Sukta 31

Mantra 1

कया नश्चित्र आ भुवदूती सदावृधः सखा । कया शचिष्ठया वृता ॥

By what bright help will our ever-increasing Friend come to us—by what most potent force of wisdom and effective power, choosing us for the right working?

Mantra 2

कस्त्वा सत्यो मदानां मंहिष्ठो मत्सदन्धसः । दृळ्हा चिदारुजे वसु ॥

Who, true to the ecstasies, most bounteous, can satisfy you with the delight-essence and so break open even the firm-held treasures of being?

Mantra 3

अभी षु णः सखीनामविता जरितॄणाम् । शतं भवास्यूतिभिः ॥

Be indeed the helper of our comrades and the protector of the singers; become for us a hundredfold in your succours—multiplying the aids that uphold the soul’s advance.

Mantra 4

अभी न आ ववृत्स्व चक्रं न वृत्तमर्वतः । नियुद्भिश्चर्षणीनाम् ॥

Turn yourself towards us and roll in upon us like a wheel in motion, O rider; come yoked with the impulsions that drive the peoples—so the divine force may arrive swiftly and ordered.

Mantra 5

प्रवता हि क्रतूनामा हा पदेव गच्छसि । अभक्षि सूर्ये सचा ॥

For by the forward slope of the will-forces you move, as if step by step; you partake of the Sun together with us—sharing in the luminous consciousness that leads the journey.

Mantra 6

सं यत्त इन्द्र मन्यवः सं चक्राणि दधन्विरे । अध त्वे अध सूर्ये ॥

When your forces of fervour, O Indra, gather together and set their workings in motion, then it is in you—and then in the Sun—that the decisive turning is established.

Mantra 7

उत स्मा हि त्वामाहुरिन्मघवानं शचीपते । दातारमविदीधयुम् ॥

And indeed they call you, O lord of the effective power, the bounteous one—giver who is not to be dimmed; your generosity is a flame that cannot be put out in the seeker.

Mantra 8

उत स्मा सद्य इत्परि शशमानाय सुन्वते । पुरू चिन्मंहसे वसु ॥

And indeed, at once and all around, to the pressing seeker who grows quiet and mastered, you lavish—even abundantly—the treasures of being; you pour a many-formed richness upon the one who offers delight.

Mantra 9

नहि ष्मा ते शतं चन राधो वरन्त आमुरः । न च्यौत्नानि करिष्यतः ॥

For the inert and unripe do not win even a hundredth part of your largesse, nor will they accomplish the decisive efforts; only the awakened will can take your gifts and turn them into victory.

Mantra 10

अस्माँ अवन्तु ते शतमस्मान्त्सहस्रमूतयः । अस्मान्विश्वा अभिष्टयः ॥

May thy hundredfold succours protect us; may thy thousandfold helps guard us; may all thy powers of desired attainment encompass and uphold us.

Mantra 11

अस्माँ इहा वृणीष्व सख्याय स्वस्तये । महो राये दिवित्मते ॥

Choose us here for thy friendship and for our well-being; choose us for the great fullness of spiritual wealth that is luminous and heavenward.

Mantra 12

अस्माँ अविड्ढि विश्वहेन्द्र राया परीणसा । अस्मान्विश्वाभिरूतिभिः ॥

Find us and pierce through to us, O Indra who art master of all, with the wealth that is fullness; encompass us with all thy succours.

Mantra 13

अस्मभ्यं ताँ अपा वृधि व्रजाँ अस्तेव गोमतः । नवाभिरिन्द्रोतिभिः ॥

For us, increase those (powers) away from the obstruction—like a keeper enlarging the pens rich in rays of Light; with Indra’s ever-new succours.

Mantra 14

अस्माकं धृष्णुया रथो द्युमाँ इन्द्रानपच्युतः । गव्युरश्वयुरीयते ॥

Our chariot of daring force, luminous and, O Indra, unshaken, moves forward seeking the rays of Light and the powers of swift energy.

Mantra 15

अस्माकमुत्तमं कृधि श्रवो देवेषु सूर्य । वर्षिष्ठं द्यामिवोपरि ॥

Make our fame the highest among the gods, O Sūrya; pour it down most abundantly, as from the heights of heaven above.