Sukta 41

Mantra 1

वायो ये ते सहस्रिणो रथासस्तेभिरा गहि । नियुत्वान्त्सोमपीतये ॥

O Vāyu, with those thousand-powered chariots of yours come here, yoked with your teams, for the drinking of Soma—so the life-breath in us may receive the illumining delight.

Mantra 2

नियुत्वान्वायवा गह्ययं शुक्रो अयामि ते । गन्तासि सुन्वतो गृहम् ॥

Come, O Vāyu, with your yoked teams; this bright Soma I extend to you. You will come to the house of the presser—into the prepared inner dwelling of the offering.

Mantra 3

शुक्रस्याद्य गवाशिर इन्द्रवायू नियुत्वतः । आ यातं पिबतं नरा ॥

Today, of the bright Soma mixed with the cow’s essence, O Indra and Vāyu with your yoked teams—come; drink, O two heroic powers, so the illumined force and the life-breath may act together in us.

Mantra 4

अयं वां मित्रावरुणा सुतः सोम ऋतावृधा । ममेदिह श्रुतं हवम् ॥

This Soma, pressed out for you, O Mitra and Varuṇa, increasers of the Truth-Order—hear here and now my call: let my aspiration be received.

Mantra 5

राजानावनभिद्रुहा ध्रुवे सदस्युत्तमे । सहस्रस्थूण आसाते ॥

The two kings, unbetraying, sit firm in the highest seat of the assembly, upheld by a thousand pillars—powers of stable sovereignty in the soul’s council.

Mantra 6

ता सम्राजा घृतासुती आदित्या दानुनस्पती । सचेते अनवह्वरम् ॥

Those two universal rulers, rich in the outpouring of clarified light, Ādityas, lords of abundance, move in accord toward the straight, unwavering path—making our progress free from deviation.

Mantra 7

गोमदू षु नासत्याश्वावद्यातमश्विना । वर्ती रुद्रा नृपाय्यम् ॥

O Nāsatyas, O Aśvins, come with the riches of luminous knowledge and with the powers of swift energy; bring also the protecting course, O Rudras, that guards the human journey.

Mantra 8

न यत्परो नान्तर आदधर्षद्वृषण्वसू । दुःशंसो मर्त्यो रिपुः ॥

No enemy—neither from beyond nor from within—can overbear you, O mighty givers of force; the ill-speaking mortal adversary cannot prevail.

Mantra 9

ता न आ वोळ्हमश्विना रयिं पिशङ्गसंदृशम् । धिष्ण्या वरिवोविदम् ॥

Bring to us, O Aśvins, that plenitude of being—bright to behold—O lords of luminous skill, finders of wide spaces in our nature.

Mantra 10

इन्द्रो अङ्ग महद्भयमभी षदप चुच्यवत् । स हि स्थिरो विचर्षणिः ॥

Indra indeed confronted the great fear and cast it away; for he is steadfast, the wide-ranging power that makes the human nature grow beyond its limits.

Mantra 11

इन्द्रश्च मृळयाति नो न नः पश्चादघं नशत् । भद्रं भवाति नः पुरः ॥

May Indra also be gracious to us; let no evil overtake us from behind—let what is auspicious become our leader in front.

Mantra 12

इन्द्र आशाभ्यस्परि सर्वाभ्यो अभयं करत् । जेता शत्रून्विचर्षणिः ॥

May Indra make fearlessness all around us from every side; the wide-ranging one becomes the conqueror of the hostile powers.

Mantra 13

विश्वे देवास आ गत शृणुता म इमं हवम् । एदं बर्हिर्नि षीदत ॥

All you divine powers, come; hear this my invocation. Sit down upon this sacred spread—take your place in the prepared field of the consciousness.

Mantra 14

तीव्रो वो मधुमाँ अयं शुनहोत्रेषु मत्सरः । एतं पिबत काम्यम् ॥

This Soma-rapture, intense and honey-rich, is for you in the true-offerings of the swift-impelled sacrifice; drink of this, the desirable draught that awakens delight and power within.

Mantra 15

इन्द्रज्येष्ठा मरुद्गणा देवासः पूषरातयः । विश्वे मम श्रुता हवम् ॥

O host of the Maruts with Indra as your foremost, O gods who give the plenitudes of Pūṣan, all of you—hear my call; let the powers of right impulse answer the soul’s invocation.

Mantra 16

अम्बितमे नदीतमे देवितमे सरस्वति । अप्रशस्ता इव स्मसि प्रशस्तिमम्ब नस्कृधि ॥

O most Mother, most River, most Goddess—Sarasvatī: as though unpraised we are; O Mother, make for us the praise that is true, the right recognition that uplifts the soul into its wideness.

Mantra 17

त्वे विश्वा सरस्वति श्रितायूंषि देव्याम् । शुनहोत्रेषु मत्स्व प्रजां देवि दिदिड्ढि नः ॥

In you, Sarasvatī, all our life-movements find their support in the divine; in the swift true-offerings take delight, and, O Goddess, set firmly for us the growth of our being and the birth of the soul’s right progeny.

Mantra 18

इमा ब्रह्म सरस्वति जुषस्व वाजिनीवति । या ते मन्म गृत्समदा ऋतावरि प्रिया देवेषु जुह्वति ॥

These word-powers, Sarasvatī, accept—O you rich in plenitudes of force; the thought which the Gṛtsamada offers to you, O chooser of the Truth, dear among the gods, is poured forth as an oblation into the divine powers.

Mantra 19

प्रेतां यज्ञस्य शम्भुवा युवामिदा वृणीमहे । अग्निं च हव्यवाहनम् ॥

Go forth for the sacrifice as the two powers of peace and well-being; you two we choose today—Idā the right inspiration, and Agni the carrier of the offering—so the inner rite may advance without distortion.

Mantra 20

द्यावा नः पृथिवी इमं सिध्रमद्य दिविस्पृशम् । यज्ञं देवेषु यच्छताम् ॥

Heaven and Earth, for us today uphold this accomplished sacrifice that touches the luminous worlds; set our offering in the gods—so the human act is joined to the divine order.

Mantra 21

आ वामुपस्थमद्रुहा देवाः सीदन्तु यज्ञियाः । इहाद्य सोमपीतये ॥

Let the gods worthy of sacrifice sit here today upon your faultless seat, O you two; here, now, for the drinking of Soma—so the powers may gather in the human being and partake of the illumining delight.