Sukta 79

Mantra 1

अयं कृत्नुरगृभीतो विश्वजिदुद्भिदित्सोमः । ऋषिर्विप्रः काव्येन ॥

This Soma is perfect in his working, unseized by limitation; a winner of the whole, a breaker upward of what is shut in. By the inspired poet’s vision he becomes the seer, the illumined one.

Mantra 2

अभ्यूर्णोति यन्नग्नं भिषक्ति विश्वं यत्तुरम् । प्रेमन्धः ख्यन्निः श्रोणो भूत् ॥

He covers what is naked and heals; he sets right all that is wounded and drives forward what is swift. The darkness becomes manifest and then is cast out; the lame goes forth made whole.

Mantra 3

त्वं सोम तनूकृद्भ्यो द्वेषोभ्योऽन्यकृतेभ्यः । उरु यन्तासि वरूथम् ॥

You, O Soma, are a wide ward and guiding safeguard for those who fashion the soul’s body, against hatreds and against harms wrought by others.

Mantra 4

त्वं चित्ती तव दक्षैर्दिव आ पृथिव्या ऋजीषिन् । यावीरघस्य चिद्द्वेषः ॥

You are the discerner by your powers, O strong-pressed one, from heaven down to earth; you drive away even the hatred that springs from sin and falsehood.

Mantra 5

अर्थिनो यन्ति चेदर्थं गच्छानिद्ददुषो रातिम् । ववृज्युस्तृष्यतः कामम् ॥

If seekers go in search of their aim, they arrive at the giver’s gift; the thirsting desire is turned away from its lack and finds its true satisfaction.

Mantra 6

विदद्यत्पूर्व्यं नष्टमुदीमृतायुमीरयत् । प्रेमायुस्तारीदतीर्णम् ॥

When he finds what was lost from of old, he lifts up the soul that moves by the Truth; he leads forward the life and makes it cross beyond what had not been crossed.

Mantra 7

सुशेवो नो मृळयाकुरदृप्तक्रतुरवातः । भवा नः सोम शं हृदे ॥

Be for us, O Soma, full of good grace and compassion, with an undisturbed will, coming as a protecting aid; become for us peace and sweetness in the heart.

Mantra 8

मा नः सोम सं वीविजो मा वि बीभिषथा राजन् । मा नो हार्दि त्विषा वधीः ॥

O Soma, King within us, do not press upon our being too strongly; do not frighten us by a sudden overwhelming force. Do not strike our heart by your blazing intensity.

Mantra 9

अव यत्स्वे सधस्थे देवानां दुर्मतीरीक्षे । राजन्नप द्विषः सेध मीढ्वो अप स्रिधः सेध ॥

When, in your own seat among the gods, you look down upon the crooked thoughts, O King, then repel the hostile forces; drive away from the giver within us the powers that obstruct and wound the movement.