2 If any man, a stranger or akin, has cast a spell on thee, I with my voice declare to thee thy freedom and release therefrom.

3 If in thy folly thou hast lied or cursed a woman or a man, I with my voice declare to thee thy freedom and release therefrom.

4 If thou art lying there because of mother's or of father's sin, I with my voice declare to thee thy freedom and release therefrom.

5 Accept the healing medicine, the balm thy mother and thy father, thy sister and thy brother bring. By God's leave I make thee live through lengthened years.

6 O man, stay here among us; stay with all thy spirit; follow not the two messengers of Death. Approach the dwellings where the living dwell.

7 Come back as thou art called to come, knowing the outlet of the path, and the approach and its ascent, the way of every living man.

8 Be not alarmed: thou wilt not die. I pray that God give thee lengthened years of life. Forth from thy members has the Healer driven the wasting that caused the fever there.

9 Gone is the pain that racked thee, gone thy fever, gone thy heart's disease. Consumption, conquered by God's healing, has like a hawk fled far away.

10 Two faculties, Sense and Vigilance, the sleepless and the watchful, these, the protectors of thy life, shall be awake both day and night.

11 This Radiant One (Agni) must be remembered with thanks. Here let the sun, His sign, mount up for thee. Rise from deep death and come away, yea, from black darkness rise thou up!

12 I turn first, for this man's preservation, to God, who knows how to save him, and I honour the angel of death and the fathers who guide us.

13 Let breath and mind return to him, let sight and vigour come again. Let all his body be restored and firmly stand upon its feet.

14 O God the Radiant, provide this man with breath and sight, and with his body and his strength unite him. Thou knowest the way of everlasting life: let him not go hence, nor dwell in the house of clay before his time.

15 Let not thine inward breathing fail, let not thine outward breath be lost. Let God, the Light-giver, who is Lord Supreme, raise thee from death with beams of light.

16 Tied, tremulously moving, here the tongue is speaking in the mouth. With thee I have prayed away wasting and fever's hundred agonies.

17 This living world is most beloved of all. To whatsoever death thou wast destined when thou wast born, O man, to this death we call after thee: die not before decrepit age!