Sukta 5

Mantra 1

आत्मा। यज्ञेन यज्ञमयजन्त देवास्तानि धर्माणि प्रथमान्यासन्। ते ह नाकं महिमानः सचन्त यत्र पूर्वे साध्याः सन्ति देवाः

The Self: with sacrifice the Gods sacrificed sacrifice; those ordinances were the first established. They verily, by their majesty, attained to heaven, where the former Sādhyas, the Gods, have their being.

Mantra 2

यज्ञो बभूव स आ बभूव स प्र जज्ञे स उ वावृधे पुनः । स देवानामधिपतिर्बभूव सो अस्मासु द्रविणमा दधातु

Sacrifice came to be; yea, he was fully come to be: he was born forth, and verily he waxed again. He became the Gods’ over-lord; may he set wealth among us, may he bestow substance hither upon us.

Mantra 3

यद् देवा देवान् हविषायजन्तामर्त्यान् मनसामर्त्येन । मदेम तत्र परमे व्योऽमन् पश्येम तदुदितौ सूर्यस्य

When the Gods with oblation sacrificed unto the Gods, the Deathless with mind made deathless; may we exult there in the highest firmament, and may we behold that at the Sun’s uprising.

Mantra 4

यत् पुरुषेण हविषा यज्ञं देवा अतन्वत । अस्ति नु तस्मादोजीयो यद् विहव्येनेजिरे

When with the Puruṣa, with oblation, the Gods stretched forth the sacrifice—there is, indeed, a mightier thing than that: that they worshipped with manifold offerings.

Mantra 5

मुग्धा देवा उत शुनायजन्तोत गोरङ्गैः पुरुधायजन्त । य इमं यज्ञं मनसा चिकेत प्र णो वोचस्तमिहेह ब्रवः

Bewildered were the Gods: they sacrificed even for a dog; and with the limbs of a cow they sacrificed in many fashions. Whoso with mind hath understood this sacrifice—declare it forth to us; speak it here, yea here, aloud.