

A Piśāca-destroyer is she: she looketh hither, she looketh back in answer, she looketh forth afar—she looketh. From heaven, from mid-air, down unto earth, all that is, O Goddess, she beholdeth.

Mantra 2

तिस्रो दिवस्तिस्रः पृथिवीः षट् चेमाः प्रदिशः पृथक्। त्वयाहं सर्वा भूतानि पश्यानि देव्योषधे

Three are the heavens, three the earths; and six, apart, are these directions. By thee may I behold all beings, O Goddess Plant.

Mantra 3

दिव्यस्य सुपर्णस्य तस्य हासि कनीनिका । सा भूमिमा रुरोहिथ वह्यं श्रान्ता वधूरिव

Of the heavenly fair-winged one—of him, indeed—thou art the eye’s pupil. Down to the earth hast thou come forth, to be borne about, wearied as it were, like a bride.

Mantra 4

तां मे सहस्राक्षो देवो दक्षिणे हस्त आ दधत्। तयाहं सर्वं पश्यामि यश्च शूद्र उतार्यः

Her hath the thousand-eyed God set for me within my right hand. By her I see the whole—both he who is Śūdra and also he who is Ārya.

Mantra 5

आविष्कृणुष्व रूपाणि मात्मानमप गूहथाः । अथो सहस्रचक्षो त्वं प्रति पश्याः किमीदिनः

Make thou the forms manifest; hide not thine own self away. Moreover, O thousand-eyed, do thou look forth, confronting the Kīmīdins.

Mantra 6

दर्शय मा यातुधानान् दर्शय यातुधान्यः । पिशाचान्त्सर्वान् दर्शयेति त्वा रभ ओषधे

Show me the Yātudhānas; show the Yātudhānīs. Show all the Piśācas: thus do I lay hold on thee, O Herb.

Mantra 7

कश्यपस्य चक्षुरसि शुन्याश्च चतुरक्ष्याः । वीध्रे सूर्यमिव सर्पन्तं मा पिशाचं तिरस्करः

Thou art the eye of Kaśyapa, and of Śunī the four-eyed. O wise one, as the Sun [reveals], so do not thou hide from me the creeping Piśāca.

Mantra 8

उदग्रभं परिपाणाद् यातुधानं किमीदिनम्। तेनाहं सर्वं पश्याम्युत शूद्रमुतार्यम्

Forth from the grasping hand I have seized the Yātudhāna, the Kīmīdin. Therewith I behold all things—both Śūdra and Ārya.

Mantra 9

यो अन्तरिक्षेण पतति दिवं यश्चातिसर्पति । भूमिं यो मन्यते नाथं तं पिशाचं प्र दर्शय

Whoso flies through mid-air unto the sky, and whoso creeps abroad upon the earth; whoso deems the earth his lordship—him, that Piśāca, do thou show forth.