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White Yajurveda, Book XXXVIशुक्लयजुर्वेद अध्याय ३६
24 verses. Sanskrit beside Ralph T. H. Griffith’s English (1899).
Sanskrit source · English source
Where a verse number appears on one side only, the two editions divide the text differently: Griffith sometimes joins two verses, abridges a repeated passage, or leaves a passage untranslated (shown in his text by rows of dots), and a few verse numbers are missing from the Sanskrit transcription.
Verse: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
Sanskrit
वाग् ओजः सहौजो मयि प्राणापानौ ॥
English Griffith 1899
REFUGE I take in Speech as Rich: refuge in Mind as
Yajus-text; refuge in Breath as Sâma-chant; refuge in
Hearing and in Sight.
Speech-energy endowed with strength, inbreath and
outbreath are in me.
Sanskrit
शं नो भवतु भुवनस्य यस् पतिः ॥
English Griffith 1899
Whatever deeply-sunk defect I have of eye, or mind, or
heart, that way Brihaspati amend!
Gracious to us be he, Protector of the world.
Sanskrit
तत् सवितुर् वरेण्यं भर्गो देवस्य धीमहि ।
धियो यो नः प्रचोदयात् ॥
English Griffith 1899
Earth! Ether! Heaven! May we attain that excellent, etc.,
as in III. 33.
With what help will he come to us etc., as in XXVII. 39.
Sanskrit
कया शचिष्ठया वृता ॥
English Griffith 1899
No separate verse 4 in Griffith’s English.
Sanskrit
दृढा चिद् आरुजे वसु ॥
English Griffith 1899
What genuine, etc., as in XXVII. 40.
Sanskrit
शतं भवास्य् ऊतिभिः ॥
English Griffith 1899
Do thou who art, etc., as in XXVII. 41.
Sanskrit
कया स्तोतृभ्य ऽ आ भर ॥
English Griffith 1899
O Hero, with what aid dost thou delight us, with what
succour bring
Riches to those who worship thee?
Sanskrit
शं नो ऽ अस्तु द्विपदे शं चतुष्पदे ॥
English Griffith 1899
Indra is king of all that is: may weal attend our bipeds and
our quadrupeds.
Sanskrit
शं न ऽ इन्द्रो बृहस्पतिः शं नो विष्णुर् उरुक्रमः ॥
English Griffith 1899
Gracious he Mitra unto us, and Varuna and Aryaman;
Indra, Brihaspati be kind, and Vishnu of the mighty stride.
Sanskrit
शं नः कनिक्रदद् देवः पर्जन्यो ऽ अभि वर्षतु ॥
English Griffith 1899
Pleasantly blow the wind for us, may Sûrya warm us
pleasantly.
Pleasantly, with a roar, the God Parjanya send the rain on us.
Sanskrit
शं न ऽ इन्द्राग्नी भवताम् अवोभिः शं न ऽ इन्द्रावरुणा रातहव्या ।
शं न ऽ इन्द्रापूषणा वाजसातौ शम् इन्द्रासोमा सुविताय शं योः ॥
English Griffith 1899
May days pass pleasantly for us, may nights draw near
delightfully.
Befriend us with their aids Indra and Agni, Indra and
Varuna who taste oblations.
Indra and Pûshan be our help in battle, Indra and Soma
give health, strength, and comfort.
Sanskrit
शं योर् अभि स्रवन्तु नः ॥
English Griffith 1899
May the celestial Waters, our helpers, be sweet for us to drink,
And flow with health and strength to us.
Sanskrit
यच्छा नः शर्म सप्रथाः ॥
English Griffith 1899
Pleasant be thou to us, O Earth, etc., as in XXXV. 21.
Sanskrit
महे रणाय चक्षसे ॥
English Griffith 1899
Ye, Waters, are, etc., as in XL 50.
Sanskrit
उशतीर् इव मातरः ॥
English Griffith 1899
Give us a portion, etc., as in XI. 51.
Sanskrit
आपो जनयथा च नः ॥
English Griffith 1899
To you we gladly come, etc., as in XI. 52,
Sanskrit
वनस्पतयः शान्तिर् विश्वे देवाः शान्तिर् ब्रह्म शान्तिः सर्वꣳ शान्तिः शान्तिर् एव शान्तिः सा मा शान्तिर् एधि ॥
English Griffith 1899
Sky alleviation, Air alleviation, Earth alleviation, Plants
alleviation,
Trees alleviation, All-Gods alleviation, Brahma alleviation,
Universe alleviation, just Alleviation alleviation—may
that alleviation come to me!
Sanskrit
मित्रस्याहं चक्षुषा सर्वाणि भूतानि समीक्षे ।
मित्रस्य चक्षुषा सम् ईक्षामहे ॥
English Griffith 1899
Caldron, strengthen me. May all beings regard me with the
eye of a friend. May I regard all beings with the eye of
a friend.
With the eye of a friend do we regard one another.
Sanskrit
ज्योक् ते संदृशि जीव्यासं ज्योक् ते संदृशि जीव्यासम् ॥
English Griffith 1899
Do thou, O Caldron, strengthen me. Long may I live to
look on thee. Long may I live to look on thee.
Sanskrit
अन्याꣳस् ते ऽ अस्मत् तपन्तु हेतयः पावको ऽ अस्मभ्यꣳ शिवो भव ॥
English Griffith 1899
Obeisance to thy wrath and glow, etc., as in XXII. 11.
Sanskrit
नमस् ते भगवन्न् अस्तु यतः स्वः समीहसे ॥
English Griffith 1899
Homage to thee the lightning flash, homage to thee the
thunder's roar!
Homage, O Bounteous Lord, to thee whereas thou fain
wouldst win to heaven!
Sanskrit
शं नः कुरु प्रजाभ्यो ऽभयं नः पशुभ्यः ॥
English Griffith 1899
From whatsoever trouble thou desirest, give us safety thence.
Give to our children happiness and to our beasts security.
Sanskrit
English Griffith 1899
To us let Waters and let Plants be friendly, etc., as in VI. 23.
21 Through hundred autumns may we see that bright Eye,
God-appointed, rise,
A hundred autumns may we live.
Through hundred autumns may we hear; through hundred
autumns clearly speak: through hundred autumns live
content; a hundred autumns, yea, beyond a hundred
autumns may we see.
Sanskrit
पश्येम शरदः शतं जीवेम शरदः शतꣳ शृणुयाम शरदः शतं प्र ब्रवाम शरदः शतम् अदीनाः स्याम शरदः शतं भूयश् च शरदः शतात् ॥
English Griffith 1899
No separate verse 24 in Griffith’s English.