Sukta 108

Mantra 1

पवस्व मधुमत्तम इन्द्राय सोम क्रतुवित्तमो मदः । महि द्युक्षतमो मदः ॥

Flow forth, O Soma, most honeyed, for Indra; a rapture most rich in will and discernment. A great rapture, most luminous in its shining.

Mantra 2

यस्य ते पीत्वा वृषभो वृषायतेऽस्य पीता स्वर्विदः । स सुप्रकेतो अभ्यक्रमीदिषोऽच्छा वाजं नैतशः ॥

He who, drinking of thee, becomes the Bull in his might; and by thy draught he is a finder of the Sun-worlds (svar). That man, full of clear perception, strides forward to the impulsions and to the plenitude (vāja), like Etaśa (the swift one).

Mantra 3

त्वं ह्यङ्ग दैव्या पवमान जनिमानि द्युमत्तमः । अमृतत्वाय घोषयः ॥

For thou indeed, O divine Pavamāna, most full of light, proclaimest the births (the becomings) that lead to immortality.

Mantra 4

येना नवग्वो दध्यङ्ङपोर्णुते येन विप्रास आपिरे । देवानां सुम्ने अमृतस्य चारुणो येन श्रवांस्यानशुः ॥

By thee the Navagvas and Dadhyañc were unveiled (released from the covering); by thee the seers attained their reach. In the gracious favour of the gods, in the lovely (chāru) delight of immortality, by thee they won their glorious hearings (fames).

Mantra 5

एष स्य धारया सुतोऽव्यो वारेभिः पवते मदिन्तमः । क्रीळन्नूर्मिरपामिव ॥

This one, pressed out, flows in his stream through the wool-filter, with the waters, most rapturous—playing like a wave of the waters.

Mantra 6

य उस्रिया अप्या अन्तरश्मनो निर्गा अकृन्तदोजसा । अभि व्रजं तत्निषे गव्यमश्व्यं वर्मीव धृष्णवा रुज ॥

He who, by the force of his own might, cuts out and releases the hidden rays of light and the inner cows from within the stone of obstruction; he spreads out the luminous enclosure of plenitude—rich in light and swift energies—and like a bold battering-ram he breaks the resisting cover.

Mantra 7

आ सोता परि षिञ्चताश्वं न स्तोममप्तुरं रजस्तुरम् । वनक्रक्षमुदप्रुतम् ॥

O pressers, pour it all around—this praiseful surge like a horse—swift to cross the waters, rushing through the mid-world, breaking through the thickets of the being, leaping upward beyond the lower flood.

Mantra 8

सहस्रधारं वृषभं पयोवृधं प्रियं देवाय जन्मने । ऋतेन य ऋतजातो विवावृधे राजा देव ऋतं बृहत् ॥

The bull with a thousand streams, increaser of the soul’s milk, dear to the divine birth—he who, born of the Truth and growing by the Truth, becomes the kingly god: the vast Truth itself.

Mantra 9

अभि द्युम्नं बृहद्यश इषस्पते दिदीहि देव देवयुः । वि कोशं मध्यमं युव ॥

Shine forth toward the great glory, O lord of plenitude; blaze, O god, desired by the god-seeking soul, and open wide the middle treasury within us.

Mantra 10

आ वच्यस्व सुदक्ष चम्वोः सुतो विशां वह्निर्न विश्पतिः । वृष्टिं दिवः पवस्व रीतिमपां जिन्वा गविष्टये धियः ॥

Become expressible and manifest, O perfectly-skilled one, pressed in the bowls—like a carrying flame, like a lord of the peoples. Purify yourself into the rain of heaven, into the right flow of the waters; quicken our thoughts for the winning of the rays of Light.

Mantra 11

एतमु त्यं मदच्युतं सहस्रधारं वृषभं दिवो दुहुः । विश्वा वसूनि बिभ्रतम् ॥

This very one they milk from heaven—the thousand-streamed bull, dripping ecstasy—bearing within himself all riches of being.

Mantra 12

वृषा वि जज्ञे जनयन्नमर्त्यः प्रतपञ्ज्योतिषा तमः । स सुष्टुतः कविभिर्निर्णिजं दधे त्रिधात्वस्य दंससा ॥

The Bull is born forth, the immortal generating; he burns away the darkness with his light. Praised well by the seers, he puts on his shining robe, by the skill of his triple powers.

Mantra 13

स सुन्वे यो वसूनां यो रायामानेता य इळानाम् । सोमो यः सुक्षितीनाम् ॥

He is for the presser: the giver of the essential riches, the bringer of plenitude, the leader of the illumined offerings; Soma, who establishes the soul in a good and secure dwelling.

Mantra 14

यस्य न इन्द्रः पिबाद्यस्य मरुतो यस्य वार्यमणा भगः । आ येन मित्रावरुणा करामह एन्द्रमवसे महे ॥

Of whom Indra drinks, of whom the Maruts, of whom too Aryaman and Bhaga partake—by whom we make ready Mitra and Varuṇa: by that Soma may we draw near to Indra for the great protection.

Mantra 15

इन्द्राय सोम पातवे नृभिर्यतः स्वायुधो मदिन्तमः । पवस्व मधुमत्तमः ॥

For Indra to drink, urged on by the seekers, O Soma—self-armed, most intoxicating—purify yourself, become most honeyed in delight.

Mantra 16

इन्द्रस्य हार्दि सोमधानमा विश समुद्रमिव सिन्धवः । जुष्टो मित्राय वरुणाय वायवे दिवो विष्टम्भ उत्तमः ॥

Enter, O Soma, into the heart of Indra as the establishing of the delight; as rivers enter the ocean. Accepted by Mitra and Varuṇa and by Vāyu, become the supreme support of the heaven within us.