
Sukta 10.183
A generative tapas-born power (often read in context with fertility/progeny rites; addressed as a presence to be born)
Dieser kurze, spät-rigvedische Hymnus ruft eine aus Tapas geborene, zeugende Macht an, sie möge „geboren werden“ und Nachkommenschaft schenken – besonders den ersehnten Sohn – samt Wohlstand. Der Seher beansprucht eine innere Schau dieser Kraft als bewusst, im Rhythmus der Jahreszeiten wirkend und leibhaftig; der Hymnus kulminiert in einer Ich-Offenbarung einer im Innern wohnenden Schöpferin, die den Embryo in die Pflanzen legt und die Geburt durch alle Welten hindurch trägt.
Mantra 1
अपश्यं त्वा मनसा चेकितानं तपसो जातं तपसो विभूतम् । इह प्रजामिह रयिं रराणः प्र जायस्व प्रजया पुत्रकाम ॥
Ich schaute dich mit dem Geist, wach und unterscheidend, aus Tapas geboren und durch Tapas offenbar geworden. Hier, sich freuend an Nachkommenschaft, hier an der Fülle des Seins, werde geboren, gehe hervor: zeuge durch deine Schöpferkraft, o Sohnverlangen.
Mantra 2
अपश्यं त्वा मनसा दीध्यानां स्वायां तनू ऋत्व्ये नाधमानाम् । उप मामुच्चा युवतिर्बभूयाः प्र जायस्व प्रजया पुत्रकामे ॥
Ich schaute dich mit dem Geist, im entflammten Schauen, in deinem eigenen Leib, zur rechten Zeit wirkend. Erhebe dich über mich und werde eine junge Frau voll Kraft; werde geboren, bringe hervor durch schöpferische Nachkommenschaft – o Sohnbegehren, o Wille zur neuen Geburt.
Mantra 3
अहं गर्भमदधामोषधीष्वहं विश्वेषु भुवनेष्वन्तः । अहं प्रजा अजनयं पृथिव्यामहं जनिभ्यो अपरीषु पुत्रान् ॥
Ich setzte den Keim in die Heilkräfte, in die oṣadhī; ich bin in allen Welten innen. Ich lasse die Nachkommenschaft auf Erden entstehen; ich gebe den Geburten ihre Söhne in den fernen Weiten.
Inner vision: the seer ‘beholds with the mind’ a conscious power born of tapas and asks it to be born here with progeny and wealth.
The power is further visualized as embodied and laboring in the right season, urged to rise and become a youthful, potent presence over the petitioner.
A decisive first-person revelation: the deity speaks as the universal indwelling creatrix who places the embryo in plants and pervades all worlds.
The hymn settles into assurance of continuity—births receive sons, creation proceeds, and the sought progeny-blessing is grounded in cosmic immanence.
tapasó jātáṃ tapasó vibhūtam
ṛtvye nādhamānām
ahaṃ garbham adadhām oṣadhīṣu
It primarily prays for successful progeny (prajā), especially the blessing of a son in a putrakāma context, along with prosperity (rayi) and life-continuity.
Rather than a single named god like Indra or Agni, the hymn addresses a tapas-born generative Power—an immanent creative presence that brings conception and birth and is described as present within all worlds.
It portrays fertility as a cosmic, life-pervading process: the creative Power ‘places the embryo in the plants,’ linking healing, vitality, and reproduction as one continuous force in nature.
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