Sukta 84

Mantra 1

पवस्व देवमादनो विचर्षणिरप्सा इन्द्राय वरुणाय वायवे । कृधी नो अद्य वरिवः स्वस्तिमदुरुक्षितौ गृणीहि दैव्यं जनम् ॥

Purify yourself, delighting the gods, wide-ruling in your movement, dwelling in the waters—for Indra, for Varuṇa, for Vāyu. Create for us today a wide space of being, full of well-being; in the wide dwelling praise and uplift the divine people (the luminous powers within us).

Mantra 2

आ यस्तस्थौ भुवनान्यमर्त्यो विश्वानि सोमः परि तान्यर्षति । कृण्वन्त्संचृतं विचृतमभिष्टय इन्दुः सिषक्त्युषसं न सूर्यः ॥

He who has taken his stand over the worlds, the deathless Soma, flows around and encompasses all of them. Making the gathered and the dispersed one for our fulfilment, the bright Indu releases the Dawn within us, as the Sun releases her in the sky.

Mantra 3

आ यो गोभिः सृज्यत ओषधीष्वा देवानां सुम्न इषयन्नुपावसुः । आ विद्युता पवते धारया सुत इन्द्रं सोमो मादयन्दैव्यं जनम् ॥

He who is released with the Rays into the growing powers, pressing forward the gods’ felicity as a near and inward wealth—Soma flows with lightning-speed in a streaming current when pressed; he intoxicates and uplifts Indra and the divine kind within us.

Mantra 4

एष स्य सोमः पवते सहस्रजिद्धिन्वानो वाचमिषिरामुषर्बुधम् । इन्दुः समुद्रमुदियर्ति वायुभिरेन्द्रस्य हार्दि कलशेषु सीदति ॥

This Soma indeed is purified, a winner of a thousand, driving forward the inspired speech—keen and dawn-awakening. The bright Indu heaves up the ocean with the winds, and comes to rest in the cups within the heart of Indra.

Mantra 5

अभि त्यं गावः पयसा पयोवृधं सोमं श्रीणन्ति मतिभिः स्वर्विदम् । धनंजयः पवते कृत्व्यो रसो विप्रः कविः काव्येना स्वर्चनाः ॥

To that Soma the Rays add their milk, to the increaser of the milk of being, the finder of the Sun-world, by their luminous thoughts. The wealth-conqueror is purified—the effective rasa; the inspired seer-poet, by the power of his vision, shines with his own light.