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# Mantrabrahmana 2.1

Padapāṭha (sandhi-resolved text, TITUS) 2.1

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [2.1.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.mantra!padapatha.2.1.1)

yas prācyām diśi sarpa-rājas  
eṣa te baliṣ //

> O serpent king who are in the eastern quarter,  
> this is your tribute offering.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2.1.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.mantra!padapatha.2.1.2)

yas dakṣiṇasyām diśi sarpa-rājas  
eṣa te baliṣ //

> O serpent king who are in the southern quarter,  
> this is your tribute offering.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2.1.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.mantra!padapatha.2.1.3)

yas prtīcyām diśi sarpa-rājas  
eṣa te baliṣ //

> The serpent king who is in the western direction: this is your tribute offering.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2.1.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.mantra!padapatha.2.1.4)

yas udīcyām diśi sarpa-rājas  
eṣa te baliṣ //

> The serpent king who is in the northern direction: this is your tribute offering.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2.1.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.mantra!padapatha.2.1.5)

namas pṛthivyai dam̐ṣṭrāya  
viśva-bhṛt mā te ante riṣāma /  
sam-hatam mā vi-vadhīṣ  
vi-hatam mā abhi-sam=vadhīṣ //

> Homage to Earth, to the fanged one! / All-sustainer, may we not come to harm at your edge. / Do not slay what is united; / do not crush what is separated.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2.1.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.mantra!padapatha.2.1.6)

somas rājā soma-stambas rājā  
somas asmākam rājā somasya vayam smas /  
ahi-jambhanam asi sauma-stambam  
sauma-stambam ahi-jambhanam asi //

> Soma is king; the Soma-cluster is king. / Soma is our king; we belong to Soma. / You are the serpent-crusher, belonging to the Soma-cluster; / belonging to the Soma-cluster, you are the serpent-crusher.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2.1.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.mantra!padapatha.2.1.7)

yām sam-dhām sam-adhatta  
yūyam sapta-ṛṣibhiṣ saha /  
tām sarpās mā ati-akrāmiṣṭa  
namas vas astu mā nas him̐siṣṭa //

> The compact which you made / together with the Seven Ṛṣis, / that \[compact\], O serpents, do not transgress! / Homage be to you; do not harm us!  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2.1.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.mantra!padapatha.2.1.8)

mā nas toke tanaye mā nas āyau  
mā nas goṣu mā nas aśveṣu rīriṣas /  
vīrān mā nas rudra bhāmitas vadhīṣ  
haviṣmantas sadam it tvā havāmahe //

> Harm not our child, our descendant, nor our life; / harm not our cows, nor our horses! / Slay not our warriors, O Rudra, in your wrath; / bearing oblations, we ever invoke you.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2.1.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.mantra!padapatha.2.1.9)

śata-āyudhāya śata-vīryāya  
śata-ūtaye abhi=māti-sāhe /  
śatam yas nas śaradas ajīyāt  
indras neṣat ati duritāni viśvā //

> To him of a hundred weapons, a hundred powers, / a hundred aids, the conqueror of foes, / that he may not rob us of a hundred autumns, / may Indra lead us beyond all misfortunes.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2.1.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.mantra!padapatha.2.1.10)

ye catvāras pathayas deva-yānās  
antarā dyāvā-pṛthivī vi-yanti /  
teṣām yas a-jyānim a-jītim ā-vahāt  
tasmai nas devās pari-datta iha sarve //

> The four paths of the gods / that extend between Heaven and Earth: / whichever of them brings non-decay and non-defeat, / entrust us to that one here, O all you gods!  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2.1.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.mantra!padapatha.2.1.11)

grīṣmas hemantas uta nas vasantas  
śarat varṣās su-itam nas astu /  
teṣām ṛtūnām śata-śāradānām  
ni-vāte eṣām a-bhaye syāma //

> May summer, winter, and spring, / autumn, and the rains be auspicious for us! / In the sheltered breeze of these seasons of a hundred autumns, / may we abide free from fear.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2.1.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.mantra!padapatha.2.1.12)

it-vatsarāya pari-vatsarāya  
sam-vatsarāya kṛṇutā bṛhat namas /  
teṣām vayam su-matau yajñiyānām  
jyok a-jītās a-hatās syāma //

> To the Idvatsara, to the Parivatsara, / to the Samvatsara render great homage! / In the goodwill of those worshipful \[seasons\] / may we live long, undefeated and unharmed.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2.1.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.mantra!padapatha.2.1.13)

bhadrāt nas śreyas sam-anaiṣṭa devās  
tvayā avasena sam-aśīmahi tvā /  
sa nas mayas-bhūṣ pito ā-viśasva  
śam tokāya tanvai syonas // svāhā //

> From good to better you have guided us, O gods; / through your aid may we attain you. / Enter us, O food, as bringing comfort; / be gentle to our offspring and to our body! Svāhā!  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2.1.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.mantra!padapatha.2.1.14)

amas asi prāṇa tat ṛtam bravīmi  
amā hi asi sarvam anu pra-viṣṭas /  
sa me jarām rogam apa-mṛjya śarīrāt  
a-pāmas edhi mā mṛthās nas indra //

> You are strength, O vital breath; that truth I speak, / for as strength you have entered into everything. / Having wiped away old age and disease from my body, / become free from ailment; do not die on us, O Indra!  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2.1.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.mantra!padapatha.2.1.15)

agniṣ pra-aśnātu prathamas  
sa hi veda yathā haviṣ /  
śivās asmabhyam oṣadhīṣ  
kṛṇotu viśva-carṣaṇiṣ // svāhā //

> May Agni eat first, / for he knows how \[to receive\] the oblation; / may he, who attends to all people, / make the plants auspicious for us. Svāhā!  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2.1.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.mantra!padapatha.2.1.16)

etam u tyam madhunā sam-yutam yavam  
sarasvatyās adhi manau acakṛṣuṣ /  
indras āsīt sīra-patiṣ śata-kratuṣ  
kīnāśās āsan marutas su-dānavas // svāhā //

> That very barley mixed with honey / they ploughed along the Sarasvatī for Manu; / Indra of a hundred rites was the lord of the plough, / the Maruts, bountiful givers, were the ploughmen. Svāhā!  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.mantra!padapatha~en-mt.2.1.1) — English, machine translation

## Linked texts (1)

- [Mantrabrāhmaṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.mantra.2.1.1) — Sanskrit

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