Sukta 9

Mantra 1

आपो हि ष्ठा मयोभुवस्ता न ऊर्जे दधातन । महे रणाय चक्षसे ॥

O Waters, you are indeed the makers of delight; set in us the nourishing energy, for the great battle and for the seeing.

Mantra 2

यो वः शिवतमो रसस्तस्य भाजयतेह नः । उशतीरिव मातरः ॥

That most auspicious essence of yours—share it here with us, O Mothers, as eager mothers give of themselves.

Mantra 3

तस्मा अरं गमाम वो यस्य क्षयाय जिन्वथ । आपो जनयथा च नः ॥

To him we would fittingly go—he for whose abiding home you quicken; and, O Waters, you also bring birth in us.

Mantra 4

शं नो देवीरभिष्टय आपो भवन्तु पीतये । शं योरभि स्रवन्तु नः ॥

May the divine Waters become for us a blessing and a help for our fulfilment; may they flow to us with peace and with the delight that brings well-being.

Mantra 5

ईशाना वार्याणां क्षयन्तीश्चर्षणीनाम् । अपो याचामि भेषजम् ॥

O Waters, sovereign over treasures and dwelling in the peoples, I ask from you the remedy—the healing force that sets the being right.

Mantra 6

अप्सु मे सोमो अब्रवीदन्तर्विश्वानि भेषजा । अग्निं च विश्वशम्भुवम् ॥

Within the waters Soma spoke to me: “Inwardly are all healings; and Agni too, the universal benefactor.”

Mantra 7

आपः पृणीत भेषजं वरूथं तन्वे मम । ज्योक्च सूर्यं दृशे ॥

O Waters, fill me with the healing power, a sure protection for my embodied being; and grant that I may long behold the Sun (the clear seeing).

Mantra 8

इदमापः प्र वहत यत्किं च दुरितं मयि । यद्वाहमभिदुद्रोह यद्वा शेप उतानृतम् ॥

This, O Waters—carry it away: whatever distress and crookedness is in me; whether I have done violence in rebellion, or whether in speech I have fallen into falsehood.

Mantra 9

आपो अद्यान्वचारिषं रसेन समगस्महि । पयस्वानग्न आ गहि तं मा सं सृज वर्चसा ॥

O Waters, today I have moved with you; in the rasa we have come into harmony. O Agni rich with plenitude, come here; join me wholly with your luminous force.