Sukta 15

Mantra 1

उदीरतामवर उत्परास उन्मध्यमाः पितरः सोम्यासः । असुं य ईयुरवृका ऋतज्ञास्ते नोऽवन्तु पितरो हवेषु ॥

Let the lower Fathers rise, let the higher rise, let the middle Fathers rise—those who are of the Soma-delight. They who have gone with the breath of life, harm-less, knowers of ṛta—may those Fathers help us in our calls.

Mantra 2

इदं पितृभ्यो नमो अस्त्वद्य ये पूर्वासो य उपरास ईयुः । ये पार्थिवे रजस्या निषत्ता ये वा नूनं सुवृजनासु विक्षु ॥

This reverence to the Fathers be today: those who are the earliest and those who have gone to the higher. Those seated in the earthly realm, and those who now are among the fair-ordered peoples—may all be met by our bowing.

Mantra 3

आहं पितॄन्त्सुविदत्राँ अवित्सि नपातं च विक्रमणं च विष्णोः । बर्हिषदो ये स्वधया सुतस्य भजन्त पित्वस्त इहागमिष्ठाः ॥

I have found the Fathers, the well-finding ones; and the Descendant, and the wide-striding power of Viṣṇu. Those who sit upon the sacred grass and partake, by their own right, of the pressed draught—let them come here most readily.

Mantra 4

बर्हिषदः पितर ऊत्यर्वागिमा वो हव्या चकृमा जुषध्वम् । त आ गतावसा शंतमेनाथा नः शं योररपो दधात ॥

O Fathers who sit upon the sacred seat, come near with your protecting help; these offerings we have prepared for you—take joy in them. Arrive with the most peace-giving aid; then establish in us well-being and a wide, uninjured wholeness.

Mantra 5

उपहूताः पितरः सोम्यासो बर्हिष्येषु निधिषु प्रियेषु । त आ गमन्तु त इह श्रुवन्त्वधि ब्रुवन्तु तेऽवन्त्वस्मान् ॥

The Fathers, called near—those who delight in Soma—(come) to these dear treasuries laid on the sacred seat. Let them arrive; let them here listen; let them speak their overseeing word; let them protect us.

Mantra 6

आच्या जानु दक्षिणतो निषद्येमं यज्ञमभि गृणीत विश्वे । मा हिंसिष्ट पितरः केन चिन्नो यद्व आगः पुरुषता कराम ॥

Bending the knee, sit to the right and chant over this sacrifice, all you Fathers. Do not wound us in any way, O Fathers, for whatever offence we may have made through human limitation.

Mantra 7

आसीनासो अरुणीनामुपस्थे रयिं धत्त दाशुषे मर्त्याय । पुत्रेभ्यः पितरस्तस्य वस्वः प्र यच्छत त इहोर्जं दधात ॥

Seated in the lap of the Dawn-lights, place the rayi—fullness of being—into the giver, the mortal. O Fathers, extend that wealth to his children; and here establish in them the nourishing strength.

Mantra 8

ये नः पूर्वे पितरः सोम्यासोऽनूहिरे सोमपीथं वसिष्ठाः । तेभिर्यमः संरराणो हवींष्युशन्नुशद्भिः प्रतिकाममत्तु ॥

Those former Fathers of ours who followed the Soma-drinking, O Vasiṣṭhas—together with them may Yama, rejoicing, partake of the offerings, desiring with the desirers, according to each true need.

Mantra 9

ये तातृषुर्देवत्रा जेहमाना होत्राविदः स्तोमतष्टासो अर्कैः । आग्ने याहि सुविदत्रेभिरर्वाङ्सत्यैः कव्यैः पितृभिर्घर्मसद्भिः ॥

Those who have grown strong toward the gods, ardent in movement, knowers of the offering-word, who have fashioned hymns with inspired chants—O Agni, come hither with the well-finding, true, seer-ancestors who sit by the glowing heat.

Mantra 10

ये सत्यासो हविरदो हविष्पा इन्द्रेण देवैः सरथं दधानाः । आग्ने याहि सहस्रं देववन्दैः परैः पूर्वैः पितृभिर्घर्मसद्भिः ॥

Those true ones who eat the offering and drink the oblation, who with Indra and the gods hold one chariot—O Agni, come with the thousand, the god-praising, the far and ancient Fathers who sit in the glowing heat.

Mantra 11

अग्निष्वात्ताः पितर एह गच्छत सदःसदः सदत सुप्रणीतयः । अत्ता हवींषि प्रयतानि बर्हिष्यथा रयिं सर्ववीरं दधातन ॥

O Fathers whom Agni has made fit for the offering, come here; sit in seat after seat, O well-led ones. Eat the offerings that are set forth upon the sacred seat; then establish in us a rayi complete in heroic powers.

Mantra 12

त्वमग्न ईळितो जातवेदोऽवाड्ढव्यानि सुरभीणि कृत्वी । प्रादाः पितृभ्यः स्वधया ते अक्षन्नद्धि त्वं देव प्रयता हवींषि ॥

You, O Agni, praised as Jātavedas, have carried the offerings down, making them fragrant and fit. You have given them to the Fathers by the power of svadhā; they have eaten—now you too, O god, consume the offerings that are set forth.

Mantra 13

ये चेह पितरो ये च नेह याँश्च विद्म याँ उ च न प्रविद्म । त्वं वेत्थ यति ते जातवेदः स्वधाभिर्यज्ञं सुकृतं जुषस्व ॥

Whether the Fathers are here or not here—those whom we know and those whom we do not clearly know—you know them, O Jātavedas, as they truly are. With the powers of svadhā, accept and take joy in this well-accomplished sacrifice.

Mantra 14

ये अग्निदग्धा ये अनग्निदग्धा मध्ये दिवः स्वधया मादयन्ते । तेभिः स्वराळसुनीतिमेतां यथावशं तन्वं कल्पयस्व ॥

Those who have been purified by the Fire and those who have not been purified by the Fire, who rejoice in the mid-world of heaven by the power of their own true substance (svadhā)—with them, O self-ruling One, shape for this being the onward-leading path of life-breath, and form the embodiment according to its own law of becoming.