Sukta 29

Mantra 1

धृतव्रता आदित्या इषिरा आरे मत्कर्त रहसूरिवागः । शृण्वतो वो वरुण मित्र देवा भद्रस्य विद्वाँ अवसे हुवे वः ॥

O Ādityas, holders of the steadfast law, impetuous powers—keep far from me the secret fault that moves like a hidden impulse. Hearing, O divine Varuṇa and Mitra, knowing the good, I call you for help.

Mantra 2

यूयं देवाः प्रमतिर्यूयमोजो यूयं द्वेषांसि सनुतर्युयोत । अभिक्षत्तारो अभि च क्षमध्वमद्या च नो मृळयतापरं च ॥

You, O gods, are the forward wisdom; you are the force. You drive away our hatreds from afar. As overlords, be patient with us; today and hereafter, be gracious and heal us.

Mantra 3

किमू नु वः कृणवामापरेण किं सनेन वसव आप्येन । यूयं नो मित्रावरुणादिते च स्वस्तिमिन्द्रामरुतो दधात ॥

What then shall we do for you by any other means, what by any gain that is merely of the surface? You—Mitra and Varuṇa and Aditi—set for us well-being; and you, Indra with the Maruts, establish it.

Mantra 4

हये देवा यूयमिदापयः स्थ ते मृळत नाधमानाय मह्यम् । मा वो रथो मध्यमवाळृते भून्मा युष्मावत्स्वापिषु श्रमिष्म ॥

O gods, indeed you are the waters of refreshment; be gracious to me who labors and is pressed within. Let not your chariot miss the middle way of the Truth; let us not grow weary in the attainments that are with you.

Mantra 5

प्र व एको मिमय भूर्यागो यन्मा पितेव कितवं शशास । आरे पाशा आरे अघानि देवा मा माधि पुत्रे विमिव ग्रभीष्ट ॥

One among you has measured out much fault for me, as a father might chastise a gambling son. Far away be the nooses, far away the evils, O gods; seize me not upon the child, as a bird-catcher seizes his prey.

Mantra 6

अर्वाञ्चो अद्या भवता यजत्रा आ वो हार्दि भयमानो व्ययेयम् । त्राध्वं नो देवा निजुरो वृकस्य त्राध्वं कर्तादवपदो यजत्राः ॥

Turn toward us today, O adorable gods, that I, fearing in my heart, may find release into you. Save us, O gods, from the stealth of the wolfish force; save us from the doer of the fall, O worshipful ones.

Mantra 7

माहं मघोनो वरुण प्रियस्य भूरिदाव्न आ विदं शूनमापेः । मा रायो राजन्त्सुयमादव स्थां बृहद्वदेम विदथे सुवीराः ॥

Let me not, O Varuṇa, lose the dear presence of the bounteous giver and fall into emptiness and want. O King, let me not drop away from the well-guided path of plenitude; may we speak the Vast in the assembly, possessed of inner heroic strength.