HYMN XCVI

A prayer for deliverance from sin and sorrow

The many plants of hundred shapes and forms that Soma rules
as King,
Commanded by Brihaspati, deliver us from grief and woe!
Let them release me from the curse and from the noose of
Varupa,
Free me from Yama's fetter, and from every sin against the
Gods!
From every fault in look, in word, in spirit that we, awake or
sleeping, have committed,
May Soma, with his godlike nature, cleanse us.