The Rig Veda/Mandala 10/Hymn 161

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1. FOR life I set thee free by this oblation from the unknown decline and from Consumption;
     Or, if the grasping demon have possessed him, free him from her, O Indra, thou and Agni.
2. Be his days ended, be he now departed, be he brought very near to death already,
     Out of Destruction's lap again I bring him, save him for life to last a hundred autumns.
3. With hundred-eyed oblation, hundred-autumned, bringing a hundred lives, have I restored him,
     That Indra for a hundred years may lead him safe to the farther shore of all misfortune.
4. Live, waxing in thy strength, a hundred autumns, live through a hundred springs, a hundred winters.
     Through hundred-lived oblation Indra, Agni, Brhaspati, Savitar yield him for a hundred!
5. So have I found and rescued thee thou hast returned with youth renewed.
     Whole in thy members! I have found thy sight and all thy life for thee.