Mantrabrahmana 2.4

We partake of this from the earth, / this auspicious, very fortunate [portion]. / Drive away the rivals! / He finds the wealth of others; / he finds the goods of others.

May we fashion this praise for worthy Jātavedas / with our poetic thought, like a chariot. / For his favor in his assembly is auspicious for us; / O Agni, in your friendship may we suffer no harm.

We bring fuel, we prepare oblations for you, / mindful [of you] at every joint [of time]. / Make our thoughts succeed further for life; / O Agni, in your friendship may we suffer no harm.

May we be able to kindle you; make our thoughts succeed! / In you the gods eat the offered oblation. / Bring hither the Ādityas, for we desire them; / O Agni, in your friendship may we suffer no harm.

Austerity and fiery energy and faith and modesty and truth / and freedom from anger and renunciation and resolve and duty / and purity and speech and mind and self and brahman— / to these I resort; let these protect me! / Bhūḥ! Bhuvaḥ! Svar! Om! / To the great Self I resort.

You are different-eyed, anointed-toothed. / Your couch is in a leaf; your dwelling is in the atmosphere, a golden pavilion. / There the hearts of the gods are placed inside an iron pot. / Balabhṛt and Balasāt protect them, never slumbering, unwinking, truly. / Your twelve sons, / having caused you to sacrifice year after year with the wish-fulfilling sacrifice, / enter upon brahmacarya again. / You are a brāhmaṇa among the gods, I among mortals. / A brāhmaṇa indeed runs to a brāhmaṇa; I run to you. / Do not chant against me as I chant; do not pour oblations against me as I pour oblations; / do not act against me as I act. / To you I resort; impelled by you I will perform this rite: / let that succeed for me, let that prosper for me, let that turn out well for me! / May the all-embracing ocean, the Brahmā, permit me! / May Tutha, who knows all, the son of Brahman, permit me! / May the attentive, benevolent Maitrāvaruṇa permit me! / Homage to that different-eyed, anointed-toothed, all-embracing ocean, / to Tutha who knows all, to the attentive, benevolent, / thousand-eyed son of Brahman!

May the thousand-armed master of cattle / protect the livestock. / May the lord of nourishment place nourishment in me; / may Prajāpati place offspring in me. Svāhā!

The charm of Kautamata, / making me fortunate: / Nākulī is the name of your mother, / and I am Puruṣāmaya. / Whatever of our desire has been broken, / join that together for the two of us, O plant!

You stand like a ripe tree / for all desires, O lord of the earth. / For me, who know you as such, / yield unimpaired, lofty enjoyments!

Cosmic order is established in truth, / the past together with the future. / May space bring down / food for me, and also prosperity!

You have a share in everything, / and everything is resting on you. / With all that, O All, / clothe me, O illuminator!

Like a chest full of treasure, / you give wealth when pleased. / Being unseen, bring forth what is seen; / grant me all desires!

This is the space of space, / this orb which shines here. / Whoever knows you thus, O god, / O ruler, grant me power!

Bhūḥ! Bhuvaḥ! Svar! Om! / May I be like the sun to behold, / like Agni in fiery energy, like Vāyu in vital breath, / like Soma in fragrance, like Bṛhaspati in intellect, / like the Aśvins in form, like Indra and Agni in strength! / May I have the share of brahman; / may those who hate me have the share of evil!