Sukta 76

Mantra 1

गण्डमालाचिकित्सा। आ सुस्रसः सुस्रसो असतीभ्यो असत्तराः । से होररसतरा लवणाद् विक्लेदीयसीः

Treatment for the neck-swellings: Break up, break up well; from those that are malign and ‘unreal’ become yet more as nothing. Yea, let them crumble the more; by salt let them be dried away, let their moisture fail.

Mantra 2

या ग्रैव्या अपचितोऽथो या उपपक्ष्याः । विजाम्नि या अपचितः स्वयंस्रसः

Whether the swellings be of the neck, or whether they be at the side, whether at the shoulder-joint—what swellings there are, let them be self-loosening, falling away of themselves.

Mantra 3

यः कीकसाः प्रशृणाति तलीद्यऽमवतिष्ठति । निर्हास्तं सर्वं जायान्यं यः कश्च ककुदि श्रितः

What talīdya breaks the vertebrae, and, yea, takes its station upon the body—out, verily, to setting let all that jāyānya go, whatsoever, clinging anywhere, is lodged upon the hump of the back.

Mantra 4

पक्षी जायान्यः पतति स आ विशति पूरुषम्। तदक्षितस्य भेषजमुभयोः सुक्षतस्य च

A winged Jāyānya flieth; it entereth into the man. That is the medicine of the uninjured, and of both—yea, of that which is well-stricken also.

Mantra 5

विद्म वै ते जायान्य जानं यतो जायान्य जायसे । कथं ह तत्र त्वं हनो यस्य कृण्मो हविर्गृहे

We know, in sooth, thy birth, O Jāyānya—whence, O Jāyānya, thou art born. How then shalt thou there smite him in whose house we make the oblation?

Mantra 6

धृषत् पिब कलशे सोममिन्द्र वृत्रहा शूर समरे वसूनाम्। माध्यन्दिने सवन आ वृषस्व रयिष्ठानो रयिमस्मासु धेहि

Drink boldly Soma from the jar, O Indra, Vṛtra-slayer, hero in the battle for the treasures. At the midday pressing pour forth thy might; thou wealth-established, set wealth among us.