Kama the Bull, slayer of foes, I worship with molten butter,
sacrifice, oblation.
Beneath my feet cast down mine adversaries with thy great
manly power, when I have praised thee.
That which is hateful to mine eye and spirit, that harasses and
robs me of enjoyment,
The evil dream I loose upon my foemen. May I rend him when
I have lauded Kama.
Kama, do thou, a mighty Lord and Ruler, let loose ill dream,
misfortune, want of children,
Homelessness, Kama! utter destitution, upon the sinner who
designs my ruin.
Drive them away, drive them afar, O Kama; indigence fall on
those who are my foemen!
When they have been cast down to deepest darkness, consume
their dwellings with thy fire, O Agni.
She, Kama! she is called the Cow, thy daughter, she who is
named Vak and Viraj by sages.
By her drive thou my foemen to a distance. May cattle, vital
breath, and life forsake them.
By Kama's might, King Varuna's and Indra's, by Vishnu's
strength, and Savitar's instigation,
I chase my foes with sacrifice to Agni, as a deft steersman drives
his boat through waters.
May Kama, mighty one, my potent warder, give me full free-
dom from mine adversaries.
May all the Deities be my protection, all Gods come nigh to
this mine invocation.
Accepting this oblation rich with fatness, be joyful here, ye
Gods whose chief is Kama,
Giving me freedom from mine adversaries.
Ye, Indra, Agni, Kama! come together and cast mine adver-
saries down beneath me.
When they have sunk into the deepest darkness, O Agni, with
thy fire consume their dwellings.
Slay those who are mine enemies, O Kama: headlong to depth
of blinding darkness hurl them.
Reft be they all of manly strength and vigour! Let them not
have a single day's existence.
Kama hath slain those who were mine opponents, and given me
ample room to grow and prosper.
Let the four regions bow them down before me, and let the
six expanses bring me fatness.
Let them drift downward like a boat torn from the rope that
held it fast.
There is no turning back for those whom our keen arrows have
repelled.
Agni averts, Indra averts, and Soma: may the averting Gods
avert this foeman.
To be avoided by his friends, detested, repelled, with few men
round him, let him wander.
Yea, on the earth descend the lightning-flashes: may the strong
God destroy your adversaries.
This potent lightning nourishes things shaken, and things un-
shaken yet, and all the thunders.
May the Sun, rising with his wealth and splendour, drive in
victorious might my foemen downward.
Thy firm and triply-barred protection, Kama! thy spell, made
weapon-proof extended armour
With that drive thou my foemen to a distance. May cattle, vital
breath, and life forsake them.
Far from the world wherein we live, O Kama, drive thou my
foemen with that selfsame weapon
Wherewith the Gods repelled the fiends, and Indra cast down
the Dasyus into deepest darkness.
As Gods repelled the Asuras, and Indra down to the lowest
darkness drove the demons,
So, Kama, from this world, to distant places, drive thou the
men who are mine adversaries.
First before all sprang Kama into being. Gods, Fathers, mortal
men have never matched him.
Stronger than these art thou, and great for ever. Kama, to thee,
to thee I offer worship.
Wide as the space which heaven and earth encompass, far as
the flow of waters, far as Agni,
Stronger than these art thou, and great for ever. Kama, to thee,
to thee I offer worship.
Vast as the quarters of the sky and regions that lie between
them spread in all directions, vast as celestial tracts and views
of heaven,
Stronger than these art thou, and great for ever. Kama, to thee,
to thee I offer worship.
Many as are the bees, and bats, and reptiles, and female serpents
of the trees, and beetles,
Stronger art thou than these, and great for ever. Kama, to thee,
to thee I offer worship.
Stronger art thou than aught that stands or twinkles, stronger
art thou than ocean, Kama! Manyu!
Stronger than these art thou, and great for ever. Kama, to thee,
to thee I offer worship.
Not even Vata is the peer of Kama, not Agni, Chandramas
the Moon, nor Surya.
Stronger than these art thou, and great for ever. Kama, to thee,
to thee I offer worship.
Thy lovely and auspicious forms, O Kama, whereby the thing
thou wilt becometh real,
With these come thou and make thy home among us, and make
malignant thoughts inhabit elsewhere.