Glorification of the prime cause of all things

1Vena beholds That Highest which lies hidden, wherein this All resumes one form and fashion. Thence Prisni milked all life that had existence: the hosts that know the light with songs extolled her.

2Knowing Eternity, may the Gandharva declare to us that highest secret station. Three steps thereof lie hidden in the darkness: he who knows these shall be the father’s father.

3He is our kinsman, father, and begetter: he knows all beings and all Ordinances. He only gave the Gods their appellations: all creatures go to him to ask direction.

4I have gone forth around the earth and heaven, I have approached the first-born Son of Order. He, putting voice, as ‘twere, within the speaker, stands in the world, he, verily is Agni.

5I round the circumjacent worlds have travelled to see the far-extended thread of Order. Wherein the Gods, obtaining life eternal, have risen upward to one common birthplace.

A charm to ensure success in gambling

1Lord of the World, divine Gandharva, only he should be honoured in the Tribes and worshipped. Fast with my spell, celestial God, I hold thee. Homage to thee! Thy home is in the heavens.

2Sky-reaching, like the Sun in brightness, holy, he who averts from us the Gods’ displeasure. Lord of the World, may the Gandharva bless us, the friendly God who only must be worshipped.

3I came, I met these faultless, blameless beings: among the Apsarases was the Gandharva. Their home is in the sea — so men have told me, — whence they come quickly hitherward and vanish.

4Thou, Cloudy! ye who follow the Gandharva Visvā-vasu, ye, Starry! Lightning-Flasher! You, O ye Goddesses, I truly worship.

5Haunters of darkness, shrill in voice, dice-lovers, maddeners of the mind To these have I paid homage, the Gandharva’s wives, Apsarases.

A water-cure charm

1That little spring of water which is running downward from the hill I turn to healing balm for thee that thou mayst be good medicine.

2Hither and onward! Well! Come on! Among thy hundred remedies Most excellent of all art thou, curing disease and morbid flow.

3The Asuras bury deep in earth this mighty thing that healeth wounds. This is the cure for morbid flow, this driveth malady away.

4The emmets from the water-flood produce this healing medicine: This is the cure for morbid flow, this driveth malady away.

5Mighty is this wound-healing balm: from out the earth was it produced. This is the cure for morbid flow, this driveth malady away.

6Bless us the Waters! be the Plants auspicious! May Indra’s thunderbolt drive off the demons. Far from us fall the shafts they shoot against us!

A charm to ensure health and prosperity by wearing an amulet

1For length of life, for mighty joy, uninjured, ever showing strength. We wear Vishkandha’s antidote, the Amulet of Jangida.