Sukta 36

Mantra 1

अनश्वो जातो अनभीशुरुक्थ्यो रथस्त्रिचक्रः परि वर्तते रजः । महत्तद्वो देव्यस्य प्रवाचनं द्यामृभवः पृथिवीं यच्च पुष्यथ ॥

A chariot is born without horses, without reins, fit for the hymn; with three wheels it moves around through the luminous spaces. Great is this your divine fame, O Rbhus, for you foster and increase both Heaven and Earth (the two planes of our being).

Mantra 2

रथं ये चक्रुः सुवृतं सुचेतसोऽविह्वरन्तं मनसस्परि ध्यया । ताँ ऊ न्वस्य सवनस्य पीतय आ वो वाजा ऋभवो वेदयामसि ॥

You who made the chariot well-turned, O clear-minded ones—unwavering, shaped by the surrounding meditation of the mind—those very powers we now summon for the drinking of this Soma-pressing, O Vāja and Rbhus; we make you known here (to our consciousness).

Mantra 3

तद्वो वाजा ऋभवः सुप्रवाचनं देवेषु विभ्वो अभवन्महित्वनम् । जिव्री यत्सन्ता पितरा सनाजुरा पुनर्युवाना चरथाय तक्षथ ॥

This is your well-proclaimable greatness among the gods, O Vāja and Rbhus: that, though your parents were old, you fashioned them again as young, fit for movement and for the journey.

Mantra 4

एकं वि चक्र चमसं चतुर्वयं निश्चर्मणो गामरिणीत धीतिभिः । अथा देवेष्वमृतत्वमानश श्रुष्टी वाजा ऋभवस्तद्व उक्थ्यम् ॥

You made the one cup into four; and from hide you brought forth the Cow by your thought-forces. Then you attained immortality among the gods. O Śruṣṭī, Vāja, and Rbhus—this is your hymn-worthy deed.

Mantra 5

ऋभुतो रयिः प्रथमश्रवस्तमो वाजश्रुतासो यमजीजनन्नरः । विभ्वतष्टो विदथेषु प्रवाच्यो यं देवासोऽवथा स विचर्षणिः ॥

The wealth (rayi) born of Rbhu-skill is most first in fame; it is that which the manly powers, famed for plenitude, have generated. Fashioned by Vibhu, it is to be proclaimed in the assemblies; him the gods aid—he becomes a wide-ranging possessor of vision and force.

Mantra 6

स वाज्यर्वा स ऋषिर्वचस्यया स शूरो अस्ता पृतनासु दुष्टरः । स रायस्पोषं स सुवीर्यं दधे यं वाजो विभ्वाँ ऋभवो यमाविषुः ॥

He becomes the carrier of plenitude, the swift steed; he becomes the seer by the power of inspired speech; he becomes the hero, a hard-to-cross combatant in the inner battles. He holds the increase of inner wealth and true hero-force—he whom Vāja and the pervading Rbhus have made manifest.

Mantra 7

श्रेष्ठं वः पेशो अधि धायि दर्शतं स्तोमो वाजा ऋभवस्तं जुजुष्टन । धीरासो हि ष्ठा कवयो विपश्चितस्तान्व एना ब्रह्मणा वेदयामसि ॥

Your best form of beauty has been set here, visible: the hymn, O Vāja and Rbhus—take delight in it. For you are indeed the steady wise ones, poets of luminous discernment; by this sacred utterance (brahman) we make you present to our awareness.

Mantra 8

यूयमस्मभ्यं धिषणाभ्यस्परि विद्वांसो विश्वा नर्याणि भोजना । द्युमन्तं वाजं वृषशुष्ममुत्तममा नो रयिमृभवस्तक्षता वयः ॥

You, knowing ones, from the dhīṣaṇā-powers all around, enjoy all the manly energies. Fashion for us a radiant plenitude (vāja), with bull-like force, the highest; and fashion for us, O Rbhus, the rayi—our growth and fullness of life.

Mantra 9

इह प्रजामिह रयिं रराणा इह श्रवो वीरवत्तक्षता नः । येन वयं चितयेमात्यन्यान्तं वाजं चित्रमृभवो ददा नः ॥

Here, in this very life, delighting in us, fashion for us progeny of the soul, fashion for us inner wealth, fashion for us fame rich in heroic force—by which we may become conscious beyond others. That many-colored plenitude of victory, O Rbhus, grant to us.