Sukta 69

Mantra 1

आ वां रथो रोदसी बद्बधानो हिरण्ययो वृषभिर्यात्वश्वैः । घृतवर्तनिः पविभी रुचान इषां वोळ्हा नृपतिर्वाजिनीवान् ॥

Let your chariot come—binding together Heaven and Earth—golden, drawn by strong stallions; moving on paths of clarified light, shining with its powers: a carrier of the impulsion of force, a lord of the human journey, rich in plenitudes.

Mantra 2

स पप्रथानो अभि पञ्च भूमा त्रिवन्धुरो मनसा यातु युक्तः । विशो येन गच्छथो देवयन्तीः कुत्रा चिद्याममश्विना दधाना ॥

Let that chariot, spread wide over the five domains, triple-seated, yoked by the mind, move. By it you go to the peoples that seek the Divine; wherever you place your journeying, O Aśvins, there you become present.

Mantra 3

स्वश्वा यशसा यातमर्वाग्दस्रा निधिं मधुमन्तं पिबाथः । वि वां रथो वध्वा यादमानोऽन्तान्दिवो बाधते वर्तनिभ्याम् ॥

Come here with your good horses, O mighty ones, in your glory; drink the honeyed treasure. Your chariot, moving with the bride (the joining power), breaks open the ends of heaven by its two tracks—making a passage for the ascent.

Mantra 4

युवोः श्रियं परि योषावृणीत सूरो दुहिता परितक्म्यायाम् । यद्देवयन्तमवथः शचीभिः परि घ्रंसमोमना वां वयो गात् ॥

Around your splendor the maiden chose herself—the daughter of the Sun—in her circling movement. When you aided the god-seeking one with your efficacies, then by your favoring thought your vital power went around the burning heat and passed beyond it.

Mantra 5

यो ह स्य वां रथिरा वस्त उस्रा रथो युजानः परियाति वर्तिः । तेन नः शं योरुषसो व्युष्टौ न्यश्विना वहतं यज्ञे अस्मिन् ॥

That chariot of yours, harnessed, moves about at the dwelling of the shining Dawns. By that, bring us peace and a wide gladness at the dawning’s opening; O Aśvins, carry yourselves down into this sacrifice.

Mantra 6

नरा गौरेव विद्युतं तृषाणास्माकमद्य सवनोप यातम् । पुरुत्रा हि वां मतिभिर्हवन्ते मा वामन्ये नि यमन्देवयन्तः ॥

O lords, like a bull’s lightning-flash, thirsting, come today to our pressing. For many are they who call you with their thoughts; let not other god-seekers hold you back from us.

Mantra 7

युवं भुज्युमवविद्धं समुद्र उदूहथुरर्णसो अस्रिधानैः । पतत्रिभिरश्रमैरव्यथिभिर्दंसनाभिरश्विना पारयन्ता ॥

You two, the Aśvins, lifted up Bhujyu who had been cast down into the ocean; out of the flood you bore him by your unfailing supports—by winged powers that do not tire and do not waver—carrying him across by your acts of luminous skill.

Mantra 8

नू मे हवमा शृणुतं युवाना यासिष्टं वर्तिरश्विनाविरावत् । धत्तं रत्नानि जरतं च सूरीन्यूयं पात स्वस्तिभिः सदा नः ॥

Now hear my call, O young Aśvins; come by the most direct path rich in abundance. Place in us the treasures, and cherish the seers who grow in the work; you too guard us always with your forces of well-being.