HYMN XXVIII

A prayer to Agni for the destruction of evil spirits

God Agni hath come forth to us, fiend-slayer, chaser of disease,
Burning the Yatudhanas up, Kimidins, and deceitful ones.
Consume the Yatudhanas, God! meet the Kimidins with thy
flame:
Burn up the Yatudhanis as they face thee, thou whose path is
black!
She who hath cursed us with a curse, or hath conceived a
murderous sin;
Or seized our son to take his blood, let her devour the child
she bare.
Let her, the Yatudhani eat son, sister, and her daughter's.
child.
Now let the twain by turns destroy the wild-haired Yatudhanis-
and crush down Arayis to the earth!