Sukta 140

Mantra 1

यन्नासत्या भुरण्यथो यद्वा देव भिषज्यथः । अयं वां वत्सो मतिभिर्न विन्धते हविष्मन्तं हि गच्छथः

Since, O Nāsatyās, ye are swift, and since, O god, ye deal as healers—This your calf by thoughts alone findeth you not; for ye go unto him that hath oblation.

Mantra 2

आ नूनमश्विनोर्ऋषि स्तोमं चिकेत वामया । आ सोमं मधुमत्तमं घर्मं सिञ्चादथर्वणि

Now, verily, let the seer take knowledge of the Aśvins’ laud; by this means (let it be) for you twain. Hither—Soma, most honeyed—let him pour the gharmá, in the Atharvan’s rite.

Mantra 3

आ नूनं रघुवर्तनिं रथं तिष्ठाथो अश्विना । आ वां स्तोमा इमे मम नभो न चुच्यवीरत

Now, O Aśvins, mount the swift-revolving car. Hither to you have these my praises rolled on, like a cloud (that swells and drives).

Mantra 4

यदद्य वां नासत्योक्थैराचुच्युवीमहि । यद्वा वाणीभिरश्विनेवेत्कण्वस्य बोधतम्

What, O Nāsatyas, we have to-day set in motion toward you with hymns—or what with voices, O Aśvins—thereof take heed, even as (ye heeded) Kaṇva’s.

Mantra 5

यद्वां कक्षीवां उत यद्व्यश्व ऋषिर्यद्वां दीर्घतमा जुहाव । पृथी यद्वां वैन्यः सादनेष्वेवेदतो अश्विना चेतयेथाम्

What Kakṣīvān (did) for you, and what the seer Vyaśva; what Dīrghatamas invoked you with; what Pṛthī—what Vainya (did) for you in the sittings: even so, O Aśvins, from hence take heed.