Sukta 183
Sukta 10.183
This brief late-Rigvedic hymn invokes a tapas-born generative Power to “be born” and to bestow progeny, especially a desired son, along with prosperity. The seer claims inner vision of this force as conscious, seasonally laboring, and embodied, culminating in a first-person revelation of an indwelling creatrix who places the embryo in plants and sustains birth across worlds.
In this hymn
Addressed to
Mantras
Mantra 1
अपश्यं त्वा मनसा चेकितानं तपसो जातं तपसो विभूतम् । इह प्रजामिह रयिं रराणः प्र जायस्व प्रजया पुत्रकाम ॥
मैंने तुम्हे अपने मन से देखा, तुम जो जानते हो और समझते हो। तुम तपस्या से पैदा हुए हो, तपस्या से बड़े हुए हो। यहाँ बच्चों के खुशी में, यहाँ धन में खुश रहते हुए, आगे बढ़ो। बेटा के लिए इच्छा रखने वाले, अपनी शक्ति से पैदा करो।
Mantra 2
अपश्यं त्वा मनसा दीध्यानां स्वायां तनू ऋत्व्ये नाधमानाम् । उप मामुच्चा युवतिर्बभूयाः प्र जायस्व प्रजया पुत्रकामे ॥
मैंने तुम्हे अपने मन में देखा जब वो जग रहा था। तुम अपने शरीर में काम कर रहे थे सही वक्त पर। मेरे ऊपर उठ के आओ, एक शक्तिशाली युवा स्त्री की तरह बनो। बेटा के इच्छा वाले, अपनी शक्ति से पैदा करो।
Mantra 3
अहं गर्भमदधामोषधीष्वहं विश्वेषु भुवनेष्वन्तः । अहं प्रजा अजनयं पृथिव्यामहं जनिभ्यो अपरीषु पुत्रान् ॥
मैंने गर्भ को दवा और पौधों में रखा है। मैं सारी दुनिया में हूँ। मैं धरती पर लोगों को पैदा करता हूँ। मैं हर पैदाइश को दूर-दूर तक बेटे देता हूँ ताकि क्रिएशन चलता रहे।
Inside Sukta 183
How it unfolds
- Where it opens
Inner vision: the seer ‘beholds with the mind’ a conscious power born of tapas and asks it to be born here with progeny and wealth.
- Development
The power is further visualized as embodied and laboring in the right season, urged to rise and become a youthful, potent presence over the petitioner.
- Climax
A decisive first-person revelation: the deity speaks as the universal indwelling creatrix who places the embryo in plants and pervades all worlds.
- Where it settles
The hymn settles into assurance of continuity—births receive sons, creation proceeds, and the sought progeny-blessing is grounded in cosmic immanence.
The deity: Tapas-jātā Prajā-jananī Śakti
- Cosmic functionTo animate conception, gestation, and successful birth; to distribute fertility through oṣadhīs (plants/medicinal powers) and to ensure continuity of lineages and beings across realms.
- Inner significanceThe creative will and concentrated heat of transformation (tapas) that turns intention into manifestation—psychologically, the focused generative impulse; spiritually, the immanent Shakti-like presence that births new life, new formations, and renewed vitality.
The seer
- AnonymusA late Mandala 10 voice associated with fertility/progeny rites and a distinctly introspective, visionary style (manasā ‘I saw with the mind’).
Famous verses
tapasó jātáṃ tapasó vibhūtam
ṛtvye nādhamānām
ahaṃ garbham adadhām oṣadhīṣu
Attributes of the deity
- Tapas-born and tapas-manifest
- Mentally beheld (inner vision)
- Seasonal/ṛtu-aligned fertility
- Embodied, youthful, rising power (yuvatī)
- Immanent in all worlds (viśveṣu bhuvaneṣu antaḥ)
- Embryo-placing and progeny-bestowing
- Linked with oṣadhīs (healing plants) and life-force
Also by this seer
- RV 10.183 (attributed as an anonymous/unknown seer hymn in the Rigvedic tradition)
The rite, step by step
- Prepare a quiet domestic or āhavanīya fire setting; establish purity and intention (saṅkalpa) for progeny and well-being.
- Recite RV 10.183.1 to invoke the tapas-born power and request ‘prajā’ and ‘rayi’ (offspring-force and prosperity).
- Recite RV 10.183.2 emphasizing ṛtu (right season) and the rising youthful power; pray for conception/quickening and protective strength.
- Recite RV 10.183.3 as an affirmation of the indwelling creatrix who places the embryo and sustains births; conclude with blessings for mother, child, and household.
- Optionally conclude with a simple śānti-style closing (well-being for all beings) and distribute consecrated water/food as prasāda-like sharing.
Offerings
- Ghṛta (ghee) oblations into fire
- Milk or sweet pāyasa (as a fertility-associated food)
- Oṣadhi-related offering or presence (herbs/medicinal plants symbolically placed)
- Water libation and simple grains (as household prosperity tokens)
Frequently Asked Questions
It primarily prays for successful progeny (prajā), especially the blessing of a son in a putrakāma context, along with prosperity (rayi) and life-continuity.
Rather than a single named god like Indra or Agni, the hymn addresses a tapas-born generative Power—an immanent creative presence that brings conception and birth and is described as present within all worlds.
It portrays fertility as a cosmic, life-pervading process: the creative Power ‘places the embryo in the plants,’ linking healing, vitality, and reproduction as one continuous force in nature.
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