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ओ चित्सखायं सख्या ववृत्यां तिरः पुरू चिदर्णवं जगन्वान्। पितुर्नपातमा दधीत वेधा अधि क्षमि प्रतरं दीध्यानः॥

o citsakhāyaṁ sakhyā vavṛtyāṁ tiraḥ purū cidarṇavaṁ jaganvān | piturnapātamā dadhīta vedhā adhi kṣami prataraṁ dīdhyānaḥ ||

FAIN would I win my friend to kindly friendship. So may the Sage, come through the air's wide ocean, Remembering the earth and days to follow, obtain a son, the issue of his father.

न ते सखा सख्यं वष्ट्येतत्सलक्ष्मा यद्विषुरूपा भवाति। महस्पुत्रासो असुरस्य वीरा दिवो धर्तार उर्विया परि ख्यन्॥

na te sakhā sakhyaṁ vaṣṭyetatsalakṣmā yadviṣurūpā bhavāti | mahasputrāso asurasya vīrā divo dhartāra urviyā pari khyan ||

Thy friend loves not the friendship which considers her who is near in kindred as stranger. Sons of the mighty Asura, the Heroes, supporters of the heavens, see far around them.

उशन्ति घा ते अमृतास एतदेकस्य चित्त्यजसं मर्त्यस्य। नि ते मनो मनसि धाय्यस्मे जन्युः पतिस्तन्वमा विविश्याः॥

uśanti ghā te amṛtāsa etadekasya cittyajasaṁ martyasya | ni te mano manasi dhāyyasme janyuḥ patistanvamā viviśyāḥ ||

Yea, this the Immortals seek of thee with longing, progeny of the sole existing mortal. Then let thy soul and mine be knit together, and as a loving husband take thy consort.

न यत्पुरा चकृमा कद्ध नूनमृता वदन्तो अनृतं रपेम। गन्धर्वो अप्स्वप्या च योषा सा नो नाभिः परमं जामि तन्नौ॥

na yatpurā cakṛmā kaddha nūnamṛtā vadanto anṛtaṁ rapema | gandharvo apsvapyā ca yoṣā sā no nābhiḥ paramaṁ jāmi tannau ||

Shall we do now what we ne'er did aforetime? we who spake righteously now talk impurely? Gandharva in the floods, the Dame of Waters-such is our bond, such our most lofty kinship.

गर्भे नु नौ जनिता दम्पती कर्देवस्त्वष्टा सविता विश्वरूपः। नकिरस्य प्र मिनन्ति व्रतानि वेद नावस्य पृथिवी उत द्यौः॥

garbhe nu nau janitā dampatī kardevastvaṣṭā savitā viśvarūpaḥ | nakirasya pra minanti vratāni veda nāvasya pṛthivī uta dyauḥ ||

Even in the womb God Tvastar, Vivifier, shaping all forms, Creator, made us consorts. None violates his holy ordinances: that we are his the heavens and earth acknowledge.

को अस्य वेद प्रथमस्याह्नः क ईं ददर्श क इह प्र वोचत्। बृहन्मित्रस्य वरुणस्य धाम कदु ब्रव आहनो वीच्या नॄन्॥

ko asya veda prathamasyāhnaḥ ka īṁ dadarśa ka iha pra vocat | bṛhanmitrasya varuṇasya dhāma kadu brava āhano vīcyā nṝn ||

Who knows that earliest day whereof thou speakest? Who hatb beheld it? Who can here declare it? Great is the Law of Varuna and Mitra. What, wanton! wilt thou say to men to tempt them?

यमस्य मा यम्यं काम आगन्समाने योनौ सहशेय्याय। जायेव पत्ये तन्वं रिरिच्यां वि चिद्वृहेव रथ्येव चक्रा॥

yamasya mā yamyaṁ kāma āgansamāne yonau sahaśeyyāya | jāyeva patye tanvaṁ riricyāṁ vi cidvṛheva rathyeva cakrā ||

I, Yami, am possessed by love of Yama, that I may rest on the same couch beside him. I as a wife would yield me to my husband. Like car-wheels let us speed to meet each other.

न तिष्ठन्ति न नि मिषन्त्येते देवानां स्पश इह ये चरन्ति। अन्येन मदाहनो याहि तूयं तेन वि वृह रथ्येव चक्रा॥

na tiṣṭhanti na ni miṣantyete devānāṁ spaśa iha ye caranti | anyena madāhano yāhi tūyaṁ tena vi vṛha rathyeva cakrā ||

They stand not still, they never close their eyelids, those sentinels of Gods who wander round us. Not me-go quickly, wanton, with another, and hasten like a chariot wheel to meet him.

रात्रीभिरस्मा अहभिर्दशस्येत्सूर्यस्य चक्षुर्मुहुरुन्मिमीयात्। दिवा पृथिव्या मिथुना सबन्धू यमीर्यमस्य बिभृयादजामि॥

rātrībhirasmā ahabhirdaśasyetsūryasya cakṣurmuhurunmimīyāt | divā pṛthivyā mithunā sabandhū yamīryamasya bibhṛyādajāmi ||

May Surya's eye with days and nights endow him, and ever may his light spread out before him. In heaven and earth the kindred Pair commingle. On Yam! be the unbrotherly act of Yama.

आ घा ता गच्छानुत्तरा युगानि यत्र जामयः कृणवन्नजामि। उप बर्बृहि वृषभाय बाहुमन्यमिच्छस्व सुभगे पतिं मत्॥

ā ghā tā gacchānuttarā yugāni yatra jāmayaḥ kṛṇavannajāmi | upa barbṛhi vṛṣabhāya bāhumanyamicchasva subhage patiṁ mat ||

Sure there will come succeeding times when brothers and sisters will do acts unmeet for kinsfolk. Not me, O fair one,-seek another husband, and make thine arm a pillow for thy consort.

किं भ्रातासद्यदनाथं भवाति किमु स्वसा यन्निरृतिर्निगच्छात्। काममूता बह्वेतद्रपामि तन्वा मे तन्वं सं पिपृग्धि॥

kiṁ bhrātāsadyadanāthaṁ bhavāti kimu svasā yannirṛtirnigacchāt | kāmamūtā bahvetadrapāmi tanvā me tanvaṁ saṁ pipṛgdhi ||

Is he a brother when no lord is left her? Is she a sister when Destruction cometh? Forced by my love these many words I utter. Come near, and hold me in thy close embraces.

न वा उ ते तन्वा तन्वं सं पपृच्यां पापमाहुर्यः स्वसारं निगच्छात्। अन्येन मत्प्रमुदः कल्पयस्व न ते भ्राता सुभगे वष्ट्येतत्॥

na vā u te tanvā tanvaṁ saṁ papṛcyāṁ pāpamāhuryaḥ svasāraṁ nigacchāt | anyena matpramudaḥ kalpayasva na te bhrātā subhage vaṣṭyetat ||

I will not fold mine arms about thy body: they call it sin when one comes near his sister. Not me,-prepare thy pleasures with another: thy brother seeks not this from thee, O fair one.

बतो बतासि यम नैव ते मनो हृदयं चाविदाम। अन्या किल त्वां कक्ष्येव युक्तं परि ष्वजाते लिबुजेव वृक्षम्॥

bato batāsi yama naiva te mano hṛdayaṁ cāvidāma | anyā kila tvāṁ kakṣyeva yuktaṁ pari ṣvajāte libujeva vṛkṣam ||

Alas! thou art indeed a weakling, Yama we find in thee no trace of heart or spirit. As round the tree the woodbine clings, another will cling albout thee girt as with a girdle.

अन्यमू षु त्वं यम्यन्य उ त्वां परि ष्वजाते लिबुजेव वृक्षम्। तस्य वा त्वं मन इच्छा स वा तवाधा कृणुष्व संविदं सुभद्राम्॥

anyamū ṣu tvaṁ yamyanya u tvāṁ pari ṣvajāte libujeva vṛkṣam | tasya vā tvaṁ mana icchā sa vā tavādhā kṛṇuṣva saṁvidaṁ subhadrām ||

Embrace another, Yami; let another, even as the woodbine rings the tree, enfold thee. Win thou his heart and let him win thy fancy, and he shall form with thee a blest alliance.