Sukta 93

Mantra 1

महि द्यावापृथिवी भूतमुर्वी नारी यह्वी न रोदसी सदं नः । तेभिर्नः पातं सह्यस एभिर्नः पातं शूषणि ॥

Great have Heaven and Earth become—wide, motherly, strong—the two worlds for us always. With them protect us from overpowering forces; with them protect us from the assailing violence.

Mantra 2

यज्ञेयज्ञे स मर्त्यो देवान्त्सपर्यति । यः सुम्नैर्दीर्घश्रुत्तम आविवासत्येनान् ॥

In sacrifice after sacrifice that mortal truly serves the gods, who—with their graces—becomes most far-hearing and continually makes them present by faithful welcome.

Mantra 3

विश्वेषामिरज्यवो देवानां वार्महः । विश्वे हि विश्वमहसो विश्वे यज्ञेषु यज्ञियाः ॥

O all you luminous and ardent Powers, you are the vast protective force of the gods. For all of you are of universal might; all of you are worthy to be invoked and fulfilled in the inner sacrifice.

Mantra 4

ते घा राजानो अमृतस्य मन्द्रा अर्यमा मित्रो वरुणः परिज्मा । कद्रुद्रो नृणां स्तुतो मरुतः पूषणो भगः ॥

These indeed are the glad kings of immortality—Aryaman, Mitra, Varuṇa who moves around all things; and Rudra too, praised by men, the Maruts, Pūṣan, and Bhaga—powers that rule and distribute the deathless wideness within us.

Mantra 5

उत नो नक्तमपां वृषण्वसू सूर्यामासा सदनाय सधन्या । सचा यत्साद्येषामहिर्बुध्नेषु बुध्न्यः ॥

And may Night with the Waters, and the two strong-giving ones, Sun and Moon, come for our seat of consciousness and our true gain; when they sit together, then the serpent-power in the depths becomes awakened in its foundations.

Mantra 6

उत नो देवावश्विना शुभस्पती धामभिर्मित्रावरुणा उरुष्यताम् । महः स राय एषतेऽति धन्वेव दुरिता ॥

And may the divine Aśvins, lords of the luminous felicities, and Mitra-Varuṇa protect us by their powers of established light; then the great fullness of being presses forward and crosses beyond the difficulties as one crosses a wide barren stretch.

Mantra 7

उत नो रुद्रा चिन्मृळतामश्विना विश्वे देवासो रथस्पतिर्भगः । ऋभुर्वाज ऋभुक्षणः परिज्मा विश्ववेदसः ॥

And may the Rudras too show us mercy; may the Aśvins, all the gods, the lord of the chariot-path, and Bhaga; may the R̥bhus—Vāja, R̥bhukṣan, and the all-moving one—universal knowers, come to our aid and set our energies in right formation.

Mantra 8

ऋभुॠभुक्षा ऋभुर्विधतो मद आ ते हरी जूजुवानस्य वाजिना । दुष्टरं यस्य साम चिदृधग्यज्ञो न मानुषः ॥

R̥bhu, R̥bhukṣa, R̥bhu—the ecstasy of the arranger comes; to you, O lord of plenitude, your two steeds are yoked for the eager movement. Hard to cross is that harmony of his, and the sacrifice becomes a separate, non-human power—an action lifted beyond ordinary mind.

Mantra 9

कृधी नो अह्रयो देव सवितः स च स्तुषे मघोनाम् । सहो न इन्द्रो वह्निभिर्न्येषां चर्षणीनां चक्रं रश्मिं न योयुवे ॥

Make us unhurried, O god Savitar; and him I praise among the givers. May Indra with the bearing fires set down in us the force of these peoples—like a wheel’s rim, like a ray held in its right course—so our movement becomes ordered and victorious.

Mantra 10

ऐषु द्यावापृथिवी धातं महदस्मे वीरेषु विश्वचर्षणि श्रवः । पृक्षं वाजस्य सातये पृक्षं रायोत तुर्वणे ॥

In these (our works), O Heaven-and-Earth, place for us a great, all-sustaining glory among our warrior-powers: a strengthening for the winning of plenitude-force, a strengthening of fullness, and a strengthening for the victorious overcoming.

Mantra 11

एतं शंसमिन्द्रास्मयुष्ट्वं कूचित्सन्तं सहसावन्नभिष्टये । सदा पाह्यभिष्टये मेदतां वेदता वसो ॥

This utterance of ours, O Indra, desiring you—though it seems small—accept it for our true protection. Always guard us for the goal; make us grow in substance and in knowledge, O Vasu.

Mantra 12

एतं मे स्तोमं तना न सूर्ये द्युतद्यामानं वावृधन्त नृणाम् । संवननं नाश्व्यं तष्टेवानपच्युतम् ॥

This hymn of mine they have increased like the Sun’s far-shining course among men: a joining-together, like a well-fashioned chariot-work, firm and not slipping—so that the inner union of our forces may be stable and enduring.

Mantra 13

वावर्त येषां राया युक्तैषां हिरण्ययी । नेमधिता न पौंस्या वृथेव विष्टान्ता ॥

Their plenitude of being turns and comes into right harness; for them the golden radiance is joined. Their manly force is not held back in a mere half-measure; it does not lie scattered in vain, but reaches its settled end.

Mantra 14

प्र तद्दुःशीमे पृथवाने वेने प्र रामे वोचमसुरे मघवत्सु । ये युक्त्वाय पञ्च शतास्मयु पथा विश्राव्येषाम् ॥

That I proclaim forth in the hard strait and the wide expanse, in the seeking delight, among the mighty lords of power: those who, for the act of yoking, have made five hundred paths of our aspiration widely heard.

Mantra 15

अधीन्न्वत्र सप्ततिं च सप्त च । सद्यो दिदिष्ट तान्वः सद्यो दिदिष्ट पार्थ्यः सद्यो दिदिष्ट मायवः ॥

He has set here seventy and seven; immediately he has arranged them for you—immediately the earthly foundation, immediately the formative powers of the working consciousness.