Sukta 37

Mantra 1

उप नो वाजा अध्वरमृभुक्षा देवा यात पथिभिर्देवयानैः । यथा यज्ञं मनुषो विक्ष्वासु दधिध्वे रण्वाः सुदिनेष्वह्नाम् ॥

Come near to our offering, O Vājas, O Ṛbhukṣaṇas, O bright Powers; travel by the godward paths. As you have set the sacrifice in motion among the human clans, so establish it again—delightful—for us in the fair days of our life.

Mantra 2

ते वो हृदे मनसे सन्तु यज्ञा जुष्टासो अद्य घृतनिर्णिजो गुः । प्र वः सुतासो हरयन्त पूर्णाः क्रत्वे दक्षाय हर्षयन्त पीताः ॥

May the offerings be in your heart and mind—welcome today, shining with the clarity of the anointed Light. Let the pressed Soma-currents, full and overflowing, stream forth for your will and your discerning power; drunk, they make the inner energies rejoice.

Mantra 3

त्र्युदायं देवहितं यथा वः स्तोमो वाजा ऋभुक्षणो ददे वः । जुह्वे मनुष्वदुपरासु विक्षु युष्मे सचा बृहद्दिवेषु सोमम् ॥

As of old, the thrice-uplifted praise—set in the gods—has been given to you, O Vājas, O Ṛbhukṣaṇas. I pour out Soma in the human way, in the higher settlements of the clans, together with you in the vast days of the Greater Heaven.

Mantra 4

पीवोअश्वाः शुचद्रथा हि भूतायःशिप्रा वाजिनः सुनिष्काः । इन्द्रस्य सूनो शवसो नपातोऽनु वश्चेत्यग्रियं मदाय ॥

Rich-horsed, bright-charioted you have become—iron-jawed, forceful, bearing the fair prize. O sons of Indra’s might, descendants of Power, may the foremost rapture move in your wake for the ecstasy of the work.

Mantra 5

ऋभुमृभुक्षणो रयिं वाजे वाजिन्तमं युजम् । इन्द्रस्वन्तं हवामहे सदासातममश्विनम् ॥

We call the Rbhu, the Ṛbhukṣaṇa—bringing the spiritual plenitude (rayi) in the winning force (vāja), the most victorious yoke-fellow. Indra-filled, ever-conquering, he is the Aśvin-like helper we invoke.

Mantra 6

सेदृभवो यमवथ यूयमिन्द्रश्च मर्त्यम् । स धीभिरस्तु सनिता मेधसाता सो अर्वता ॥

He whom you, O Rbhus, and Indra too, protect among mortals—let him become by his illumined thoughts a winner, a conqueror of the light of understanding; let him be one who attains with the steed of energy.

Mantra 7

वि नो वाजा ऋभुक्षणः पथश्चितन यष्टवे । अस्मभ्यं सूरयः स्तुता विश्वा आशास्तरीषणि ॥

Open out for us, O Vājas, O Ṛbhukṣaṇa, the paths for our offering. O seer-powers, praised by us, carry us across all the directions of hope and possibility.

Mantra 8

तं नो वाजा ऋभुक्षण इन्द्र नासत्या रयिम् । समश्वं चर्षणिभ्य आ पुरु शस्त मघत्तये ॥

That plenitude (rayi) for us, O Vājas, O Ṛbhukṣaṇa—O Indra, O Nāsatyas—bring together with the steed of energy for the peoples. Praise it widely, so that the power of generous giving may grow.