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1. Bring (wealth) to us, do not stand in our way, O Arâti;
do not keep from us the sacrificial reward as it is being taken (to us)!
Adoration be to the power of grudge, the power of failure, adoration to Arâti!
2. To thy advising minister, whom thou, Arâti, didst make
thy agent, do we make obeisance. Do not bring failure to my wish!
3. May our wish, instilled by the gods, be fulfilled by day
and night! We go in quest of Arâti. Adoration be to Arâti!
4. Sarasvatî (speech), Anumati (favour), and Bhaga
(fortune) we go to invoke. Pleasant, honied, words I have spoken on the
occasions when the gods were invoked.
5. Him whom I implore with Vâk Sarasvatî (the goddess-of
speech), the yoke-fellow of thought, faith shall find to-day, bestowed by the
brown soma!
6. Neither our wish nor our speech do thou frustrate! May
Indra and Agni both bring us wealth! Do ye all who to-day desire to make gifts
to us gain favour with Arâti!
7. Go far away, failure! Thy missile do we avert. I know
thee (to be) oppressive and piercing, O Arâti!
8. Thou dost even transform thyself into a naked woman, and
attach thyself to people in their sleep, frustrating, O Arâti, the thought, and
intention of man.
9. To her who, great, and of great dimension, did penetrate
all the regions, to this golden-locked Nirriti (goddess of misfortune), I have
rendered obeisance.
10. To the gold-complexioned, lovely one, who rests upon
golden cushions, to the great one, to that Arâti who wears golden robes, I have
rendered obeisance.
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