Yāska's Nirukta 13.5

13.5

``sṛṇyeva jarbharī turpharītū naitośeva turpharī parpharīkā/
udanyajeva jemanā maderū tā me jarāyv ajaram marāyu/''
sṛṇī eva iti/
dvividhā sṛṇir bhavati/
bhartā ca hantā ca/
tathā aśvinau ca api bhartād/
jarbharī bhartād ity arthah/
turpharītū hantād/
naitośeva turpharī parpharīkā/
nitośasya apatyam naitośam/
naitośā iva turpharī kṣipra hantād/
udanyajeva jemanā maderū/
udanyajā iva ity udakaje iva ratna1d/
sāmudre cāndram asi iti vā/
jemana1d jayamana1d/
jemanā maderū/
tā me jarāyu ajaram marāyu/
etat jarāyujam śarīram śaradam ajīrṇam/
atha eṣā somasya/

"Like two sickles, nourishing and destroying; like two birds of prey(?), destroying and scattering;
like two water-born beings, victorious and exhilarating; may these two [keep] my aging [body] unaging, heading towards death."
"Like two sickles":
A sickle is of two kinds:
both a sustainer and a destroyer.
Likewise, the Aśvins also are two sustainers.
*Jarbharī* means two sustainers.
*Turpharītū* means two destroyers.
"Like two birds of prey(?), destroying and scattering":
*naitośa* is the offspring of *nitośa*;
like two birds of prey(?), two swift destroyers.
"Like two water-born beings, victorious and exhilarating":
"like two water-born beings" means like two water-born gems;
or in the ocean, in the moon.
*Jemanā*: two victorious ones.
Two victorious and exhilarating ones.
"May these two [keep] my aging [body] unaging, heading towards death":
this body born from the womb, through autumn, unaged.
Now this [verse] is of Soma: