White Yajurveda — Vajasaneyi Samhita — Chapter 30

VS 30.1

देव सवितः प्र सुव यज्ञं प्र सुव यज्ञपतिं भगाय दिव्यो गन्धर्वः केतुपूः केतं नः पुनातु वाचस्पतिर् वाजं नः स्वदतु

deva savitaḥ pra suva yajñaṃ pra suva yajñapatiṃ bhagāya divyo gandharvaḥ ketupūḥ ketaṃ naḥ punātu vācaspatir vājaṃ naḥ svadatu

O god Savitṛ, impel forth the sacrifice, impel forth the lord of the sacrifice for (his) share. Let the heavenly Gandharva, purifier of intention, purify our intention; let the lord of speech make our prize sweet.

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VS 30.2

तत् सवितुर् वरेण्यं भर्गो देवस्य धीमहि धियो यो नः प्रचोदयत्

tat savitur vareṇyaṃ bhargo devasya dhīmahi dhiyo yo naḥ pracodayat

May we take to ourselves that desirable radiance of the god Savitṛ, who shall impel our thoughts.

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VS 30.3

विश्वानि देव सवितर् दुरितानि परा सुव यद् भद्रं तन् न आ सुव

viśvāni deva savitar duritāni parā suva yad bhadraṃ tan na ā suva

O god Savitṛ, impel away all difficulties; what is good, impel that towards us.

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VS 30.4

विभक्तारꣳ हवामहे वसोश् चित्रस्य राधसः सवितारं नृचक्षसम्

vibhaktāraṁ havāmahe vasoś citrasya rādhasaḥ savitāraṃ nṛcakṣasam

We call upon the distributor of goods, of bright bounty, Savitṛ who looks upon men.

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VS 30.5

ब्रह्मणे ब्राह्मणं क्षत्राय राजन्यं मरुद्भ्यो वैश्यं तपसे शूद्रं तमसे तस्करं नारकाय वीरहणं पाप्मने क्लीबम् आक्रयाया अयोगूं कामाय पुꣳश्चलूम् अतिक्रुष्टाय मागधम्

brahmaṇe brāhmaṇaṃ kṣatrāya rājanyaṃ marudbhyo vaiśyaṃ tapase śūdraṃ tamase taskaraṃ nārakāya vīrahaṇaṃ pāpmane klībam ākrayāyā ayogūṃ kāmāya puṁścalūm atikruṣṭāya māgadham

For brahman, a brāhmaṇa; for kṣatra, a rājanya; for the Maruts, a vaiśya; for penance, a śūdra; for darkness, a thief; for hell, a slayer of heroes; for evil, a eunuch; for buying, a hybrid (ayogū); for desire, a whore; for over-loud outcry, a Māgadha.

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VS 30.6

नृत्ताय सूतं गीताय शैलूषं धर्माय सभाचरं नरिष्ठायै भीमलं नर्माय रेभꣳ हसाय कारिम् आनन्दाय स्त्रीषुखं प्रमदे कुमारीपुत्रं मेधायै रथकारं धैर्याय तक्षाणम्

nṛttāya sūtaṃ gītāya śailūṣaṃ dharmāya sabhācaraṃ nariṣṭhāyai bhīmalaṃ narmāya rebhaṁ hasāya kārim ānandāya strīṣukhaṃ pramade kumārīputraṃ medhāyai rathakāraṃ dhairyāya takṣāṇam

For dance, a sūta; for song, an actor; for dharma, an attender of the assembly; for sport(?), a bhīmala; for jest, a bard; for laughter, a kāri; for delight, a woman's favourite; for pleasure, a maiden's son; for skill, a chariot-maker; for steadfastness, a carpenter.

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VS 30.7

तपसे कौलालं मायायै कर्मारꣳ रूपाय मणिकारꣳ शुभे वपꣳ शरव्याया इषुकारꣳ हेत्यै धनुष्कारं कर्मणे ज्याकारं दिष्टाय रज्जुसर्जं मृत्यवे मृगयुम् अन्तकाय श्वनिनम्

tapase kaulālaṃ māyāyai karmāraṁ rūpāya maṇikāraṁ śubhe vapaṁ śaravyāyā iṣukāraṁ hetyai dhanuṣkāraṃ karmaṇe jyākāraṃ diṣṭāya rajjusarjaṃ mṛtyave mṛgayum antakāya śvaninam

For penance, a potter; for magic, a smith; for beauty, a jeweller; for splendour, a weaver(?); for the arrow-flight, an arrow-maker; for the missile, a bow-maker; for work, a bowstring-maker; for fate, a rope-maker; for death, a hunter; for the ender, a keeper of dogs.

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VS 30.8

नदीभ्यः पौञ्जिष्ठम् ऋक्षीकाभ्यो नैषादं पुरुषव्याघ्राय दुर्मदं गन्धर्वाप्सरोभ्यो व्रात्यं प्रयुग्भ्य उन्मत्तꣳ सर्पदेवजनेभ्यो प्रतिपदमयेभ्यः कितवम् ईर्यताया अकितवं पिशाचेभ्यो बिदलकारीं यातुधानेभ्यः कण्टकीकारीम्

nadībhyaḥ pauñjiṣṭham ṛkṣīkābhyo naiṣādaṃ puruṣavyāghrāya durmadaṃ gandharvāpsarobhyo vrātyaṃ prayugbhya unmattaṁ sarpadevajanebhyo pratipadamayebhyaḥ kitavam īryatāyā akitavaṃ piśācebhyo bidalakārīṃ yātudhānebhyaḥ kaṇṭakīkārīm

For the rivers, a fisherman with the net; for the ṛkṣīkā women(?), a Niṣāda; for the man-tiger, one drunk with evil drink; for the Gandharvas and Apsarases, a Vrātya; for the Prayuj (harnessing powers), a madman; for the serpents and the divine folk, a ... ; for the pratipadamaya, a gambler; for īryatā, a non-gambler; for the Piśācas, a woman who makes bidala; for the Yātudhānas, a woman who makes thorn-work.

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VS 30.9

संधये जारं गेहायोपपतिम् आर्त्यै परिवित्तं निरृत्यै परिविविदानम् अराद्ध्या एदिधिषुःपतिं निष्कृत्यै पेशस्कारीꣳ संज्ञानाय स्मरकारीं प्रकामोद्यायोपसदं वर्णायानुरुधं बलायोपदाम्

saṃdhaye jāraṃ gehāyopapatim ārtyai parivittaṃ nirṛtyai parivividānam arāddhyā edidhiṣuḥpatiṃ niṣkṛtyai peśaskārīṁ saṃjñānāya smarakārīṃ prakāmodyāyopasadaṃ varṇāyānurudhaṃ balāyopadām

For union, a paramour; for the house, a lover; for calamity, one passed over (an elder brother unmarried while the younger marries); for Nirṛti, one who marries before his elder brother; for failure, the husband of a woman who seeks a second husband; for adornment, a woman who makes ornaments; for concord, a woman who makes (men) remember; for speaking as one pleases, an attendant; for good repute(?), a compliant one; for strength, a bribe.

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VS 30.10

उत्सादेभ्यः कुब्जं प्रमुदे वामनं द्वार्भ्यः स्रामꣳ स्वप्नायान्धम् अर्धमाय बधिरं पवित्राय भिषजं प्रज्ञानाय नक्षत्रदर्शम् आशिक्षायै प्रश्निनम् उपशिक्षाया अभिप्रश्निनं मर्यादायै प्रश्नविवाकम्

utsādebhyaḥ kubjaṃ pramude vāmanaṃ dvārbhyaḥ srāmaṁ svapnāyāndham ardhamāya badhiraṃ pavitrāya bhiṣajaṃ prajñānāya nakṣatradarśam āśikṣāyai praśninam upaśikṣāyā abhipraśninaṃ maryādāyai praśnavivākam

For the utsādas, a hunchback; for gladness, a dwarf; for the doors, a lame man; for sleep, a blind man; for ardhama(?), a deaf man; for purification, a physician; for knowledge, an observer of the stars; for the wish to learn, a questioner; for the wish to help learning, a counter-questioner; for the boundary, a decider of questions.

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VS 30.11

अम्र्भ्यो हस्तिपं जवायाश्वपं पुष्ट्यै गोपालं वीर्यायाविपालं तेजसे जपालम् इरायै कीनाशं कीलालाय सुराकारं भद्राय गृहपꣳ श्रेयसे वित्तधम् आध्यक्ष्यायानुक्षत्तारम्

amrbhyo hastipaṃ javāyāśvapaṃ puṣṭyai gopālaṃ vīryāyāvipālaṃ tejase japālam irāyai kīnāśaṃ kīlālāya surākāraṃ bhadrāya gṛhapaṁ śreyase vittadham ādhyakṣyāyānukṣattāram

For ? an elephant-keeper; for speed a horse-keeper; for thriving a cowherd; for manly strength a shepherd; for brilliance a japāla (mutterer); for refreshment a ploughman; for sweet drink a liquor-maker; for well-being a house-keeper; for prosperity a treasurer; for overseership an under-chamberlain.

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VS 30.12

भायै दार्वाहारं प्रभाया अग्न्येधं ब्रध्नस्य विष्टपायाभिषेक्तारं वर्षिष्ठाय नाकाय परिवेष्टारं देवलोकाय पेशितारं मनुष्यलोकाय प्रकरितारꣳ सर्वेभ्यो लोकेभ्यो उपसेक्तारम् अवऋत्यै बधायोपमन्थितारं मेधाय वासःपल्पूलीं प्रकामाय रजयित्रीम्

bhāyai dārvāhāraṃ prabhāyā agnyedhaṃ bradhnasya viṣṭapāyābhiṣektāraṃ varṣiṣṭhāya nākāya pariveṣṭāraṃ devalokāya peśitāraṃ manuṣyalokāya prakaritāraṁ sarvebhyo lokebhyo upasektāram avaṛtyai badhāyopamanthitāraṃ medhāya vāsaḥpalpūlīṃ prakāmāya rajayitrīm

For light a wood-carrier; for radiance a fire-kindler; for the height of the sun a consecrator (one who sprinkles); for the highest firmament a server (of food); for the world of the gods a carver; for the world of men a distributor; for all the worlds one who pours on (the gravy); for destitution, for slaughter, a churner; for vigour a washerwoman of clothes; for desire-at-will a dyeing-woman.

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VS 30.13

ऋतये स्तेनहृदयं वैरहत्याय पिशुनं विविक्त्यै क्षत्तारम् औपद्रष्ट्र्यायानुक्षत्तारं बालायानुचरं भूम्ने परिष्कन्दं प्रियाय प्रियवादिनम् अरिष्ट्या अश्वसादꣳ स्वर्गाय लोकाय भागदुघं वर्षिष्ठाय नाकाय परिवेष्टारम्

ṛtaye stenahṛdayaṃ vairahatyāya piśunaṃ viviktyai kṣattāram aupadraṣṭryāyānukṣattāraṃ bālāyānucaraṃ bhūmne pariṣkandaṃ priyāya priyavādinam ariṣṭyā aśvasādaṁ svargāya lokāya bhāgadughaṃ varṣiṣṭhāya nākāya pariveṣṭāram

For truth (ṛta) one with a thief's heart; for the slaying in feud a slanderer; for discernment a chamberlain; for supervision an under-chamberlain; for childishness a follower; for abundance an outrunner; for what is dear a speaker of dear words; for freedom from harm a horse-groom; for the heavenly world a distributor of portions; for the highest firmament a server.

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VS 30.14

मन्यवे यस्तापं क्रोधाय निसरं योगाय योक्तारꣳ शोकायाभिसर्तारं क्षेमाय विमोक्तारम् उत्कूलेभ्यस् त्रिष्ठिनं वपुषे मानस्कृतꣳ शीलायाञ्जनीकारीं निरृत्यै कोशकारीं यमायासूम्

manyave yastāpaṃ krodhāya nisaraṃ yogāya yoktāraṁ śokāyābhisartāraṃ kṣemāya vimoktāram utkūlebhyas triṣṭhinaṃ vapuṣe mānaskṛtaṁ śīlāyāñjanīkārīṃ nirṛtyai kośakārīṃ yamāyāsūm

For wrath a tormentor(?); for anger an assailant; for yoking a yoker; for grief one who runs after; for security an unyoker; for steep banks a triṣṭhin; for bodily beauty one made by the mind; for good conduct a woman who makes ointment; for Nirṛti a woman who makes sheaths; for Yama a midwife.

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VS 30.15

यमाय यमसूम् अथर्वभ्यो वतोकाꣳ संवत्सराय पर्यायिणीं परिवत्सरायाविजाताम् इदावत्सरायातीत्वरीम् इद्वत्सरायातिष्कद्वरीं वत्सराय विजर्जराꣳ संवत्सराय पलिक्नीम् ऋभुभ्यो जिनसंधꣳ साध्येभ्यश् चर्मम्नम्

yamāya yamasūm atharvabhyo vatokāṁ saṃvatsarāya paryāyiṇīṃ parivatsarāyāvijātām idāvatsarāyātītvarīm idvatsarāyātiṣkadvarīṃ vatsarāya vijarjarāṁ saṃvatsarāya paliknīm ṛbhubhyo jinasaṃdhaṁ sādhyebhyaś carmamnam

For Yama a woman who bears twins; for the Atharvans a woman whose child is dead(?); for the saṃvatsara (year) a woman who miscarries repeatedly; for the parivatsara one who has not given birth; for the idāvatsara one who has passed (her time); for the idvatsara one who has overleapt; for the vatsara a worn-out woman; for the saṃvatsara a grey-haired woman; for the Ṛbhus a jinasaṃdha(?); for the Sādhyas a tanner of hides.

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VS 30.16

सरेभ्यो धैवरम् उपस्थावराभ्यो दाशं वैशन्ताभ्यो बैन्दं नड्वलाभ्यः शौष्कलं पाराय मार्गारम् अवराय केवर्तं तीर्थेभ्य आन्दं विषमेभ्यो मैनालꣳ स्वनेभ्यः पर्णकं गुहाभ्यः किरातꣳ सानुभ्यो जम्भकं पर्वतेभ्यः किम्पूरुषम्

sarebhyo dhaivaram upasthāvarābhyo dāśaṃ vaiśantābhyo baindaṃ naḍvalābhyaḥ śauṣkalaṃ pārāya mārgāram avarāya kevartaṃ tīrthebhya āndaṃ viṣamebhyo mainālaṁ svanebhyaḥ parṇakaṃ guhābhyaḥ kirātaṁ sānubhyo jambhakaṃ parvatebhyaḥ kimpūruṣam

For lakes a fisherman (dhaivara); for standing waters a dāśa; for ponds a baindu; for reed-beds a śauṣkala; for the far bank a mārgāra; for the near bank a fisher (kevarta); for fords an ānda; for rough ground a maināla; for sounds(?) a parṇaka; for caves a Kirāta; for ridges a jambhaka; for mountains a Kimpuruṣa.

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VS 30.17

बीभत्सायै पौल्कसं वर्णाय हिरण्यकारं तुलायै वाणिजं पश्चादोषाय ग्लाविनं विश्वेभ्यो भूतेभ्यः सिध्मलं भूत्यै जागरणम् अभूत्यै स्वपनम् आर्त्यै जनवादिनं व्यृर्द्ध्या अपगल्भꣳ सꣳशराय प्रच्छिदम्

bībhatsāyai paulkasaṃ varṇāya hiraṇyakāraṃ tulāyai vāṇijaṃ paścādoṣāya glāvinaṃ viśvebhyo bhūtebhyaḥ sidhmalaṃ bhūtyai jāgaraṇam abhūtyai svapanam ārtyai janavādinaṃ vyṛrddhyā apagalbhaṁ saṁśarāya pracchidam

For loathing a Paulkasa; for colour a goldsmith; for the scale a merchant; for the after-dusk a sickly man(?); for all beings a man with skin-spots; for prosperity waking; for non-prosperity sleeping; for distress a spreader of rumours; for failure a man without boldness; for ? a cutter-off.

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VS 30.18

अक्षराजाय कितवं कृतायादिनवदर्शं त्रेतायै कल्पिनं द्वापरायाधिकल्पिनम् आस्कन्दाय सभास्थाणुं मृत्यवे गोव्यच्छम् अन्तकाय गोघातं क्षुधे यो गां विकृन्तन्तं भिक्षमाण उपतिष्ठति दुष्कृताय चरकाचार्यं पाप्मने सैलगम्

akṣarājāya kitavaṃ kṛtāyādinavadarśaṃ tretāyai kalpinaṃ dvāparāyādhikalpinam āskandāya sabhāsthāṇuṃ mṛtyave govyaccham antakāya goghātaṃ kṣudhe yo gāṃ vikṛntantaṃ bhikṣamāṇa upatiṣṭhati duṣkṛtāya carakācāryaṃ pāpmane sailagam

For the king of dice a gambler; for the kṛta-throw one who spots the losing throw; for the tretā a kalpin; for the dvāpara an adhikalpin; for assault a post in the assembly-hall; for death a slaughterer of cattle; for the Ender a cow-killer; for hunger him who, begging, stands near one who is cutting up a cow; for evil deeds a teacher of the Caraka school; for evil a sailaga.

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VS 30.19

प्रतिश्रुत्काया अर्तनं घोषाय भषम् अन्ताय बहुवादिनम् अनन्ताय मूकꣳ शब्दायाडम्बराघातं महसे वीणावादं क्रोशाय तूणवध्मम् अवरस्पराय शङ्खध्मं वनाय वतपम् अन्यतोरण्याय दावपम्

pratiśrutkāyā artanaṃ ghoṣāya bhaṣam antāya bahuvādinam anantāya mūkaṁ śabdāyāḍambarāghātaṃ mahase vīṇāvādaṃ krośāya tūṇavadhmam avarasparāya śaṅkhadhmaṃ vanāya vatapam anyatoraṇyāya dāvapam

For the echo an artana; for noise a barker; for the end a much-speaker; for the endless a mute; for sound a beater of the āḍambara-drum; for greatness a vīṇā-player; for shouting a blower of the tūṇava-flute; for ? a conch-blower; for the forest a vatapa; for the wilderness beyond a tender of forest-fire.

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VS 30.20

नर्माय पुꣳश्चलूꣳ हसाय कारिं यादसे शाबल्यां ग्रामण्यं गणकम् अभिक्रोशकं तान् महसे वीणावादं पाणिघ्नं तूणवध्मं तान् नृतायानन्दाय तलवम्

narmāya puṁścalūṁ hasāya kāriṃ yādase śābalyāṃ grāmaṇyaṃ gaṇakam abhikrośakaṃ tān mahase vīṇāvādaṃ pāṇighnaṃ tūṇavadhmaṃ tān nṛtāyānandāya talavam

For jest a prostitute; for laughter a jester; for the waters a śābalyā; a village headman, an accountant, a herald — these for greatness: a vīṇā-player, a hand-clapper, a blower of the tūṇava-flute — these for dance and for delight, a cymbal-player.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain

VS 30.21

अग्नये पीवानं पृथिव्यै पीठसर्पिणं वायवे चाण्डालम् अन्तरिक्षाय वꣳशनर्तिनं दिवे खलतिꣳ सूर्याय हर्यक्षं नक्षत्रेभ्यः किर्मिरं चन्द्रमसे किलासम् अह्ने शुक्लं पिङ्गाक्षꣳ रात्र्यै कृष्णं पिङ्गाक्षम्

agnaye pīvānaṃ pṛthivyai pīṭhasarpiṇaṃ vāyave cāṇḍālam antarikṣāya vaṁśanartinaṃ dive khalatiṁ sūryāya haryakṣaṃ nakṣatrebhyaḥ kirmiraṃ candramase kilāsam ahne śuklaṃ piṅgākṣaṁ rātryai kṛṣṇaṃ piṅgākṣam

For Agni a fat man; for the earth one who creeps on a stool (a cripple); for Vāyu a Cāṇḍāla; for the midspace a dancer on a bamboo pole; for heaven a bald man; for the sun a tawny-eyed man; for the constellations a dappled (spotted) man; for the moon a man with white leprosy; for the day a white man with tawny eyes; for the night a black man with tawny eyes.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

VS 30.22

अतैतान् अष्टौ विरूपान् आ लभते तिदीर्घं चातिह्रस्वं चातिस्थूलं चातिकृशं चातिशुक्लं चातिकृष्णं चातिकुल्वं चातिलोमशं च अशूद्रा अब्राह्मणास् ते प्राजापत्याः मागधः पुꣳश्चली कितवः क्लीबो शूद्रा अब्राह्मणास् ते प्राजापत्याः

ataitān aṣṭau virūpān ā labhate tidīrghaṃ cātihrasvaṃ cātisthūlaṃ cātikṛśaṃ cātiśuklaṃ cātikṛṣṇaṃ cātikulvaṃ cātilomaśaṃ ca aśūdrā abrāhmaṇās te prājāpatyāḥ māgadhaḥ puṁścalī kitavaḥ klībo śūdrā abrāhmaṇās te prājāpatyāḥ

Then he takes hold of these eight of deformed shape: the too tall and the too short, the too stout and the too lean, the too white and the too black, the too bald and the too hairy. They are neither śūdras nor brāhmaṇas; they belong to Prajāpati. A Māgadha, a prostitute, a gambler, a eunuch — [they are neither] śūdras nor brāhmaṇas; they belong to Prajāpati.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain