Yajurveda 23.4 — Parameshvara Devata
Shukla Yajurveda (Vajasaneyi Samhita) · Adhyaya 23 · Verse 23.4
Sanskrit Original
ऊपयामगृहीतोऽसि प्रजापतये त्वा जुष्टं गृह्णाम्येष ते योनिश्चन्द्रमास्ते महिमा। यस्ते रात्रौ संवत्सरे महिमा सम्बभूउव यस्ते पृथिव्यामग्नौ महिमा सम्बभूउव यस्ते नक्षत्रेषु चन्द्रमसि महिमा सम्बभूउव तस्मै ते महिम्ने प्रजापतये देवेभ्यः स्वाहा।
ūpayāmagṛhīto'si prajāpataye tvā juṣṭa≈ gṛhṇāmyeṣa te yoniścandramāste mahimā. Yaste rātrau sa≈vatsare mahimā sambabhūuva yaste pṛthivyāmagnau mahimā sambabhūuva yaste nakṣatreṣu candramasi mahimā sambabhūuva tasmai te mahimne prajāpataye devebhyaḥ svāhā.
You have been taken and set before Prajāpati; accept this bond, O source of births, your might is like the moon. That which is mighty in night and year was mighty in earth and fire; that which is mighty among the stars and the moon — to that greatness, to Prajāpati and the gods, svāhā.