Sukta 59

Mantra 1

यं त्रायध्व इदमिदं देवासो यं च नयथ । तस्मा अग्ने वरुण मित्रार्यमन्मरुतः शर्म यच्छत ॥

Whom you protect at each step, O Gods, and whom you lead onward—grant to him, O Agni, Varuṇa, Mitra, Aryaman, and Maruts, a sheltering peace.

Mantra 2

युष्माकं देवा अवसाहनि प्रिय ईजानस्तरति द्विषः । प्र स क्षयं तिरते वि महीरिषो यो वो वराय दाशति ॥

By your support, O Gods, the beloved sacrificer who offers grows beyond the hostile powers. He wins a dwelling-place and spreads wide the great impulsions of force—he who gives to you for your choice and delight.

Mantra 3

नहि वश्चरमं चन वसिष्ठः परिमंसते । अस्माकमद्य मरुतः सुते सचा विश्वे पिबत कामिनः ॥

Vasiṣṭha does not at all forget you, not even in the last moment. Therefore today, O Maruts, together with our pressed Soma, drink—all of you—delighting in the soul’s desire.

Mantra 4

नहि व ऊतिः पृतनासु मर्धति यस्मा अराध्वं नरः । अभि व आवर्त्सुमतिर्नवीयसी तूयं यात पिपीषवः ॥

Your help is never crushed in the battles for him whom you have satisfied, O heroic ones. Toward you turns a newer and newer right-mindedness; come swiftly, you who thirst to increase our plenitude.

Mantra 5

ओ षु घृष्विराधसो यातनान्धांसि पीतये । इमा वो हव्या मरुतो ररे हि कं मो ष्वन्यत्र गन्तन ॥

Come then, O you of blazing riches, drive away the darknesses so that the drinking may be fulfilled. These offerings are set for you, O Maruts; indeed, why would you go elsewhere?

Mantra 6

आ च नो बर्हिः सदताविता च नः स्पार्हाणि दातवे वसु । अस्रेधन्तो मरुतः सोम्ये मधौ स्वाहेह मादयाध्वै ॥

Come and sit upon our sacred seat, and be our helpers; give us the desirable riches. O Maruts, unfailing ones, in the Soma’s honey—svāhā—here, take delight and increase your ecstasy within us.

Mantra 7

सस्वश्चिद्धि तन्वः शुम्भमाना आ हंसासो नीलपृष्ठा अपप्तन् । विश्वं शर्धो अभितो मा नि षेद नरो न रण्वाः सवने मदन्तः ॥

Even of themselves their bodies, adorning, have flown here—like swans with dark-blue backs. Let the whole host settle around me; like heroic men, rejoicing, intoxicated with delight at the pressing.

Mantra 8

यो नो मरुतो अभि दुर्हृणायुस्तिरश्चित्तानि वसवो जिघांसति । द्रुहः पाशान्प्रति स मुचीष्ट तपिष्ठेन हन्मना हन्तना तम् ॥

O Maruts, O Vasus, whoever with a crooked and hostile will seeks to strike us down and to overturn our inner perceptions—release him back into the fetters of deceit; with your most burning force of impact, smite that one.

Mantra 9

सांतपना इदं हविर्मरुतस्तज्जुजुष्टन । युष्माकोती रिशादसः ॥

O Maruts, burners-away (of impurity), accept and take delight in this offering; may your protection be ours, O destroyers of the injurer.

Mantra 10

गृहमेधास आ गत मरुतो माप भूतन । युष्माकोती सुदानवः ॥

O Maruts, masters of the house-sacrifice, come here; do not withdraw from us. May your saving help be ours, O generous givers.

Mantra 11

इहेह वः स्वतवसः कवयः सूर्यत्वचः । यज्ञं मरुत आ वृणे ॥

Here, here I choose you for the sacrifice, O Maruts—self-strong, seer-powers with the Sun as your luminous skin.

Mantra 12

त्र्यम्बकं यजामहे सुगन्धिं पुष्टिवर्धनम् । उर्वारुकमिव बन्धनान्मृत्योर्मुक्षीय मामृतात् ॥

We offer in adoration to the Three-Eyed, fragrant in being, increaser of plenitude. As a ripe gourd is loosed from its stalk, may I be released from the bond of death—yet not from immortality.