Rig Veda Sukta 186
Mandala 10Sukta 1863 Mantras

Sukta 186

Sukta 10.186

Devata

Vāta (Wind as life-force and healer)

अयं संक्षिप्तः त्र्यृचः सूक्तः वातं जीवनशक्तिरूपं भिषजं च सौम्यं समाह्वयति। स हृदि शान्तिं हर्षं च जनयति, प्राणं च पूर्णजीवनाय अग्रे नयति। ततः पितृभ्रातृसखिरूपेण वातं सम्बोध्य सम्बन्धं दृढीकरोति, अन्ते च वातस्य स्वधाम्नि निहितं मन्यमानात् “अमृतस्य निधेः” अंशं याचते—येन निरन्तरजीवनाय धारणीयं मृत्युरहितं तेजोबलं लभ्येत।

Mantras

Frequently Asked Questions

Vāta is the wind as a divine power—both the outer moving air and the inner life-breath (prāṇa). The hymn treats him as a healer who supports calmness, vitality, and longevity.

The hymn asks Vāta to come as a remedy, bring peace and joy into the heart, and carry the worshipper’s life-breaths forward into a fuller, protected life-term.

It is an image for a deathless store of vitality (amṛta) associated with Vāta. The prayer asks that some of this sustaining, undiminishing life-power be granted ‘for living’—to strengthen and preserve life.

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