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सूक्तम् ४.१ऋषिः: वामदेवो गौतमः । अनुक्रमणिका: दे. अग्निः, २-५ अग्नीवरुणौ वा। त्रिष्टुप्, १ अष्टिः, २ अतिजगती, ३ धृतिः
4.1.1 त्वां ह्यग्ने सदमित्समन्यवो देवासो देवमरतिं न्येरिर इति क्रत्वा न्येरिरे ।अमर्त्यं यजत मर्त्येष्वा देवमादेवं जनत प्रचेतसं विश्वमादेवं जनत प्रचेतसम्
4.1.2 स भ्रातरं वरुणमग्न आ ववृत्स्व देवाँ अच्छा सुमती यज्ञवनसं ज्येष्ठं यज्ञवनसम् ।ऋतावानमादित्यं चर्षणीधृतं राजानं चर्षणीधृतम्
4.1.3 सखे सखायमभ्या ववृत्स्वाशुं न चक्रं रथ्येव रंह्यास्मभ्यं दस्म रंह्या ।अग्ने मृळीकं वरुणे सचा विदो मरुत्सु विश्वभानुषु ।तोकाय तुजे शुशुचान शं कृध्यस्मभ्यं दस्म शं कृधि
4.1.4 त्वं नो अग्ने वरुणस्य विद्वान्देवस्य हेळोऽव यासिसीष्ठाः ।यजिष्ठो वह्नितमः शोशुचानो विश्वा द्वेषांसि प्र मुमुग्ध्यस्मत्
4.1.5 स त्वं नो अग्नेऽवमो भवोती नेदिष्ठो अस्या उषसो व्युष्टौ ।अव यक्ष्व नो वरुणं रराणो वीहि मृळीकं सुहवो न एधि
4.1.6 अस्य श्रेष्ठा सुभगस्य संदृग्देवस्य चित्रतमा मर्त्येषु ।शुचि घृतं न तप्तमघ्न्याया स्पार्हा देवस्य मंहनेव धेनोः
4.1.7 त्रिरस्य ता परमा सन्ति सत्या स्पार्हा देवस्य जनिमान्यग्नेः ।अनन्ते अन्तः परिवीत आगाच्छुचिः शुक्रो अर्यो रोरुचानः
4.1.8 स दूतो विश्वेदभि वष्टि सद्मा होता हिरण्यरथो रंसुजिह्वः ।रोहिदश्वो वपुष्यो विभावा सदा रण्वः पितुमतीव संसत्
4.1.9 स चेतयन्मनुषो यज्ञबन्धुः प्र तं मह्या रशनया नयन्ति ।स क्षेत्यस्य दुर्यासु साधन्देवो मर्तस्य सधनित्वमाप
4.1.10 स तू नो अग्निर्नयतु प्रजानन्नच्छा रत्नं देवभक्तं यदस्य ।धिया यद्विश्वे अमृता अकृण्वन्द्यौष्पिता जनिता सत्यमुक्षन्
4.1.11 स जायत प्रथमः पस्त्यासु महो बुध्ने रजसो अस्य योनौ ।अपादशीर्षा गुहमानो अन्तायोयुवानो वृषभस्य नीळे
4.1.12 प्र शर्ध आर्त प्रथमं विपन्यँ ऋतस्य योना वृषभस्य नीळे ।स्पार्हो युवा वपुष्यो विभावा सप्त प्रियासोऽजनयन्त वृष्णे
4.1.13 अस्माकमत्र पितरो मनुष्या अभि प्र सेदुरृतमाशुषाणाः ।अश्मव्रजाः सुदुघा वव्रे अन्तरुदुस्रा आजन्नुषसो हुवानाः
4.1.14 ते मर्मृजत ददृवांसो अद्रिं तदेषामन्ये अभितो वि वोचन् ।पश्वयन्त्रासो अभि कारमर्चन्विदन्त ज्योतिश्चकृपन्त धीभिः
4.1.15 ते गव्यता मनसा दृध्रमुब्धं गा येमानं परि षन्तमद्रिम् ।दृळ्हं नरो वचसा दैव्येन व्रजं गोमन्तमुशिजो वि वव्रुः
4.1.16 ते मन्वत प्रथमं नाम धेनोस्त्रिः सप्त मातुः परमाणि विन्दन् ।तज्जानतीरभ्यनूषत व्रा आविर्भुवदरुणीर्यशसा गोः
4.1.17 नेशत्तमो दुधितं रोचत द्यौरुद्देव्या उषसो भानुरर्त ।आ सूर्यो बृहतस्तिष्ठदज्राँ ऋजु मर्तेषु वृजिना च पश्यन्
4.1.18 आदित्पश्चा बुबुधाना व्यख्यन्नादिद्रत्नं धारयन्त द्युभक्तम् ।विश्वे विश्वासु दुर्यासु देवा मित्र धिये वरुण सत्यमस्तु
4.1.19 अच्छा वोचेय शुशुचानमग्निं होतारं विश्वभरसं यजिष्ठम् ।शुच्यूधो अतृणन्न गवामन्धो न पूतं परिषिक्तमंशोः
4.1.20 विश्वेषामदितिर्यज्ञियानां विश्वेषामतिथिर्मानुषाणाम् ।अग्निर्देवानामव आवृणानः सुमृळीको भवतु जातवेदाः
सूक्तम् ४.२ऋषिः: वामदेवो गौतमः । अनुक्रमणिका: दे. अग्निः। त्रिष्टुप्
4.2.1 यो मर्त्येष्वमृत ऋतावा देवो देवेष्वरतिर्निधायि ।होता यजिष्ठो मह्ना शुचध्यै हव्यैरग्निर्मनुष ईरयध्यै
4.2.2 इह त्वं सूनो सहसो नो अद्य जातो जाताँ उभयाँ अन्तरग्ने ।दूत ईयसे युयुजान ऋष्व ऋजुमुष्कान्वृषणः शुक्राँश्च
4.2.3 अत्या वृधस्नू रोहिता घृतस्नू ऋतस्य मन्ये मनसा जविष्ठा ।अन्तरीयसे अरुषा युजानो युष्माँश्च देवान्विश आ च मर्तान्
4.2.4 अर्यमणं वरुणं मित्रमेषामिन्द्राविष्णू मरुतो अश्विनोत ।स्वश्वो अग्ने सुरथः सुराधा एदु वह सुहविषे जनाय
4.2.5 गोमाँ अग्नेऽविमाँ अश्वी यज्ञो नृवत्सखा सदमिदप्रमृष्यः ।इळावाँ एषो असुर प्रजावान्दीर्घो रयिः पृथुबुध्नः सभावान्
4.2.6 यस्त इध्मं जभरत्सिष्विदानो मूर्धानं वा ततपते त्वाया ।भुवस्तस्य स्वतवाँः पायुरग्ने विश्वस्मात्सीमघायत उरुष्य
4.2.7 यस्ते भरादन्नियते चिदन्नं निशिषन्मन्द्रमतिथिमुदीरत् ।आ देवयुरिनधते दुरोणे तस्मिन्रयिर्ध्रुवो अस्तु दास्वान्
4.2.8 यस्त्वा दोषा य उषसि प्रशंसात्प्रियं वा त्वा कृणवते हविष्मान् ।अश्वो न स्वे दम आ हेम्यावान्तमंहसः पीपरो दाश्वांसम्
4.2.9 यस्तुभ्यमग्ने अमृताय दाशद्दुवस्त्वे कृणवते यतस्रुक् ।न स राया शशमानो वि योषन्नैनमंहः परि वरदघायोः
4.2.10 यस्य त्वमग्ने अध्वरं जुजोषो देवो मर्तस्य सुधितं रराणः ।प्रीतेदसद्धोत्रा सा यविष्ठासाम यस्य विधतो वृधासः
4.2.11 चित्तिमचित्तिं चिनवद्वि विद्वान्पृष्ठेव वीता वृजिना च मर्तान् ।राये च नः स्वपत्याय देव दितिं च रास्वादितिमुरुष्य
4.2.12 कविं शशासुः कवयोऽदब्धा निधारयन्तो दुर्यास्वायोः ।अतस्त्वं दृश्याँ अग्न एतान्पड्भिः पश्येरद्भुताँ अर्य एवैः
4.2.13 त्वमग्ने वाघते सुप्रणीतिः सुतसोमाय विधते यविष्ठ ।रत्नं भर शशमानाय घृष्वे पृथु श्चन्द्रमवसे चर्षणिप्राः
4.2.14 अधा ह यद्वयमग्ने त्वाया पड्भिर्हस्तेभिश्चकृमा तनूभिः ।रथं न क्रन्तो अपसा भुरिजोरृतं येमुः सुध्य आशुषाणाः
4.2.15 अधा मातुरुषसः सप्त विप्रा जायेमहि प्रथमा वेधसो नॄन् ।दिवस्पुत्रा अङ्गिरसो भवेमाद्रिं रुजेम धनिनं शुचन्तः
4.2.16 अधा यथा नः पितरः परासः प्रत्नासो अग्न ऋतमाशुषाणाः ।शुचीदयन्दीधितिमुक्थशासः क्षामा भिन्दन्तो अरुणीरप व्रन्
4.2.17 सुकर्माणः सुरुचो देवयन्तोऽयो न देवा जनिमा धमन्तः ।शुचन्तो अग्निं ववृधन्त इन्द्रमूर्वं गव्यं परिषदन्तो अग्मन्
4.2.18 आ यूथेव क्षुमति पश्वो अख्यद्देवानां यज्जनिमान्त्युग्र ।मर्तानां चिदुर्वशीरकृप्रन्वृधे चिदर्य उपरस्यायोः
4.2.19 अकर्म ते स्वपसो अभूम ऋतमवस्रन्नुषसो विभातीः ।अनूनमग्निं पुरुधा सुश्चन्द्रं देवस्य मर्मृजतश्चारु चक्षुः
4.2.20 एता ते अग्न उचथानि वेधोऽवोचाम कवये ता जुषस्व ।उच्छोचस्व कृणुहि वस्यसो नो महो रायः पुरुवार प्र यन्धि
सूक्तम् ४.३ऋषिः: वामदेवो गौतमः । अनुक्रमणिका: दे. अग्निः, १ रुद्रः। त्रिष्टुप्
4.3.1 आ वो राजानमध्वरस्य रुद्रं होतारं सत्ययजं रोदस्योः ।अग्निं पुरा तनयित्नोरचित्ताद्धिरण्यरूपमवसे कृणुध्वम्
4.3.2 अयं योनिश्चकृमा यं वयं ते जायेव पत्य उशती सुवासाः ।अर्वाचीनः परिवीतो नि षीदेमा उ ते स्वपाक प्रतीचीः
4.3.3 आशृण्वते अदृपिताय मन्म नृचक्षसे सुमृळीकाय वेधः ।देवाय शस्तिममृताय शंस ग्रावेव सोता मधुषुद्यमीळे
4.3.4 त्वं चिन्नः शम्या अग्ने अस्या ऋतस्य बोध्यृतचित्स्वाधीः ।कदा त उक्था सधमाद्यानि कदा भवन्ति सख्या गृहे ते
4.3.5 कथा ह तद्वरुणाय त्वमग्ने कथा दिवे गर्हसे कन्न आगः ।कथा मित्राय मीळ्हुषे पृथिव्यै ब्रवः कदर्यम्णे कद्भगाय
4.3.6 कद्धिष्ण्यासु वृधसानो अग्ने कद्वाताय प्रतवसे शुभंये ।परिज्मने नासत्याय क्षे ब्रवः कदग्ने रुद्राय नृघ्ने
4.3.7 कथा महे पुष्टिम्भराय पूष्णे कद्रुद्राय सुमखाय हविर्दे ।कद्विष्णव उरुगायाय रेतो ब्रवः कदग्ने शरवे बृहत्यै
4.3.8 कथा शर्धाय मरुतामृताय कथा सूरे बृहते पृच्छ्यमानः ।प्रति ब्रवोऽदितये तुराय साधा दिवो जातवेदश्चिकित्वान्
4.3.9 ऋतेन ऋतं नियतमीळ आ गोरामा सचा मधुमत्पक्वमग्ने ।कृष्णा सती रुशता धासिनैषा जामर्येण पयसा पीपाय
4.3.10 ऋतेन हि ष्मा वृषभश्चिदक्तः पुमाँ अग्निः पयसा पृष्ठ्येन ।अस्पन्दमानो अचरद्वयोधा वृषा शुक्रं दुदुहे पृश्निरूधः
4.3.11 ऋतेनाद्रिं व्यसन्भिदन्तः समङ्गिरसो नवन्त गोभिः ।शुनं नरः परि षदन्नुषासमाविः स्वरभवज्जाते अग्नौ
4.3.12 ऋतेन देवीरमृता अमृक्ता अर्णोभिरापो मधुमद्भिरग्ने ।वाजी न सर्गेषु प्रस्तुभानः प्र सदमित्स्रवितवे दधन्युः
4.3.13 मा कस्य यक्षं सदमिद्धुरो गा मा वेशस्य प्रमिनतो मापेः ।मा भ्रातुरग्ने अनृजोरृणं वेर्मा सख्युर्दक्षं रिपोर्भुजेम
4.3.14 रक्षा णो अग्ने तव रक्षणेभी रारक्षाणः सुमख प्रीणानः ।प्रति ष्फुर वि रुज वीड्वंहो जहि रक्षो महि चिद्वावृधानम्
4.3.15 एभिर्भव सुमना अग्ने अर्कैरिमान्स्पृश मन्मभिः शूर वाजान् ।उत ब्रह्माण्यङ्गिरो जुषस्व सं ते शस्तिर्देववाता जरेत
4.3.16 एता विश्वा विदुषे तुभ्यं वेधो नीथान्यग्ने निण्या वचांसि ।निवचना कवये काव्यान्यशंसिषं मतिभिर्विप्र उक्थैः
सूक्तम् ४.४ऋषिः: वामदेवो गौतमः । अनुक्रमणिका: दे. रक्षोहाऽग्निः। त्रिष्टुप्
4.4.1 कृणुष्व पाजः प्रसितिं न पृथ्वीं याहि राजेवामवाँ इभेन ।तृष्वीमनु प्रसितिं द्रूणानोऽस्तासि विध्य रक्षसस्तपिष्ठैः
4.4.2 तव भ्रमास आशुया पतन्त्यनु स्पृश धृषता शोशुचानः ।तपूंष्यग्ने जुह्वा पतंगानसंदितो वि सृज विष्वगुल्काः
4.4.3 प्रति स्पशो वि सृज तूर्णितमो भवा पायुर्विशो अस्या अदब्धः ।यो नो दूरे अघशंसो यो अन्त्यग्ने माकिष्टे व्यथिरा दधर्षीत्
4.4.4 उदग्ने तिष्ठ प्रत्या तनुष्व न्यमित्राँ ओषतात्तिग्महेते ।यो नो अरातिं समिधान चक्रे नीचा तं धक्ष्यतसं न शुष्कम्
4.4.5 ऊर्ध्वो भव प्रति विध्याध्यस्मदाविष्कृणुष्व दैव्यान्यग्ने ।अव स्थिरा तनुहि यातुजूनां जामिमजामिं प्र मृणीहि शत्रून्
4.4.6 स ते जानाति सुमतिं यविष्ठ य ईवते ब्रह्मणे गातुमैरत् ।विश्वान्यस्मै सुदिनानि रायो द्युम्नान्यर्यो वि दुरो अभि द्यौत्
4.4.7 सेदग्ने अस्तु सुभगः सुदानुर्यस्त्वा नित्येन हविषा य उक्थैः ।पिप्रीषति स्व आयुषि दुरोणे विश्वेदस्मै सुदिना सासदिष्टिः
4.4.8 अर्चामि ते सुमतिं घोष्यर्वाक्सं ते वावाता जरतामियं गीः ।स्वश्वास्त्वा सुरथा मर्जयेमास्मे क्षत्राणि धारयेरनु द्यून्
4.4.9 इह त्वा भूर्या चरेदुप त्मन्दोषावस्तर्दीदिवांसमनु द्यून् ।क्रीळन्तस्त्वा सुमनसः सपेमाभि द्युम्ना तस्थिवांसो जनानाम्
4.4.10 यस्त्वा स्वश्वः सुहिरण्यो अग्न उपयाति वसुमता रथेन ।तस्य त्राता भवसि तस्य सखा यस्त आतिथ्यमानुषग्जुजोषत्
4.4.11 महो रुजामि बन्धुता वचोभिस्तन्मा पितुर्गोतमादन्वियाय ।त्वं नो अस्य वचसश्चिकिद्धि होतर्यविष्ठ सुक्रतो दमूनाः
4.4.12 अस्वप्नजस्तरणयः सुशेवा अतन्द्रासोऽवृका अश्रमिष्ठाः ।ते पायवः सध्र्यञ्चो निषद्याग्ने तव नः पान्त्वमूर
4.4.13 ये पायवो मामतेयं ते अग्ने पश्यन्तो अन्धं दुरितादरक्षन् ।ररक्ष तान्सुकृतो विश्ववेदा दिप्सन्त इद्रिपवो नाह देभुः
4.4.14 त्वया वयं सधन्यस्त्वोतास्तव प्रणीत्यश्याम वाजान् ।उभा शंसा सूदय सत्यतातेऽनुष्ठुया कृणुह्यह्रयाण
4.4.15 अया ते अग्ने समिधा विधेम प्रति स्तोमं शस्यमानं गृभाय ।दहाशसो रक्षसः पाह्यस्मान्द्रुहो निदो मित्रमहो अवद्यात्
सूक्तम् ४.५ऋषिः: वामदेवो गौतमः । अनुक्रमणिका: दे. वैश्वानरोऽग्निः। त्रिष्टुप्
4.5.1 वैश्वानराय मीळ्हुषे सजोषाः कथा दाशेमाग्नये बृहद्भाः ।अनूनेन बृहता वक्षथेनोप स्तभायदुपमिन्न रोधः
4.5.2 मा निन्दत य इमां मह्यं रातिं देवो ददौ मर्त्याय स्वधावान् ।पाकाय गृत्सो अमृतो विचेता वैश्वानरो नृतमो यह्वो अग्निः
4.5.3 साम द्विबर्हा महि तिग्मभृष्टिः सहस्ररेता वृषभस्तुविष्मान् ।पदं न गोरपगूळ्हं विविद्वानग्निर्मह्यं प्रेदु वोचन्मनीषाम्
4.5.4 प्र ताँ अग्निर्बभसत्तिग्मजम्भस्तपिष्ठेन शोचिषा यः सुराधाः ।प्र ये मिनन्ति वरुणस्य धाम प्रिया मित्रस्य चेततो ध्रुवाणि
4.5.5 अभ्रातरो न योषणो व्यन्तः पतिरिपो न जनयो दुरेवाः ।पापासः सन्तो अनृता असत्या इदं पदमजनता गभीरम्
4.5.6 इदं मे अग्ने कियते पावकामिनते गुरुं भारं न मन्म ।बृहद्दधाथ धृषता गभीरं यह्वं पृष्ठं प्रयसा सप्तधातु
4.5.7 तमिन्न्वेव समना समानमभि क्रत्वा पुनती धीतिरश्याः ।ससस्य चर्मन्नधि चारु पृश्नेरग्रे रुप आरुपितं जबारु
4.5.8 प्रवाच्यं वचसः किं मे अस्य गुहा हितमुप निणिग्वदन्ति ।यदुस्रियाणामप वारिव व्रन्पाति प्रियं रुपो अग्रं पदं वेः
4.5.9 इदमु त्यन्महि महामनीकं यदुस्रिया सचत पूर्व्यं गौः ।ऋतस्य पदे अधि दीद्यानं गुहा रघुष्यद्रघुयद्विवेद
4.5.10 अध द्युतानः पित्रोः सचासामनुत गुह्यं चारु पृश्नेः ।मातुष्पदे परमे अन्ति षद्गोर्वृष्णः शोचिषः प्रयतस्य जिह्वा
4.5.11 ऋतं वोचे नमसा पृच्छ्यमानस्तवाशसा जातवेदो यदीदम् ।त्वमस्य क्षयसि यद्ध विश्वं दिवि यदु द्रविणं यत्पृथिव्याम्
4.5.12 किं नो अस्य द्रविणं कद्ध रत्नं वि नो वोचो जातवेदश्चिकित्वान् ।गुहाध्वनः परमं यन्नो अस्य रेकु पदं न निदाना अगन्म
4.5.13 का मर्यादा वयुना कद्ध वाममच्छा गमेम रघवो न वाजम् ।कदा नो देवीरमृतस्य पत्नीः सूरो वर्णेन ततनन्नुषासः
4.5.14 अनिरेण वचसा फल्ग्वेन प्रतीत्येन कृधुनातृपासः ।अधा ते अग्ने किमिहा वदन्त्यनायुधास आसता सचन्ताम्
4.5.15 अस्य श्रिये समिधानस्य वृष्णो वसोरनीकं दम आ रुरोच ।रुशद्वसानः सुदृशीकरूपः क्षितिर्न राया पुरुवारो अद्यौत्
सूक्तम् ४.६ऋषिः: वामदेवो गौतमः । अनुक्रमणिका: दे. अग्निः। त्रिष्टुप्
4.6.1 ऊर्ध्व ऊ षु णो अध्वरस्य होतरग्ने तिष्ठ देवताता यजीयान् ।त्वं हि विश्वमभ्यसि मन्म प्र वेधसश्चित्तिरसि मनीषाम्
4.6.2 अमूरो होता न्यसादि विक्ष्वग्निर्मन्द्रो विदथेषु प्रचेताः ।ऊर्ध्वं भानुं सवितेवाश्रेन्मेतेव धूमं स्तभायदुप द्याम्
4.6.3 यता सुजूर्णी रातिनी घृताची प्रदक्षिणिद्देवतातिमुराणः ।उदु स्वरुर्नवजा नाक्रः पश्वो अनक्ति सुधितः सुमेकः
4.6.4 स्तीर्णे बर्हिषि समिधाने अग्ना ऊर्ध्वो अध्वर्युर्जुजुषाणो अस्थात् ।पर्यग्निः पशुपा न होता त्रिविष्ट्येति प्रदिव उराणः
4.6.5 परि त्मना मितद्रुरेति होताग्निर्मन्द्रो मधुवचा ऋतावा ।द्रवन्त्यस्य वाजिनो न शोका भयन्ते विश्वा भुवना यदभ्राट्
4.6.6 भद्रा ते अग्ने स्वनीक संदृग्घोरस्य सतो विषुणस्य चारुः ।न यत्ते शोचिस्तमसा वरन्त न ध्वस्मानस्तन्वी रेप आ धुः
4.6.7 न यस्य सातुर्जनितोरवारि न मातरापितरा नू चिदिष्टौ ।अधा मित्रो न सुधितः पावकोऽग्निर्दीदाय मानुषीषु विक्षु
4.6.8 द्विर्यं पञ्च जीजनन्संवसानाः स्वसारो अग्निं मानुषीषु विक्षु ।उषर्बुधमथर्यो न दन्तं शुक्रं स्वासं परशुं न तिग्मम्
4.6.9 तव त्ये अग्ने हरितो घृतस्ना रोहितास ऋज्वञ्चः स्वञ्चः ।अरुषासो वृषण ऋजुमुष्का आ देवतातिमह्वन्त दस्माः
4.6.10 ये ह त्ये ते सहमाना अयासस्त्वेषासो अग्ने अर्चयश्चरन्ति ।श्येनासो न दुवसनासो अर्थं तुविष्वणसो मारुतं न शर्धः
4.6.11 अकारि ब्रह्म समिधान तुभ्यं शंसात्युक्थं यजते व्यू धाः ।होतारमग्निं मनुषो नि षेदुर्नमस्यन्त उशिजः शंसमायोः
सूक्तम् ४.७ऋषिः: वामदेवो गौतमः । अनुक्रमणिका: दे. अग्निः। त्रिष्टुप्, १ जगती, २-६ अनुष्टुप्
4.7.1 अयमिह प्रथमो धायि धातृभिर्होता यजिष्ठो अध्वरेष्वीड्यः ।यमप्नवानो भृगवो विरुरुचुर्वनेषु चित्रं विभ्वं विशेविशे
4.7.2 अग्ने कदा त आनुषग्भुवद्देवस्य चेतनम् ।अधा हि त्वा जगृभ्रिरे मर्तासो विक्ष्वीड्यम्
4.7.3 ऋतावानं विचेतसं पश्यन्तो द्यामिव स्तृभिः ।विश्वेषामध्वराणां हस्कर्तारं दमेदमे
4.7.4 आशुं दूतं विवस्वतो विश्वा यश्चर्षणीरभि ।आ जभ्रुः केतुमायवो भृगवाणं विशेविशे
4.7.5 तमीं होतारमानुषक्चिकित्वांसं नि षेदिरे ।रण्वं पावकशोचिषं यजिष्ठं सप्त धामभिः
4.7.6 तं शश्वतीषु मातृषु वन आ वीतमश्रितम् ।चित्रं सन्तं गुहा हितं सुवेदं कूचिदर्थिनम्
4.7.7 ससस्य यद्वियुता सस्मिन्नूधन्नृतस्य धामन्रणयन्त देवाः ।महाँ अग्निर्नमसा रातहव्यो वेरध्वराय सदमिदृतावा
4.7.8 वेरध्वरस्य दूत्यानि विद्वानुभे अन्ता रोदसी संचिकित्वान् ।दूत ईयसे प्रदिव उराणो विदुष्टरो दिव आरोधनानि
4.7.9 कृष्णं त एम रुशतः पुरो भाश्चरिष्ण्वर्चिर्वपुषामिदेकम् ।यदप्रवीता दधते ह गर्भं सद्यश्चिज्जातो भवसीदु दूतः
4.7.10 सद्यो जातस्य ददृशानमोजो यदस्य वातो अनुवाति शोचिः ।वृणक्ति तिग्मामतसेषु जिह्वां स्थिरा चिदन्ना दयते वि जम्भैः
4.7.11 तृषु यदन्ना तृषुणा ववक्ष तृषुं दूतं कृणुते यह्वो अग्निः ।वातस्य मेळिं सचते निजूर्वन्नाशुं न वाजयते हिन्वे अर्वा
सूक्तम् ४.८ऋषिः: वामदेवो गौतमः । अनुक्रमणिका: दे. अग्निः। गायत्री
4.8.1 दूतं वो विश्ववेदसं हव्यवाहममर्त्यम् ।यजिष्ठमृञ्जसे गिरा
4.8.2 स हि वेदा वसुधितिं महाँ आरोधनं दिवः ।स देवाँ एह वक्षति
4.8.3 स वेद देव आनमं देवाँ ऋतायते दमे ।दाति प्रियाणि चिद्वसु
4.8.4 स होता सेदु दूत्यं चिकित्वाँ अन्तरीयते ।विद्वाँ आरोधनं दिवः
4.8.5 ते स्याम ये अग्नये ददाशुर्हव्यदातिभिः ।य ईं पुष्यन्त इन्धते
4.8.6 ते राया ते सुवीर्यैः ससवांसो वि शृण्विरे ।ये अग्ना दधिरे दुवः
4.8.7 अस्मे रायो दिवेदिवे सं चरन्तु पुरुस्पृहः ।अस्मे वाजास ईरताम्
4.8.8 स विप्रश्चर्षणीनां शवसा मानुषाणाम् ।अति क्षिप्रेव विध्यति
सूक्तम् ४.९ऋषिः: वामदेवो गौतमः । अनुक्रमणिका: दे. अग्निः। गायत्री
4.9.1 अग्ने मृळ महाँ असि य ईमा देवयुं जनम् ।इयेथ बर्हिरासदम्
4.9.2 स मानुषीषु दूळभो विक्षु प्रावीरमर्त्यः ।दूतो विश्वेषां भुवत्
4.9.3 स सद्म परि णीयते होता मन्द्रो दिविष्टिषु ।उत पोता नि षीदति
4.9.4 उत ग्ना अग्निरध्वर उतो गृहपतिर्दमे ।उत ब्रह्मा नि षीदति
4.9.5 वेषि ह्यध्वरीयतामुपवक्ता जनानाम् ।हव्या च मानुषाणाम्
4.9.6 वेषीद्वस्य दूत्यं यस्य जुजोषो अध्वरम् ।हव्यं मर्तस्य वोळ्हवे
4.9.7 अस्माकं जोष्यध्वरमस्माकं यज्ञमङ्गिरः ।अस्माकं शृणुधी हवम्
4.9.8 परि ते दूळभो रथोऽस्माँ अश्नोतु विश्वतः ।येन रक्षसि दाशुषः
सूक्तम् ४.१०ऋषिः: वामदेवो गौतमः । अनुक्रमणिका: दे. अग्निः। पदपङ्क्तिः, ४,६,७ उष्णिग्वा, ५ महापङ्क्तिः, ८ उष्णिक्
4.10.1 अग्ने तमद्याश्वं न स्तोमैः क्रतुं न भद्रं हृदिस्पृशम् ।ऋध्यामा त ओहैः
4.10.2 अधा ह्यग्ने क्रतोर्भद्रस्य दक्षस्य साधोः ।रथीरृतस्य बृहतो बभूथ
4.10.3 एभिर्नो अर्कैर्भवा नो अर्वाङ्स्वर्ण ज्योतिः ।अग्ने विश्वेभिः सुमना अनीकैः
4.10.4 आभिष्टे अद्य गीर्भिर्गृणन्तोऽग्ने दाशेम ।प्र ते दिवो न स्तनयन्ति शुष्माः
4.10.5 तव स्वादिष्ठाग्ने संदृष्टिरिदा चिदह्न इदा चिदक्तोः ।श्रिये रुक्मो न रोचत उपाके
4.10.6 घृतं न पूतं तनूररेपाः शुचि हिरण्यम् ।तत्ते रुक्मो न रोचत स्वधावः
4.10.7 कृतं चिद्धि ष्मा सनेमि द्वेषोऽग्न इनोषि मर्तात् ।इत्था यजमानादृतावः
4.10.8 शिवा नः सख्या सन्तु भ्रात्राग्ने देवेषु युष्मे ।सा नो नाभिः सदने सस्मिन्नूधन्
सूक्तम् ४.११ऋषिः: वामदेवो गौतमः । अनुक्रमणिका: दे. अग्निः। त्रिष्टुप्
4.11.1 भद्रं ते अग्ने सहसिन्ननीकमुपाक आ रोचते सूर्यस्य ।रुशद्दृशे ददृशे नक्तया चिदरूक्षितं दृश आ रूपे अन्नम्
4.11.2 वि षाह्यग्ने गृणते मनीषां खं वेपसा तुविजात स्तवानः ।विश्वेभिर्यद्वावनः शुक्र देवैस्तन्नो रास्व सुमहो भूरि मन्म
4.11.3 त्वदग्ने काव्या त्वन्मनीषास्त्वदुक्था जायन्ते राध्यानि ।त्वदेति द्रविणं वीरपेशा इत्थाधिये दाशुषे मर्त्याय
4.11.4 त्वद्वाजी वाजम्भरो विहाया अभिष्टिकृज्जायते सत्यशुष्मः ।त्वद्रयिर्देवजूतो मयोभुस्त्वदाशुर्जूजुवाँ अग्ने अर्वा
4.11.5 त्वामग्ने प्रथमं देवयन्तो देवं मर्ता अमृत मन्द्रजिह्वम् ।द्वेषोयुतमा विवासन्ति धीभिर्दमूनसं गृहपतिममूरम्
4.11.6 आरे अस्मदमतिमारे अंह आरे विश्वां दुर्मतिं यन्निपासि ।दोषा शिवः सहसः सूनो अग्ने यं देव आ चित्सचसे स्वस्ति
सूक्तम् ४.१२ऋषिः: वामदेवो गौतमः । अनुक्रमणिका: दे. अग्निः। त्रिष्टुप्
4.12.1 यस्त्वामग्न इनधते यतस्रुक्त्रिस्ते अन्नं कृणवत्सस्मिन्नहन् ।स सु द्युम्नैरभ्यस्तु प्रसक्षत्तव क्रत्वा जातवेदश्चिकित्वान्
4.12.2 इध्मं यस्ते जभरच्छश्रमाणो महो अग्ने अनीकमा सपर्यन् ।स इधानः प्रति दोषामुषासं पुष्यन्रयिं सचते घ्नन्नमित्रान्
4.12.3 अग्निरीशे बृहतः क्षत्रियस्याग्निर्वाजस्य परमस्य रायः ।दधाति रत्नं विधते यविष्ठो व्यानुषङ्मर्त्याय स्वधावान्
4.12.4 यच्चिद्धि ते पुरुषत्रा यविष्ठाचित्तिभिश्चकृमा कच्चिदागः ।कृधी ष्वस्माँ अदितेरनागान्व्येनांसि शिश्रथो विष्वगग्ने
4.12.5 महश्चिदग्न एनसो अभीक ऊर्वाद्देवानामुत मर्त्यानाम् ।मा ते सखायः सदमिद्रिषाम यच्छा तोकाय तनयाय शं योः
4.12.6 यथा ह त्यद्वसवो गौर्यं चित्पदि षिताममुञ्चता यजत्राः ।एवो ष्वस्मन्मुञ्चता व्यंहः प्र तार्यग्ने प्रतरं न आयुः
सूक्तम् ४.१३ऋषिः: वामदेवो गौतमः । अनुक्रमणिका: दे. अग्निः(लिङ्गोक्तदेवता इति एके)। त्रिष्टुप्
4.13.1 प्रत्यग्निरुषसामग्रमख्यद्विभातीनां सुमना रत्नधेयम् ।यातमश्विना सुकृतो दुरोणमुत्सूर्यो ज्योतिषा देव एति
4.13.2 ऊर्ध्वं भानुं सविता देवो अश्रेद्द्रप्सं दविध्वद्गविषो न सत्वा ।अनु व्रतं वरुणो यन्ति मित्रो यत्सूर्यं दिव्यारोहयन्ति
4.13.3 यं सीमकृण्वन्तमसे विपृचे ध्रुवक्षेमा अनवस्यन्तो अर्थम् ।तं सूर्यं हरितः सप्त यह्वी स्पशं विश्वस्य जगतो वहन्ति
4.13.4 वहिष्ठेभिर्विहरन्यासि तन्तुमवव्ययन्नसितं देव वस्म ।दविध्वतो रश्मयः सूर्यस्य चर्मेवावाधुस्तमो अप्स्वन्तः
4.13.5 अनायतो अनिबद्धः कथायं न्यङ्ङुत्तानोऽव पद्यते न ।कया याति स्वधया को ददर्श दिवः स्कम्भः समृतः पाति नाकम्
सूक्तम् ४.१४ऋषिः: वामदेवो गौतमः । अनुक्रमणिका: दे. अग्निः (लिङ्गोक्तदेवता इति एके)। त्रिष्टुप्
4.14.1 प्रत्यग्निरुषसो जातवेदा अख्यद्देवो रोचमाना महोभिः ।आ नासत्योरुगाया रथेनेमं यज्ञमुप नो यातमच्छ
4.14.2 ऊर्ध्वं केतुं सविता देवो अश्रेज्ज्योतिर्विश्वस्मै भुवनाय कृण्वन् ।आप्रा द्यावापृथिवी अन्तरिक्षं वि सूर्यो रश्मिभिश्चेकितानः
4.14.3 आवहन्त्यरुणीर्ज्योतिषागान्मही चित्रा रश्मिभिश्चेकिताना ।प्रबोधयन्ती सुविताय देव्युषा ईयते सुयुजा रथेन
4.14.4 आ वां वहिष्ठा इह ते वहन्तु रथा अश्वास उषसो व्युष्टौ ।इमे हि वां मधुपेयाय सोमा अस्मिन्यज्ञे वृषणा मादयेथाम्
4.14.5 अनायतो अनिबद्धः कथायं न्यङ्ङुत्तानोऽव पद्यते न ।कया याति स्वधया को ददर्श दिव स्कम्भः समृतः पाति नाकम्
सूक्तम् ४.१५ऋषिः: वामदेवो गौतमः । अनुक्रमणिका: दे. अग्निः, ७-८ सोमकः साहदेव्यः,९-१० अश्विनौ। गायत्री
4.15.1 अग्निर्होता नो अध्वरे वाजी सन्परि णीयते ।देवो देवेषु यज्ञियः
4.15.2 परि त्रिविष्ट्यध्वरं यात्यग्नी रथीरिव ।आ देवेषु प्रयो दधत्
4.15.3 परि वाजपतिः कविरग्निर्हव्यान्यक्रमीत् ।दधद्रत्नानि दाशुषे
4.15.4 अयं यः सृञ्जये पुरो दैववाते समिध्यते ।द्युमाँ अमित्रदम्भनः
4.15.5 अस्य घा वीर ईवतोऽग्नेरीशीत मर्त्यः ।तिग्मजम्भस्य मीळ्हुषः
4.15.6 तमर्वन्तं न सानसिमरुषं न दिवः शिशुम् ।मर्मृज्यन्ते दिवेदिवे
4.15.7 बोधद्यन्मा हरिभ्यां कुमारः साहदेव्यः ।अच्छा न हूत उदरम्
4.15.8 उत त्या यजता हरी कुमारात्साहदेव्यात् ।प्रयता सद्य आ ददे
4.15.9 एष वां देवावश्विना कुमारः साहदेव्यः ।दीर्घायुरस्तु सोमकः
4.15.10 तं युवं देवावश्विना कुमारं साहदेव्यम् ।दीर्घायुषं कृणोतन
सूक्तम् ४.१६ऋषिः: वामदेवो गौतमः । अनुक्रमणिका: दे. इन्द्रः। त्रिष्टुप्
4.16.1 आ सत्यो यातु मघवाँ ऋजीषी द्रवन्त्वस्य हरय उप नः ।तस्मा इदन्धः सुषुमा सुदक्षमिहाभिपित्वं करते गृणानः
4.16.2 अव स्य शूराध्वनो नान्तेऽस्मिन्नो अद्य सवने मन्दध्यै ।शंसात्युक्थमुशनेव वेधाश्चिकितुषे असुर्याय मन्म
4.16.3 कविर्न निण्यं विदथानि साधन्वृषा यत्सेकं विपिपानो अर्चात् ।दिव इत्था जीजनत्सप्त कारूनह्ना चिच्चक्रुर्वयुना गृणन्तः
4.16.4 स्वर्यद्वेदि सुदृशीकमर्कैर्महि ज्योती रुरुचुर्यद्ध वस्तोः ।अन्धा तमांसि दुधिता विचक्षे नृभ्यश्चकार नृतमो अभिष्टौ
4.16.5 ववक्ष इन्द्रो अमितमृजीष्युभे आ पप्रौ रोदसी महित्वा ।अतश्चिदस्य महिमा वि रेच्यभि यो विश्वा भुवना बभूव
4.16.6 विश्वानि शक्रो नर्याणि विद्वानपो रिरेच सखिभिर्निकामैः ।अश्मानं चिद्ये बिभिदुर्वचोभिर्व्रजं गोमन्तमुशिजो वि वव्रुः
4.16.7 अपो वृत्रं वव्रिवांसं पराहन्प्रावत्ते वज्रं पृथिवी सचेताः ।प्रार्णांसि समुद्रियाण्यैनोः पतिर्भवञ्छवसा शूर धृष्णो
4.16.8 अपो यदद्रिं पुरुहूत दर्दराविर्भुवत्सरमा पूर्व्यं ते ।स नो नेता वाजमा दर्षि भूरिं गोत्रा रुजन्नङ्गिरोभिर्गृणानः
4.16.9 अच्छा कविं नृमणो गा अभिष्टौ स्वर्षाता मघवन्नाधमानम् ।ऊतिभिस्तमिषणो द्युम्नहूतौ नि मायावानब्रह्मा दस्युरर्त
4.16.10 आ दस्युघ्ना मनसा याह्यस्तं भुवत्ते कुत्सः सख्ये निकामः ।स्वे योनौ नि षदतं सरूपा वि वां चिकित्सदृतचिद्ध नारी
4.16.11 यासि कुत्सेन सरथमवस्युस्तोदो वातस्य हर्योरीशानः ।ऋज्रा वाजं न गध्यं युयूषन्कविर्यदहन्पार्याय भूषात्
4.16.12 कुत्साय शुष्णमशुषं नि बर्हीः प्रपित्वे अह्नः कुयवं सहस्रा ।सद्यो दस्यून्प्र मृण कुत्स्येन प्र सूरश्चक्रं वृहतादभीके
4.16.13 त्वं पिप्रुं मृगयं शूशुवांसमृजिश्वने वैदथिनाय रन्धीः ।पञ्चाशत्कृष्णा नि वपः सहस्रात्कं न पुरो जरिमा वि दर्दः
4.16.14 सूर उपाके तन्वं दधानो वि यत्ते चेत्यमृतस्य वर्पः ।मृगो न हस्ती तविषीमुषाणः सिंहो न भीम आयुधानि बिभ्रत्
4.16.15 इन्द्रं कामा वसूयन्तो अग्मन्स्वर्मीळ्हे न सवने चकानाः ।श्रवस्यवः शशमानास उक्थैरोको न रण्वा सुदृशीव पुष्टिः
4.16.16 तमिद्व इन्द्रं सुहवं हुवेम यस्ता चकार नर्या पुरूणि ।यो मावते जरित्रे गध्यं चिन्मक्षू वाजं भरति स्पार्हराधाः
4.16.17 तिग्मा यदन्तरशनिः पताति कस्मिञ्चिच्छूर मुहुके जनानाम् ।घोरा यदर्य समृतिर्भवात्यध स्मा नस्तन्वो बोधि गोपाः
4.16.18 भुवोऽविता वामदेवस्य धीनां भुवः सखावृको वाजसातौ ।त्वामनु प्रमतिमा जगन्मोरुशंसो जरित्रे विश्वध स्याः
4.16.19 एभिर्नृभिरिन्द्र त्वायुभिष्ट्वा मघवद्भिर्मघवन्विश्व आजौ ।द्यावो न द्युम्नैरभि सन्तो अर्यः क्षपो मदेम शरदश्च पूर्वीः
4.16.20 एवेदिन्द्राय वृषभाय वृष्णे ब्रह्माकर्म भृगवो न रथम् ।नू चिद्यथा नः सख्या वियोषदसन्न उग्रोऽविता तनूपाः
4.16.21 नू ष्टुत इन्द्र नू गृणान इषं जरित्रे नद्यो न पीपेः ।अकारि ते हरिवो ब्रह्म नव्यं धिया स्याम रथ्यः सदासाः
सूक्तम् ४.१७ऋषिः: वामदेवो गौतमः। । अनुक्रमणिका: दे. इन्द्रः। त्रिष्टुप्,१५ एकपदा विराट्।
4.17.1 त्वं महाँ इन्द्र तुभ्यं ह क्षा अनु क्षत्रं मंहना मन्यत द्यौः ।त्वं वृत्रं शवसा जघन्वान्त्सृजः सिन्धूँरहिना जग्रसानान्
4.17.2 तव त्विषो जनिमन्रेजत द्यौ रेजद्भूमिर्भियसा स्वस्य मन्योः ।ऋघायन्त सुभ्वः पर्वतास आर्दन्धन्वानि सरयन्त आपः
4.17.3 भिनद्गिरिं शवसा वज्रमिष्णन्नाविष्कृण्वानः सहसान ओजः ।वधीद्वृत्रं वज्रेण मन्दसानः सरन्नापो जवसा हतवृष्णीः
4.17.4 सुवीरस्ते जनिता मन्यत द्यौरिन्द्रस्य कर्ता स्वपस्तमो भूत् ।य ईं जजान स्वर्यं सुवज्रमनपच्युतं सदसो न भूम
4.17.5 य एक इच्च्यावयति प्र भूमा राजा कृष्टीनां पुरुहूत इन्द्रः ।सत्यमेनमनु विश्वे मदन्ति रातिं देवस्य गृणतो मघोनः
4.17.6 सत्रा सोमा अभवन्नस्य विश्वे सत्रा मदासो बृहतो मदिष्ठाः ।सत्राभवो वसुपतिर्वसूनां दत्रे विश्वा अधिथा इन्द्र कृष्टीः
4.17.7 त्वमध प्रथमं जायमानोऽमे विश्वा अधिथा इन्द्र कृष्टीः ।त्वं प्रति प्रवत आशयानमहिं वज्रेण मघवन्वि वृश्चः
4.17.8 सत्राहणं दाधृषिं तुम्रमिन्द्रं महामपारं वृषभं सुवज्रम् ।हन्ता यो वृत्रं सनितोत वाजं दाता मघानि मघवा सुराधाः
4.17.9 अयं वृतश्चातयते समीचीर्य आजिषु मघवा शृण्व एकः ।अयं वाजं भरति यं सनोत्यस्य प्रियासः सख्ये स्याम
4.17.10 अयं शृण्वे अध जयन्नुत घ्नन्नयमुत प्र कृणुते युधा गाः ।यदा सत्यं कृणुते मन्युमिन्द्रो विश्वं दृळ्हं भयत एजदस्मात्
4.17.11 समिन्द्रो गा अजयत्सं हिरण्या समश्विया मघवा यो ह पूर्वीः ।एभिर्नृभिर्नृतमो अस्य शाकै रायो विभक्ता सम्भरश्च वस्वः
4.17.12 कियत्स्विदिन्द्रो अध्येति मातुः कियत्पितुर्जनितुर्यो जजान ।यो अस्य शुष्मं मुहुकैरियर्ति वातो न जूत स्तनयद्भिरभ्रैः
4.17.13 क्षियन्तं त्वमक्षियन्तं कृणोतीयर्ति रेणुं मघवा समोहम् ।विभञ्जनुरशनिमाँ इव द्यौरुत स्तोतारं मघवा वसौ धात्
4.17.14 अयं चक्रमिषणत्सूर्यस्य न्येतशं रीरमत्ससृमाणम् ।आ कृष्ण ईं जुहुराणो जिघर्ति त्वचो बुध्ने रजसो अस्य योनौ
4.17.15 असिक्न्यां यजमानो न होता
4.17.16 गव्यन्त इन्द्रं सख्याय विप्रा अश्वायन्तो वृषणं वाजयन्तः ।जनीयन्तो जनिदामक्षितोतिमा च्यावयामोऽवते न कोशम्
4.17.17 त्राता नो बोधि ददृशान आपिरभिख्याता मर्डिता सोम्यानाम् ।सखा पिता पितृतमः पितॄणां कर्तेमु लोकमुशते वयोधाः
4.17.18 सखीयतामविता बोधि सखा गृणान इन्द्र स्तुवते वयो धाः ।वयं ह्या ते चकृमा सबाध आभिः शमीभिर्महयन्त इन्द्र
4.17.19 स्तुत इन्द्रो मघवा यद्ध वृत्रा भूरीण्येको अप्रतीनि हन्ति ।अस्य प्रियो जरिता यस्य शर्मन्नकिर्देवा वारयन्ते न मर्ताः
4.17.20 एवा न इन्द्रो मघवा विरप्शी करत्सत्या चर्षणीधृदनर्वा ।त्वं राजा जनुषां धेह्यस्मे अधि श्रवो माहिनं यज्जरित्रे
4.17.21 नू ष्टुत इन्द्र नू गृणान इषं जरित्रे नद्यो न पीपेः ।अकारि ते हरिवो ब्रह्म नव्यं धिया स्याम रथ्यः सदासाः
सूक्तम् ४.१८ऋषिः: वामदेवो गौतमः, १ इन्द्रः, ४(उत्तरार्धर्चस्य), ७ अदितिः। । अनुक्रमणिका: दे. १ वामदेवः, २-४(पूर्वार्धर्चस्य), ८-१३ इन्द्रः, ४(उत्तरार्धर्चस्य), ७ वामदेवः।। त्रिष्टुप्
4.18.1 अयं पन्था अनुवित्तः पुराणो यतो देवा उदजायन्त विश्वे ।अतश्चिदा जनिषीष्ट प्रवृद्धो मा मातरममुया पत्तवे कः
4.18.2 नाहमतो निरया दुर्गहैतत्तिरश्चता पार्श्वान्निर्गमाणि ।बहूनि मे अकृता कर्त्वानि युध्यै त्वेन सं त्वेन पृच्छै
4.18.3 परायतीं मातरमन्वचष्ट न नानु गान्यनु नू गमानि ।त्वष्टुर्गृहे अपिबत्सोममिन्द्रः शतधन्यं चम्वोः सुतस्य
4.18.4 किं स ऋधक्कृणवद्यं सहस्रं मासो जभार शरदश्च पूर्वीः ।नही न्वस्य प्रतिमानमस्त्यन्तर्जातेषूत ये जनित्वाः
4.18.5 अवद्यमिव मन्यमाना गुहाकरिन्द्रं माता वीर्येणा न्यृष्टम् ।अथोदस्थात्स्वयमत्कं वसान आ रोदसी अपृणाज्जायमानः
4.18.6 एता अर्षन्त्यललाभवन्तीरृतावरीरिव संक्रोशमानाः ।एता वि पृच्छ किमिदं भनन्ति कमापो अद्रिं परिधिं रुजन्ति
4.18.7 किमु ष्विदस्मै निविदो भनन्तेन्द्रस्यावद्यं दिधिषन्त आपः ।ममैतान्पुत्रो महता वधेन वृत्रं जघन्वाँ असृजद्वि सिन्धून्
4.18.8 ममच्चन त्वा युवतिः परास ममच्चन त्वा कुषवा जगार ।ममच्चिदापः शिशवे ममृड्युर्ममच्चिदिन्द्रः सहसोदतिष्ठत्
4.18.9 ममच्चन ते मघवन्व्यंसो निविविध्वाँ अप हनू जघान ।अधा निविद्ध उत्तरो बभूवाञ्छिरो दासस्य सं पिणग्वधेन
4.18.10 गृष्टिः ससूव स्थविरं तवागामनाधृष्यं वृषभं तुम्रमिन्द्रम् ।अरीळ्हं वत्सं चरथाय माता स्वयं गातुं तन्व इच्छमानम्
4.18.11 उत माता महिषमन्ववेनदमी त्वा जहति पुत्र देवाः ।अथाब्रवीद्वृत्रमिन्द्रो हनिष्यन्सखे विष्णो वितरं वि क्रमस्व
4.18.12 कस्ते मातरं विधवामचक्रच्छयुं कस्त्वामजिघांसच्चरन्तम् ।कस्ते देवो अधि मार्डीक आसीद्यत्प्राक्षिणाः पितरं पादगृह्य
4.18.13 अवर्त्या शुन आन्त्राणि पेचे न देवेषु विविदे मर्डितारम् ।अपश्यं जायाममहीयमानामधा मे श्येनो मध्वा जभार
सूक्तम् ४.१९ऋषिः: वामदेवो गौतमः । अनुक्रमणिका: दे. इन्द्रः। त्रिष्टुप्
4.19.1 एवा त्वामिन्द्र वज्रिन्नत्र विश्वे देवासः सुहवास ऊमाः ।महामुभे रोदसी वृद्धमृष्वं निरेकमिद्वृणते वृत्रहत्ये
4.19.2 अवासृजन्त जिव्रयो न देवा भुवः सम्राळिन्द्र सत्ययोनिः ।अहन्नहिं परिशयानमर्णः प्र वर्तनीररदो विश्वधेनाः
4.19.3 अतृप्णुवन्तं वियतमबुध्यमबुध्यमानं सुषुपाणमिन्द्र ।सप्त प्रति प्रवत आशयानमहिं वज्रेण वि रिणा अपर्वन्
4.19.4 अक्षोदयच्छवसा क्षाम बुध्नं वार्ण वातस्तविषीभिरिन्द्रः ।दृळ्हान्यौभ्नादुशमान ओजोऽवाभिनत्ककुभः पर्वतानाम्
4.19.5 अभि प्र दद्रुर्जनयो न गर्भं रथा इव प्र ययुः साकमद्रयः ।अतर्पयो विसृत उब्ज ऊर्मीन्त्वं वृताँ अरिणा इन्द्र सिन्धून्
4.19.6 त्वं महीमवनिं विश्वधेनां तुर्वीतये वय्याय क्षरन्तीम् ।अरमयो नमसैजदर्णः सुतरणाँ अकृणोरिन्द्र सिन्धून्
4.19.7 प्राग्रुवो नभन्वो न वक्वा ध्वस्रा अपिन्वद्युवतीरृतज्ञाः ।धन्वान्यज्राँ अपृणक्तृषाणाँ अधोगिन्द्र स्तर्यो दंसुपत्नीः
4.19.8 पूर्वीरुषसः शरदश्च गूर्ता वृत्रं जघन्वाँ असृजद्वि सिन्धून् ।परिष्ठिता अतृणद्बद्बधानाः सीरा इन्द्रः स्रवितवे पृथिव्या
4.19.9 वम्रीभिः पुत्रमग्रुवो अदानं निवेशनाद्धरिव आ जभर्थ ।व्यन्धो अख्यदहिमाददानो निर्भूदुखच्छित्समरन्त पर्व
4.19.10 प्र ते पूर्वाणि करणानि विप्राविद्वाँ आह विदुषे करांसि ।यथायथा वृष्ण्यानि स्वगूर्तापांसि राजन्नर्याविवेषीः
4.19.11 नू ष्टुत इन्द्र नू गृणान इषं जरित्रे नद्यो न पीपेः ।अकारि ते हरिवो ब्रह्म नव्यं धिया स्याम रथ्यः सदासाः
सूक्तम् ४.२०ऋषिः: वामदेवो गौतमः । अनुक्रमणिका: दे. इन्द्रः। त्रिष्टुप्
4.20.1 आ न इन्द्रो दूरादा न आसादभिष्टिकृदवसे यासदुग्रः ।ओजिष्ठेभिर्नृपतिर्वज्रबाहुः संगे समत्सु तुर्वणिः पृतन्यून्
4.20.2 आ न इन्द्रो हरिभिर्यात्वच्छार्वाचीनोऽवसे राधसे च ।तिष्ठाति वज्री मघवा विरप्शीमं यज्ञमनु नो वाजसातौ
4.20.3 इमं यज्ञं त्वमस्माकमिन्द्र पुरो दधत्सनिष्यसि क्रतुं नः ।श्वघ्नीव वज्रिन्सनये धनानां त्वया वयमर्य आजिं जयेम
4.20.4 उशन्नु षु णः सुमना उपाके सोमस्य नु सुषुतस्य स्वधावः ।पा इन्द्र प्रतिभृतस्य मध्वः समन्धसा ममदः पृष्ठ्येन
4.20.5 वि यो ररप्श ऋषिभिर्नवेभिर्वृक्षो न पक्वः सृण्यो न जेता ।मर्यो न योषामभि मन्यमानोऽच्छा विवक्मि पुरुहूतमिन्द्रम्
4.20.6 गिरिर्न यः स्वतवाँ ऋष्व इन्द्रः सनादेव सहसे जात उग्रः ।आदर्ता वज्रं स्थविरं न भीम उद्नेव कोशं वसुना न्यृष्टम्
4.20.7 न यस्य वर्ता जनुषा न्वस्ति न राधस आमरीता मघस्य ।उद्वावृषाणस्तविषीव उग्रास्मभ्यं दद्धि पुरुहूत रायः
4.20.8 ईक्षे रायः क्षयस्य चर्षणीनामुत व्रजमपवर्तासि गोनाम् ।शिक्षानरः समिथेषु प्रहावान्वस्वो राशिमभिनेतासि भूरिम्
4.20.9 कया तच्छृण्वे शच्या शचिष्ठो यया कृणोति मुहु का चिदृष्वः ।पुरु दाशुषे विचयिष्ठो अंहोऽथा दधाति द्रविणं जरित्रे
4.20.10 मा नो मर्धीरा भरा दद्धि तन्नः प्र दाशुषे दातवे भूरि यत्ते ।नव्ये देष्णे शस्ते अस्मिन्त उक्थे प्र ब्रवाम वयमिन्द्र स्तुवन्तः
4.20.11 नू ष्टुत इन्द्र नू गृणान इषं जरित्रे नद्यो न पीपेः ।अकारि ते हरिवो ब्रह्म नव्यं धिया स्याम रथ्यः सदासाः
सूक्तम् ४.२१ऋषिः: वामदेवो गौतमः । अनुक्रमणिका: दे. इन्द्रः। त्रिष्टुप्
4.21.1 आ यात्विन्द्रोऽवस उप न इह स्तुतः सधमादस्तु शूरः ।वावृधानस्तविषीर्यस्य पूर्वीर्द्यौर्न क्षत्रमभिभूति पुष्यात्
4.21.2 तस्येदिह स्तवथ वृष्ण्यानि तुविद्युम्नस्य तुविराधसो नॄन् ।यस्य क्रतुर्विदथ्यो न सम्राट् साह्वान्तरुत्रो अभ्यस्ति कृष्टीः
4.21.3 आ यात्विन्द्रो दिव आ पृथिव्या मक्षू समुद्रादुत वा पुरीषात् ।स्वर्णरादवसे नो मरुत्वान्परावतो वा सदनादृतस्य
4.21.4 स्थूरस्य रायो बृहतो य ईशे तमु ष्टवाम विदथेष्विन्द्रम् ।यो वायुना जयति गोमतीषु प्र धृष्णुया नयति वस्यो अच्छ
4.21.5 उप यो नमो नमसि स्तभायन्नियर्ति वाचं जनयन्यजध्यै ।ऋञ्जसानः पुरुवार उक्थैरेन्द्रं कृण्वीत सदनेषु होता
4.21.6 धिषा यदि धिषण्यन्तः सरण्यान्सदन्तो अद्रिमौशिजस्य गोहे ।आ दुरोषाः पास्त्यस्य होता यो नो महान्संवरणेषु वह्निः
4.21.7 सत्रा यदीं भार्वरस्य वृष्णः सिषक्ति शुष्म स्तुवते भराय ।गुहा यदीमौशिजस्य गोहे प्र यद्धिये प्रायसे मदाय
4.21.8 वि यद्वरांसि पर्वतस्य वृण्वे पयोभिर्जिन्वे अपां जवांसि ।विदद्गौरस्य गवयस्य गोहे यदी वाजाय सुध्यो वहन्ति
4.21.9 भद्रा ते हस्ता सुकृतोत पाणी प्रयन्तारा स्तुवते राध इन्द्र ।का ते निषत्तिः किमु नो ममत्सि किं नोदुदु हर्षसे दातवा उ
4.21.10 एवा वस्व इन्द्रः सत्यः सम्राड्ढन्ता वृत्रं वरिवः पूरवे कः ।पुरुष्टुत क्रत्वा नः शग्धि रायो भक्षीय तेऽवसो दैव्यस्य
4.21.11 नू ष्टुत इन्द्र नू गृणान इषं जरित्रे नद्यो न पीपेः ।अकारि ते हरिवो ब्रह्म नव्यं धिया स्याम रथ्यः सदासाः
सूक्तम् ४.२२ऋषिः: वामदेवो गौतमः । अनुक्रमणिका: दे. इन्द्रः। त्रिष्टुप्
4.22.1 यन्न इन्द्रो जुजुषे यच्च वष्टि तन्नो महान्करति शुष्म्या चित् ।ब्रह्म स्तोमं मघवा सोममुक्था यो अश्मानं शवसा बिभ्रदेति
4.22.2 वृषा वृषन्धिं चतुरश्रिमस्यन्नुग्रो बाहुभ्यां नृतमः शचीवान् ।श्रिये परुष्णीमुषमाण ऊर्णां यस्याः पर्वाणि सख्याय विव्ये
4.22.3 यो देवो देवतमो जायमानो महो वाजेभिर्महद्भिश्च शुष्मैः ।दधानो वज्रं बाह्वोरुशन्तं द्याममेन रेजयत्प्र भूम
4.22.4 विश्वा रोधांसि प्रवतश्च पूर्वीर्द्यौरृष्वाज्जनिमन्रेजत क्षाः ।आ मातरा भरति शुष्म्या गोर्नृवत्परिज्मन्नोनुवन्त वाताः
4.22.5 ता तू त इन्द्र महतो महानि विश्वेष्वित्सवनेषु प्रवाच्या ।यच्छूर धृष्णो धृषता दधृष्वानहिं वज्रेण शवसाविवेषीः
4.22.6 ता तू ते सत्या तुविनृम्ण विश्वा प्र धेनवः सिस्रते वृष्ण ऊध्नः ।अधा ह त्वद्वृषमणो भियानाः प्र सिन्धवो जवसा चक्रमन्त
4.22.7 अत्राह ते हरिवस्ता उ देवीरवोभिरिन्द्र स्तवन्त स्वसारः ।यत्सीमनु प्र मुचो बद्बधाना दीर्घामनु प्रसितिं स्यन्दयध्यै
4.22.8 पिपीळे अंशुर्मद्यो न सिन्धुरा त्वा शमी शशमानस्य शक्तिः ।अस्मद्र्यक्छुशुचानस्य यम्या आशुर्न रश्मिं तुव्योजसं गोः
4.22.9 अस्मे वर्षिष्ठा कृणुहि ज्येष्ठा नृम्णानि सत्रा सहुरे सहांसि ।अस्मभ्यं वृत्रा सुहनानि रन्धि जहि वधर्वनुषो मर्त्यस्य
4.22.10 अस्माकमित्सु शृणुहि त्वमिन्द्रास्मभ्यं चित्राँ उप माहि वाजान् ।अस्मभ्यं विश्वा इषणः पुरंधीरस्माकं सु मघवन्बोधि गोदाः
4.22.11 नू ष्टुत इन्द्र नू गृणान इषं जरित्रे नद्यो न पीपेः ।अकारि ते हरिवो ब्रह्म नव्यं धिया स्याम रथ्यः सदासाः
सूक्तम् ४.२३ऋषिः: वामदेवो गौतमः । अनुक्रमणिका: दे. इन्द्रः, ८-१० ऋतं वा। त्रिष्टुप्
4.23.1 कथा महामवृधत्कस्य होतुर्यज्ञं जुषाणो अभि सोममूधः ।पिबन्नुशानो जुषमाणो अन्धो ववक्ष ऋष्वः शुचते धनाय
4.23.2 को अस्य वीरः सधमादमाप समानंश सुमतिभिः को अस्य ।कदस्य चित्रं चिकिते कदूती वृधे भुवच्छशमानस्य यज्योः
4.23.3 कथा शृणोति हूयमानमिन्द्रः कथा शृण्वन्नवसामस्य वेद ।का अस्य पूर्वीरुपमातयो ह कथैनमाहुः पपुरिं जरित्रे
4.23.4 कथा सबाधः शशमानो अस्य नशदभि द्रविणं दीध्यानः ।देवो भुवन्नवेदा म ऋतानां नमो जगृभ्वाँ अभि यज्जुजोषत्
4.23.5 कथा कदस्या उषसो व्युष्टौ देवो मर्तस्य सख्यं जुजोष ।कथा कदस्य सख्यं सखिभ्यो ये अस्मिन्कामं सुयुजं ततस्रे
4.23.6 किमादमत्रं सख्यं सखिभ्यः कदा नु ते भ्रात्रं प्र ब्रवाम ।श्रिये सुदृशो वपुरस्य सर्गाः स्वर्ण चित्रतममिष आ गोः
4.23.7 द्रुहं जिघांसन्ध्वरसमनिन्द्रां तेतिक्ते तिग्मा तुजसे अनीका ।ऋणा चिद्यत्र ऋणया न उग्रो दूरे अज्ञाता उषसो बबाधे
4.23.8 ऋतस्य हि शुरुधः सन्ति पूर्वीरृतस्य धीतिर्वृजिनानि हन्ति ।ऋतस्य श्लोको बधिरा ततर्द कर्णा बुधानः शुचमान आयोः
4.23.9 ऋतस्य दृळ्हा धरुणानि सन्ति पुरूणि चन्द्रा वपुषे वपूंषि ।ऋतेन दीर्घमिषणन्त पृक्ष ऋतेन गाव ऋतमा विवेशुः
4.23.10 ऋतं येमान ऋतमिद्वनोत्यृतस्य शुष्मस्तुरया उ गव्युः ।ऋताय पृथ्वी बहुले गभीरे ऋताय धेनू परमे दुहाते
4.23.11 नू ष्टुत इन्द्र नू गृणान इषं जरित्रे नद्यो न पीपेः ।अकारि ते हरिवो ब्रह्म नव्यं धिया स्याम रथ्यः सदासाः
सूक्तम् ४.२४ऋषिः: वामदेवो गौतमः । अनुक्रमणिका: दे. इन्द्रः। त्रिष्टुप्, १० अनुष्टुप्
4.24.1 का सुष्टुतिः शवसः सूनुमिन्द्रमर्वाचीनं राधस आ ववर्तत् ।ददिर्हि वीरो गृणते वसूनि स गोपतिर्निष्षिधां नो जनासः
4.24.2 स वृत्रहत्ये हव्यः स ईड्यः स सुष्टुत इन्द्रः सत्यराधाः ।स यामन्ना मघवा मर्त्याय ब्रह्मण्यते सुष्वये वरिवो धात्
4.24.3 तमिन्नरो वि ह्वयन्ते समीके रिरिक्वांसस्तन्वः कृण्वत त्राम् ।मिथो यत्त्यागमुभयासो अग्मन्नरस्तोकस्य तनयस्य सातौ
4.24.4 क्रतूयन्ति क्षितयो योग उग्राशुषाणासो मिथो अर्णसातौ ।सं यद्विशोऽववृत्रन्त युध्मा आदिन्नेम इन्द्रयन्ते अभीके
4.24.5 आदिद्ध नेम इन्द्रियं यजन्त आदित्पक्तिः पुरोळाशं रिरिच्यात् ।आदित्सोमो वि पपृच्यादसुष्वीनादिज्जुजोष वृषभं यजध्यै
4.24.6 कृणोत्यस्मै वरिवो य इत्थेन्द्राय सोममुशते सुनोति ।सध्रीचीनेन मनसाविवेनन्तमित्सखायं कृणुते समत्सु
4.24.7 य इन्द्राय सुनवत्सोममद्य पचात्पक्तीरुत भृज्जाति धानाः ।प्रति मनायोरुचथानि हर्यन्तस्मिन्दधद्वृषणं शुष्ममिन्द्रः
4.24.8 यदा समर्यं व्यचेदृघावा दीर्घं यदाजिमभ्यख्यदर्यः ।अचिक्रदद्वृषणं पत्न्यच्छा दुरोण आ निशितं सोमसुद्भिः
4.24.9 भूयसा वस्नमचरत्कनीयोऽविक्रीतो अकानिषं पुनर्यन् ।स भूयसा कनीयो नारिरेचीद्दीना दक्षा वि दुहन्ति प्र वाणम्
4.24.10 क इमं दशभिर्ममेन्द्रं क्रीणाति धेनुभिः ।यदा वृत्राणि जङ्घनदथैनं मे पुनर्ददत्
4.24.11 नू ष्टुत इन्द्र नू गृणान इषं जरित्रे नद्यो न पीपेः ।अकारि ते हरिवो ब्रह्म नव्यं धिया स्याम रथ्यः सदासाः
सूक्तम् ४.२५ऋषिः: वामदेवो गौतमः । अनुक्रमणिका: दे. इन्द्रः। त्रिष्टुप्
4.25.1 को अद्य नर्यो देवकाम उशन्निन्द्रस्य सख्यं जुजोष ।को वा महेऽवसे पार्याय समिद्धे अग्नौ सुतसोम ईट्टे
4.25.2 को नानाम वचसा सोम्याय मनायुर्वा भवति वस्त उस्राः ।क इन्द्रस्य युज्यं कः सखित्वं को भ्रात्रं वष्टि कवये क ऊती
4.25.3 को देवानामवो अद्या वृणीते क आदित्याँ अदितिं ज्योतिरीट्टे ।कस्याश्विनाविन्द्रो अग्निः सुतस्यांशोः पिबन्ति मनसाविवेनम्
4.25.4 तस्मा अग्निर्भारतः शर्म यंसज्ज्योक्पश्यात्सूर्यमुच्चरन्तम् ।य इन्द्राय सुनवामेत्याह नरे नर्याय नृतमाय नृणाम्
4.25.5 न तं जिनन्ति बहवो न दभ्रा उर्वस्मा अदितिः शर्म यंसत् ।प्रियः सुकृत्प्रिय इन्द्रे मनायुः प्रियः सुप्रावीः प्रियो अस्य सोमी
4.25.6 सुप्राव्यः प्राशुषाळेष वीरः सुष्वेः पक्तिं कृणुते केवलेन्द्रः ।नासुष्वेरापिर्न सखा न जामिर्दुष्प्राव्योऽवहन्तेदवाचः
4.25.7 न रेवता पणिना सख्यमिन्द्रोऽसुन्वता सुतपाः सं गृणीते ।आस्य वेदः खिदति हन्ति नग्नं वि सुष्वये पक्तये केवलो भूत्
4.25.8 इन्द्रं परेऽवरे मध्यमास इन्द्रं यान्तोऽवसितास इन्द्रम् ।इन्द्रं क्षियन्त उत युध्यमाना इन्द्रं नरो वाजयन्तो हवन्ते
सूक्तम् ४.२६ऋषिः: वामदेवो गौतमः, १- ३ इन्द्रो वा। । अनुक्रमणिका: दे. १ - ३ इन्द्रः, आत्मा वा, ४ - ७ श्येनः। त्रिष्टुप्
4.26.1 अहं मनुरभवं सूर्यश्चाहं कक्षीवाँ ऋषिरस्मि विप्रः ।अहं कुत्समार्जुनेयं न्यृञ्जेऽहं कविरुशना पश्यता मा
4.26.2 अहं भूमिमददामार्यायाहं वृष्टिं दाशुषे मर्त्याय ।अहमपो अनयं वावशाना मम देवासो अनु केतमायन्
4.26.3 अहं पुरो मन्दसानो व्यैरं नव साकं नवतीः शम्बरस्य ।शततमं वेश्यं सर्वताता दिवोदासमतिथिग्वं यदावम्
4.26.4 प्र सु ष विभ्यो मरुतो विरस्तु प्र श्येनः श्येनेभ्य आशुपत्वा ।अचक्रया यत्स्वधया सुपर्णो हव्यं भरन्मनवे देवजुष्टम्
4.26.5 भरद्यदि विरतो वेविजानः पथोरुणा मनोजवा असर्जि ।तूयं ययौ मधुना सोम्येनोत श्रवो विविदे श्येनो अत्र
4.26.6 ऋजीपी श्येनो ददमानो अंशुं परावतः शकुनो मन्द्रं मदम् ।सोमं भरद्दादृहाणो देवावान्दिवो अमुष्मादुत्तरादादाय
4.26.7 आदाय श्येनो अभरत्सोमं सहस्रं सवाँ अयुतं च साकम् ।अत्रा पुरंधिरजहादरातीर्मदे सोमस्य मूरा अमूरः
सूक्तम् ४.२७ऋषिः: वामदेवो गौतमः। । अनुक्रमणिका: दे. श्येनः, ५ इन्द्रो वा। त्रिष्टुप्, ५ शक्वरी।
4.27.1 गर्भे नु सन्नन्वेषामवेदमहं देवानां जनिमानि विश्वा ।शतं मा पुर आयसीररक्षन्नध श्येनो जवसा निरदीयम्
4.27.2 न घा स मामप जोषं जभाराभीमास त्वक्षसा वीर्येण ।ईर्मा पुरंधिरजहादरातीरुत वाताँ अतरच्छूशुवानः
4.27.3 अव यच्छ्येनो अस्वनीदध द्योर्वि यद्यदि वात ऊहुः पुरंधिम् ।सृजद्यदस्मा अव ह क्षिपज्ज्यां कृशानुरस्ता मनसा भुरण्यन्
4.27.4 ऋजिप्य ईमिन्द्रावतो न भुज्युं श्येनो जभार बृहतो अधि ष्णोः ।अन्तः पतत्पतत्र्यस्य पर्णमध यामनि प्रसितस्य तद्वेः
4.27.5 अध श्वेतं कलशं गोभिरक्तमापिप्यानं मघवा शुक्रमन्धः ।अध्वर्युभिः प्रयतं मध्वो अग्रमिन्द्रो मदाय प्रति धत्पिबध्यै शूरो मदाय प्रति धत्पिबध्यै
सूक्तम् ४.२८ऋषिः: वामदेवो गौतमः । । अनुक्रमणिका: दे. इन्द्रः, इन्द्रासोमौ वा।। त्रिष्टुप्
4.28.1 त्वा युजा तव तत्सोम सख्य इन्द्रो अपो मनवे सस्रुतस्कः ।अहन्नहिमरिणात्सप्त सिन्धूनपावृणोदपिहितेव खानि
4.28.2 त्वा युजा नि खिदत्सूर्यस्येन्द्रश्चक्रं सहसा सद्य इन्दो ।अधि ष्णुना बृहता वर्तमानं महो द्रुहो अप विश्वायु धायि
4.28.3 अहन्निन्द्रो अदहदग्निरिन्दो पुरा दस्यून्मध्यंदिनादभीके ।दुर्गे दुरोणे क्रत्वा न यातां पुरू सहस्रा शर्वा नि बर्हीत्
4.28.4 विश्वस्मात्सीमधमाँ इन्द्र दस्यून्विशो दासीरकृणोरप्रशस्ताः ।अबाधेथाममृणतं नि शत्रूनविन्देथामपचितिं वधत्रैः
4.28.5 एवा सत्यं मघवाना युवं तदिन्द्रश्च सोमोर्वमश्व्यं गोः ।आदर्दृतमपिहितान्यश्ना रिरिचथुः क्षाश्चित्ततृदाना
सूक्तम् ४.२९ऋषिः: वामदेवो गौतमः । अनुक्रमणिका: दे. इन्द्रः। त्रिष्टुप्
4.29.1 आ न स्तुत उप वाजेभिरूती इन्द्र याहि हरिभिर्मन्दसानः ।तिरश्चिदर्यः सवना पुरूण्याङ्गूषेभिर्गृणानः सत्यराधाः
4.29.2 आ हि ष्मा याति नर्यश्चिकित्वान्हूयमानः सोतृभिरुप यज्ञम् ।स्वश्वो यो अभीरुर्मन्यमानः सुष्वाणेभिर्मदति सं ह वीरैः
4.29.3 श्रावयेदस्य कर्णा वाजयध्यै जुष्टामनु प्र दिशं मन्दयध्यै ।उद्वावृषाणो राधसे तुविष्मान्करन्न इन्द्रः सुतीर्थाभयं च
4.29.4 अच्छा यो गन्ता नाधमानमूती इत्था विप्रं हवमानं गृणन्तम् ।उप त्मनि दधानो धुर्याशून्सहस्राणि शतानि वज्रबाहुः
4.29.5 त्वोतासो मघवन्निन्द्र विप्रा वयं ते स्याम सूरयो गृणन्तः ।भेजानासो बृहद्दिवस्य राय आकाय्यस्य दावने पुरुक्षोः
सूक्तम् ४.३०ऋषिः: वामदेवो गौतमः । अनुक्रमणिका: दे. इन्द्रः, ९-११ इन्द्रौषसौ। गायत्री ८, २४ अनुष्टुप्
4.30.1 नकिरिन्द्र त्वदुत्तरो न ज्यायाँ अस्ति वृत्रहन् ।नकिरेवा यथा त्वम्
4.30.2 सत्रा ते अनु कृष्टयो विश्वा चक्रेव वावृतुः ।सत्रा महाँ असि श्रुतः
4.30.3 विश्वे चनेदना त्वा देवास इन्द्र युयुधुः ।यदहा नक्तमातिरः
4.30.4 यत्रोत बाधितेभ्यश्चक्रं कुत्साय युध्यते ।मुषाय इन्द्र सूर्यम्
4.30.5 यत्र देवाँ ऋघायतो विश्वाँ अयुध्य एक इत् ।त्वमिन्द्र वनूँरहन्
4.30.6 यत्रोत मर्त्याय कमरिणा इन्द्र सूर्यम् ।प्रावः शचीभिरेतशम्
4.30.7 किमादुतासि वृत्रहन्मघवन्मन्युमत्तमः ।अत्राह दानुमातिरः
4.30.8 एतद्घेदुत वीर्यमिन्द्र चकर्थ पौंस्यम् ।स्त्रियं यद्दुर्हणायुवं वधीर्दुहितरं दिवः
4.30.9 दिवश्चिद्घा दुहितरं महान्महीयमानाम् ।उषासमिन्द्र सं पिणक्
4.30.10 अपोषा अनसः सरत्सम्पिष्टादह बिभ्युषी ।नि यत्सीं शिश्नथद्वृषा
4.30.11 एतदस्या अनः शये सुसम्पिष्टं विपाश्या ।ससार सीं परावतः
4.30.12 उत सिन्धुं विबाल्यं वितस्थानामधि क्षमि ।परि ष्ठा इन्द्र मायया
4.30.13 उत शुष्णस्य धृष्णुया प्र मृक्षो अभि वेदनम् ।पुरो यदस्य सम्पिणक्
4.30.14 उत दासं कौलितरं बृहतः पर्वतादधि ।अवाहन्निन्द्र शम्बरम्
4.30.15 उत दासस्य वर्चिनः सहस्राणि शतावधीः ।अधि पञ्च प्रधीँरिव
4.30.16 उत त्यं पुत्रमग्रुवः परावृक्तं शतक्रतुः ।उक्थेष्विन्द्र आभजत्
4.30.17 उत त्या तुर्वशायदू अस्नातारा शचीपतिः ।इन्द्रो विद्वाँ अपारयत्
4.30.18 उत त्या सद्य आर्या सरयोरिन्द्र पारतः ।अर्णाचित्ररथावधीः
4.30.19 अनु द्वा जहिता नयोऽन्धं श्रोणं च वृत्रहन् ।न तत्ते सुम्नमष्टवे
4.30.20 शतमश्मन्मयीनां पुरामिन्द्रो व्यास्यत् ।दिवोदासाय दाशुषे
4.30.21 अस्वापयद्दभीतये सहस्रा त्रिंशतं हथैः ।दासानामिन्द्रो मायया
4.30.22 स घेदुतासि वृत्रहन्समान इन्द्र गोपतिः ।यस्ता विश्वानि चिच्युषे
4.30.23 उत नूनं यदिन्द्रियं करिष्या इन्द्र पौंस्यम् ।अद्या नकिष्टदा मिनत्
4.30.24 वामंवामं त आदुरे देवो ददात्वर्यमा ।वामं पूषा वामं भगो वामं देवः करूळती
सूक्तम् ४.३१ऋषिः: वामदेवो गौतमः । अनुक्रमणिका: दे. इन्द्रः। गायत्री, ३ पादनिचृत्
4.31.1 कया नश्चित्र आ भुवदूती सदावृधः सखा ।कया शचिष्ठया वृता
4.31.2 कस्त्वा सत्यो मदानां मंहिष्ठो मत्सदन्धसः ।दृळ्हा चिदारुजे वसु
4.31.3 अभी षु णः सखीनामविता जरितॄणाम् ।शतं भवास्यूतिभिः
4.31.4 अभी न आ ववृत्स्व चक्रं न वृत्तमर्वतः ।नियुद्भिश्चर्षणीनाम्
4.31.5 प्रवता हि क्रतूनामा हा पदेव गच्छसि ।अभक्षि सूर्ये सचा
4.31.6 सं यत्त इन्द्र मन्यवः सं चक्राणि दधन्विरे ।अध त्वे अध सूर्ये
4.31.7 उत स्मा हि त्वामाहुरिन्मघवानं शचीपते ।दातारमविदीधयुम्
4.31.8 उत स्मा सद्य इत्परि शशमानाय सुन्वते ।पुरू चिन्मंहसे वसु
4.31.9 नहि ष्मा ते शतं चन राधो वरन्त आमुरः ।न च्यौत्नानि करिष्यतः
4.31.10 अस्माँ अवन्तु ते शतमस्मान्सहस्रमूतयः ।अस्मान्विश्वा अभिष्टयः
4.31.11 अस्माँ इहा वृणीष्व सख्याय स्वस्तये ।महो राये दिवित्मते
4.31.12 अस्माँ अविड्ढि विश्वहेन्द्र राया परीणसा ।अस्मान्विश्वाभिरूतिभिः
4.31.13 अस्मभ्यं ताँ अपा वृधि व्रजाँ अस्तेव गोमतः ।नवाभिरिन्द्रोतिभिः
4.31.14 अस्माकं धृष्णुया रथो द्युमाँ इन्द्रानपच्युतः ।गव्युरश्वयुरीयते
4.31.15 अस्माकमुत्तमं कृधि श्रवो देवेषु सूर्य ।वर्षिष्ठं द्यामिवोपरि
सूक्तम् ४.३२ऋषिः: वामदेवो गौतमः । अनुक्रमणिका: दे. इन्द्रः, २३-२४ इन्द्राश्वौ। गायत्री
4.32.1 आ तू न इन्द्र वृत्रहन्नस्माकमर्धमा गहि ।महान्महीभिरूतिभिः
4.32.2 भृमिश्चिद्घासि तूतुजिरा चित्र चित्रिणीष्वा ।चित्रं कृणोष्यूतये
4.32.3 दभ्रेभिश्चिच्छशीयांसं हंसि व्राधन्तमोजसा ।सखिभिर्ये त्वे सचा
4.32.4 वयमिन्द्र त्वे सचा वयं त्वाभि नोनुमः ।अस्माँअस्माँ इदुदव
4.32.5 स नश्चित्राभिरद्रिवोऽनवद्याभिरूतिभिः ।अनाधृष्टाभिरा गहि
4.32.6 भूयामो षु त्वावतः सखाय इन्द्र गोमतः ।युजो वाजाय घृष्वये
4.32.7 त्वं ह्येक ईशिष इन्द्र वाजस्य गोमतः ।स नो यन्धि महीमिषम्
4.32.8 न त्वा वरन्ते अन्यथा यद्दित्ससि स्तुतो मघम् ।स्तोतृभ्य इन्द्र गिर्वणः
4.32.9 अभि त्वा गोतमा गिरानूषत प्र दावने ।इन्द्र वाजाय घृष्वये
4.32.10 प्र ते वोचाम वीर्या या मन्दसान आरुजः ।पुरो दासीरभीत्य
4.32.11 ता ते गृणन्ति वेधसो यानि चकर्थ पौंस्या ।सुतेष्विन्द्र गिर्वणः
4.32.12 अवीवृधन्त गोतमा इन्द्र त्वे स्तोमवाहसः ।ऐषु धा वीरवद्यशः
4.32.13 यच्चिद्धि शश्वतामसीन्द्र साधारणस्त्वम् ।तं त्वा वयं हवामहे
4.32.14 अर्वाचीनो वसो भवास्मे सु मत्स्वान्धसः ।सोमानामिन्द्र सोमपाः
4.32.15 अस्माकं त्वा मतीनामा स्तोम इन्द्र यच्छतु ।अर्वागा वर्तया हरी
4.32.16 पुरोळाशं च नो घसो जोषयासे गिरश्च नः ।वधूयुरिव योषणाम्
4.32.17 सहस्रं व्यतीनां युक्तानामिन्द्रमीमहे ।शतं सोमस्य खार्यः
4.32.18 सहस्रा ते शता वयं गवामा च्यावयामसि ।अस्मत्रा राध एतु ते
4.32.19 दश ते कलशानां हिरण्यानामधीमहि ।भूरिदा असि वृत्रहन्
4.32.20 भूरिदा भूरि देहि नो मा दभ्रं भूर्या भर ।भूरि घेदिन्द्र दित्ससि
4.32.21 भूरिदा ह्यसि श्रुतः पुरुत्रा शूर वृत्रहन् ।आ नो भजस्व राधसि
4.32.22 प्र ते बभ्रू विचक्षण शंसामि गोषणो नपात् ।माभ्यां गा अनु शिश्रथः
4.32.23 कनीनकेव विद्रधे नवे द्रुपदे अर्भके ।बभ्रू यामेषु शोभेते
4.32.24 अरं म उस्रयाम्णेऽरमनुस्रयाम्णे ।बभ्रू यामेष्वस्रिधा
सूक्तम् ४.३३ऋषिः: वामदेवो गौतमः । अनुक्रमणिका: दे. ऋभवः। त्रिष्टुप्
4.33.1 प्र ऋभुभ्यो दूतमिव वाचमिष्य उपस्तिरे श्वैतरीं धेनुमीळे ।ये वातजूतास्तरणिभिरेवैः परि द्यां सद्यो अपसो बभूवुः
4.33.2 यदारमक्रन्नृभवः पितृभ्यां परिविष्टी वेषणा दंसनाभिः ।आदिद्देवानामुप सख्यमायन्धीरासः पुष्टिमवहन्मनायै
4.33.3 पुनर्ये चक्रुः पितरा युवाना सना यूपेव जरणा शयाना ।ते वाजो विभ्वाँ ऋभुरिन्द्रवन्तो मधुप्सरसो नोऽवन्तु यज्ञम्
4.33.4 यत्संवत्समृभवो गामरक्षन्यत्संवत्समृभवो मा अपिंशन् ।यत्संवत्समभरन्भासो अस्यास्ताभिः शमीभिरमृतत्वमाशुः
4.33.5 ज्येष्ठ आह चमसा द्वा करेति कनीयान्त्रीन्कृणवामेत्याह ।कनिष्ठ आह चतुरस्करेति त्वष्ट ऋभवस्तत्पनयद्वचो वः
4.33.6 सत्यमूचुर्नर एवा हि चक्रुरनु स्वधामृभवो जग्मुरेताम् ।विभ्राजमानाँश्चमसाँ अहेवावेनत्त्वष्टा चतुरो ददृश्वान्
4.33.7 द्वादश द्यून्यदगोह्यस्यातिथ्ये रणन्नृभवः ससन्तः ।सुक्षेत्राकृण्वन्ननयन्त सिन्धून्धन्वातिष्ठन्नोषधीर्निम्नमापः
4.33.8 रथं ये चक्रुः सुवृतं नरेष्ठां ये धेनुं विश्वजुवं विश्वरूपाम् ।त आ तक्षन्त्वृभवो रयिं नः स्ववसः स्वपसः सुहस्ताः
4.33.9 अपो ह्येषामजुषन्त देवा अभि क्रत्वा मनसा दीध्यानाः ।वाजो देवानामभवत्सुकर्मेन्द्रस्य ऋभुक्षा वरुणस्य विभ्वा
4.33.10 ये हरी मेधयोक्था मदन्त इन्द्राय चक्रुः सुयुजा ये अश्वा ।ते रायस्पोषं द्रविणान्यस्मे धत्त ऋभवः क्षेमयन्तो न मित्रम्
4.33.11 इदाह्नः पीतिमुत वो मदं धुर्न ऋते श्रान्तस्य सख्याय देवाः ।ते नूनमस्मे ऋभवो वसूनि तृतीये अस्मिन्सवने दधात
सूक्तम् ४.३४ऋषिः: वामदेवो गौतमः । अनुक्रमणिका: दे. ऋभवः। त्रिष्टुप्
4.34.1 ऋभुर्विभ्वा वाज इन्द्रो नो अच्छेमं यज्ञं रत्नधेयोप यात ।इदा हि वो धिषणा देव्यह्नामधात्पीतिं सं मदा अग्मता वः
4.34.2 विदानासो जन्मनो वाजरत्ना उत ऋतुभिरृभवो मादयध्वम् ।सं वो मदा अग्मत सं पुरंधिः सुवीरामस्मे रयिमेरयध्वम्
4.34.3 अयं वो यज्ञ ऋभवोऽकारि यमा मनुष्वत्प्रदिवो दधिध्वे ।प्र वोऽच्छा जुजुषाणासो अस्थुरभूत विश्वे अग्रियोत वाजाः
4.34.4 अभूदु वो विधते रत्नधेयमिदा नरो दाशुषे मर्त्याय ।पिबत वाजा ऋभवो ददे वो महि तृतीयं सवनं मदाय
4.34.5 आ वाजा यातोप न ऋभुक्षा महो नरो द्रविणसो गृणानाः ।आ वः पीतयोऽभिपित्वे अह्नामिमा अस्तं नवस्व इव ग्मन्
4.34.6 आ नपातः शवसो यातनोपेमं यज्ञं नमसा हूयमानाः ।सजोषसः सूरयो यस्य च स्थ मध्वः पात रत्नधा इन्द्रवन्तः
4.34.7 सजोषा इन्द्र वरुणेन सोमं सजोषाः पाहि गिर्वणो मरुद्भिः ।अग्रेपाभिरृतुपाभिः सजोषा ग्नास्पत्नीभी रत्नधाभिः सजोषाः
4.34.8 सजोषस आदित्यैर्मादयध्वं सजोषस ऋभवः पर्वतेभिः ।सजोषसो दैव्येना सवित्रा सजोषसः सिन्धुभी रत्नधेभिः
4.34.9 ये अश्विना ये पितरा य ऊती धेनुं ततक्षुरृभवो ये अश्वा ।ये अंसत्रा य ऋधग्रोदसी ये विभ्वो नरः स्वपत्यानि चक्रुः
4.34.10 ये गोमन्तं वाजवन्तं सुवीरं रयिं धत्थ वसुमन्तं पुरुक्षुम् ।ते अग्रेपा ऋभवो मन्दसाना अस्मे धत्त ये च रातिं गृणन्ति
4.34.11 नापाभूत न वोऽतीतृषामानिःशस्ता ऋभवो यज्ञे अस्मिन् ।समिन्द्रेण मदथ सं मरुद्भिः सं राजभी रत्नधेयाय देवाः
सूक्तम् ४.३५ऋषिः: वामदेवो गौतमः । अनुक्रमणिका: दे. ऋभवः। त्रिष्टुप्
4.35.1 इहोप यात शवसो नपातः सौधन्वना ऋभवो माप भूत ।अस्मिन्हि वः सवने रत्नधेयं गमन्त्विन्द्रमनु वो मदासः
4.35.2 आगन्नृभूणामिह रत्नधेयमभूत्सोमस्य सुषुतस्य पीतिः ।सुकृत्यया यत्स्वपस्यया चँ एकं विचक्र चमसं चतुर्धा
4.35.3 व्यकृणोत चमसं चतुर्धा सखे वि शिक्षेत्यब्रवीत ।अथैत वाजा अमृतस्य पन्थां गणं देवानामृभवः सुहस्ताः
4.35.4 किम्मयः स्विच्चमस एष आस यं काव्येन चतुरो विचक्र ।अथा सुनुध्वं सवनं मदाय पात ऋभवो मधुनः सोम्यस्य
4.35.5 शच्याकर्त पितरा युवाना शच्याकर्त चमसं देवपानम् ।शच्या हरी धनुतरावतष्टेन्द्रवाहावृभवो वाजरत्नाः
4.35.6 यो वः सुनोत्यभिपित्वे अह्नां तीव्रं वाजासः सवनं मदाय ।तस्मै रयिमृभवः सर्ववीरमा तक्षत वृषणो मन्दसानाः
4.35.7 प्रातः सुतमपिबो हर्यश्व माध्यंदिनं सवनं केवलं ते ।समृभुभिः पिबस्व रत्नधेभिः सखीँर्याँ इन्द्र चकृषे सुकृत्या
4.35.8 ये देवासो अभवता सुकृत्या श्येना इवेदधि दिवि निषेद ।ते रत्नं धात शवसो नपातः सौधन्वना अभवतामृतासः
4.35.9 यत्तृतीयं सवनं रत्नधेयमकृणुध्वं स्वपस्या सुहस्ताः ।तदृभवः परिषिक्तं व एतत्सं मदेभिरिन्द्रियेभिः पिबध्वम्
सूक्तम् ४.३६ऋषिः: वामदेवो गौतमः । । अनुक्रमणिका: दे. ऋभवः। जगती, ९ त्रिष्टुप्
4.36.1 अनश्वो जातो अनभीशुरुक्थ्यो रथस्त्रिचक्रः परि वर्तते रजः ।महत्तद्वो देव्यस्य प्रवाचनं द्यामृभवः पृथिवीं यच्च पुष्यथ
4.36.2 रथं ये चक्रुः सुवृतं सुचेतसोऽविह्वरन्तं मनसस्परि ध्यया ।ताँ ऊ न्वस्य सवनस्य पीतय आ वो वाजा ऋभवो वेदयामसि
4.36.3 तद्वो वाजा ऋभवः सुप्रवाचनं देवेषु विभ्वो अभवन्महित्वनम् ।जिव्री यत्सन्ता पितरा सनाजुरा पुनर्युवाना चरथाय तक्षथ
4.36.4 एकं वि चक्र चमसं चतुर्वयं निश्चर्मणो गामरिणीत धीतिभिः ।अथा देवेष्वमृतत्वमानश श्रुष्टी वाजा ऋभवस्तद्व उक्थ्यम्
4.36.5 ऋभुतो रयिः प्रथमश्रवस्तमो वाजश्रुतासो यमजीजनन्नरः ।विभ्वतष्टो विदथेषु प्रवाच्यो यं देवासोऽवथा स विचर्षणिः
4.36.6 स वाज्यर्वा स ऋषिर्वचस्यया स शूरो अस्ता पृतनासु दुष्टरः ।स रायस्पोषं स सुवीर्यं दधे यं वाजो विभ्वाँ ऋभवो यमाविषुः
4.36.7 श्रेष्ठं वः पेशो अधि धायि दर्शतं स्तोमो वाजा ऋभवस्तं जुजुष्टन ।धीरासो हि ष्ठा कवयो विपश्चितस्तान्व एना ब्रह्मणा वेदयामसि
4.36.8 यूयमस्मभ्यं धिषणाभ्यस्परि विद्वांसो विश्वा नर्याणि भोजना ।द्युमन्तं वाजं वृषशुष्ममुत्तममा नो रयिमृभवस्तक्षता वयः
4.36.9 इह प्रजामिह रयिं रराणा इह श्रवो वीरवत्तक्षता नः ।येन वयं चितयेमात्यन्यान्तं वाजं चित्रमृभवो ददा नः
सूक्तम् ४.३७ऋषिः: वामदेवो गौतमः। । अनुक्रमणिका: दे. ऋभवः। त्रिष्टुप्, ५-८ अनुष्टुप् ।
4.37.1 उप नो वाजा अध्वरमृभुक्षा देवा यात पथिभिर्देवयानैः ।यथा यज्ञं मनुषो विक्ष्वासु दधिध्वे रण्वाः सुदिनेष्वह्नाम्
4.37.2 ते वो हृदे मनसे सन्तु यज्ञा जुष्टासो अद्य घृतनिर्णिजो गुः ।प्र वः सुतासो हरयन्त पूर्णाः क्रत्वे दक्षाय हर्षयन्त पीताः
4.37.3 त्र्युदायं देवहितं यथा व स्तोमो वाजा ऋभुक्षणो ददे वः ।जुह्वे मनुष्वदुपरासु विक्षु युष्मे सचा बृहद्दिवेषु सोमम्
4.37.4 पीवोअश्वाः शुचद्रथा हि भूतायःशिप्रा वाजिनः सुनिष्काः ।इन्द्रस्य सूनो शवसो नपातोऽनु वश्चेत्यग्रियं मदाय
4.37.5 ऋभुमृभुक्षणो रयिं वाजे वाजिन्तमं युजम् ।इन्द्रस्वन्तं हवामहे सदासातममश्विनम्
4.37.6 सेदृभवो यमवथ यूयमिन्द्रश्च मर्त्यम् ।स धीभिरस्तु सनिता मेधसाता सो अर्वता
4.37.7 वि नो वाजा ऋभुक्षणः पथश्चितन यष्टवे ।अस्मभ्यं सूरय स्तुता विश्वा आशास्तरीषणि
4.37.8 तं नो वाजा ऋभुक्षण इन्द्र नासत्या रयिम् ।समश्वं चर्षणिभ्य आ पुरु शस्त मघत्तये
सूक्तम् ४.३८ऋषिः: वामदेवो गौतमः । । अनुक्रमणिका: दे. दधिक्रा, १ द्यावापृथिवी। त्रिष्टुप्
4.38.1 उतो हि वां दात्रा सन्ति पूर्वा या पूरुभ्यस्त्रसदस्युर्नितोशे ।क्षेत्रासां ददथुरुर्वरासां घनं दस्युभ्यो अभिभूतिमुग्रम्
4.38.2 उत वाजिनं पुरुनिष्षिध्वानं दधिक्रामु ददथुर्विश्वकृष्टिम् ।ऋजिप्यं श्येनं प्रुषितप्सुमाशुं चर्कृत्यमर्यो नृपतिं न शूरम्
4.38.3 यं सीमनु प्रवतेव द्रवन्तं विश्वः पूरुर्मदति हर्षमाणः ।पड्भिर्गृध्यन्तं मेधयुं न शूरं रथतुरं वातमिव ध्रजन्तम्
4.38.4 यः स्मारुन्धानो गध्या समत्सु सनुतरश्चरति गोषु गच्छन् ।आविरृजीको विदथा निचिक्यत्तिरो अरतिं पर्याप आयोः
4.38.5 उत स्मैनं वस्त्रमथिं न तायुमनु क्रोशन्ति क्षितयो भरेषु ।नीचायमानं जसुरिं न श्येनं श्रवश्चाच्छा पशुमच्च यूथम्
4.38.6 उत स्मासु प्रथमः सरिष्यन्नि वेवेति श्रेणिभी रथानाम् ।स्रजं कृण्वानो जन्यो न शुभ्वा रेणुं रेरिहत्किरणं ददश्वान्
4.38.7 उत स्य वाजी सहुरिरृतावा शुश्रूषमाणस्तन्वा समर्ये ।तुरं यतीषु तुरयन्नृजिप्योऽधि भ्रुवोः किरते रेणुमृञ्जन्
4.38.8 उत स्मास्य तन्यतोरिव द्योरृघायतो अभियुजो भयन्ते ।यदा सहस्रमभि षीमयोधीद्दुर्वर्तुः स्मा भवति भीम ऋञ्जन्
4.38.9 उत स्मास्य पनयन्ति जना जूतिं कृष्टिप्रो अभिभूतिमाशोः ।उतैनमाहुः समिथे वियन्तः परा दधिक्रा असरत्सहस्रैः
4.38.10 आ दधिक्राः शवसा पञ्च कृष्टीः सूर्य इव ज्योतिषापस्ततान ।सहस्रसाः शतसा वाज्यर्वा पृणक्तु मध्वा समिमा वचांसि
सूक्तम् ४.३९ऋषिः: वामदेवो गौतमः । अनुक्रमणिका: दे. दधिक्राः। त्रिष्टुप्, ६ अनुष्टुप्
4.39.1 आशुं दधिक्रां तमु नु ष्टवाम दिवस्पृथिव्या उत चर्किराम ।उच्छन्तीर्मामुषसः सूदयन्त्वति विश्वानि दुरितानि पर्षन्
4.39.2 महश्चर्कर्म्यर्वतः क्रतुप्रा दधिक्राव्णः पुरुवारस्य वृष्णः ।यं पूरुभ्यो दीदिवांसं नाग्निं ददथुर्मित्रावरुणा ततुरिम्
4.39.3 यो अश्वस्य दधिक्राव्णो अकारीत्समिद्धे अग्ना उषसो व्युष्टौ ।अनागसं तमदितिः कृणोतु स मित्रेण वरुणेना सजोषाः
4.39.4 दधिक्राव्ण इष ऊर्जो महो यदमन्महि मरुतां नाम भद्रम् ।स्वस्तये वरुणं मित्रमग्निं हवामह इन्द्रं वज्रबाहुम्
4.39.5 इन्द्रमिवेदुभये वि ह्वयन्त उदीराणा यज्ञमुपप्रयन्तः ।दधिक्रामु सूदनं मर्त्याय ददथुर्मित्रावरुणा नो अश्वम्
4.39.6 दधिक्राव्णो अकारिषं जिष्णोरश्वस्य वाजिनः ।सुरभि नो मुखा करत्प्र ण आयूंषि तारिषत्
सूक्तम् ४.४०ऋषिः: वामदेवो गौतमः । अनुक्रमणिका: दे. दधिक्राः, ५ सूर्यः। जगती, १ त्रिष्टुप्
4.40.1 दधिक्राव्ण इदु नु चर्किराम विश्वा इन्मामुषसः सूदयन्तु ।अपामग्नेरुषसः सूर्यस्य बृहस्पतेराङ्गिरसस्य जिष्णोः
4.40.2 सत्वा भरिषो गविषो दुवन्यसच्छ्रवस्यादिष उषसस्तुरण्यसत् ।सत्यो द्रवो द्रवरः पतंगरो दधिक्रावेषमूर्जं स्वर्जनत्
4.40.3 उत स्मास्य द्रवतस्तुरण्यतः पर्णं न वेरनु वाति प्रगर्धिनः ।श्येनस्येव ध्रजतो अङ्कसं परि दधिक्राव्णः सहोर्जा तरित्रतः
4.40.4 उत स्य वाजी क्षिपणिं तुरण्यति ग्रीवायां बद्धो अपिकक्ष आसनि ।क्रतुं दधिक्रा अनु संतवीत्वत्पथामङ्कांस्यन्वापनीफणत्
4.40.5 हंसः शुचिषद्वसुरन्तरिक्षसद्धोता वेदिषदतिथिर्दुरोणसत् ।नृषद्वरसदृतसद्व्योमसदब्जा गोजा ऋतजा अद्रिजा ऋतम्
सूक्तम् ४.४१ऋषिः: वामदेवो गौतमः । अनुक्रमणिका: दे. इन्द्रावरुणौ। त्रिष्टुप्
4.41.1 इन्द्रा को वां वरुणा सुम्नमाप स्तोमो हविष्माँ अमृतो न होता ।यो वां हृदि क्रतुमाँ अस्मदुक्तः पस्पर्शदिन्द्रावरुणा नमस्वान्
4.41.2 इन्द्रा ह यो वरुणा चक्र आपी देवौ मर्तः सख्याय प्रयस्वान् ।स हन्ति वृत्रा समिथेषु शत्रूनवोभिर्वा महद्भिः स प्र शृण्वे
4.41.3 इन्द्रा ह रत्नं वरुणा धेष्ठेत्था नृभ्यः शशमानेभ्यस्ता ।यदी सखाया सख्याय सोमैः सुतेभिः सुप्रयसा मादयैते
4.41.4 इन्द्रा युवं वरुणा दिद्युमस्मिन्नोजिष्ठमुग्रा नि वधिष्टं वज्रम् ।यो नो दुरेवो वृकतिर्दभीतिस्तस्मिन्मिमाथामभिभूत्योजः
4.41.5 इन्द्रा युवं वरुणा भूतमस्या धियः प्रेतारा वृषभेव धेनोः ।सा नो दुहीयद्यवसेव गत्वी सहस्रधारा पयसा मही गौः
4.41.6 तोके हिते तनय उर्वरासु सूरो दृशीके वृषणश्च पौंस्ये ।इन्द्रा नो अत्र वरुणा स्यातामवोभिर्दस्मा परितक्म्यायाम्
4.41.7 युवामिद्ध्यवसे पूर्व्याय परि प्रभूती गविषः स्वापी ।वृणीमहे सख्याय प्रियाय शूरा मंहिष्ठा पितरेव शम्भू
4.41.8 ता वां धियोऽवसे वाजयन्तीराजिं न जग्मुर्युवयूः सुदानू ।श्रिये न गाव उप सोममस्थुरिन्द्रं गिरो वरुणं मे मनीषाः
4.41.9 इमा इन्द्रं वरुणं मे मनीषा अग्मन्नुप द्रविणमिच्छमानाः ।उपेमस्थुर्जोष्टार इव वस्वो रघ्वीरिव श्रवसो भिक्षमाणाः
4.41.10 अश्व्यस्य त्मना रथ्यस्य पुष्टेर्नित्यस्य रायः पतयः स्याम ।ता चक्राणा ऊतिभिर्नव्यसीभिरस्मत्रा रायो नियुतः सचन्ताम्
4.41.11 आ नो बृहन्ता बृहतीभिरूती इन्द्र यातं वरुण वाजसातौ ।यद्दिद्यवः पृतनासु प्रक्रीळान्तस्य वां स्याम सनितार आजेः
सूक्तम् ४.४२ऋषिः: त्रसदस्युः पौरुकुत्स्यः । अनुक्रमणिका: दे. त्रसदस्युः, ७-१० इन्द्रावरुणौ। त्रिष्टुप्
4.42.1 मम द्विता राष्ट्रं क्षत्रियस्य विश्वायोर्विश्वे अमृता यथा नः ।क्रतुं सचन्ते वरुणस्य देवा राजामि कृष्टेरुपमस्य वव्रेः
4.42.2 अहं राजा वरुणो मह्यं तान्यसुर्याणि प्रथमा धारयन्त ।क्रतुं सचन्ते वरुणस्य देवा राजामि कृष्टेरुपमस्य वव्रेः
4.42.3 अहमिन्द्रो वरुणस्ते महित्वोर्वी गभीरे रजसी सुमेके ।त्वष्टेव विश्वा भुवनानि विद्वान्समैरयं रोदसी धारयं च
4.42.4 अहमपो अपिन्वमुक्षमाणा धारयं दिवं सदन ऋतस्य ।ऋतेन पुत्रो अदितेरृतावोत त्रिधातु प्रथयद्वि भूम
4.42.5 मां नरः स्वश्वा वाजयन्तो मां वृताः समरणे हवन्ते ।कृणोम्याजिं मघवाहमिन्द्र इयर्मि रेणुमभिभूत्योजाः
4.42.6 अहं ता विश्वा चकरं नकिर्मा दैव्यं सहो वरते अप्रतीतम् ।यन्मा सोमासो ममदन्यदुक्थोभे भयेते रजसी अपारे
4.42.7 विदुष्टे विश्वा भुवनानि तस्य ता प्र ब्रवीषि वरुणाय वेधः ।त्वं वृत्राणि शृण्विषे जघन्वान्त्वं वृताँ अरिणा इन्द्र सिन्धून्
4.42.8 अस्माकमत्र पितरस्त आसन्सप्त ऋषयो दौर्गहे बध्यमाने ।त आयजन्त त्रसदस्युमस्या इन्द्रं न वृत्रतुरमर्धदेवम्
4.42.9 पुरुकुत्सानी हि वामदाशद्धव्येभिरिन्द्रावरुणा नमोभिः ।अथा राजानं त्रसदस्युमस्या वृत्रहणं ददथुरर्धदेवम्
4.42.10 राया वयं ससवांसो मदेम हव्येन देवा यवसेन गावः ।तां धेनुमिन्द्रावरुणा युवं नो विश्वाहा धत्तमनपस्फुरन्तीम्
सूक्तम् ४.४३ऋषिः: पुरुमीळहाजमीळ्हौ सौहोत्रौ । अनुक्रमणिका: दे. अश्विनौ। त्रिष्टुप्
4.43.1 क उ श्रवत्कतमो यज्ञियानां वन्दारु देवः कतमो जुषाते ।कस्येमां देवीममृतेषु प्रेष्ठां हृदि श्रेषाम सुष्टुतिं सुहव्याम्
4.43.2 को मृळाति कतम आगमिष्ठो देवानामु कतमः शम्भविष्ठः ।रथं कमाहुर्द्रवदश्वमाशुं यं सूर्यस्य दुहितावृणीत
4.43.3 मक्षू हि ष्मा गच्छथ ईवतो द्यूनिन्द्रो न शक्तिं परितक्म्यायाम् ।दिव आजाता दिव्या सुपर्णा कया शचीनां भवथः शचिष्ठा
4.43.4 का वां भूदुपमातिः कया न आश्विना गमथो हूयमाना ।को वां महश्चित्त्यजसो अभीक उरुष्यतं माध्वी दस्रा न ऊती
4.43.5 उरु वां रथः परि नक्षति द्यामा यत्समुद्रादभि वर्तते वाम् ।मध्वा माध्वी मधु वां प्रुषायन्यत्सीं वां पृक्षो भुरजन्त पक्वाः
4.43.6 सिन्धुर्ह वां रसया सिञ्चदश्वान्घृणा वयोऽरुषासः परि ग्मन् ।तदू षु वामजिरं चेति यानं येन पती भवथः सूर्यायाः
4.43.7 इहेह यद्वां समना पपृक्षे सेयमस्मे सुमतिर्वाजरत्ना ।उरुष्यतं जरितारं युवं ह श्रितः कामो नासत्या युवद्रिक्
सूक्तम् ४.४४ऋषिः: पुरुमीळहाजमीळ्हौ सौहोत्रौ । अनुक्रमणिका: दे. अश्विनौ। त्रिष्टुप्
4.44.1 तं वां रथं वयमद्या हुवेम पृथुज्रयमश्विना संगतिं गोः ।यः सूर्यां वहति वन्धुरायुर्गिर्वाहसं पुरुतमं वसूयुम्
4.44.2 युवं श्रियमश्विना देवता तां दिवो नपाता वनथः शचीभिः ।युवोर्वपुरभि पृक्षः सचन्ते वहन्ति यत्ककुहासो रथे वाम्
4.44.3 को वामद्या करते रातहव्य ऊतये वा सुतपेयाय वार्कैः ।ऋतस्य वा वनुषे पूर्व्याय नमो येमानो अश्विना ववर्तत्
4.44.4 हिरण्ययेन पुरुभू रथेनेमं यज्ञं नासत्योप यातम् ।पिबाथ इन्मधुनः सोम्यस्य दधथो रत्नं विधते जनाय
4.44.5 आ नो यातं दिवो अच्छा पृथिव्या हिरण्ययेन सुवृता रथेन ।मा वामन्ये नि यमन्देवयन्तः सं यद्ददे नाभिः पूर्व्या वाम्
4.44.6 नू नो रयिं पुरुवीरं बृहन्तं दस्रा मिमाथामुभयेष्वस्मे ।नरो यद्वामश्विना स्तोममावन्सधस्तुतिमाजमीळ्हासो अग्मन्
4.44.7 इहेह यद्वां समना पपृक्षे सेयमस्मे सुमतिर्वाजरत्ना ।उरुष्यतं जरितारं युवं ह श्रितः कामो नासत्या युवद्रिक्
सूक्तम् ४.४५ऋषिः: वामदेवो गौतमः । अनुक्रमणिका: दे. अश्विनौ। जगती, ७ त्रिष्टुप्
4.45.1 एष स्य भानुरुदियर्ति युज्यते रथः परिज्मा दिवो अस्य सानवि ।पृक्षासो अस्मिन्मिथुना अधि त्रयो दृतिस्तुरीयो मधुनो वि रप्शते
4.45.2 उद्वां पृक्षासो मधुमन्त ईरते रथा अश्वास उषसो व्युष्टिषु ।अपोर्णुवन्तस्तम आ परीवृतं स्वर्ण शुक्रं तन्वन्त आ रजः
4.45.3 मध्वः पिबतं मधुपेभिरासभिरुत प्रियं मधुने युञ्जाथां रथम् ।आ वर्तनिं मधुना जिन्वथस्पथो दृतिं वहेथे मधुमन्तमश्विना
4.45.4 हंसासो ये वां मधुमन्तो अस्रिधो हिरण्यपर्णा उहुव उषर्बुधः ।उदप्रुतो मन्दिनो मन्दिनिस्पृशो मध्वो न मक्षः सवनानि गच्छथः
4.45.5 स्वध्वरासो मधुमन्तो अग्नय उस्रा जरन्ते प्रति वस्तोरश्विना ।यन्निक्तहस्तस्तरणिर्विचक्षणः सोमं सुषाव मधुमन्तमद्रिभिः
4.45.6 आकेनिपासो अहभिर्दविध्वतः स्वर्ण शुक्रं तन्वन्त आ रजः ।सूरश्चिदश्वान्युयुजान ईयते विश्वाँ अनु स्वधया चेतथस्पथः
4.45.7 प्र वामवोचमश्विना धियंधा रथः स्वश्वो अजरो यो अस्ति ।येन सद्यः परि रजांसि याथो हविष्मन्तं तरणिं भोजमच्छ
सूक्तम् ४.४६ऋषिः: वामदेवो गौतमः, १- ३ इन्द्रो वा। । अनुक्रमणिका: दे. इन्द्रवायू, १ वायुः। गायत्री
4.46.1 अग्रं पिबा मधूनां सुतं वायो दिविष्टिषु ।त्वं हि पूर्वपा असि
4.46.2 शतेना नो अभिष्टिभिर्नियुत्वाँ इन्द्रसारथिः ।वायो सुतस्य तृम्पतम्
4.46.3 आ वां सहस्रं हरय इन्द्रवायू अभि प्रयः ।वहन्तु सोमपीतये
4.46.4 रथं हिरण्यवन्धुरमिन्द्रवायू स्वध्वरम् ।आ हि स्थाथो दिविस्पृशम्
4.46.5 रथेन पृथुपाजसा दाश्वांसमुप गच्छतम् ।इन्द्रवायू इहा गतम्
4.46.6 इन्द्रवायू अयं सुतस्तं देवेभिः सजोषसा ।पिबतं दाशुषो गृहे
4.46.7 इह प्रयाणमस्तु वामिन्द्रवायू विमोचनम् ।इह वां सोमपीतये
सूक्तम् ४.४७ऋषिः: वामदेवो गौतमः। । अनुक्रमणिका: दे. इन्द्रवायू, १ वायुः। अनुष्टुप्।
4.47.1 वायो शुक्रो अयामि ते मध्वो अग्रं दिविष्टिषु ।आ याहि सोमपीतये स्पार्हो देव नियुत्वता
4.47.2 इन्द्रश्च वायवेषां सोमानां पीतिमर्हथः ।युवां हि यन्तीन्दवो निम्नमापो न सध्र्यक्
4.47.3 वायविन्द्रश्च शुष्मिणा सरथं शवसस्पती ।नियुत्वन्ता न ऊतय आ यातं सोमपीतये
4.47.4 या वां सन्ति पुरुस्पृहो नियुतो दाशुषे नरा ।अस्मे ता यज्ञवाहसेन्द्रवायू नि यच्छतम्
सूक्तम् ४.४८ऋषिः: वामदेवो गौतमः । । अनुक्रमणिका: दे. वायुः।। अनुष्टुप्
4.48.1 विहि होत्रा अवीता विपो न रायो अर्यः ।वायवा चन्द्रेण रथेन याहि सुतस्य पीतये
4.48.2 निर्युवाणो अशस्तीर्नियुत्वाँ इन्द्रसारथिः ।वायवा चन्द्रेण रथेन याहि सुतस्य पीतये
4.48.3 अनु कृष्णे वसुधिती येमाते विश्वपेशसा ।वायवा चन्द्रेण रथेन याहि सुतस्य पीतये
4.48.4 वहन्तु त्वा मनोयुजो युक्तासो नवतिर्नव ।वायवा चन्द्रेण रथेन याहि सुतस्य पीतये
4.48.5 वायो शतं हरीणां युवस्व पोष्याणाम् ।उत वा ते सहस्रिणो रथ आ यातु पाजसा
सूक्तम् ४.४९ऋषिः: वामदेवो गौतमः । अनुक्रमणिका: दे. इन्द्राबृहस्पती। गायत्री
4.49.1 इदं वामास्ये हविः प्रियमिन्द्राबृहस्पती ।उक्थं मदश्च शस्यते
4.49.2 अयं वां परि षिच्यते सोम इन्द्राबृहस्पती ।चारुर्मदाय पीतये
4.49.3 आ न इन्द्राबृहस्पती गृहमिन्द्रश्च गच्छतम् ।सोमपा सोमपीतये
4.49.4 अस्मे इन्द्राबृहस्पती रयिं धत्तं शतग्विनम् ।अश्वावन्तं सहस्रिणम्
4.49.5 इन्द्राबृहस्पती वयं सुते गीर्भिर्हवामहे ।अस्य सोमस्य पीतये
4.49.6 सोममिन्द्राबृहस्पती पिबतं दाशुषो गृहे ।मादयेथां तदोकसा
सूक्तम् ४.५०ऋषिः: वामदेवो गौतमः । अनुक्रमणिका: दे. बृहस्पतिः, १०-११ इन्द्राबृहस्पती। त्रिष्टुप्, १० जगती
4.50.1 यस्तस्तम्भ सहसा वि ज्मो अन्तान्बृहस्पतिस्त्रिषधस्थो रवेण ।तं प्रत्नास ऋषयो दीध्यानाः पुरो विप्रा दधिरे मन्द्रजिह्वम्
4.50.2 धुनेतयः सुप्रकेतं मदन्तो बृहस्पते अभि ये नस्ततस्रे ।पृषन्तं सृप्रमदब्धमूर्वं बृहस्पते रक्षतादस्य योनिम्
4.50.3 बृहस्पते या परमा परावदत आ त ऋतस्पृशो नि षेदुः ।तुभ्यं खाता अवता अद्रिदुग्धा मध्व श्चोतन्त्यभितो विरप्शम्
4.50.4 बृहस्पतिः प्रथमं जायमानो महो ज्योतिषः परमे व्योमन् ।सप्तास्यस्तुविजातो रवेण वि सप्तरश्मिरधमत्तमांसि
4.50.5 स सुष्टुभा स ऋक्वता गणेन वलं रुरोज फलिगं रवेण ।बृहस्पतिरुस्रिया हव्यसूदः कनिक्रदद्वावशतीरुदाजत्
4.50.6 एवा पित्रे विश्वदेवाय वृष्णे यज्ञैर्विधेम नमसा हविर्भिः ।बृहस्पते सुप्रजा वीरवन्तो वयं स्याम पतयो रयीणाम्
4.50.7 स इद्राजा प्रतिजन्यानि विश्वा शुष्मेण तस्थावभि वीर्येण ।बृहस्पतिं यः सुभृतं बिभर्ति वल्गूयति वन्दते पूर्वभाजम्
4.50.8 स इत्क्षेति सुधित ओकसि स्वे तस्मा इळा पिन्वते विश्वदानीम् ।तस्मै विशः स्वयमेवा नमन्ते यस्मिन्ब्रह्मा राजनि पूर्व एति
4.50.9 अप्रतीतो जयति सं धनानि प्रतिजन्यान्युत या सजन्या ।अवस्यवे यो वरिवः कृणोति ब्रह्मणे राजा तमवन्ति देवाः
4.50.10 इन्द्रश्च सोमं पिबतं बृहस्पतेऽस्मिन्यज्ञे मन्दसाना वृषण्वसू ।आ वां विशन्त्विन्दवः स्वाभुवोऽस्मे रयिं सर्ववीरं नि यच्छतम्
4.50.11 बृहस्पत इन्द्र वर्धतं नः सचा सा वां सुमतिर्भूत्वस्मे ।अविष्टं धियो जिगृतं पुरंधीर्जजस्तमर्यो वनुषामरातीः
सूक्तम् ४.५१ऋषिः: वामदेवो गौतमः । अनुक्रमणिका: दे. उषाः। त्रिष्टुप्
4.51.1 इदमु त्यत्पुरुतमं पुरस्ताज्ज्योतिस्तमसो वयुनावदस्थात् ।नूनं दिवो दुहितरो विभातीर्गातुं कृणवन्नुषसो जनाय
4.51.2 अस्थुरु चित्रा उषसः पुरस्तान्मिता इव स्वरवोऽध्वरेषु ।व्यू व्रजस्य तमसो द्वारोच्छन्तीरव्रञ्छुचयः पावकाः
4.51.3 उच्छन्तीरद्य चितयन्त भोजान्राधोदेयायोषसो मघोनीः ।अचित्रे अन्तः पणयः ससन्त्वबुध्यमानास्तमसो विमध्ये
4.51.4 कुवित्स देवीः सनयो नवो वा यामो बभूयादुषसो वो अद्य ।येना नवग्वे अङ्गिरे दशग्वे सप्तास्ये रेवती रेवदूष
4.51.5 यूयं हि देवीरृतयुग्भिरश्वैः परिप्रयाथ भुवनानि सद्यः ।प्रबोधयन्तीरुषसः ससन्तं द्विपाच्चतुष्पाच्चरथाय जीवम्
4.51.6 क्व स्विदासां कतमा पुराणी यया विधाना विदधुरृभूणाम् ।शुभं यच्छुभ्रा उषसश्चरन्ति न वि ज्ञायन्ते सदृशीरजुर्याः
4.51.7 ता घा ता भद्रा उषसः पुरासुरभिष्टिद्युम्ना ऋतजातसत्याः ।यास्वीजानः शशमान उक्थै स्तुवञ्छंसन्द्रविणं सद्य आप
4.51.8 ता आ चरन्ति समना पुरस्तात्समानतः समना पप्रथानाः ।ऋतस्य देवीः सदसो बुधाना गवां न सर्गा उषसो जरन्ते
4.51.9 ता इन्न्वेव समना समानीरमीतवर्णा उषसश्चरन्ति ।गूहन्तीरभ्वमसितं रुशद्भिः शुक्रास्तनूभिः शुचयो रुचानाः
4.51.10 रयिं दिवो दुहितरो विभातीः प्रजावन्तं यच्छतास्मासु देवीः ।स्योनादा वः प्रतिबुध्यमानाः सुवीर्यस्य पतयः स्याम
4.51.11 तद्वो दिवो दुहितरो विभातीरुप ब्रुव उषसो यज्ञकेतुः ।वयं स्याम यशसो जनेषु तद्द्यौश्च धत्तां पृथिवी च देवी
सूक्तम् ४.५२ऋषिः: वामदेवो गौतमः । अनुक्रमणिका: दे. उषाः। गायत्री
4.52.1 प्रति ष्या सूनरी जनी व्युच्छन्ती परि स्वसुः ।दिवो अदर्शि दुहिता
4.52.2 अश्वेव चित्रारुषी माता गवामृतावरी ।सखाभूदश्विनोरुषाः
4.52.3 उत सखास्यश्विनोरुत माता गवामसि ।उतोषो वस्व ईशिषे
4.52.4 यावयद्द्वेषसं त्वा चिकित्वित्सूनृतावरि ।प्रति स्तोमैरभुत्स्महि
4.52.5 प्रति भद्रा अदृक्षत गवां सर्गा न रश्मयः ।ओषा अप्रा उरु ज्रयः
4.52.6 आपप्रुषी विभावरि व्यावर्ज्योतिषा तमः ।उषो अनु स्वधामव
4.52.7 आ द्यां तनोषि रश्मिभिरान्तरिक्षमुरु प्रियम् ।उषः शुक्रेण शोचिषा
सूक्तम् ४.५३ऋषिः: वामदेवो गौतमः । अनुक्रमणिका: दे. सविता। जगती।
4.53.1 तद्देवस्य सवितुर्वार्यं महद्वृणीमहे असुरस्य प्रचेतसः ।छर्दिर्येन दाशुषे यच्छति त्मना तन्नो महाँ उदयान्देवो अक्तुभिः
4.53.2 दिवो धर्ता भुवनस्य प्रजापतिः पिशङ्गं द्रापिं प्रति मुञ्चते कविः ।विचक्षणः प्रथयन्नापृणन्नुर्वजीजनत्सविता सुम्नमुक्थ्यम्
4.53.3 आप्रा रजांसि दिव्यानि पार्थिवा श्लोकं देवः कृणुते स्वाय धर्मणे ।प्र बाहू अस्राक्सविता सवीमनि निवेशयन्प्रसुवन्नक्तुभिर्जगत्
4.53.4 अदाभ्यो भुवनानि प्रचाकशद्व्रतानि देवः सविताभि रक्षते ।प्रास्राग्बाहू भुवनस्य प्रजाभ्यो धृतव्रतो महो अज्मस्य राजति
4.53.5 त्रिरन्तरिक्षं सविता महित्वना त्री रजांसि परिभुस्त्रीणि रोचना ।तिस्रो दिवः पृथिवीस्तिस्र इन्वति त्रिभिर्व्रतैरभि नो रक्षति त्मना
4.53.6 बृहत्सुम्नः प्रसवीता निवेशनो जगत स्थातुरुभयस्य यो वशी ।स नो देवः सविता शर्म यच्छत्वस्मे क्षयाय त्रिवरूथमंहसः
4.53.7 आगन्देव ऋतुभिर्वर्धतु क्षयं दधातु नः सविता सुप्रजामिषम् ।स नः क्षपाभिरहभिश्च जिन्वतु प्रजावन्तं रयिमस्मे समिन्वतु
सूक्तम् ४.५४ऋषिः: वामदेवो गौतमः । अनुक्रमणिका: दे. सविता।जगती, ६ त्रिष्टुप्
4.54.1 अभूद्देवः सविता वन्द्यो नु न इदानीमह्न उपवाच्यो नृभिः ।वि यो रत्ना भजति मानवेभ्यः श्रेष्ठं नो अत्र द्रविणं यथा दधत्
4.54.2 देवेभ्यो हि प्रथमं यज्ञियेभ्योऽमृतत्वं सुवसि भागमुत्तमम् ।आदिद्दामानं सवितर्व्यूर्णुषेऽनूचीना जीविता मानुषेभ्यः
4.54.3 अचित्ती यच्चकृमा दैव्ये जने दीनैर्दक्षैः प्रभूती पूरुषत्वता ।देवेषु च सवितर्मानुषेषु च त्वं नो अत्र सुवतादनागसः
4.54.4 न प्रमिये सवितुर्दैव्यस्य तद्यथा विश्वं भुवनं धारयिष्यति ।यत्पृथिव्या वरिमन्ना स्वङ्गुरिर्वर्ष्मन्दिवः सुवति सत्यमस्य तत्
4.54.5 इन्द्रज्येष्ठान्बृहद्भ्यः पर्वतेभ्यः क्षयाँ एभ्यः सुवसि पस्त्यावतः ।यथायथा पतयन्तो वियेमिर एवैव तस्थुः सवितः सवाय ते
4.54.6 ये ते त्रिरहन्सवितः सवासो दिवेदिवे सौभगमासुवन्ति ।इन्द्रो द्यावापृथिवी सिन्धुरद्भिरादित्यैर्नो अदितिः शर्म यंसत्
सूक्तम् ४.५५ऋषिः: वामदेवो गौतमः । अनुक्रमणिका: दे. विश्वे देवाः। त्रिष्टुप्, ८-१० गायत्री
4.55.1 को वस्त्राता वसवः को वरूता द्यावाभूमी अदिते त्रासीथां नः ।सहीयसो वरुण मित्र मर्तात्को वोऽध्वरे वरिवो धाति देवाः
4.55.2 प्र ये धामानि पूर्व्याण्यर्चान्वि यदुच्छान्वियोतारो अमूराः ।विधातारो वि ते दधुरजस्रा ऋतधीतयो रुरुचन्त दस्माः
4.55.3 प्र पस्त्यामदितिं सिन्धुमर्कैः स्वस्तिमीळे सख्याय देवीम् ।उभे यथा नो अहनी निपात उषासानक्ता करतामदब्धे
4.55.4 व्यर्यमा वरुणश्चेति पन्थामिषस्पतिः सुवितं गातुमग्निः ।इन्द्राविष्णू नृवदु षु स्तवाना शर्म नो यन्तममवद्वरूथम्
4.55.5 आ पर्वतस्य मरुतामवांसि देवस्य त्रातुरव्रि भगस्य ।पात्पतिर्जन्यादंहसो नो मित्रो मित्रियादुत न उरुष्येत्
4.55.6 नू रोदसी अहिना बुध्न्येन स्तुवीत देवी अप्येभिरिष्टैः ।समुद्रं न संचरणे सनिष्यवो घर्मस्वरसो नद्यो अप व्रन्
4.55.7 देवैर्नो देव्यदितिर्नि पातु देवस्त्राता त्रायतामप्रयुच्छन् ।नहि मित्रस्य वरुणस्य धासिमर्हामसि प्रमियं सान्वग्नेः
4.55.8 अग्निरीशे वसव्यस्याग्निर्महः सौभगस्य ।तान्यस्मभ्यं रासते
4.55.9 उषो मघोन्या वह सूनृते वार्या पुरु ।अस्मभ्यं वाजिनीवति
4.55.10 तत्सु नः सविता भगो वरुणो मित्रो अर्यमा ।इन्द्रो नो राधसा गमत्
सूक्तम् ४.५६ऋषिः: वामदेवो गौतमः । अनुक्रमणिका: दे. द्यावापृथिवी। त्रिष्टुप्, ५-७ गायत्री
4.56.1 मही द्यावापृथिवी इह ज्येष्ठे रुचा भवतां शुचयद्भिरर्कैः ।यत्सीं वरिष्ठे बृहती विमिन्वन्रुवद्धोक्षा पप्रथानेभिरेवैः
4.56.2 देवी देवेभिर्यजते यजत्रैरमिनती तस्थतुरुक्षमाणे ।ऋतावरी अद्रुहा देवपुत्रे यज्ञस्य नेत्री शुचयद्भिरर्कैः
4.56.3 स इत्स्वपा भुवनेष्वास य इमे द्यावापृथिवी जजान ।उर्वी गभीरे रजसी सुमेके अवंशे धीरः शच्या समैरत्
4.56.4 नू रोदसी बृहद्भिर्नो वरूथैः पत्नीवद्भिरिषयन्ती सजोषाः ।उरूची विश्वे यजते नि पातं धिया स्याम रथ्यः सदासाः
4.56.5 प्र वां महि द्यवी अभ्युपस्तुतिं भरामहे ।शुची उप प्रशस्तये
4.56.6 पुनाने तन्वा मिथः स्वेन दक्षेण राजथः ।ऊह्याथे सनादृतम्
4.56.7 मही मित्रस्य साधथस्तरन्ती पिप्रती ऋतम् ।परि यज्ञं नि षेदथुः
सूक्तम् ४.५७ऋषिः: वामदेवो गौतमः । अनुक्रमणिका: दे. १-३ क्षेत्रपतिः, ४ शुनः, ५, ८ शुनासीरौ, ६-७ सीता। अनुष्टुप्, ५ पुर उष्णिक्, २,३,८ त्रिष्टुप्
4.57.1 क्षेत्रस्य पतिना वयं हितेनेव जयामसि ।गामश्वं पोषयित्न्वा स नो मृळातीदृशे
4.57.2 क्षेत्रस्य पते मधुमन्तमूर्मिं धेनुरिव पयो अस्मासु धुक्ष्व ।मधुश्चुतं घृतमिव सुपूतमृतस्य नः पतयो मृळयन्तु
4.57.3 मधुमतीरोषधीर्द्याव आपो मधुमन्नो भवत्वन्तरिक्षम् ।क्षेत्रस्य पतिर्मधुमान्नो अस्त्वरिष्यन्तो अन्वेनं चरेम
4.57.4 शुनं वाहाः शुनं नरः शुनं कृषतु लाङ्गलम् ।शुनं वरत्रा बध्यन्तां शुनमष्ट्रामुदिङ्गय
4.57.5 शुनासीराविमां वाचं जुषेथां यद्दिवि चक्रथुः पयः ।तेनेमामुप सिञ्चतम्
4.57.6 अर्वाची सुभगे भव सीते वन्दामहे त्वा ।यथा नः सुभगाससि यथा नः सुफलाससि
4.57.7 इन्द्रः सीतां नि गृह्णातु तां पूषानु यच्छतु ।सा नः पयस्वती दुहामुत्तरामुत्तरां समाम्
4.57.8 शुनं नः फाला वि कृषन्तु भूमिं शुनं कीनाशा अभि यन्तु वाहैः ।शुनं पर्जन्यो मधुना पयोभिः शुनासीरा शुनमस्मासु धत्तम्
सूक्तम् ४.५८ऋषिः: वामदेवो गौतमः । अनुक्रमणिका: दे. अग्निः, सूर्यो वाऽऽपो वा गावो वा घृतस्तुतिर्वा। त्रिष्टुप्, ११ जगती
4.58.1 समुद्रादूर्मिर्मधुमाँ उदारदुपांशुना सममृतत्वमानट् ।घृतस्य नाम गुह्यं यदस्ति जिह्वा देवानाममृतस्य नाभिः
4.58.2 वयं नाम प्र ब्रवामा घृतस्यास्मिन्यज्ञे धारयामा नमोभिः ।उप ब्रह्मा शृणवच्छस्यमानं चतुःशृङ्गोऽवमीद्गौर एतत्
4.58.3 चत्वारि शृङ्गा त्रयो अस्य पादा द्वे शीर्षे सप्त हस्तासो अस्य ।त्रिधा बद्धो वृषभो रोरवीति महो देवो मर्त्याँ आ विवेश
4.58.4 त्रिधा हितं पणिभिर्गुह्यमानं गवि देवासो घृतमन्वविन्दन् ।इन्द्र एकं सूर्य एकं जजान वेनादेकं स्वधया निष्टतक्षुः
4.58.5 एता अर्षन्ति हृद्यात्समुद्राच्छतव्रजा रिपुणा नावचक्षे ।घृतस्य धारा अभि चाकशीमि हिरण्ययो वेतसो मध्य आसाम्
4.58.6 सम्यक्स्रवन्ति सरितो न धेना अन्तर्हृदा मनसा पूयमानाः ।एते अर्षन्त्यूर्मयो घृतस्य मृगा इव क्षिपणोरीषमाणाः
4.58.7 सिन्धोरिव प्राध्वने शूघनासो वातप्रमियः पतयन्ति यह्वाः ।घृतस्य धारा अरुषो न वाजी काष्ठा भिन्दन्नूर्मिभिः पिन्वमानः
4.58.8 अभि प्रवन्त समनेव योषाः कल्याण्यः स्मयमानासो अग्निम् ।घृतस्य धाराः समिधो नसन्त ता जुषाणो हर्यति जातवेदाः
4.58.9 कन्या इव वहतुमेतवा उ अञ्ज्यञ्जाना अभि चाकशीमि ।यत्र सोमः सूयते यत्र यज्ञो घृतस्य धारा अभि तत्पवन्ते
4.58.10 अभ्यर्षत सुष्टुतिं गव्यमाजिमस्मासु भद्रा द्रविणानि धत्त ।इमं यज्ञं नयत देवता नो घृतस्य धारा मधुमत्पवन्ते
4.58.11 धामन्ते विश्वं भुवनमधि श्रितमन्तः समुद्रे हृद्यन्तरायुषि ।अपामनीके समिथे य आभृतस्तमश्याम मधुमन्तं त ऊर्मिम्
Musean translation
Mouseia’s complete machine-assisted Musean translation, made directly from the Vedic Sanskrit, passage for passage, covering all ten mandalas, 1,028 hymns and 10,552 verses.
Hymn 4.1 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: Agni; verses 2–5 alternatively Agni and Varuna. Meter: Trishtubh; verse 1 Ashti; verse 2 Atijagati; verse 3 Dhriti.
4.1.1 For you, Agni, the gods in their accord appointed a godly messenger forever; by their wisdom they appointed you.The immortal one for mortals to worship: god brought forth god, discerning in all things, god brought forth god, discerning in all things.
4.1.2 So turn your brother Varuna here, Agni, with gracious thought toward the gods, the eldest who wins sacrifice.The Aditya faithful to Truth, king who sustains the peoples, sustainer of peoples.
4.1.3 Friend, bring your friend here swiftly, like a chariot rider brings his wheel, wondrous one, swiftly to us.Agni, find mercy with Varuna and the Maruts radiant everywhere.Shining one, bring well-being to our children and offspring; wondrous one, bring us well-being.
4.1.4 Knowing the divine Varuna, Agni, drive his anger far away from us.Most fit to worship, best bearer, blazing, release us from every hatred.
4.1.5 Agni, be our closest help at the breaking of this dawn.Delightfully turn Varuna from his anger at us; seek his grace and be easy for us to call.
4.1.6 This blessed god's appearance is the loveliest among mortals,Pure as heated ghee from the inviolate cow's udder, desirable as the divine cow's gift.
4.1.7 Agni has three highest births, true, worthy of the god.Within the boundless he came adorned, pure, shining, noble, radiant.
4.1.8 The messenger reaches into every dwelling, golden-charioted Hotar with a lively tongue.With red horses, beautiful and shining, forever delightful in the food-rich assembly.
4.1.9 He rouses men, bound to the rite; they lead him forth with the great cord.He dwells in their houses, accomplishing his work; the god has come to share the mortal's gain.
4.1.10 Let this Agni lead us, knowing, toward the treasure assigned him by the gods,Which all immortals fashioned in thought, which heaven the father and begetter showered down in truth.
4.1.11 He is born first in dwellings, at the great foundation, in this birthplace of space.Without feet or head, he hides his end, turning in the bull's lair.
4.1.12 The foremost host rang out, discerning, in Truth's birthplace, the bull's lair.Desirable, young, beautiful, shining, seven beloved mothers gave birth to the bull.
4.1.13 Here our human fathers approached, eager for Truth.They found the fine-milking cows in a stone enclosure and drove out the red ones, calling the dawns.
4.1.14 They cleared the mountain when they saw it; others among them spoke all around it.The cattle-seekers sang to the maker, found the light, and shaped it with their thoughts.
4.1.15 With minds eager for cows, they approached the firm, closed mountain hemming in the herd.The eager men opened by godly speech that strong, cow-rich enclosure.
4.1.16 They recalled the cow's first name and found the mother's thrice-seven highest names.Knowing them, they sang toward the pens; the ruddy cows appeared with their glory.
4.1.17 Darkness vanished and the sky shone; the radiance of divine dawn rose high.The sun mounted heaven's vast plains, seeing straightness and crookedness among mortals.
4.1.18 Then those awakened later saw; they held the treasure allotted by heaven.Let Truth be ours, Mitra and Varuna, in all the dwellings of all the gods.
4.1.19 I would praise blazing Agni, Hotar who bears all, most fit to worship.He broke through the cow's pure udder, as pressed soma is strained and poured.
4.1.20 Aditi of all who sacrifice, guest of all humankind,Agni, choosing the gods' protection, may Jatavedas be gracious.
Hymn 4.2 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: Agni. Meter: Trishtubh.
4.2.1 The immortal among mortals, faithful to Truth, set as divine messenger among gods,Agni, greatest Hotar, is urged to shine in his greatness and to move men with offerings.
4.2.2 Born here today, son of strength, you move between both kinds of beings, Agni.You go as a messenger, lofty one, yoking both the straight-backed and strong and the shining ones.
4.2.3 Your red, ghee-streaming racers, advancing and swift in thought, I think of as Truth itself.You travel between, yoking the ruddy ones, the gods and the mortal peoples.
4.2.4 Aryaman, Varuna, Mitra, Indra and Vishnu, the Maruts and Ashvins:Bring them to the generous giver, Agni, with fine steeds and a lovely chariot.
4.2.5 Rich in cows, sheep, and horses, may our sacrifice have brave men as friends, never to be forgotten.Rich in Ila, offspring, and long life, divine lord, may its broad-founded wealth fill the assembly.
4.2.6 For the man who brings your firewood, Agni, sweating, or heats his head in service to you,Be a protector in your own might; save him from every evildoer.
4.2.7 The man who brings you food though needing it himself, who settles the delightful guest and praises him,Kindles you, seeking the gods, in his house: let firm, generous wealth be his.
4.2.8 The man who praises you at evening and dawn, or makes you dear with his offerings,Like a golden horse in his own house: carry that giver through distress.
4.2.9 The man who gives to you, immortal Agni, and serves with his ladle raised,Let him not lose the riches he has gained; let no evildoer's harm hem him in.
4.2.10 When you, Agni, as god, gladly accept a mortal's well-ordered rite,Let the priestly work please you, youngest one; may we strengthen the man who worships you.
4.2.11 Discerning, distinguish wisdom from folly, as men tell the open places from crooked ground.God, give us wealth and good offspring; grant us what may be divided, and guard undivided Aditi.
4.2.12 The unfailing poets guided the poet, keeping him in men's houses.From there, Agni, you can see these wondrous ones with your feet, noble one, upon your journeys.
4.2.13 Agni, you are good guidance to the singer, youngest one, who presses soma and gives.Bring broad, shining treasure to the bold singer for aid, you who fill the peoples.
4.2.14 Then, Agni, seeking you with our feet, hands, and bodies,Like builders of a chariot, the wise workers strove to make their way to Truth.
4.2.15 Then may we be the first of the seven seers born of Dawn our mother, creators of men;May we be Angirases, sons of heaven, and break the treasure-bearing mountain with light.
4.2.16 Then, as our distant, ancient fathers sought Truth, Agni,The hymn-commanding ones came shining in thought, broke the earth, and opened the ruddy cows' pen.
4.2.17 Doing good works, shining, seeking gods, forging divine births as if from iron,They made Agni and Indra blaze and grow; surrounding the cattle-rich expanse, they entered.
4.2.18 Like a noisy herd of cattle he appeared when he knew the fierce births of the gods.He made even mortals broad in power, and brought increase to the noble man who came later.
4.2.19 We have done your work, skilled one, and attained Truth; the radiant dawns have spread.They have adorned Agni, undiminished, bright in many forms, the beautiful eye of the god.
4.2.20 These words we have spoken to you, inspired Agni; accept them, seer.Blaze upward, make us richer; grant us vast wealth in many forms, beloved of all.
Hymn 4.3 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: Agni; verse 1 Rudra. Meter: Trishtubh.
4.3.1 Call here the king of the rite, Rudra, Hotar who sacrifices truly between the two worlds;Call for help Agni, golden-formed, who stood before the thunder's first sound.
4.3.2 We have made this birthplace for you, like a well-dressed wife who longs for her husband.Come near, sit down, adorned; these songs face you, master of purification.
4.3.3 I praise with song the god who hears and is never arrogant, watcher of men, gracious creator,The immortal one, like a pressing stone that pours out honey.
4.3.4 Agni, know this hymn of ours, in accord with Truth, faithful to Truth and wise in mind.When will your hymns be shared in feast? When will friendship flourish in your house?
4.3.5 How will you speak of our fault to Varuna, Agni, and how to heaven?How will you tell Mitra, bountiful earth, Aryaman, and Bhaga?
4.3.6 When, Agni, growing amid bright places, will you speak to the wind, swift and beautiful?When to far-ranging Nasatya and the guardian of dwellings, and when to Rudra, killer of men?
4.3.7 When to great, nourishing Pushan, when to Rudra of the gracious sacrifice?When will you speak to far-ranging Vishnu of seed, Agni, and when to the great arrow?
4.3.8 How will you answer the Marut host, faithful to Truth, how the great sun when asked?Answer Aditi, swift one; succeed, discerning Jatavedas born of heaven.
4.3.9 By Truth I praise the Truth drawn near from the cow, Agni, the honeyed ripe milk.Though dark, with shining nourishment she swells with the milk of our kindred life.
4.3.10 For by Truth the bull, male Agni, is anointed with milk upon his back.Without stirring he moved, giver of life; the bright bull milked Prishni's udder.
4.3.11 With Truth the Angirases broke the mountain open and called out with the cows.The men gathered around Dawn for good fortune; when Agni was born, sunlight appeared.
4.3.12 By Truth the divine immortal waters, unhurt, send their honeyed floods, Agni.Like a racehorse surging in its course, they always pour forth to stream onward.
4.3.13 Let me not bear another's debt, whether of a god, a household's betrayer, or a kinsman.Let me not bear the debt of an unjust brother, Agni, or suffer the skill of a treacherous friend.
4.3.14 Protect us with your protections, Agni, watchful, gracious and pleased.Turn back the blow, break firm distress; strike the demon, however great it grows.
4.3.15 Be gracious with these songs, Agni; touch these prizes with these thoughts, warrior.Accept the prayers of the Angirases; let your godward praise ring forth.
4.3.16 These secret guides and hidden words I have sung to you, knowing one, Agni,The poets' intimations to the poet, the sage's hymns inspired by thought.
Hymn 4.4 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: Agni, destroyer of demons. Meter: Trishtubh.
4.4.1 Unleash your power as a wide net; march like a mighty king with his elephant.Speed after your swift-cast net, archer; pierce the demons with your fiercest darts.
4.4.2 Your wandering flames fly swiftly; touch every place, blazing boldly.Agni, with your tongue cast out flying brands of heat; unbound, scatter firebrands everywhere.
4.4.3 Send out watchers, swiftest one; be the unfailing guardian of this people.Let no slanderer far away or nearby, Agni, dare injure you.
4.4.4 Rise, Agni; spread out against them; burn our enemies with your sharp weapons.Whoever kindled enmity against us, burn him low as dry wood.
4.4.5 Stand upright and shoot away from us; make your divine powers visible, Agni.Loosen the hard strength of sorcerers; crush foes, whether kindred or strangers.
4.4.6 He knows your good will, youngest one, who yearns and opens a path to prayer.Let all bright days, riches, and glorious dwellings shine open for him.
4.4.7 Blessed and generous be the man who with constant offerings and hymnsStrives to please you in his own life and home, Agni; let every day bring him blessing.
4.4.8 I sing your favor aloud, calling it near; may this song, beloved of you, grow old with you.With good horses and fine chariots may we honor you; hold sovereignty among us day after day.
4.4.9 Here may many approach you at evening and dawn, blazing day by day.With hearts glad at play may we serve you, standing amid men's glories.
4.4.10 The man with fine horses and golden wealth who comes to you in a treasure-laden chariot, Agni:You are his protector and friend, the one who welcomes your presence as guest.
4.4.11 With words of kinship I break through great silence; this has come to me from my father Gotama.Heed these words of ours, wise and youngest Hotar, master of the house.
4.4.12 Sleepless, swift, gracious, tireless, without malice, never growing weary,May these guards sit together and watch over us for you, Agni, unfailing one.
4.4.13 Those guards of yours, Agni, watched over Mamata's son and protected the blind man from evil.The knower of all good works protected them; hostile plotters could not deceive them.
4.4.14 With you as our ally, protected by you, following your guidance, may we win prizes.Bring both our pleas to fulfillment in truth; accomplish them as asked, undaunted one.
4.4.15 With this kindling we worship you, Agni; receive the hymn offered before you.Burn the demon slanderers; protect us from deceit, abuse, and a friend's betraying hand.
Hymn 4.5 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: Agni Vaishvanara. Meter: Trishtubh.
4.5.1 How shall we, united, give to generous Vaishvanara Agni, shining broadly?He props up the barrier with an unstinted, mighty supporting force.
4.5.2 Let no one scorn this gift which the self-possessed god gave to me, a mortal.Wise among the simple, immortal and discerning, Vaishvanara Agni, mightiest man.
4.5.3 Great, sharp-edged, thousand-seeded, powerful bull, with two couches,Agni found the cow's hidden footprint and has told me his insight.
4.5.4 Let Agni, with sharp jaws and fiercest flame, devour the ones who transgressVaruna's ordinances and break dear Mitra's lasting rules.
4.5.5 Without brothers, like women apart from their husbands; without a lord, like wives in an evil house,Being wicked, false and untrue, they begot this profound dwelling.
4.5.6 For me, Agni, this thought seems too great, like a heavy weight I cannot lift, purifier.You hold the vast, deep, far-reaching height on its sevenfold foundation by your bold strength.
4.5.7 Let thought purify and reach him in the same gathering with one wisdom.Upon the sleeping cow's hide, at the front, the bright form of Prishni lies concealed.
4.5.8 What should I say of this word of mine? They speak in riddles of the thing hidden away.When he uncovered the cow's waters, he guarded the dear, foremost footprint of the bird.
4.5.9 This is that great, mighty countenance which the ancient cow attends with her rays;Shining at the station of Truth, the swift one swiftly found what lay hidden.
4.5.10 Then blazing beside his two parents, he followed the secret beauty of the dappled one;At the mother's highest station, near the cow, rested the tongue of the eager bull's flame.
4.5.11 Asked with reverence, I shall speak the truth, O all-knowing Agni, through hope in you:You govern all that exists, the wealth in heaven and the wealth upon earth.
4.5.12 What is its wealth, and what its treasure? Tell us clearly, all-knowing one, who understands.We have not reached its hidden, remotest path, its distant station or its foundations.
4.5.13 What is the boundary, what the pattern, what is lovely? May we rush toward the prize like swift runners.When will the divine Dawns, brides of immortality, spread their color for us in the sun?
4.5.14 With worthless speech, insubstantial and deceitful, the hungry and the stunted approach.What can they say to you here, Agni? Let the unarmed sit down and keep company.
4.5.15 For the splendor of this kindled bull, the gracious one's face has shone in the house;Clothed in brightness, beautiful to behold, he shines like a dwelling rich in abundance.
Hymn 4.6 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: Agni. Meter: Trishtubh.
4.6.1 Rise high for us, Agni, priest of sacrifice, most worthy to worship at the gathering of gods;For you encompass every prayer and are the inspired thought of the wise.
4.6.2 The unerring priest Agni has sat among the peoples, joyful and discerning at their assemblies;Like Savitar he raises his light, and like a pillar holds his smoke against the sky.
4.6.3 Moving richly, giving gifts, dripping with ghee, he advances clockwise toward the gods;The beam rises, newborn, reaching the vault, well-kindled and beautiful, anointing the beast.
4.6.4 With the ritual grass spread and Agni kindled, the priest stands upright, taking pleasure in the rite;Agni circles as guardian of cattle and priest, traversing the threefold realm, reaching toward the primal heavens.
4.6.5 The joyful priest Agni moves round by himself, measuring the wood, honey-voiced and true to Truth;His flames run like horses; all beings tremble when he blazes forth.
4.6.6 Lovely is the sight of your shining face, Agni; though terrible and far-ranging, you are beautiful;No darkness can enfold your flame, nor can those who would harm you stain your body.
4.6.7 No one has barred his birth from his begetters, not even his mother and father, though they sought him;Then Agni, pure and well established like Mitra, shone among the human peoples.
4.6.8 The ten sisters, dwelling together, brought Agni to birth among the human peoples,Awakening at dawn, like a biting beast, shining and keen-edged as an axe.
4.6.9 Yours, Agni, are those golden, ghee-bathed, red horses, straight-running, beautiful;The ruddy, powerful, straight-limbed ones have summoned the wondrous one to the gathering of gods.
4.6.10 Those are your conquering, tireless, fierce flames, Agni, moving forth;Like falcons seeking their goal, resounding loudly like the host of Maruts.
4.6.11 A prayer has been made for you, kindled one; the hymn praises you, worshipful one: shine forth.Men seated Agni as priest; the eager ones honored him with the song of the living.
Hymn 4.7 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: Agni. Meter: Trishtubh, Jagati (1), Anushtubh (2–6).
4.7.1 Here the founders first established him, the priest most worthy of praise at sacrifices;Apnavana and the Bhrigus kindled him in the woods, the brilliant, far-reaching one for every clan.
4.7.2 Agni, when will your divine understanding be continuously present?For mortals have embraced you, worthy of praise among the peoples.
4.7.3 Seeing him, true to Truth and discerning, like heaven adorned with stars,The maker of all sacrifices, in every home.
4.7.4 They brought the swift messenger of Vivasvat, who reaches every people,The sign to human beings, the child of the Bhrigus, from clan to clan.
4.7.5 They seated him as priest in due order, the knowing one,Delightful, with purifying flames, most worshipful in his seven stations.
4.7.6 Him hidden among his perpetual mothers, sheltered in the wood,Brilliant yet concealed, well-known to anyone who seeks him.
4.7.7 When the gods rejoiced in the womb of Truth, in his own parted udder,Great Agni, honored with homage and offerings, will ever come, true to Truth, to the sacrifice.
4.7.8 Knowing the errands of sacrifice, comprehending both limits of heaven and earth,You journey as messenger, reaching from the primal sky, knowing the ascents of heaven best.
4.7.9 Your dark track lies before your bright splendor; your moving flame is one among all your forms;When the unkindled ones bear their embryo, from the moment of birth you become messenger.
4.7.10 The newborn's strength is seen when the wind blows upon his flame;He twists his pointed tongue among dry grasses and devours even solid food with parted jaws.
4.7.11 When the mighty Agni swiftly carries swift food, he makes a swift messenger;Driving hard he follows the wind's path, urged on like a swift horse toward the prize.
Hymn 4.8 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: Agni. Meter: Gayatri.
4.8.1 With song I adorn your messenger, all-knowing,Immortal carrier of oblations, most worthy of worship.
4.8.2 For he knows where treasure lies, the great ascent of heaven;He will bring the gods here.
4.8.3 This god knows the way to the gods in the home of the seeker of Truth;He gives even precious wealth.
4.8.4 He, the priest, discerning, journeys between on his errand,Knowing the ascent of heaven.
4.8.5 May we be among those who give to Agni with gifts of oblation,Who nourish and kindle him.
4.8.6 They become renowned through riches and heroic sons,Those who establish worship in Agni.
4.8.7 May much-desired riches come to us day by day;May prizes flow toward us.
4.8.8 He is the inspired one among human peoples;With his strength he pierces through like a swift dart.
Hymn 4.9 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: Agni. Meter: Gayatri.
4.9.1 Have mercy, Agni, great are you, who have come to this god-seeking peopleTo sit upon the ritual grass.
4.9.2 Unassailable among human clans, immortal, you protect;Be the messenger of them all.
4.9.3 He is led around the dwelling, the joyful priest, at heavenly rites;He sits as purifier too.
4.9.4 Agni is also the lady of sacrifice, and the master of the house at home;He sits as the reciter too.
4.9.5 You draw near those who perform the rite, spokesman for the peoples,And bearer of the oblations of mortals.
4.9.6 You fulfill the errand of the one whose sacrifice you favor,To carry a mortal's oblation.
4.9.7 Favor our sacrifice, Angiras, our offering;Listen to our call.
4.9.8 May your unassailable chariot reach us from every side,The chariot with which you protect the giver.
Hymn 4.10 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: Agni. Meter: Pankti, Ushnih (4, 6–8), Mahapankti (5).
4.10.1 Agni, with songs today may we attain your heart-touching strength,Fine as a horse and noble as resolve, through offerings to you.
4.10.2 For you, Agni, have become the charioteer of great Truth,Of gracious purpose and capable judgment.
4.10.3 With these praises come toward us, be our light like the sun,Agni, gracious with all your faces.
4.10.4 With these songs we praise you today and offer to you, Agni;Your powers thunder forth like heaven.
4.10.5 Sweetest is the sight of you, Agni, by day and in the night;Near at hand you shine for splendor like a golden ornament.
4.10.6 Your body is pure as clarified ghee, unblemished, clean as gold;That brilliance shines like an ornament, self-possessed one.
4.10.7 For you drive away even ancient hatred from a mortal, Agni;So do you for the worshiper, true to Truth.
4.10.8 May our friendship with you and your divine brothers be auspicious, Agni;May it be our navel in the dwelling, in the common udder.
Hymn 4.11 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: Agni. Meter: Trishtubh.
4.11.1 Blessed is your face, mighty Agni, shining near the sun;Bright to behold, it appears even at night, food set before the eye, unconsumed.
4.11.2 Accept the singer's insight, Agni, opening a path with your trembling force, much-born and praised;What you have won with all the shining gods, grant us, great one, in abundant inspiration.
4.11.3 From you, Agni, come poems, from you insights, from you hymns worthy of fulfillment;From you comes wealth adorned with heroes for the mortal who offers with devotion.
4.11.4 From you springs the prize-bearing steed, far-ranging, true in strength and giver of aid;From you god-sent riches that bring joy; from you the swift and eager racehorse, Agni.
4.11.5 You, god Agni, immortal and sweet-tongued, mortals seeking gods first welcome with their thoughts,Free of hatred, master of the house, never bewildered.
4.11.6 Far from us be want, far be distress, far all ill will, when you protect us;Blessed at night, son of strength, Agni, you attend even the man a god favors with well-being.
Hymn 4.12 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: Agni. Meter: Trishtubh.
4.12.1 Whoever kindles you, Agni, holding his ladle ready, and makes you food three times each day,May he prevail in glory and success, discerning through your wisdom, all-knowing one.
4.12.2 He who labors to bring you kindling, worshiping your great face, Agni,Feeding your fire at dusk and dawn, gains thriving riches and defeats his foes.
4.12.3 Agni rules over great sovereignty, Agni over the highest prize of wealth;The ever-young, self-governed one bestows treasure on the worshiping mortal without interruption.
4.12.4 If through human frailty, youngest one, we have committed any offense through ignorance,Make us innocent before Aditi; loosen our offenses on all sides, Agni.
4.12.5 Even from great offense, Agni, in the presence of gods and mortals, from the wide danger,Let us not forever lose your friendship; grant peace and welfare to our children and descendants.
4.12.6 As you Vasus, worshipful ones, once released even a cow caught by its foot,So release us from distress; prolong our lives further, Agni.
Hymn 4.13 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: Agni. Meter: Trishtubh.
4.13.1 Agni has faced the forefront of the brightening Dawns, favorably disposed toward the giving of treasures;Come, Ashvins, makers of good, to our house by chariot; the divine sun rises with light.
4.13.2 The god Savitar has lifted his radiance, a glittering drop, like a hero seeking cattle;Varuna and Mitra follow their ordinance as they raise the sun into heaven.
4.13.3 The sun whom they made to part the darkness, seeking their goal, unwavering in their stations,Is carried by seven mighty golden mares, the watcher of all that moves.
4.13.4 With your strongest team you travel, unwinding the black thread, divine one, the dark covering;The sun's trembling rays have cast away darkness as if a hide into the waters.
4.13.5 Unsupported, unbound, how does he not fall down headfirst?By what self-power does he travel? Who has seen? The pillar of heaven supports the vault together.
Hymn 4.14 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: Agni. Meter: Trishtubh.
4.14.1 All-knowing god Agni has faced the shining Dawns in their splendor;Come to this sacrifice of ours, wide-ranging Ashvins, in your chariot.
4.14.2 The god Savitar has lifted his banner, making light for the whole world;The sun fills heaven, earth and midair, manifest in his rays.
4.14.3 The ruddy one has come with light, vast, wondrous, manifest in her rays;Awakening us to good fortune, divine Ushas travels in her well-yoked chariot.
4.14.4 Let your fleetest horses bring you here on their chariot at the breaking of dawn;These soma draughts are ready for you to drink as honey; strong ones, delight in this sacrifice.
4.14.5 Unsupported, unbound, how does he not fall down headfirst?By what self-power does he travel? Who has seen? The pillar of heaven supports the vault together.
Hymn 4.15 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: Agni, Somaka Sahadevya (7–8), the Ashvins (9–10). Meter: Gayatri.
4.15.1 Agni, our priest at the sacrifice, is led around like a prize-winning horse,A god worthy of worship among gods.
4.15.2 Agni travels the threefold sacrifice as a charioteer,Carrying refreshment to the gods.
4.15.3 Agni, lord of the prize and seer, has passed among the oblations,Setting treasures before the giver.
4.15.4 This is he whom Daivavata kindles before the Srinjayas,Bright, crusher of enemies.
4.15.5 The mortal blessed with this Agni, the generous one of sharp jaws,Will have power over heroes.
4.15.6 They polish him day by day like a winning horse,Like the ruddy child of heaven.
4.15.7 Somaka, the son of Sahadeva, awakened me with his two bay horses,Summoning me to his presence.
4.15.8 And those two worshipful bays from prince SahadevyaI accepted at once when they were presented.
4.15.9 O divine Ashvins, may this prince Somaka,Son of Sahadeva, enjoy a long life.
4.15.10 Divine Ashvins, grant that prince,The son of Sahadeva, a long life.
Hymn 4.16 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: Indra. Meter: Trishtubh.
4.16.1 Let truthful, generous Indra come, strong with pressed soma; let his bay horses race toward us;We have pressed this draught for him with skill; let him, praised, take delight here.
4.16.2 Hero, leave the far end of the road and rejoice in our pressing today;Like the wise Ushanas, he chants the hymn, an inspired thought for one who knows divine power.
4.16.3 Like a poet discovering the secret, accomplishing sacred assemblies, the bull sings, drinking the flowing stream;Thus he brought forth the seven singers from heaven, who by day made sacred designs and sang.
4.16.4 When the sun was found, fair to behold through hymns, when great lights shone in the day,He made the blind darkness visible to men, the greatest hero bringing aid.
4.16.5 Indra, powerful with soma, grew beyond measure, filling both heaven and earth with greatness;His glory surpassed even these, encompassing all worlds.
4.16.6 Shakra, knowing every heroic deed, released the waters with his beloved friends;With words they even split the rock, and the eager ones opened the cattle-filled enclosure.
4.16.7 You struck down Vritra, who enclosed the waters; earth, aware, favored your mace;You let loose the ocean streams and became their lord by strength, bold hero.
4.16.8 When you split the mountain for the waters, much-invoked one, Sarama first appeared to you;Lead us, opening the cattle pens with the Angirases, and bring us a great prize, praised one.
4.16.9 Turn toward the poet seeking cattle and sunlight, generous one, imploring help;Urge him on with your aid in his call for glory; the magical Dasyu without prayer sank down.
4.16.10 Come home intent on killing Dasyus; let Kutsa find the friendship he desires with you;Take your seats, alike, in your proper place; the woman who knows Truth discerned you both.
4.16.11 You ride one chariot with Kutsa, seeking to help, lord of the wind-swift bays;When the poet prepared to strike his foe, you sought the straight path to the prize.
4.16.12 For Kutsa you laid low Shushna, drained of strength, and Kuyava with his thousands at day's decline;At once you crushed the Dasyus with Kutsa and threw the sun's wheel down into their midst.
4.16.13 For Rijishvan, son of Vidathin, you subdued swollen Pipru and Mrigaya;You laid low fifty thousand dark ones and shattered forts like age shattering a body.
4.16.14 Assuming your form near the sun, when your immortal shape shines out,You are like a mighty elephant seeking strength, like a fearsome lion bearing weapons.
4.16.15 Desires for riches have come to Indra, eager at the soma-pressing as at a gathering for sunlight;The seekers of glory sing hymns, lovely as a home, fair to behold as thriving life.
4.16.16 We call that Indra, easy to summon, who performed so many heroic deeds,Who swiftly brings even a prize to a singer like me, he of lavish gifts.
4.16.17 When sharp lightning flashes among some company of men, O hero,When the clash grows terrible, be the guardian of our bodies.
4.16.18 Be the guardian of Vamadeva's songs, be a friend who does no harm in winning the prize;We have followed your wisdom; be generous to your singer always.
4.16.19 With these men who long for you, generous Indra, with the generous in every battle,May we shine above our rivals with splendors like heaven, enjoying many nights and autumns.
4.16.20 Thus we fashioned a prayer for Indra the mighty bull, as the Bhrigus fashion a chariot;Let our friendship never part; may the fierce one be our defender and guardian.
4.16.21 Praised now, Indra, sung now, fill your singer with food as rivers fill their banks;A new prayer is made for you, lord of bay horses; may we be your charioteers through insight, forever.
Hymn 4.17 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: Indra. Meter: Trishtubh, Viraj (15).
4.17.1 You are great, Indra; earth yields to you, and heaven honors your sovereignty in your greatness;Having slain Vritra by strength, you freed the rivers the serpent had swallowed.
4.17.2 At your birth heaven shook with the blaze of your power, earth shook in fear of your wrath;The well-formed mountains trembled; deserts grew damp and waters ran.
4.17.3 Hurling his mace, he split the mountain by strength, revealing his irresistible force;Rejoicing, he killed Vritra with the mace; the waters rushed forth, their captor struck down.
4.17.4 Heaven honored you as a mighty son; the maker of Indra was most skilled in his work,Begetting the sun-finding, well-armed one, unshaken from his station.
4.17.5 He alone moves the vast earth, Indra, much-invoked king of peoples;All truly rejoice in the generosity of the praised, bountiful god.
4.17.6 All soma was yours, and yours were all the most exhilarating draughts of the great;You truly became lord of treasure and all peoples, Indra, when bestowing gifts.
4.17.7 Even as you were first born, Indra, you held all peoples in your power;With the mace, generous one, you cut apart the serpent lying across the slope.
4.17.8 Indra, breaker in every battle, daring and immense, the boundless, well-armed bull,Slayer of Vritra and winner of prizes, the generous giver of generous gifts.
4.17.9 This one drives the gathered foe away; the generous one alone is heard in battle;He brings the prize he wins; may we be cherished in his friendship.
4.17.10 He is heard prevailing and striking down, and he sets the cattle free by combat;When Indra shows his true fury, all things firm and moving fear him.
4.17.11 Indra won cattle and gold together, and the generous one won many horses;With these men, greatest hero, he divides the riches and gathers the treasure.
4.17.12 How much does Indra take from his mother, how much from the father who begot him?Who rouses his force again and again, like wind driven by thunderclouds?
4.17.13 He makes the settled wander, raising clouds of dust in a surge;He breaks apart like heaven armed with lightning, and sets the singer among riches.
4.17.14 He hastens the sun's wheel and checks its racing horse;The dark one lunges toward it at the bottom of the covering in its airy home.
4.17.15 In the dark river, like a priest at sacrifice.
4.17.16 Seeking cattle, horses, prizes, and sons, poets summon powerful Indra into friendship;We draw down the inexhaustible giver of children and protection, as a bucket into a well.
4.17.17 Be our guardian, our visibly present kin, watcher and merciful friend of soma-pressers;Be friend and father, father beyond fathers; make room for us desiring life, giver of strength.
4.17.18 As a friend, protect those who seek your friendship; singing Indra, grant strength to your singer;For we have made efforts in your service, honoring you through these acts, Indra.
4.17.19 When praised, generous Indra alone destroys the many irresistible Vritras;The singer he cherishes dwells under his shelter, where neither gods nor mortals bar the way.
4.17.20 Thus may vast, generous Indra make us truthful, sustaining the peoples and irresistible;You are king of generations; set great renown upon us, your singer.
4.17.21 Praised now, Indra, sung now, fill your singer with food as rivers fill their banks;A new prayer is made for you, lord of bay horses; may we be your charioteers through insight, forever.
Hymn 4.18 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama, Indra (1), Aditi (4, 7). Deity: Vamadeva (1, 4, 7), Indra (2–4, 8–13). Meter: Trishtubh.
4.18.1 “This is the ancient path known from old, by which all the gods were born;By it too you must be born, fully grown; do not bring your mother to fall another way.”
4.18.2 “I shall not go out by this path; this way is hard to pass. I shall emerge across the side;Much remains for me to do: I must fight one and challenge another.”
4.18.3 He looked at his mother as she departed: “Shall I not follow? Now I shall follow!”In Tvashtri's house Indra drank the soma, pressed in the vessels, worth a hundred treasures.
4.18.4 “What could he do to one whom I bore for a thousand months and many autumns?There is none his equal among those already born or yet to be born.”
4.18.5 His mother, thinking him an object of reproach, hid Indra, though he was endowed with valor;Then he arose himself, clothed in splendor, and filled heaven and earth at his birth.
4.18.6 “These waters rush roaring together as if faithful to Truth, calling out;Ask them what they are saying. What mountain enclosure are the waters breaking?”
4.18.7 “What are these waters chanting to him, seeking a word of reproach against Indra?My son slew Vritra with a mighty blow and released the rivers.”
4.18.8 “Even the young woman cast you off; even Kushava swallowed you;Even the waters showed mercy to the infant; Indra himself rose up with strength.”
4.18.9 “Even Vyamsa struck you on the jaw, generous one, driving his weapon home;Then you rose above your wound and crushed the Dasa's head with your blow.”
4.18.10 A young cow bore you, an ancient bull, fierce, irresistible Indra;His mother set her restless calf free to roam, seeking a path for himself.
4.18.11 His mother asked the great bull, “Are the gods abandoning you, son?”Then Indra, about to kill Vritra, said: “Friend Vishnu, stride farther out.”
4.18.12 “Who made your mother a widow? Who sought to kill you when you lay there or walked?Which god showed you mercy when you seized your father by the foot and crushed him?”
4.18.13 “In need I cooked a dog's entrails; I found no mercy among the gods;I saw my wife dishonored; then the falcon brought me honey.”
Hymn 4.19 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: Indra. Meter: Trishtubh.
4.19.1 Thus, mace-bearing Indra, all the easily summoned gods here chose you as their ally,You, great and towering, grown beyond both heaven and earth, alone for Vritra's killing.
4.19.2 The gods let loose like aging things; you became sovereign, Indra, born of Truth;You struck the serpent lying around the flood and opened channels for all streams.
4.19.3 Insatiable, stretched out, unawake, sleeping unawares across seven slopes,You tore the limbless serpent apart with your mace, Indra.
4.19.4 Indra's strength shook the earth to its roots as wind shakes water;He broke the strongholds, yearning for strength, and tore open the mountain heights.
4.19.5 The waters rushed like mothers to a child; like chariots the stones advanced together;You satisfied the surging released waves and freed the dammed-up rivers, Indra.
4.19.6 For Turviti and Vayya you made the great, all-nourishing river flow;You calmed with homage the swelling flood, Indra, making the rivers easy to cross.
4.19.7 The roaring waters, like those who cannot speak, filled the young channels, knowing Truth;They filled the thirsty dry lands; Indra drove the waters down to their lord.
4.19.8 Through many praised dawns and autumns, having killed Vritra, you released the rivers;Indra broke through their encircling bonds, making the streams flow over the earth.
4.19.9 You brought the son from the ants and from his confinement, lord of bays;The blind man saw, seizing the serpent; the cripple emerged, and the joints were joined.
4.19.10 Your ancient deeds, inspired one, the wise man relates to one who knows;How, king, in each of your heroic acts you embraced the labors sung by your own voice.
4.19.11 Praised now, Indra, sung now, fill your singer with food as rivers fill their banks;A new prayer is made for you, lord of bay horses; may we be your charioteers through insight, forever.
Hymn 4.20 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: Indra. Meter: Trishtubh.
4.20.1 May Indra come from afar or nearby to aid us, fierce giver of help;Mace-armed lord of men, strongest of all, overcoming combatants in the press of battle.
4.20.2 Let Indra come to us on his bays, turning toward us with aid and gifts;The mace-bearer, bountiful and mighty, attends our sacrifice in the winning of prizes.
4.20.3 Indra, put our sacrifice before you and bring our purpose to fulfillment;Mace-bearer, as one who casts the die for wealth, with you may we win the contest against our foes.
4.20.4 Come near to us, willing and gracious, self-governed one, to our freshly pressed soma;Drink the presented sweetness, Indra, and revel in the soma from the heights.
4.20.5 Him who grows vast through new poets, like a ripe tree, victorious as a sickle,As a youth ardent for a woman, him, much-invoked Indra, I call near.
4.20.6 Indra stands like a mountain, lofty in his own strength, fierce, born of old for victory;Holding his terrible heavy mace, like a vessel brimming with water and treasure.
4.20.7 None from birth can turn him away; no limit exhausts his generosity;Ever increasing, mighty and fierce, give us riches, much-invoked one.
4.20.8 You oversee the wealth and homes of men and open the fold of cattle;You teach men in combat and lead them forward to abundant heaps of treasure.
4.20.9 By what power, most powerful one, do I hear of that mighty act which you do repeatedly?You free the giver from many troubles, most discerning one, and grant wealth to the singer.
4.20.10 Do not neglect us: bring and give us that abundance of yours for the giver to give;For your new gift, praised in this hymn, we shall proclaim you, Indra, with our praises.
4.20.11 Praised now, Indra, sung now, fill your singer with food as rivers fill their banks;A new prayer is made for you, lord of bay horses; may we be your charioteers through insight, forever.
Hymn 4.21 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: Indra. Meter: Trishtubh.
4.21.1 Let Indra come to us with help; praised here, let the hero share our feast;Growing mighty, whose manifold powers swell like the sovereignty of heaven, triumphant.
4.21.2 Praise here his mighty deeds, this man of great splendor and generous bounty,Whose purpose at the assembly, like a sovereign, prevails over hostile peoples.
4.21.3 Let Indra come swiftly from heaven, from earth, from the sea or the mist,With the Maruts from the sunlit place to aid us, or from the distant home of Truth.
4.21.4 Praise at gatherings Indra, lord of immense, abundant wealth,Who with Vayu wins cattle and boldly guides us toward riches.
4.21.5 Whoever steadies reverence upon reverence and sends forth speech to engender sacrifice,The priest, adorned with hymns, should bring much-honored Indra to our dwellings.
4.21.6 When thinkers turn their thought to the paths, sitting beside the stone at the cattle's hidden place,Let the household priest, our mighty bearer among gatherings, approach at daybreak.
4.21.7 When the bull's force supports the singer in battle,When it moves from the hidden cattle-place of Ushij toward thought, nourishment and joy.
4.21.8 When I open the mountain's enclosures, refreshing the rush of waters with milk,He finds the wild cow in the cattle's hidden place, when wise men lead him to the prize.
4.21.9 Your hands and palms are good, skillful in bringing gifts to the singer, Indra;Where do you dwell? In what do you delight in us? What awakens your joy to give us gifts?
4.21.10 Thus Indra, truthful sovereign of riches, killed Vritra and made room for Puru;Much-praised one, by your wisdom make us strong in wealth; may I share your divine help.
4.21.11 Praised now, Indra, sung now, fill your singer with food as rivers fill their banks;A new prayer is made for you, lord of bay horses; may we be your charioteers through insight, forever.
Hymn 4.22 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: Indra. Meter: Trishtubh.
4.22.1 Whatever Indra favors and desires, let the great and mighty one make it ours:Prayer, praise, soma and hymns—the generous one who comes bearing the stone in strength.
4.22.2 The bull, casting his four-edged weapon, vigorous and strongest of men, skilled with his arms,Loosened the joints of the covering for beauty, parting its wool for his friends.
4.22.3 The god who at his birth was greatest among gods, great with prizes and great strength,Holding his shining mace in his arms, made heaven and wide earth tremble with might.
4.22.4 Every barrier and many slopes, the high heaven and earth shook at his birth;He lifts the cow's two mothers by his strength, while winds roar around him like men.
4.22.5 Those great deeds of yours, Indra, great one, deserve telling at every pressing:How, daring hero, you boldly overcame the serpent with your mace and strength.
4.22.6 All these deeds of yours are true, man of vast strength: cows stream from the bull's udder;Then the rivers, fearing your manly force, ran swiftly forth from you.
4.22.7 Then your divine sisters, lord of bays, praised you with their pleas, Indra,As you unbound their fetters and sent them streaming along their long course.
4.22.8 The exhilarating drop swells like a river; the worshiper's work and strength draw near you;Toward us turn the blazing reins of the powerful cow, like a swift horse toward its lead.
4.22.9 Grant us the highest, greatest heroic strengths, truly victorious one;Make Vritras easy for us to kill, and strike the mortal who seeks our harm.
4.22.10 Hear us indeed, Indra, bring us splendid prizes;Bring us every abundant nourishment; generous one, give us cattle.
4.22.11 Praised now, Indra, sung now, fill your singer with food as rivers fill their banks;A new prayer is made for you, lord of bay horses; may we be your charioteers through insight, forever.
Hymn 4.23 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: Indra, Truth (8–10). Meter: Trishtubh.
4.23.1 How shall the great one grow mighty? At whose priest's sacrifice will he delight and swell with soma?Drinking gladly, relishing the draught, the lofty one will hasten toward shining treasure.
4.23.2 What hero shares his feast? Who reaches him with noble thoughts?When does he discern a sign, when will his aid increase the devout worshiper's prosperity?
4.23.3 How does Indra hear when invoked? Hearing, how does he recognize our cries for help?What are his many precedents, and how do they call him a protector of the singer?
4.23.4 How shall the troubled worshiper reach his treasure through shining thought?Will the god become guardian of Truths for me, when he gladly accepts my homage?
4.23.5 How, and at what breaking dawn, did the god delight in a mortal's friendship?How did he grant his friends friendship, who gave their love wholly to him?
4.23.6 What portion of friendship goes to friends, and when shall we proclaim you a brother?For splendor his beautiful forms flow forth, bright as the sun, the loveliest gift of the cow.
4.23.7 Intent on killing treachery and the Indra-less deceiver, he sharpens his keen faces to thrust;Where fierce debts are paid for debts, he has driven back the distant, unknown Dawns.
4.23.8 For the aids of Truth are many; the thought of Truth destroys deceit;The song of Truth pierces deaf ears, awakening the shining mortal.
4.23.9 Truth has firm foundations and manifold shining forms of beauty;By Truth they seek enduring nourishment; by Truth the cows entered Truth.
4.23.10 The one who upholds Truth wins Truth; Truth's force speeds toward the cattle;For Truth the broad and deep two worlds, for Truth the cows in heaven yield their milk.
4.23.11 Praised now, Indra, sung now, fill your singer with food as rivers fill their banks;A new prayer is made for you, lord of bay horses; may we be your charioteers through insight, forever.
Hymn 4.24 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: Indra. Meter: Trishtubh, Anushtubh (10).
4.24.1 What fine praise will turn Indra, son of strength, toward us bearing riches?The hero gives treasure to his singer; people, may that lord of cattle free us from constraint.
4.24.2 He is to be invoked in Vritra's killing; he is to be praised; well-praised Indra gives true gifts;Generous to a mortal who worships and presses soma, he opens a broad way on his journey.
4.24.3 Men call him to the battle line, laying down their bodies for protection,When both sides meet in mutual violence, striving to win sons and descendants.
4.24.4 Peoples strive for purpose at the yoking, contending against each other for the flood;When warriors clash with tribes, some call on Indra in the fight.
4.24.5 Then some sacrifice to Indra's power, and some prepare and present the sacrificial cake;Then soma flows from the presser; then they seek to sacrifice to the bull.
4.24.6 He makes way for the man who presses soma for Indra who desires it;When they reach him with one mind, he makes him his friend in battle.
4.24.7 Whoever presses soma for Indra today, cooks meals and roasts grain,Indra puts powerful strength into him and eagerly responds to the man's songs.
4.24.8 When the righteous man faces battle and sees a long contest against his enemy,He calls the bull toward his wife, sharpened by soma-pressers in the house.
4.24.9 He sought a greater price, offering less; he came back without selling and without profit;He will not trade less for more; those of poor skill milk the speech dry.
4.24.10 Who will buy this Indra of mine for ten cows?When he has killed the Vritras, give him back to me.
4.24.11 Praised now, Indra, sung now, fill your singer with food as rivers fill their banks;A new prayer is made for you, lord of bay horses; may we be your charioteers through insight, forever.
Hymn 4.25 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: Indra. Meter: Trishtubh.
4.25.1 What man today, desiring gods, gladly delights in Indra's friendship?Who with fire kindled and soma pressed seeks the mighty help that crosses us over?
4.25.2 Who reveres him with words for the soma feast? Who longs for the shining cows?Who desires Indra's companionship, who his friendship and brotherhood, who the poet's aid?
4.25.3 Who today chooses the gods' help, invokes the Adityas, Aditi and light?Whose pressed draught will the Ashvins, Indra and Agni drink with undivided will?
4.25.4 For him Agni Bharata will offer shelter; long will he behold the rising sun,He who says, “Let us press soma for Indra, manliest man, greatest hero among men.”
4.25.5 Neither many nor few can overcome him; Aditi offers him wide shelter;The doer of good is dear, dear to Indra the willing, dear the well-protected, dear his soma-presser.
4.25.6 Easy to protect is the hero who wins the first prize; Indra makes the presser's meal his own;For the non-presser he is no kin, no friend, no brother: hard to win, he strikes down the unvoiced.
4.25.7 Indra, drinker of pressed soma, makes no friendship with a rich Pani who presses none;He strips away his wealth and strikes him bare; wholly for the presser and cook he stands.
4.25.8 Those beyond, those near, those between seek Indra; those bound seek Indra;Men settled or fighting, contending for the prize, invoke Indra.
Hymn 4.26 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama, or Indra (1–3). Deity: Indra or the Self (1–3), the Falcon (4–7). Meter: Trishtubh.
4.26.1 I became Manu, and I became the sun; I am the inspired poet Kakshivat;I adorned Kutsa, son of Arjuna; I am the poet Ushanas. Look upon me.
4.26.2 I gave the land to the Arya, rain to the mortal worshiper;I brought the eager waters forth; the gods followed my command.
4.26.3 Rejoicing, I shattered the ninety-nine forts of Shambara;The hundredth, the dwelling, I gave to Divodasa Atithigva in the contest for all.
4.26.4 May the falcon soar far beyond the birds and outfly the swiftest hawks;Without wheels, by his own power, the great bird brought Manu the gods' beloved oblation.
4.26.5 When he carried it, shuddering, the wide paths let him fly swift as thought;The falcon quickly came with honeyed soma and won glory there.
4.26.6 The straight-flying falcon seized the stalk and brought the delightful draught from afar;The bold, god-guided bird brought soma down from the far upper heaven.
4.26.7 Having seized it, the falcon bore the soma with a thousand pressings, and ten thousand besides;There insight left its foes behind; in soma's ecstasy the wise outwitted fools.
Hymn 4.27 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: the Falcon, or Indra (5). Meter: Trishtubh, Shakvari (5).
4.27.1 While still in the womb I knew all the births of these gods;A hundred iron fortresses guarded me; then I flew out swiftly as a falcon.
4.27.2 He did not carry me willingly; I surpassed him in skill and strength;My insight left my enemies behind, and my swelling force crossed the winds.
4.27.3 When the falcon cried from heaven and the winds bore insight apart,The archer Krishanu, aiming hard with thought, loosed and shot his bowstring at him.
4.27.4 The straight-flying falcon carried him from the lofty height, like Bhujyu aided by Indra;A feather fell from the flying bird along the path of that swift flight.
4.27.5 Then the generous one received the white jar, filled with shining soma, bright drink,The choicest honey prepared by the priests, to drink for joy; Indra the hero received it to drink for joy.
Hymn 4.28 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: Indra, or Indra and Soma. Meter: Trishtubh.
4.28.1 Joined with you, Soma, your friend Indra made the waters flow for Manu;He killed the serpent, freed the seven rivers, opened their closed channels.
4.28.2 With you as ally, O drop, Indra at once stopped the sun's wheel by force;From its lofty station he cast away the immense deceiver pressing on all life.
4.28.3 Indra struck and Agni burned the Dasyus, Soma, at noon in battle;By their counsel, when many thousands took refuge in the stronghold, they cut them down.
4.28.4 Indra, you drove the Dasyus from every place and made the Dasa tribes powerless;Together you broke down enemies and earned renown through your blows.
4.28.5 Thus, truly generous Indra and Soma, you opened wide the wealth of horses and cows;You broke hidden things open with stone and made even the earth overflow.
Hymn 4.29 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: Indra. Meter: Trishtubh.
4.29.1 Praised, come to us with prizes and help, Indra, rejoicing on your bay horses;Overcome our rival's many pressings, sung by songs, you giver of true gifts.
4.29.2 For the discerning hero comes when called by pressers to the sacrifice;Rich in horses, fearless and assured, he delights among soma-pressers and their heroes.
4.29.3 Let him open his ears to the prize and follow the beloved way to joy;Swelling with strength for our benefit, may mighty Indra make our passage easy and safe.
4.29.4 With aid he comes to the imploring poet who calls and sings;The mace-armed one harnesses his swift steeds, bringing hundreds and thousands.
4.29.5 Protected by you, generous Indra, may we be your inspired singers and patrons,Sharing the wealth of great heaven, vast stores for your praised generosity.
Hymn 4.30 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: Indra, Indra and Ushas (9–11). Meter: Gayatri, Anushtubh (8, 24).
4.30.1 No one is higher than you, Indra, no one greater, Vritra-killer;There is no one like you.
4.30.2 Truly all peoples turn after you as spokes around a wheel;Truly you are great and renowned.
4.30.3 Not even all the gods resisted you, Indra,When you carried day through the night.
4.30.4 When for Kutsa in battle, for those beset,You stole the sun's wheel, Indra.
4.30.5 When you fought alone against all the gods who threatened,You struck your foes, Indra.
4.30.6 When for a mortal you set the sun free, Indra,And protected Etasha with your powers.
4.30.7 How, Vritra-killer, generous one, could you be so furiousThat you crossed beyond Danu there?
4.30.8 This indeed was your heroic deed, Indra, your act of manly force:You struck that hard-to-overcome woman, the daughter of heaven.
4.30.9 Even the daughter of heaven, the great one who grew mighty,Ushas, you crushed, Indra.
4.30.10 Ushas fled from her shattered chariot, terrified,When the bull struck her down.
4.30.11 Her chariot lies there, utterly shattered on the Vipash;She escaped far away.
4.30.12 And the overflowing Sindhu, stretching over the earth,You surrounded by magic, Indra.
4.30.13 And boldly you erased the knowledge of Shushna,When you smashed his forts.
4.30.14 And from the high mountain, Indra, you struck downShambara, the Dasa son of Kulitara.
4.30.15 And you struck down hundreds of thousands of Varchin's Dasas,As around the five spokes of a wheel.
4.30.16 And you, hundred-powered Indra, brought back the abandoned son of the maidenTo share in the hymns.
4.30.17 And Turvasha and Yadu, unable to swim,Indra, lord of power, knowingly carried across.
4.30.18 And across the Sarayu you drove the Aryas at once, Indra;You struck Arna and Chitraratha.
4.30.19 You led back the two abandoned men, the blind and the lame, Vritra-killer;Even this kindness of yours cannot be contained.
4.30.20 Indra broke open a hundred fortresses made of stoneFor generous Divodasa.
4.30.21 For Dabhiti, Indra by his magic put to sleepThirty thousand Dasas with their weapons.
4.30.22 You, Vritra-killer, are indeed the same lord of cattle, Indra,Who has gathered all these things.
4.30.23 And the mighty heroic act you will do now, Indra,No one today can diminish.
4.30.24 May god Aryaman grant you gift upon gift;May Pushan grant gifts, Bhaga gifts, and the kindly god gifts.
Hymn 4.31 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: Indra. Meter: Gayatri.
4.31.1 By what shining help will our ever-growing friend come near?With what most powerful chosen gift?
4.31.2 What true, mightiest draught will delight you among intoxicating drinks,So you break open even strong wealth?
4.31.3 Be guardian of our friends and singers;Be with us through a hundred protections.
4.31.4 Turn toward us as the wheel of a racing horse turns,With your harnessed companies of men.
4.31.5 For you go down the slopes of purpose, as a foot takes its step;I have shared the sun with you.
4.31.6 When your powers, Indra, and your wheels came together,They dwelt both in you and in the sun.
4.31.7 And they truly call you generous, lord of power,A giver who does not delay.
4.31.8 Even now you shower plentiful wealthOn the devoted soma-presser.
4.31.9 Not even a hundred foolish men can restrain your bounty,Nor the great deeds you will perform.
4.31.10 Let your hundred protections guard us, your thousand guard us;Let every aid of yours guard us.
4.31.11 Choose us here for friendship and welfare,For great wealth shining from heaven.
4.31.12 Guard us each day, Indra, with abundant wealth;Guard us with all your protections.
4.31.13 Open the cattle-filled pens for us as one unbars them,Indra, with your new protections.
4.31.14 Our bold and brilliant chariot, Indra, never shaken,Runs seeking cattle and horses.
4.31.15 Make our fame greatest among the gods, radiant one,Highest above us like heaven.
Hymn 4.32 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: Indra, Indra's horses (23–24). Meter: Gayatri.
4.32.1 Now come to us, Indra, Vritra-killer, to our side,Great with your mighty protections.
4.32.2 You are impetuous even amid turmoil, marvelous among marvels;You work wonders to give help.
4.32.3 With even a few friends who cling to you,You strike the swelling enemy with your power.
4.32.4 We stand by you, Indra, we sing to you;Guard each one of us.
4.32.5 Come to us, stone-bearer, with wondrous, faultless protectionsThat none can assail.
4.32.6 May we be your companions, Indra, rich in cattle,Allies in the ardent quest for prizes.
4.32.7 For you alone hold power over cattle-rich prizes, Indra;Give us abundant food.
4.32.8 None can otherwise hold you back when, praised, you wish to give,Indra, lover of song, to singers.
4.32.9 The Gautamas have sung to you with song, Indra,So you will give in the ardent quest for prizes.
4.32.10 We shall proclaim your heroic deeds, how, rejoicing,You broke the Dasa forts in your assault.
4.32.11 The wise praise those heroic acts you performedAt the pressings, Indra, lover of song.
4.32.12 The Gautamas who carry hymns have magnified you, Indra;Set among them glory rich in heroes.
4.32.13 For you are truly shared by all generations, Indra;We call upon you.
4.32.14 Come toward us, gracious one, and rejoice in our draught,Indra, drinker of soma.
4.32.15 Let the praise born of our thoughts hold you, Indra;Turn your bays toward us.
4.32.16 Delight in our sacrificial cake and our songsAs a bridegroom delights in his bride.
4.32.17 We ask Indra for a thousand yoked steedsAnd a hundred jars of soma.
4.32.18 We bring your thousands and hundreds of cows toward us;May your gifts come our way.
4.32.19 We desire ten jars of gold from you;You give abundantly, Vritra-killer.
4.32.20 Abundant giver, give us abundance, do not bring us little;For it is abundance you wish to give, Indra.
4.32.21 You are renowned as an abundant giver everywhere, heroic Vritra-killer;Make us share in your bounty.
4.32.22 I praise your two brown horses, discerning one, son of the cattle-winner;Do not loosen the cows from us.
4.32.23 Like two young maidens on a new little wooden stand,The brown pair shine on their journeys.
4.32.24 Ready for the rider at dawn and for the one who follows dawn,The tireless brown pair are ready on the journeys.
Hymn 4.33 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: the Ribhus. Meter: Trishtubh.
4.33.1 I send out speech to the Ribhus like a messenger; I praise the white cow spread beside me;Wind-driven on swift courses, the craftsmen circled heaven at once.
4.33.2 When the Ribhus gave relief to their parents, worn by age, through their skills,Then the wise entered the friendship of gods and brought sustenance to the mind.
4.33.3 Those who made their old, reclining parents young again, like sacrificial posts,May Vaja, Vibhvan and Ribhu, with Indra, sweet-flowing, protect our sacrifice.
4.33.4 For a year the Ribhus guarded the cow; for a year the Ribhus shaped her;For a year they bore her light: by these works they attained immortality.
4.33.5 The eldest said, “Make two bowls from the single one”; the younger said, “Let us make three.”The youngest said, “Make four.” Tvashtri, Ribhus, praised that word of yours.
4.33.6 The men spoke truly and did so; the Ribhus followed their own ordinance;Tvashtri saw the four radiant bowls and looked at them as at days.
4.33.7 When for twelve days the Ribhus rested in the unseen one's hospitality,They made fields fruitful, led out rivers, set plants in the desert and waters in lowlands.
4.33.8 Those who made the smooth-running chariot fit for men and the all-moving cow of every form,May those Ribhus carve us wealth, self-reliant, fine-working and skillful-handed.
4.33.9 The gods welcomed their works, beholding their wisdom with keen thought;Vaja was the gods' fine craftsman, Ribhu belonged to Indra, Vibhvan to Varuna.
4.33.10 You fashioned the two well-yoked horses for Indra that revel in inspired praise;Ribhus, grant us wealth and growing riches, safeguarding us like friends.
4.33.11 The gods set drink and delight for you today in friendship, not without your labor;Now, Ribhus, bestow treasure on us at this third pressing.
Hymn 4.34 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: the Ribhus. Meter: Trishtubh.
4.34.1 Ribhu, Vibhvan, Vaja and Indra, come to our sacrifice, bringing treasures;The divine insight of the days has now set drink before you: your delights have come together.
4.34.2 Knowing the birth of prize-giving riches, rejoice with the seasons, Ribhus;Your delights and abundance have come together; send us wealth rich in heroes.
4.34.3 This sacrifice has been made for you, Ribhus, which you received from ancient days as Manu did;Delighting in it, they stood before you; every first prize was present.
4.34.4 Now the laying down of treasures is yours, men, for the worshiping mortal;Drink, Vajas and Ribhus; I have given you this ample third pressing for joy.
4.34.5 Come near us, Vajas and Ribhu-lords, great generous men praised for riches;The drinks for you have come home at the day's appointed feast like new arrivals.
4.34.6 Come near, sons of strength, called with reverence to this sacrifice;In harmony with the patrons you accompany, drink honey with Indra, treasure-givers.
4.34.7 Together with Varuna drink soma, Indra; together with the Maruts, lover of song;Together with those who drink first and in season, with the divine wives who bring treasure.
4.34.8 Rejoice together with the Adityas, Ribhus, together with the mountains;Together with divine Savitar, together with the treasure-giving rivers.
4.34.9 You who shaped the Ashvins, the parents, the protecting cow and horses, Ribhus;You who made reins and parted the two worlds and made lovely children, Vibhvans.
4.34.10 You who grant wealth rich in cattle, prizes, heroes, treasures and abundant grain,Ribhus who drink first, rejoicing, grant us that, you who sing the gift.
4.34.11 Do not leave us; we have not wearied of you or failed to praise you, Ribhus, in this sacrifice;Rejoice with Indra, with the Maruts and the royal gods in the sharing of treasure.
Hymn 4.35 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: the Ribhus. Meter: Trishtubh.
4.35.1 Come here, sons of strength, Ribhus, descendants of Sudhanvan; do not stay away;Here at our pressing are treasures for you; let your joys follow Indra.
4.35.2 Here has come the Ribhus' treasure; the finely pressed soma is ready to drink;Through skill and fine work you made one bowl into four.
4.35.3 You divided one bowl four ways when the friend said, “Part it and learn”;Then, skillful-handed Ribhus and Vajas, you followed the path to immortality among the gods.
4.35.4 Of what stuff was that bowl, which you made into four through inspired craft?Now press the draught for joy, and drink, Ribhus, the honey of soma.
4.35.5 With skill you made your parents young; with skill you made the gods' drinking bowl;With skill you shaped the two steeds to draw Indra, Ribhus whose treasure is prizes.
4.35.6 For the man who at the day's feast presses a potent draught to delight you, Vajas,Carve out wealth rich in every hero, Ribhus, rejoicing bulls.
4.35.7 You drank the morning pressing, lord of golden steeds; the midday pressing is yours alone;Now drink with your skilled treasure-giving friends the Ribhus, whom you made, Indra.
4.35.8 You became gods through your fine work and settled in heaven like falcons;Grant treasure, sons of strength; children of Sudhanvan, you became immortal.
4.35.9 This third, treasure-bearing pressing you fashioned with skillful hands;It is poured for you, Ribhus; drink it with the joys of Indra.
Hymn 4.36 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: the Ribhus. Meter: Jagati, Trishtubh (9).
4.36.1 Born without horses or reins, your three-wheeled chariot, worthy of praise, circles the heavens;Great is this divine deed proclaimed of you, Ribhus, that you nourish heaven and earth.
4.36.2 You wise ones made a smoothly turning chariot, tireless through your thought and design;For a drink at this pressing we now call you near, Vajas and Ribhus.
4.36.3 This deed of yours deserves praise among gods, Vajas, Ribhus and Vibhvan, for its grandeur:How you shaped your ancient, decrepit parents young again so they could move about.
4.36.4 We divided one bowl into four, and through thought freed the cow from her hide;Then you reached immortality among gods: Vajas, Ribhus, this is what they celebrate of you.
4.36.5 Wealth won through the Ribhus is foremost in fame, the treasure the prize-renowned men engendered;Shaped by Vibhvan and praised in assemblies, whoever the gods protect is distinguished among men.
4.36.6 That man is a winning horse, a sage of eloquence, a warrior archer hard to overcome in battle;He acquires wealth and heroic sons whom Vaja, Vibhvan and the Ribhus favor.
4.36.7 Your fairest, loveliest shape has been set before us: accept this song, Vajas and Ribhus;You are wise poets of insight; through this prayer we bring you to awareness.
4.36.8 Out of your wisdom, grant us, knowing ones, every manly enjoyment;Fashion us brilliant prize and highest strength, Ribhus, and vital wealth.
4.36.9 Grant offspring here and riches here; fashion fame with heroes here for us,That we might surpass the others; Ribhus, give us that splendid prize.
Hymn 4.37 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: the Ribhus. Meter: Trishtubh, Anushtubh (5–8).
4.37.1 Come to our sacrifice, gods Vajas and Ribhu-lords, along the gods' own paths;As you established Manu's sacrifice among the peoples, delighting in the day's bright hours.
4.37.2 May the sacrifices be welcome to your hearts and minds; today they come clothed in ghee;The full pressed draughts glow for you, and when drunk gladden wisdom and skill.
4.37.3 To you, Vajas and Ribhu-lords, I offer the threefold god-ordained song;Like Manu, among later peoples, I pour soma with you in the days of great heaven.
4.37.4 You are well-fed horses and shining chariots, with iron jaws, winning and well-adorned;Sons of Indra, sons of strength, he recognizes your foremost portion for delight.
4.37.5 We summon Ribhu and the Ribhu-lords, the most winning allies in the contest,Rich in Indra, best in lasting victory, swift as the Ashvins.
4.37.6 The mortal whom you Ribhus and Indra protect,May he win through insight, in the contest for wisdom and horses.
4.37.7 Open a path for us to sacrifice, Vajas and Ribhu-lords;Praised patrons, bring us every hope of rescue.
4.37.8 Indra, Ashvins, Vajas and Ribhu-lords, grant us this treasure,Horses together for people and plentiful generosity.
Hymn 4.38 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: Dadhikra, Heaven and Earth (1). Meter: Trishtubh.
4.38.1 And of old you two gave gifts which Trasadasyu distributed among the Purus;You gave fertile fields and lands, and fierce, overpowering blows against Dasyus.
4.38.2 You also gave Dadhikra, the prize-winning horse who breaks through every barrier, serving every people,Straight-flying as a falcon, swift with shining drops, active like a noble king, like a hero.
4.38.3 All Puru's folk rejoice in him, rushing like water down a slope;Grasping with his hooves, heroic and eager for contest, he races like wind against chariots.
4.38.4 He breaks through obstacles in contests, passing secretly among the cattle;Brightly he reveals himself at assemblies, crossing the human struggle.
4.38.5 The people shout after him in battle, as after a thief snatching clothes,As he swoops low like a swooping falcon, toward fame and cattle-rich herds.
4.38.6 When he first dashes out ahead of the chariot lines, he whinnies;Like a handsome youth putting on a garland, he licks the flying dust and bares his teeth.
4.38.7 The conquering horse, true to Truth, eager in body for combat,Runs swiftly among the runners, straight-flying, scattering dust above his brow.
4.38.8 His enemies fear him as they fear the thunder of heaven;When he fights a thousand, terrible and hard to turn, he shines.
4.38.9 The people praise the swift one's drive, his conquest running before the tribes;As they charge into battle they say, “Dadhikra has raced beyond thousands.”
4.38.10 With strength Dadhikra has spread across the five peoples like the sun with its light across waters;Prize-winning horse, winner of thousands and hundreds, may he sweeten all these words with honey.
Hymn 4.39 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: Dadhikra. Meter: Trishtubh, Anushtubh (6).
4.39.1 Let us praise swift Dadhikra and celebrate him with heaven and earth;May the brightening Dawns spur me on as he carries us beyond all evils.
4.39.2 I praise the great horse, fulfilling purpose, Dadhikra, the much-honored bull,Whom Mitra and Varuna gave to the Purus, blazing like Agni, to carry them across.
4.39.3 Whoever honors the horse Dadhikra at dawn when Agni is kindled,May Aditi make him sinless, in harmony with Mitra and Varuna.
4.39.4 When we ask for the great food and strength of Dadhikra, the gracious name of the Maruts,We call Varuna, Mitra, Agni and mace-armed Indra for well-being.
4.39.5 Both parties call him like Indra as they raise the sacrifice;Mitra and Varuna, you gave us Dadhikra, the horse, to drive mortals onward.
4.39.6 I have praised victorious Dadhikra, the winning horse;May he make our mouths fragrant and carry our lives forward.
Hymn 4.40 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: Dadhikra, Surya (5). Meter: Jagati, Trishtubh (1).
4.40.1 Let us celebrate Dadhikra now; may all the Dawns urge me onward,With the waters, Agni, Dawn, Surya, and Brihaspati, victorious Angiras.
4.40.2 The powerful one, seeking sustenance and cattle, eager for service, for glory and dawn, surges forward;True, running and swift, winged Dadhikra produces food, strength and sunlight.
4.40.3 As he runs swiftly, his plume streams behind him like a bird's feather;Like a falcon on the wing, Dadhikra crosses with his great strength.
4.40.4 The winning horse rushes at the goad, held about his neck and against his flanks;Dadhikra follows the purpose, snorting along the curves of the paths.
4.40.5 A swan in the pure realm, a Vasu in midair, a priest at the altar, a guest at the hearth;Among men, in the heights, in Truth and heaven, born of water, cattle, Truth and mountain—Truth itself.
Hymn 4.41 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: Indra and Varuna. Meter: Trishtubh.
4.41.1 Indra and Varuna, whose offering-filled song has won your favor like an immortal priest?Whose thoughtful words and reverence, Indra and Varuna, have touched your hearts?
4.41.2 The mortal who makes you two gods his friends with oblations, Indra and Varuna,Defeats enemies and Vritras in battles; through your great protection he grows renowned.
4.41.3 Indra and Varuna, grant treasure to men who honor you thus,When the two friends gladly delight in the pressed soma offered for your friendship.
4.41.4 Indra and Varuna, fierce ones, cast down your brightest and strongest mace on him,That evil wanderer who seeks to cheat us; measure your overpowering strength against him.
4.41.5 Indra and Varuna, be guides of this thought of ours, as bulls guide the cow;May that great cow yield us milk in a thousand streams as she comes to our aid.
4.41.6 For our children and offspring, fertile fields, the sight of sunlight and virile force,Indra and Varuna, wondrous ones, guard us here with your help through the night.
4.41.7 We choose you for ancient help, seeking cows, kindly friends,And cherished friendship, most generous heroes, beneficent as fathers.
4.41.8 Our thoughts race to you for aid, like runners in a contest, generous ones;The soma bowls stand ready as cows for beauty; my songs seek Indra and Varuna.
4.41.9 These thoughts of mine approach Indra and Varuna seeking treasure;They stand before you like lovers of wealth, swift in begging for glory.
4.41.10 May we become masters of horses, chariots, prosperity and lasting wealth;By your new protections send companies of treasure to our side.
4.41.11 Come to us, great Indra and Varuna, with great protections as prizes are won;When weapons flash and play in battle, may we be the winners in your fight.
Hymn 4.42 — Seer: Trasadasyu Paurukutsya. Deity: Trasadasyu, Indra and Varuna (7–10). Meter: Trishtubh.
4.42.1 “Twofold is my dominion as a sovereign, as all the immortals belong to all of us;The gods attend Varuna's will; I rule the people of the highest enclosure.”
4.42.2 “I am King Varuna; those primordial powers of divine lordship are mine;The gods attend Varuna's will; I rule the people of the highest enclosure.”
4.42.3 “I am Indra and Varuna: in my greatness the broad, deep two regions are beautiful;Like Tvashtri who knows all worlds, I have shaped and uphold heaven and earth.”
4.42.4 “I filled the swelling waters; I upheld heaven, the dwelling of Truth;The son of Aditi, faithful to Truth, through Truth spread out the threefold earth.”
4.42.5 “Men with fine horses, seeking victory, invoke me, chosen in battle;I make the contest: I am generous Indra; with conquering force I stir up the dust.”
4.42.6 “I did all these things; no divine force can restrain my irresistible power;When soma and hymns exhilarate me, both boundless regions tremble.”
4.42.7 “All beings know this about you, wise one; tell these things to Varuna;You are famed for slaying the Vritras; you freed the enclosed rivers, Indra.”
4.42.8 “Our fathers were present there, the seven sages, while Daurgaha was held captive;They worshiped, and begot Trasadasyu, like Indra who conquers Vritra, half a god.”
4.42.9 “For Purukutsani honored you, Indra and Varuna, with oblations and reverence;Then you granted her the king Trasadasyu, Vritra-killer, half a god.”
4.42.10 “May we, thriving with wealth, rejoice in the oblation, gods, as cows rejoice in grass;Indra and Varuna, grant us that unfailing cow all our days.”
Hymn 4.43 — Seers: Purumilha and Ajamila, sons of Suhotra. Deity: the Ashvins. Meter: Trishtubh.
4.43.1 Which of the worshipful ones will hear us? Which praiseworthy god will accept our offering?In whose heart among the immortals shall we set this dearest, divine song, easy to summon?
4.43.2 Who grants mercy, which god comes most readily, which brings most blessings?Whose chariot, swift and drawn by racing steeds, is said to be the one Surya's daughter chose?
4.43.3 You come quickly through many days, like Indra with power in the night;Born in heaven, heavenly winged ones, by which of your powers do you become most powerful?
4.43.4 What sign of yours was it? By what means will you come when invoked, Ashvins?Who confronts your vast force? Honeyed wonder-workers, protect us with your aid.
4.43.5 Your chariot travels far around heaven when it turns from the sea toward us;Honeyed ones, you sprinkle your honey with sweetness as ripe nourishment serves you.
4.43.6 The Sindhu with its stream has moistened your horses; bright ruddy birds surround you;Your swift journey is plainly seen, by which you became Surya's husbands.
4.43.7 As I call you together here, let this generous thought, rich in prizes, belong to us;Protect your singer, Ashvins; his desire rests upon you alone.
Hymn 4.44 — Seers: Purumilha and Ajamila, sons of Suhotra. Deity: the Ashvins. Meter: Trishtubh.
4.44.1 Today we call your chariot, Ashvins, swift across the broad land, companion of cattle,Which bears Surya's daughter, wide of seat, bearing songs and most abundant riches.
4.44.2 You two, sons of heaven, win that divine beauty through your powers;Nourishment follows your beautiful form when splendid steeds carry your chariot.
4.44.3 Who today has offered you oblations and songs for help or to drink the pressed soma?Who turns to the ancient lover of Truth, upheld by reverence, Ashvins?
4.44.4 Come to this sacrifice on your golden chariot, Nasatyas, present everywhere;Drink the honeyed soma and bestow treasure on your worshiper.
4.44.5 Come toward us from heaven and earth in your golden, smooth-running chariot;Let no other god-seekers hold you back, as your ancient bond joins you together.
4.44.6 Wonder-workers, grant us abundant wealth and heroes on both sides;The men of Ajamila have brought your song, Ashvins, in a chorus of praise.
4.44.7 As I call you together here, let this generous thought, rich in prizes, belong to us;Protect your singer, Ashvins; his desire rests upon you alone.
Hymn 4.45 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: the Ashvins. Meter: Jagati, Trishtubh (7).
4.45.1 His light is rising; his circling chariot is yoked at the crest of heaven;Three pairs of nourishing things are set upon it; the fourth vessel overflows with honey.
4.45.2 Your honey-laden teams arise, horses and chariots, at the breaking of the Dawns;Uncovering enveloping darkness, they spread bright light across the heavens like the sun.
4.45.3 Drink honey from your honey-drinking mouths and yoke your beloved chariot for honey;Refresh the paths along your course with honey, and bear the honey-filled vessel, Ashvins.
4.45.4 Your honey-laden, unfailing swans, golden-winged, called forth and waking at dawn,Rise from the waters, delighting and touching delight, as flies seek honey, and reach the pressings.
4.45.5 The fine-sacrificing, honey-rich fires praise you at dawn, Ashvins,When the bright, discerning presser with washed hands presses honeyed soma with stones.
4.45.6 As your tireless horses flutter through the days and spread light like the sun across the air,Even the sun yokes his horses; by your nature you know every path.
4.45.7 I have declared this song to you, Ashvins, shapers of insight: your fine-horsed chariot never ages;By it you circle the heavens in a moment to reach the oblation-bearing, swift and generous host.
Hymn 4.46 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama, or Indra (1–3). Deity: Indra and Vayu, Vayu (1). Meter: Gayatri.
4.46.1 Drink the first portion of the honeyed draught, Vayu, pressed at the heavenly rites;For you are first to drink.
4.46.2 With a hundred harnessed teams and protections, with Indra as charioteer,Vayu, drink your fill of the pressed soma.
4.46.3 Let your thousand bay horses bring food near you,Indra and Vayu, to drink soma.
4.46.4 Mount your golden-seated chariot, Indra and Vayu,Fine for sacrifice and touching heaven.
4.46.5 On your wide-powered chariot visit the generous giver;Come here, Indra and Vayu.
4.46.6 This soma is pressed, Indra and Vayu; drink itWith the gods in accord at the giver's house.
4.46.7 Let your journey begin here, Indra and Vayu, and end here,Where soma awaits you to drink.
Hymn 4.47 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: Indra and Vayu, Vayu (1). Meter: Anushtubh.
4.47.1 I have prepared for you, Vayu, the bright first portion of honey at the heavenly rites;Come to drink the soma, desirable god, with your harnessed team.
4.47.2 Indra and Vayu, you deserve to drink these soma draughts;For the drops travel to you together as waters flow down a slope.
4.47.3 Vayu and Indra, lords of strength, mighty on a single chariot,Come with your harnessed teams for our protection, to drink the soma.
4.47.4 All the teams you have, so prized by the generous giver, two heroes,Harness them here for us who bring the sacrifice, Indra and Vayu.
Hymn 4.48 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: Vayu. Meter: Anushtubh.
4.48.1 Uncover the invocations, as a generous man unveils treasures;Vayu, come on your shining chariot to drink the pressed soma.
4.48.2 Casting off ill words, with your team and Indra as charioteer,Vayu, come on your shining chariot to drink the pressed soma.
4.48.3 The two richly formed storehouses extend across the dark expanse;Vayu, come on your shining chariot to drink the pressed soma.
4.48.4 Let ninety-nine yoked steeds, harnessed by thought, bear you;Vayu, come on your shining chariot to drink the pressed soma.
4.48.5 Vayu, harness a hundred nourishing bays,Or let your thousand-horsed chariot come in power.
Hymn 4.49 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: Indra and Brihaspati. Meter: Gayatri.
4.49.1 This beloved offering is set before you, Indra and Brihaspati;A hymn and rapture are spoken.
4.49.2 This lovely soma is poured for you, Indra and Brihaspati,To drink and to rejoice.
4.49.3 Come into our home, Indra and Brihaspati,Drinkers of soma, to drink soma.
4.49.4 Give us wealth, Indra and Brihaspati, of a hundred cows,With horses and a thousand treasures.
4.49.5 At the pressing we summon you with songs, Indra and Brihaspati,To drink this soma.
4.49.6 Drink soma at the giver's house, Indra and Brihaspati;Rejoice together in that home.
Hymn 4.50 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: Brihaspati, Indra and Brihaspati (10–11). Meter: Trishtubh, Jagati (10).
4.50.1 Brihaspati, dwelling in three places, upheld earth's far boundaries by his roar;Ancient sages of shining insight set before them the sweet-tongued one.
4.50.2 Those who stir, rejoice and turn thoughtful minds toward you, Brihaspati, have stretched out their aid;Guard his flowing, spotless, wide and fertile birthplace, Brihaspati.
4.50.3 From your farthest distant home, Brihaspati, the Truth-touching ones sit near you;For you the wells dug in the rock pour sweet drink all around in abundance.
4.50.4 Brihaspati, born first in the highest sky of the great light,Seven-mouthed and many-born, with his roar and seven rays drove darkness away.
4.50.5 With the well-praising, hymn-bearing band he broke open Vala's fortress by roaring;Brihaspati, driving oblations, sent forth the bellowing, longing cows.
4.50.6 Thus we worship with sacrifices, homage and oblations the mighty father of all gods;Brihaspati, may we have fine children, many heroes and mastery of wealth.
4.50.7 He is a king who stands by strength against every enemy in heroic power,The man who honors well-supported Brihaspati, praising the one who receives the first share.
4.50.8 He dwells securely in his own home, where refreshment flows to him always;Peoples bow willingly before him, the king whom priestly prayer leads.
4.50.9 Unopposed, he wins together riches from strangers and his own kin alike;The gods protect that king who makes room for the priest seeking aid.
4.50.10 Indra and Brihaspati, drink the soma together in this sacrifice, rejoicing, rich in power;Let the drops enter you, self-born ones, and grant us wealth rich in every hero.
4.50.11 Brihaspati and Indra, make us grow; let your gracious thought dwell with us;Guard our thoughts, awaken abundant wisdom, and crush the hostility of the enemy who hates us.
Hymn 4.51 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: Ushas. Meter: Trishtubh.
4.51.1 This manifold light rose in the east, bright with forms from the darkness;Now the Dawns, heaven's shining daughters, make a path for humankind.
4.51.2 Brilliant Dawns have stood in the east like posts measured out for sacrifice;Shining, pure and cleansing, they opened the doors of darkness's pen.
4.51.3 Dawns, dawning today, rouse the generous to give gifts, bountiful ones;Let the Panis sleep unawakened in the midst of unfigured darkness.
4.51.4 Divine Dawns, will you have an ancient or a new course for us today,With which you once shone richly on the ninefold and tenfold Angiras and the seven-mouthed one?
4.51.5 For you, divine Dawns, circle all the worlds at once with horses yoked to Truth,Waking from sleep all life, those who walk on two feet and four, to move about.
4.51.6 Which of them is the oldest, the one by whom the Ribhus ordered their work?When the radiant Dawns travel in beauty, they cannot be distinguished: alike and ageless.
4.51.7 Those ancient Dawns were blessed, glorious with aid, born from Truth and faithful to Truth;In their days the worshiper, singing and praising with hymns, found treasure at once.
4.51.8 Together they come from the east, alike in their equal spreading;Awakening in Truth's dwelling, the divine Dawns sing like released cows.
4.51.9 Alike, the Dawns go forth in harmony, in colors that do not diminish;Their shining bodies conceal the dark abyss, brilliant, pure and bright.
4.51.10 Heaven's daughters, shining goddesses, grant us wealth with descendants;May we awaken to your blessings and be lords of noble strength.
4.51.11 Heaven's shining daughters, Dawns, I, herald of sacrifice, ask this of you:May we be glorious among peoples; let divine heaven and earth grant this.
Hymn 4.52 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: Ushas. Meter: Gayatri.
4.52.1 That gracious lady, heaven's daughter, appears,Dawning beyond her sister.
4.52.2 Bright and ruddy like a mare, mother of cows, faithful to Truth,Ushas is the Ashvins' friend.
4.52.3 And you are the Ashvins' friend and mother of the cows;And you, Ushas, rule over riches.
4.52.4 You who drive off hatred, wise and truthful one,We have risen to greet you with hymns.
4.52.5 Her gracious rays have appeared like the cattle released from the pen;Ushas filled the wide course.
4.52.6 Spreading abroad, shining one, part the darkness with your light;Come, Ushas, in your own way.
4.52.7 You spread your rays across heaven and the beloved vast air,Ushas, with your brilliant flame.
Hymn 4.53 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: Savitar. Meter: Jagati.
4.53.1 We choose that great precious gift of divine Savitar, the discerning lord:The shelter he grants the giver of his own will; may the mighty god raise it for us with his beams.
4.53.2 The bearer of heaven, lord of all creatures, the poet dons his golden garment;The discerning Savitar spreads and fills the broad expanse, bringing praiseworthy joy to birth.
4.53.3 He has filled the heavenly and earthly realms; the god makes praise according to his own law;Savitar stretches out his arms to impel, settling and stirring the world with his beams.
4.53.4 Unassailable Savitar, shining over all worlds, guards the gods' ordinances;With arms spread toward living creatures, he reigns, true to his ordinance, over the vast course.
4.53.5 In greatness Savitar encircles three airs, three realms and three shining heavens;He refreshes three heavens and earths, guarding us with his three ordinances.
4.53.6 Lord of both moving and still, source of great joy, who urges forth and brings to rest,May this god Savitar grant us shelter for life, a triple defense against distress.
4.53.7 The god has come with the seasons: may he increase our home, grant us fine offspring and nourishment;May Savitar refresh us by night and day and bestow wealth rich in children.
Hymn 4.54 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: Savitar. Meter: Jagati, Trishtubh (6).
4.54.1 Now divine Savitar is worthy of our praise; men should speak his name today;He distributes treasures to mortals: may he bestow the finest riches on us here.
4.54.2 For first you send immortality and the highest portion to the worshipful gods;Then, Savitar, you reveal to human beings their successive spans of life.
4.54.3 If unknowingly we have offended the divine people through feeble skill or human presumption,Among gods and mortals, Savitar, absolve us of that offense here.
4.54.4 The divine Savitar's power will not fail in upholding the whole world;What he impels across earth's expanse and the height of heaven is true.
4.54.5 You send the inhabitants of these homes to great mountains ruled by Indra;As they fly out and return, so they remain under your impulse, Savitar.
4.54.6 May your three impellings, Savitar, each day and every day send us good fortune;May Indra, heaven and earth, Sindhu with the waters, and Aditi with the Adityas grant us shelter.
Hymn 4.55 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: the All-Gods. Meter: Trishtubh, Gayatri (8–10).
4.55.1 Who will guard us, Vasus, who defend us? Heaven, earth and Aditi, save us;Varuna and Mitra, save us from a stronger mortal; gods, who will grant you space in the rite?
4.55.2 Those unerring gods revealed their ancient stations and shone forth, makers of the dawn;They appointed the ordinances and shone wondrously, unwearied thinkers of Truth.
4.55.3 With songs I praise household Aditi, the river goddess, for welfare and friendship;May undefiled Dawn and Night protect us throughout both days.
4.55.4 Aryaman and Varuna know the way; Agni, lord of food, knows the good path;Indra and Vishnu, praised like heroes, grant us shelter, a mighty defense.
4.55.5 Let the help of the mountain and Maruts, of god the guardian and Bhaga, come;May Mitra protect us from a stranger's distress, and save us from an unfriendly friend.
4.55.6 Now praise divine heaven and earth with Ahi Budhnya and these offerings;As seekers on the sea, let the hot-flowing rivers open the way.
4.55.7 Let divine Aditi with the gods protect us; let the guardian god protect without neglect;For we must not transgress the command of Mitra, Varuna or Agni.
4.55.8 Agni rules over treasure and great good fortune;May he grant these things to us.
4.55.9 Bring us many precious gifts, bountiful Ushas, truthful one,Rich in prizes.
4.55.10 May Savitar, Bhaga, Varuna, Mitra, Aryaman,And Indra come to us with gifts.
Hymn 4.56 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: Heaven and Earth. Meter: Trishtubh, Gayatri (5–7).
4.56.1 Let mighty heaven and earth, the eldest here, shine with radiant hymns;The broad pair expand, and the roaring bull fills them with his courses.
4.56.2 Divine, unviolated, the two stand, overflowing with the gods worshipful at sacrifice;Faithful to Truth and without deceit, mothers of gods, leading the sacrifice through radiant songs.
4.56.3 He was indeed the skillful worker among worlds, who gave birth to heaven and earth;The wise one shaped the wide, deep and lovely realms, without any support, through his power.
4.56.4 Now, heaven and earth, give us broad defenses and sustenance together with your consorts;The wide pair guard every worshiper; may we be your charioteers through insight forever.
4.56.5 To you two, mighty heaven and earth, we bring this hymn of praise,Pure ones worthy of celebration.
4.56.6 Cleansing yourselves, you two reign together by your own skill;You bear the ancient Truth.
4.56.7 You two uphold the great ordinance of Mitra, crossing over, sustaining Truth;You sit around the sacrifice.
Hymn 4.57 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: Lord of the Field (1–3), Shuna (4), Shuna and Sira (5, 8), Sita (6–7). Meter: Anushtubh, Trishtubh (2–3, 8), Ushnih (5).
4.57.1 With the lord of the field as our friend, we win our way,Nourishing cow and horse; may he favor us in this.
4.57.2 Lord of the field, yield us a honeyed wave as a cow yields milk;May the lords of Truth favor us with honey-dripping bounty, pure as clarified ghee.
4.57.3 May plants, heaven and waters be honeyed, may the air be honeyed to us;May the lord of the field be honeyed to us, and may we follow him unharmed.
4.57.4 Bless the draft animals, bless the men, bless the plow as it plows;Bless the harness straps as they are fastened, and lift the goad with blessing.
4.57.5 Shuna and Sira, accept this prayer, and with the milk you made in heaven,Water this land.
4.57.6 Come toward us, blessed furrow, Sita; we honor you;Bring us good fortune and fruitful crops.
4.57.7 May Indra take hold of the furrow and Pushan guide her on;May she yield rich milk for us year after year.
4.57.8 Let the plowshares cut the ground with blessing, the farmers advance with their teams in blessing;Let Parjanya rain honeyed milk with blessing; Shuna and Sira, set blessing upon us.
Hymn 4.58 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: Agni, or Surya, the waters, the cows, or praise of ghee. Meter: Trishtubh, Jagati (11).
4.58.1 A honeyed wave rose from the ocean; in the hidden stream it reached immortality;The secret name of ghee is the tongue of the gods and the navel of immortality.
4.58.2 Let us proclaim the name of ghee and uphold it with reverence at this sacrifice;Let the priest hear as it is praised: the four-horned bull has uttered this.
4.58.3 Four horns, three feet, two heads, seven hands are his;Threefold bound, the bull bellows: the great god has entered mortals.
4.58.4 The gods discovered ghee hidden threefold in the cow by the Panis;Indra brought forth one part, Surya one, and from Vena they fashioned one by their own power.
4.58.5 These streams flow from the ocean of the heart in a hundred channels unseen by the foe;I behold the streams of ghee, the golden reed among them.
4.58.6 They flow together like rivers, cleansed within the heart by the mind;These waves of ghee rush like deer fleeing an arrow.
4.58.7 Like the Sindhu on its journey, swift as wind, mighty streams run;The streams of ghee swell in waves like a ruddy horse breaking through the bounds.
4.58.8 They pour toward Agni like women at a gathering, beautiful and smiling;Streams of ghee reach the kindling, and the all-knowing one eagerly receives them.
4.58.9 Like brides approaching their wedding, adorned with ointment, I watch them;The streams of ghee flow toward the place where soma is pressed and sacrifice is made.
4.58.10 Flow to our fair praise and cattle-rich prize; grant us blessed riches;Lead our sacrifice to the gods: the streams of ghee flow sweetly.
4.58.11 Your dwelling rests upon the entire world, within the sea, the heart and living breath;In the midst of the waters, brought to the gathering, may we attain your honeyed wave.
Plain English translation
Mouseia’s complete Plain English edition, made independently and directly from the Vedic Sanskrit, covering all ten mandalas, 1,028 hymns and 10,552 verses.
Hymn 4.1 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: Agni; verses 2–5: alternatively Agni and Varuna. Meter: Trishtubh; verse 1 Ashti; verse 2 Atijagati; verse 3 Dhriti.
4.1.1 The gods, sharing one purpose, have always sent you forth, divine Agni, as a god and minister; with resolve they sent you forth.Set the immortal one among mortals to sacrifice, and bring into being the wise divine one among gods, wise among all gods.
4.1.2 Agni, bring your brother Varuna here, kindly disposed toward the gods, the eldest who wins sacrifice.He is Aditi's truthful son, a king who supports the peoples.
4.1.3 Bring your friend here as one friend brings another, swiftly as a charioteer drives a wheel; come quickly to us, wonder-worker.Agni, find mercy in Varuna and in the all-shining Maruts; blazing god, bring good to our children and offspring, bring us good.
4.1.4 Agni, knowing divine Varuna, turn his anger away from us.The best sacrificer and bearer, shining brightly, remove all hatred from us.
4.1.5 Agni, be our closest helper as this dawn breaks.Enjoying our gift, worship Varuna for us; seek mercy and be easy for us to call.
4.1.6 The fortunate god's most excellent appearance among mortals is the most wonderful.It is pure like the heated ghee of the cow who must not be harmed, desirable like that god's generous cow.
4.1.7 Agni has three highest, true, desirable births.The pure, bright, noble one came surrounded within the boundless, shining fiercely.
4.1.8 That messenger attends every house, a priest with a golden chariot and lively tongue.With red horses, beautiful and brilliant, he is always pleasant, like a gathering full of food.
4.1.9 He has awakened people, a relative of the sacrifice; they lead him forward with a great rein.He lives in this person's homes and succeeds; a god has become a mortal's companion in gain.
4.1.10 May that Agni lead us knowingly to the treasure the gods have assigned him,Which all the immortals made through thought, which father Heaven created, showering truth.
4.1.11 He was born first in the houses, in his birthplace at the bottom of the great expanse.Without feet or head, he hid deep inside, stirring in the bull's nest.
4.1.12 He rushed first with his company, singing at truth's source in the bull's nest.The beautiful, radiant young one was born for the bull by seven beloved mothers.
4.1.13 Here our human fathers came together, eagerly seeking truth.Within the stone pen they found the good milking cows; calling Ushas, they brought out the red ones.
4.1.14 They cleaned the rock after finding it; others of them called out around it.Seeking animals, they praised the work with song, found light and formed their thoughts.
4.1.15 Seeking cows with their minds, the eager men opened with divine speechThe hard rock holding the cattle back, the firm enclosure full of cows.
4.1.16 They thought of the cow's first name and found the mother's three times seven highest places.The knowing women sang together; the red cows appeared in the cow's glory.
4.1.17 Darkness disappeared, its cover removed, and heaven shone; the light of divine Ushas arose.The sun stood over the great plain, seeing both the straight and crooked among mortals.
4.1.18 Then, awakening, they looked behind and held the treasure assigned by heaven.All gods are in all the homes; Mitra and Varuna, may truth be in our thought.
4.1.19 I will speak to shining Agni, priest of all peoples and the best sacrificer.They opened the cows' pure udder, like purified soma poured from the stalk.
4.1.20 Aditi belongs to all worthy of sacrifice; Agni is the guest of all human beings.May Agni, knower of beings, choose the gods' help and be very kind.
Hymn 4.2 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: Agni. Meter: Trishtubh.
4.2.1 Agni, immortal among mortals and true to the right order, is established as divine minister among gods.The greatest priest, pure in greatness, stirs people to sacrifice with oblations.
4.2.2 Born here today, Agni, son of strength, you move as messenger between both kinds of born beings.You harness your tall, strong, shining horses, honest and vigorous.
4.2.3 The two red, ghee-anointed horses surpass all in growth and, I think, are quickest in understanding truth.Harnessing the red horses, you travel between the gods and mortal peoples.
4.2.4 Agni, with good horses, a fine chariot and rich gifts, bring here to the people who offer wellAryaman, Varuna, Mitra, Indra, Vishnu, the Maruts and the Ashvins.
4.2.5 Agni, may our sacrifice always be safe, with cows, sheep, horses and human friends.Mighty one, let it have food and children and wealth that lasts, with a broad foundation and good company.
4.2.6 Whoever brings you wood and sweats over it, warming its top for you,Protect that person by your own power, Agni, against all who seek to harm him.
4.2.7 Whoever brings you food even when in need of food, and settles and stirs the joyful guest,Kindles you as a god-seeker at home: may that giver enjoy steady wealth.
4.2.8 Whoever praises you at dusk and at dawn or makes you welcome with offerings,You carry that giver beyond distress, Agni, like a horse carrying its rider home.
4.2.9 Whoever offers to you, immortal Agni, and honors you with a ladle extendedWill not lose wealth in his work, and no evil person's trouble will surround him.
4.2.10 If you as god accept a mortal's well-prepared rite, Agni,That youngest priest's work will be pleasing; may we strengthen the man who honors you.
4.2.11 Wise one, distinguish thought from thoughtlessness, and the straight from the crooked among mortals as clearly as front from back.God, give us wealth and good children; grant us what is finite and guard what is limitless.
4.2.12 Unfailing poets taught the poet, setting him in people's homes.Agni, see these wondrous men with your own eyes, noble god.
4.2.13 Youngest Agni, guide well the singer who presses soma and worships.Bring the vigorous giver broad, splendid treasure for protection, you who fill the peoples.
4.2.14 What we have done for you, Agni, with our feet, hands and bodies,Is like building a chariot with many hands; those wise ones seeking truth have held to it.
4.2.15 Then may we become the first seven inspired sons of mother Ushas, makers among men.Let us be heavenly sons, Angirases, and break the rich rock as we shine.
4.2.16 Just as our ancient fathers in the distance, Agni, sought truth,And the shining singers of hymns broke through the earth and opened up the red cows.
4.2.17 With good work and bright worship, like divine smiths blowing on iron at birth,They made Agni and Indra grow; shining, they reached the enclosed cattle ground.
4.2.18 A noisy herd of animals appeared when you found the gods' births, fierce one.The human ones stretched far, growing even for the noble man of later times.
4.2.19 We have done your work, skillful one; bright dawns have released the truth.The many-sided, splendid Agni has lacked nothing; they have cleaned the god's lovely face.
4.2.20 These words of ours are for you, maker Agni; we have spoken them to the poet. Accept them.Shine high and make us better off; grant us great wealth in abundance.
Hymn 4.3 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: Agni; verse 1: Rudra. Meter: Trishtubh.
4.3.1 Turn for help to the ruler of the rite, Rudra, the priest who sacrifices truly between heaven and earth:Golden-formed Agni, before the thunderstorm arrives unexpectedly.
4.3.2 We have made this birthplace for you, like a well-dressed wife longing for her husband.Come, sit here, facing our offerings, perfectly prepared one.
4.3.3 Sing praise to the listening, undeceived god who sees people kindly, the immortal maker.Like a presser at the stone I praise the maker of sweet drink.
4.3.4 Agni, know this peaceful way of ours and the truth, you wise knower of the right order.When will your hymns be shared at the feast? When will we share friendship in your house?
4.3.5 How, Agni, will you speak of our offense to Varuna and to heaven?What will you say to Mitra, to generous earth, to Aryaman and to Bhaga?
4.3.6 When, Agni, will you speak to the growing gods at the ritual hearths and to Vayu, who blows powerfully?When to the traveling Ashvin, and when to Rudra, the killer of men?
4.3.7 When will you tell Pushan, great bearer of nourishment, and Rudra, receiver of fine offerings?When will you speak to far-ranging Vishnu about seed, and to the great arrow?
4.3.8 How will you answer the Marut host and the great sun when questioned?Wise knower of beings, respond to swift Aditi and the right order of heaven.
4.3.9 By truth I praise the established truth: the ripe, sweet milk from the cow, Agni.Though dark, this cow, bright with shining nourishment, swells with her sister's milk.
4.3.10 Through truth the bull, manly Agni, is anointed with milk from the back.Standing still, he moved as giver of life; the bright bull milked Prishni's udder.
4.3.11 By truth the Angirases broke the rock apart and called out with the cows.The men gladly gathered around Ushas; daylight appeared when Agni was born.
4.3.12 By truth the deathless, unstained divine waters with sweet waves, Agni,Like racehorses rushing out, forever strove to flow forward.
4.3.13 Let me never go into a stranger's deceit or the house of one who breaks promises, nor a relative's.Agni, let us not owe a dishonest brother a debt or depend on an enemy's skill in friendship.
4.3.14 Protect us, Agni, with your protections, watching over us, kindly lord of the feast.Strike back and break the firm trouble; kill the evil spirit, however greatly it grows.
4.3.15 Be kindly toward these songs, Agni; touch these prizes with our thoughts, hero.Accept our prayers too, Angiras; let praise, carried by the gods, join you.
4.3.16 I have spoken all these secret sayings to you who know them, maker Agni:Wise words and songs of the poet, with thoughts and hymns.
Hymn 4.4 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: Agni, killer of evil spirits. Meter: Trishtubh.
4.4.1 Spread your power like a broad snare; go forth strong as a king on an elephant.Quickly following the snare, shoot your hottest missiles and pierce the evil spirits.
4.4.2 Your swift whirling flames fly; touch them boldly as you burn.Agni, release burning sparks from your tongue in all directions, unbound and flying.
4.4.3 Send out watchers everywhere; be our swift, undefeated protector.Agni, let no evil schemer, near or far, dare disturb you or us.
4.4.4 Rise up, Agni, and stretch out against them; burn our enemies with your sharp weapons.Whoever has made an attack on us, burn him low like a dry log.
4.4.5 Stand tall and shoot back; show your divine powers for us, Agni.Bring down the strong limbs of those driven by sorcery; destroy enemies, kinsmen and strangers alike.
4.4.6 Youngest one, whoever knows your kindness has opened a path for the singer.For him the noble god will light up all the doors to good days, riches and splendors.
4.4.7 Agni, let the one who tries to please you with constant oblations and hymnsIn his home all his life have good fortune, give generously and enjoy good days.
4.4.8 I sing your favor aloud; let this song grow old with you here.With fine horses and chariots let us honor you; keep our power each day.
4.4.9 May many visit you here, shining at dawn and dusk each day.With glad hearts may we honor you as we rejoice in the people's splendor.
4.4.10 Whoever comes to you with fine horses, good gold and a chariot rich in goods, Agni,You become that person's protector and friend, for he has welcomed you as a guest each day.
4.4.11 I break through greatness with words of kinship; this has come to me from my father Gotama.Know these words of ours, youngest priest, wise household god.
4.4.12 Your guardians never sleep, cross all obstacles, are kindly and tireless, without malice or exhaustion.Let them sit beside us together and protect us, unfailing Agni.
4.4.13 Your guardians saw the blind son of Mamata and saved him from trouble, Agni.The all-knowing one protected them in return; enemies who wanted to hurt them could not succeed.
4.4.14 Protected by you, may we and our companions win prizes under your guidance.Bring both parties' claims to truth; make your work without shame.
4.4.15 We honor you with this fuel, Agni; accept our hymn as it is spoken.Burn the hateful spirits, guard us against deceit, blame and a friend's betrayal.
Hymn 4.5 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: Agni Vaishvanara. Meter: Trishtubh.
4.5.1 How shall we offer together to generous Agni Vaishvanara, who shines greatly?With a full and mighty proclamation he supports the upper world like a prop.
4.5.2 Do not criticize this great gift the self-ruling god gave me, a mortal.Agni Vaishvanara is immortal, wise for the simple, discerning, the greatest of men and mighty.
4.5.3 May I have two portions of ritual grass; great, with sharp points, the strong bull has a thousand seeds.Having found the hidden track of the cow, Agni proclaimed a thought to me.
4.5.4 Sharp-jawed Agni will devour those who break Varuna's lawWith his hottest flame: those who violate the dear, fixed ordinances of watchful Mitra.
4.5.5 Like women without brothers, separated from husbands, like evil wives of a hostile lord,Being wicked, dishonest and untrue, they produced this deep track.
4.5.6 Agni, why is this heavy thought of mine, this heavy burden, offered to you for purification?You sustain the great, bold, deep height with the sevenfold offering.
4.5.7 Let my purifying thought reach him, the same one, with shared purpose and care.On the mottled cow's hide at the front, a lovely creature with a tawny form was set.
4.5.8 What of this word of mine deserves speaking? They speak quietly of a secret hidden thing.When they opened the pen holding the bright cows, he guards the beloved, foremost track of the bird.
4.5.9 Here is that great, immense face of the ancient cow that goes with the shining ones.Shining at the place of truth, the swift one, hurrying, found it hidden.
4.5.10 Then, shining beside his two parents, he found the beautiful secret of the speckled cow.Near the mother's highest place sat the tongue of the bull with its eager flame.
4.5.11 Asked with respect, I will speak the truth, Jatavedas, as far as I can through your help.You rule all of this: whatever is in heaven and whatever wealth is on earth.
4.5.12 What is its wealth for us, what its treasure? Tell us clearly, knowing Jatavedas.We have not reached its hidden highest path, its distant place or its foundations.
4.5.13 What is the boundary, what are the signs, what is good? When will we reach the prize like swift runners?When will the divine Dawns, wives of the immortal one, stretch out for us in the color of the sun?
4.5.14 Those without substance, thirsty, with empty words and no grounds for trust,What can they say here about you, Agni? Let them sit without weapons and keep company.
4.5.15 The bright face of this strong fire, kindled at home, shone in beauty.Wearing brightness, beautiful to see, he shone like a dwelling rich in wealth.
Hymn 4.6 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: Agni. Meter: Trishtubh.
4.6.1 Rise up for our sacrifice, Agni the priest, most worthy of worship among the gods.You reach every prayer; you are the thought behind the sages' insights.
4.6.2 Agni, the unconfused priest, sat among the people, delightful and wise at their gatherings.Like Savitar he raised his light; he propped his smoke against the sky like a pillar.
4.6.3 As the well-fed, generous one dripping with ghee moves clockwise toward the gods,A well-placed, strong post lifts its newly born beam and marks the animal.
4.6.4 With the ritual grass spread and Agni kindled, the priest stood upright, pleased with the sacrifice.Agni goes around as guardian of the herd and priest, advancing to the threefold station from long ago.
4.6.5 Agni, the joyful priest of measured course, with sweet words and true order, moves around by himself.His flames run like racing horses; all beings fear him when he blazes up.
4.6.6 Beautiful is the sight of your fine face, Agni, lovely though you are fierce and spread everywhere.Darkness cannot cover your flame, nor can those who harm you stain your body.
4.6.7 No one can bar his birth from its source; not even his mother and father can stop him now.Then Agni, pure and well placed like Mitra, shines among human peoples.
4.6.8 The ten sisters together brought Agni to birth among human peoples,Awaking at dawn, as Atharvan did, bright-breathed and sharp as an axe's edge.
4.6.9 Your golden horses, Agni, bathed in ghee, your red ones, straight-moving and beautiful,Your reddish, strong, straight-driving horses call the gods to the sacrifice, wondrous one.
4.6.10 Those powerful, tireless flames of yours move about fiercely, Agni,Like falcons intent on their aim, loud as the troop of Maruts.
4.6.11 A prayer has been made for you as you are kindled; the hymn praises you and sets out the offering.People took their seats before Agni the priest, honoring the welcome of the living one.
Hymn 4.7 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: Agni. Meter: Trishtubh, Jagati, Anushtubh.
4.7.1 He was first placed here by those who establish the rite, the priest most fit for worship at sacrifices.Apnavana and the Bhrigus made him shine in the woods, wonderful and mighty, for each community.
4.7.2 Agni, when will awareness of you, the god, come to us without interruption?For mortals have taken hold of you, the one to praise among their peoples.
4.7.3 They see the truthful, discerning one as they see the sky through stars,The maker of every sacrifice, in every home.
4.7.4 The descendants of the Bhrigus brought him, the swift messenger of Vivasvat,To all peoples, a sign for every community of people.
4.7.5 They seated him as priest in due order, the one who knows,The delightful one with pure flames, best at worship, in his seven stations.
4.7.6 They found him among the enduring mothers, sheltered in the wood,Though he was hidden there, bright and easy to find for anyone seeking him.
4.7.7 When the gods rejoiced in the shared udder, in the home of truth where the two are parted,Great Agni, receiving respectful offerings, will always go to the sacrifice, faithful to truth.
4.7.8 You know the duties of sacrifice and understand both ends of heaven and earth.As messenger you go forward from ancient days, knowing the ways up to heaven better than anyone.
4.7.9 Your moving flame has a black trail, while its front shines red: one of your many forms.When the unwedded ones bear the child, you become a messenger the moment you are born.
4.7.10 The strength of the newborn is seen when the wind blows along his flame.He spreads his sharp tongue through the brush and bites even solid food with his jaws.
4.7.11 When he quickly consumes food with his quick tongue, mighty Agni becomes a swift messenger.Rushing on, he follows the wind's course, urged forward like a fast racing horse.
Hymn 4.8 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: Agni. Meter: Gayatri.
4.8.1 With song I prepare the immortal messenger who knows everything,Who carries offerings and is best at sacrifice.
4.8.2 For he knows where wealth is placed and the great ascent to heaven.He will bring the gods here.
4.8.3 This god knows the approach to the gods in the home of one who keeps the right order.He gives even precious treasures.
4.8.4 As priest and messenger, he moves between places with understanding.He knows the way up to heaven.
4.8.5 May we be among those who have given offerings to Agni,Those who nourish and kindle him.
4.8.6 Those who have honored Agni are spoken of far and wide,Having won wealth and strong sons.
4.8.7 May the wealth so many want come to us every day.May prizes come our way.
4.8.8 He is the wise one among human peoples.With strength he shoots past them as if with a swift arrow.
Hymn 4.9 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: Agni. Meter: Gayatri.
4.9.1 Be kind, Agni; you are great, and have come to this people who seek the godsTo sit on the ritual grass.
4.9.2 Immortal and hard to resist among human communities,He became the messenger of them all.
4.9.3 He is led around the place as the welcome priest at daytime rites.He also sits as the priest who purifies.
4.9.4 Agni also serves as the priest's wife at the rite and as master of the house at home.He sits as the priest who recites the prayers too.
4.9.5 You attend those performing the rite, speaking on behalf of the people,And attend the offerings of human beings.
4.9.6 You perform the messenger's work for anyone whose sacrifice pleases you,Carrying the mortal person's offering.
4.9.7 Accept our sacrifice, Angiras, and our act of worship.Listen to our call.
4.9.8 May your chariot, hard to stop, reach us from every side,The chariot with which you protect those who give.
Hymn 4.10 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: Agni. Meter: Pankti, Ushnih.
4.10.1 Agni, let us gain your power today with songs, like a horse,A welcome purpose that touches the heart, with our calls to you.
4.10.2 For you, Agni, have become the driver of great truth,Of good purpose and sound judgment.
4.10.3 Come toward us with these songs like the light of the sun,Agni, with every face of yours kindly disposed to us.
4.10.4 With these words praising you, Agni, let us serve you today.Your mighty sounds thunder like those of heaven.
4.10.5 Your appearance is sweetest, Agni, by day and even by night.It shines nearby like gold in its beauty.
4.10.6 Your body is spotless, like purified ghee, like clean gold.It shines like a golden ornament, self-sustaining one.
4.10.7 For you drive even an old hatred away from a mortal, Agni,Away from the person sacrificing, keeper of truth.
4.10.8 Let our friendships with you be good, Agni, like brothers among the gods.May that bond be our center in this common home and source of nourishment.
Hymn 4.11 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: Agni. Meter: Trishtubh.
4.11.1 Your face, powerful Agni, shines beautifully close to the sun.Its reddish look is visible even at night; your unsinged form is food for the eye.
4.11.2 Open a way for the singer's thought, Agni, praised with fervor, born in many places.When you join all the bright gods, give us this abundant and very great thought.
4.11.3 From you, Agni, come poems, thoughts, hymns that win success.From you comes wealth marked by heroic children for the mortal who worships with thought.
4.11.4 From you comes the far-ranging horse that brings prizes, helps in battle, and has real strength.From you comes wealth sent by the gods and bringing joy; from you the swift, eager racehorse, Agni.
4.11.5 Mortals seeking the gods first honor you, Agni, immortal god with a pleasing tongue.With prayers they welcome you, far from hatred, wise master of the house who stays at home.
4.11.6 Keep stupidity far from us, and trouble far away, and every evil thought you guard us against.At night be kind, Agni, son of strength; as a god, stay with the one you protect for well-being.
Hymn 4.12 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: Agni. Meter: Trishtubh.
4.12.1 Whoever kindles you, Agni, with the ladle ready and makes you food three times in a day,May that person rise to glory through your wise purpose, Jatavedas, and overcome all opposition.
4.12.2 Whoever works to bring your fuel, Agni, honoring your great face,That person, kindling you at night and dawn, grows rich and defeats enemies.
4.12.3 Agni rules over great royal power, over prizes and the finest wealth.The youngest, self-sustaining one gives treasure to the mortal who serves him without fail.
4.12.4 Whatever wrong we have done against you, youngest one, out of human ignorance or unthinking acts,Make us free of guilt before Aditi; loosen our offenses in every direction, Agni.
4.12.5 Even in the face of a great offense, whether it comes from gods or mortals, Agni,May we who are your friends never suffer harm. Give peace and safety to our children and their children.
4.12.6 As once, Vasus worthy of worship, you freed a cow caught by its foot,So free us from distress, and carry our life further on, Agni.
Hymn 4.13 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: Agni. Meter: Trishtubh.
4.13.1 Agni appeared before the bright Dawns, gladly preparing a store of treasure.Come, Ashvins, doers of good, to our home; the god Surya rises with light.
4.13.2 The god Savitar raised his beam high, a moving drop, like a fighter seeking cattle.Varuna and Mitra follow the ordinance when they lift Surya into the sky.
4.13.3 They made him to drive away darkness, seeking their goal with a secure home and no need of help.Seven great golden mares carry Surya, who watches the whole moving world.
4.13.4 You move with your strongest carriers, unwinding the dark thread, god, and spreading out your covering.The moving rays of Surya drive darkness into the waters as if it were a hide.
4.13.5 Neither propped up nor tied down, how does he not fall, tilted downward and upward?By what power does he travel? Who has seen it? The pillar of heaven guards the sky in place.
Hymn 4.14 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: Agni. Meter: Trishtubh.
4.14.1 Agni Jatavedas appeared before the Dawns, the god shining in his glory.Come here to this sacrifice of ours, wide-ranging Ashvins, on your chariot.
4.14.2 God Savitar raised his banner, making light for every living thing.Surya filled heaven, earth, and the space between, shining with his rays.
4.14.3 The red mares bring her with their light; great and varied, she shines with her rays.The goddess Ushas comes on her well-yoked chariot, waking us to good fortune.
4.14.4 Let your strongest horses draw you here on your chariots at daybreak, Ashvins.These drinks of soma are here for you to enjoy; rejoice at this sacrifice, strong ones.
4.14.5 Neither propped up nor tied down, how does he not fall, tilted downward and upward?By what power does he travel? Who has seen it? The pillar of heaven guards the sky in place.
Hymn 4.15 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: Agni, Somaka Sahadevya, the Ashvins. Meter: Gayatri.
4.15.1 Agni is led around our sacrifice as priest and as a powerful horse,The god who deserves worship among the gods.
4.15.2 Agni goes around the threefold sacrifice like a chariot driver,Bringing food to the gods.
4.15.3 Agni, lord of prizes and a wise man, has gone around the offerings,Giving treasures to the giver.
4.15.4 This one who is kindled in the city of Srinjaya, at Daivavata's place,Is radiant and breaks the power of enemies.
4.15.5 A mortal who seeks help can gain command of this Agni,Whose jaws are sharp and who gives generously.
4.15.6 Each day they clean him like a prize-winning horse,Like a red child of heaven.
4.15.7 May the son of Sahadeva wake me with his two bay horses,Like one called to come and receive a gift.
4.15.8 And those two bay horses fit for sacrifice, from Sahadeva's son,I accepted at once as an offering.
4.15.9 Ashvins, gods, may this son of Sahadeva,Somaka, live long.
4.15.10 Ashvins, gods, make this son of SahadevaLive a long life.
Hymn 4.16 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: Indra. Meter: Trishtubh.
4.16.1 Let generous, true Indra, strong from pressed soma, come here; let his bay horses run toward us.We have pressed this well-prepared soma for him; let him come here to the singer for the meal.
4.16.2 Get down from your path, hero, to enjoy today's pressing here with us.Like the wise Ushanas he speaks a hymn, a song for one who knows divine power.
4.16.3 Like a poet finding a secret, he accomplished the sacred gatherings, the bull drinking the poured juice and singing.From heaven he brought forth the seven singers; even by day they praised him with insight.
4.16.4 When the sun's clear light was found through songs, when its great lights shone at dawn,He made the stubborn, blind darkness visible to men, most manly in helping them.
4.16.5 Indra, strong from the pressed soma, grew beyond measure and filled heaven and earth with his greatness.His greatness surpassed even these; he encompassed all living things.
4.16.6 Strong Indra, knowing every act of courage, released the waters with his willing companions.By their words they broke even the stone and opened the enclosure full of cattle, those eager ones.
4.16.7 You killed Vritra, who held the waters back; the earth knowingly helped your mace (the thunderbolt).You set the ocean waters flowing, bold hero, becoming their master by your strength.
4.16.8 When you split the rock and released the waters, much-invoked one, Sarama appeared first for you.Lead us to great reward, breaking open the cattle pens with the Angirases as we praise you.
4.16.9 Help the praying poet, whose mind is set on men and who asks for cattle and sunlight, generous one.When glory was called for, the Dasyu without prayers, skilled in deception, went down.
4.16.10 Come home with a mind set on killing Dasyus; let Kutsa find the friendship he desires with you.Sit together in your own place, looking alike; the woman who knows truth recognized you both.
4.16.11 You ride one chariot with Kutsa to help him, controlling the bay horses fast as the wind.The wise one wanted to win the prize fairly when he prepared for the battle ahead.
4.16.12 For Kutsa you brought down Shushna, who dried things up, and Kuyava at day's end along with his thousands.With Kutsa quickly crush the Dasyus; throw down the sun's wheel in battle.
4.16.13 For Rijishvan, son of Vidathin, you subdued Pipru, the swollen hunter.You laid low fifty thousand dark ones and broke their forts as age breaks a person.
4.16.14 Near the sun you show your form, revealing your immortal shape.Seeking strength like a great wild animal, you bear weapons as fearsome as a lion.
4.16.15 Those who want wealth have come to Indra, eager for the pressing and its gift of sunlight.They seek fame and work hard with hymns, finding a happy home and good-looking abundance.
4.16.16 Let us call upon Indra, so easy to invoke, who has performed these many heroic acts,Who quickly brings even a coveted prize to a singer like me and offers generous gifts.
4.16.17 When a sharp lightning bolt falls suddenly among people, hero,And the clash of enemies becomes fierce, watch over our bodies then.
4.16.18 You have protected Vamadeva's thoughts and been a friend without malice in the contest for prizes.We have followed your guidance; be generous to the singer everywhere.
4.16.19 With these men who look to you, Indra, these generous people in every battle,May we, facing enemies with glory like the sky, rejoice through many nights and autumns.
4.16.20 So we made a prayer for Indra, the strong bull, as the Bhrigus made a chariot.Let our friendship with him never break; may the powerful one guard our bodies.
4.16.21 Now that you are praised, Indra, pour food on your singer like rivers.A new prayer has been made for you, lord of bay horses; let us always drive with wisdom.
Hymn 4.17 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: Indra. Meter: Trishtubh, Viraj.
4.17.1 You are great, Indra; earth and sky acknowledged your rule and generosity.With strength you killed Vritra and released the rivers the serpent had swallowed.
4.17.2 At your birth heaven shook in fear of your force, and earth shook at your own anger.The firm mountains bent, deserts grew wet, and waters flowed.
4.17.3 He split the mountain by force and hurled his mace, openly showing his great power.Rejoicing, he killed Vritra with the mace, and the waters rushed along when their mighty foe was dead.
4.17.4 Heaven thought its son a fine hero; the maker of Indra did his finest workWhen he bore him with the sun's light and a fine mace, immovable as the earth beneath a seat.
4.17.5 Indra alone shakes the lands, the much-invoked king of peoples.All gladly follow the gift of the generous god they praise; this is true.
4.17.6 All the soma was his, and all the joys of the great one were his greatest joys.You alone became lord of wealth, Indra; you have supported all peoples in your gifts.
4.17.7 At your very birth, Indra, you overcame all peoples with your force.You cut apart with your mace the serpent that lay across the slope, generous one.
4.17.8 Indra strikes down all foes, is daring, strong, great and without limit, a bull with a good mace.He killed Vritra, won the prize, and, generous and rich, gives gifts.
4.17.9 This one drives away the opposition; he alone, the generous one, hears in contests.He brings and wins the prize. May we be dear to him as friends.
4.17.10 He is heard winning and killing; he wins cattle in battle too.When Indra truly displays his anger, everything firm and moving trembles at him.
4.17.11 Indra won the cows together, and gold and many horses as well.With these men, the most manly and his strong allies, he shares wealth and gathers treasure.
4.17.12 How much does Indra take from his mother, and how much from the father who gave him birth?Who drives his power on at sudden times, like wind driving thunderclouds?
4.17.13 You make the settled unsettled; the generous one raises clouds of dust at once.Like heaven breaking open with lightning, the generous one gives wealth to his singer.
4.17.14 He sent the sun's wheel onward and stopped the racing horse Etasha.Darkness approaches and swallows him in the depth of his own skin, in the home of the midair.
4.17.15 Like a priest sacrificing beside the dark river.
4.17.16 Poets who want cattle call on strong Indra as a friend, wanting horses and prizes.Wanting wives, we draw out the tireless giver's help, as water from a well.
4.17.17 Be our guardian, visibly our ally, watching and kind to those who press soma.Be our friend, a father more fatherly than fathers, and give us room to live and grow.
4.17.18 Be a friend and protector to those seeking friendship, Indra; give strength to the singer who praises you.For we have served you in times of need, honoring you with these works.
4.17.19 Praised is generous Indra when he alone kills many opponents who cannot be resisted.His singer is dear to him; neither gods nor mortals can keep a person from his protection.
4.17.20 Let generous, mighty Indra make our hopes real, supporting people without a rival.As king over peoples, grant us the great fame you give a singer.
4.17.21 Now that you are praised, Indra, pour food on your singer like rivers.A new prayer has been made for you, lord of bay horses; let us always drive with wisdom.
Hymn 4.18 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama; verse 1: Indra; second half of verse 4 and verse 7: Aditi. Deity: verse 1: Vamadeva; verses 2–4 and 8–13: Indra; second half of verse 4 and verse 7: Vamadeva. Meter: Trishtubh.
4.18.1 “This is the old, well-known path by which all the gods came to birth.By this path you too must be born when grown; do not make your mother fall that way.”
4.18.2 “I will not go out that way; it is hard to pass. I will go sideways through her flank.I have many tasks left to do. I will fight one and question another.”
4.18.3 He looked at his mother as she went away. “Will I not follow her? Surely I will follow her.”In Tvashtri's house Indra drank the soma pressed in bowls, worth a hundred prizes.
4.18.4 What special thing can he do, whom she carried a thousand months and many autumns?For none born before or born later has ever been his equal.
4.18.5 Thinking it a disgrace, the mother hid Indra, though he was full of strength.Then he rose of his own accord, clothed in brilliance; at birth he filled heaven and earth.
4.18.6 “These rush along crying loudly, calling to one another as if they knew the right order.Ask them what they are saying: which rock enclosure are the waters breaking?”
4.18.7 “What news do these waters tell him? Are they trying to blame Indra?My son has killed Vritra with a great weapon and set the rivers free.”
4.18.8 The young woman did not cast you away willingly, nor did Kushava swallow you willingly.The waters did not willingly show mercy to the child; Indra rose by his own strength.
4.18.9 Vyansa struck you on the jaws, generous one, though not willingly.Then, after being struck, you rose higher and crushed the Dasa's head with your weapon.
4.18.10 The mother cow bore you as a strong old bull, Indra, fierce and hard to challenge.The mother did not lick her calf, who wanted to find his own way forward.
4.18.11 The mother also called after her mighty son: “Son, these gods are leaving you.”Then, about to kill Vritra, Indra said, “Friend Vishnu, take a longer stride.”
4.18.12 Who made your mother a widow? Who wanted to kill you while you moved about?What god gave you mercy when you seized your father by the foot and crushed him?
4.18.13 In need, I cooked the entrails of a dog; I found no god to show me kindness.I saw my wife humiliated, and then the falcon brought me sweet drink.
Hymn 4.19 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: Indra. Meter: Trishtubh.
4.19.1 So, mace-bearing Indra, all the gods, easily called upon for help,Choose you alone, great, mighty, and grown beyond heaven and earth, to kill Vritra.
4.19.2 The gods released the waters like old horses; you became sovereign, Indra, born of truth.You killed the serpent stretched around the flood and dug channels for all its streams.
4.19.3 Indra, you found him insatiable, stretched out and unaware in deep sleep.With your mace you broke the serpent lying across seven slopes, limb from limb.
4.19.4 With force Indra shook the dry ground to its base as wind shakes the water.Wanting to show his strength, he broke the firm things and struck off the mountain peaks.
4.19.5 They rushed out like mothers to their children; like chariots the rocks went together.You filled the released waves, Indra, and opened the blocked rivers.
4.19.6 You stopped the surging flood with a word of respect, Indra,Making the great water, flowing with abundance, easy for Turviti and Vayya to cross.
4.19.7 He swelled the young rivers, who cried out like speakers shouting from the front and knew the right order.He filled the thirsty dry lands; Indra held back the barren rivers under their masters.
4.19.8 After many dawns and many autumns had been praised, he killed Vritra and released the rivers.Indra cut the blocked, bound channels through so they could flow over the earth.
4.19.9 Bay-horsed one, you carried away the ungiven son from his home with the help of ants.The blind man saw when he seized the serpent; the deaf man emerged, and the joints came together.
4.19.10 The informed poet speaks of your ancient deeds to one who knows.King, you performed one after another of your strong works, worthy of your own praise.
4.19.11 Now that you are praised, Indra, pour food on your singer like rivers.A new prayer has been made for you, lord of bay horses; let us always drive with wisdom.
Hymn 4.20 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: Indra. Meter: Trishtubh.
4.20.1 Let Indra come to us from far or near, fierce and bringing help when we need it.Strongest of men, with a mace in his arm, let him beat the fighters in the clash of battle.
4.20.2 Let Indra come toward us with his bay horses, bringing help and gifts.May the generous, mighty bearer of the mace stand with this sacrifice when we compete for prizes.
4.20.3 Put our sacrifice first, Indra, and win success for our purpose.Like a skilled gambler winning riches, mace-bearer, with you let us defeat our enemies in the contest.
4.20.4 Come close to us gladly, self-sustaining one, for the soma has been well pressed.Drink the sweet drink set before you, Indra, and enjoy the soma from the raised vessels.
4.20.5 I address much-invoked Indra, who grows with new poets like a tree heavy with ripe fruit,Who wins as with a hook and thinks of us as a young man thinks of a woman.
4.20.6 Indra is lofty and strong in himself like a mountain, born fierce and mighty from the beginning.He grasps the solid mace, fearsome as an old warrior, like a water-filled vessel loaded with treasure.
4.20.7 No one has ever stopped his birth or exhausted his generosity and gifts.Growing mightier, fierce one full of strength, give us wealth, much-invoked one.
4.20.8 You oversee the wealth and homes of peoples and open the cattle pen.You train men, lead in battles, and bring back great heaps of treasure.
4.20.9 By what power do we hear of this strongest one, doing so many things again and again?Most wise, he drives many troubles from the giver, then gives wealth to the singer.
4.20.10 Do not neglect us. Bring and grant us the gifts you give so freely to the giver.We praise you, Indra, speaking in this new hymn that asks for a gift.
4.20.11 Now that you are praised, Indra, pour food on your singer like rivers.A new prayer has been made for you, lord of bay horses; let us always drive with wisdom.
Hymn 4.21 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: Indra. Meter: Trishtubh.
4.21.1 Let Indra come here to help us, praised and sharing our feast, the hero.May he increase his many powers and make his rule grow overwhelming as the sky.
4.21.2 Praise here his manly deeds, those of the very glorious and generous one,Whose resolve dominates gatherings and who challenges peoples as a king.
4.21.3 Let Indra come quickly from heaven, earth, the sea, the rain-cloud,The sunlight, or the faraway home of truth, with the Maruts to help us.
4.21.4 Let us praise at our gatherings Indra, master of abundant, substantial wealth,Who wins among cattle-rich peoples with Vayu and boldly leads us toward better things.
4.21.5 Let the priest respectfully raise his voice in prayer, making speech for the sacrifice.Preparing many songs, let him bring Indra into our homes.
4.21.6 When the inspired ones sit in the shelter, reaching the rock where the eager ones hid the cattle,The priest, the great bearer for us in the enclosures, stands at the door of the house.
4.21.7 When the bull's strength accompanies him constantly, for the singer's support,And he is hidden where the eager ones keep the cattle, the prayer sets out for food and joy.
4.21.8 When he opens the covers of the mountain and fills the rivers' currents with water,He finds the cattle in the wild ox's hiding place, when wise men carry him to the prize.
4.21.9 Your hands are good, Indra, and your palms skillful, sending wealth to the one who praises you.Where do you sit? What makes you happy with us? What will you gladly give us?
4.21.10 So Indra, true sovereign of wealth, killed Vritra and gave space to Puru.Much-praised one, use your skill to bring us wealth; let me share your divine help.
4.21.11 Now that you are praised, Indra, pour food on your singer like rivers.A new prayer has been made for you, lord of bay horses; let us always drive with wisdom.
Hymn 4.22 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: Indra. Meter: Trishtubh.
4.22.1 What Indra likes and wants, may the great, powerful one do for us:Prayer, praise, soma, and hymns for the generous one, who carries the stone in strength.
4.22.2 A strong bull, most manly and skillful, hurled his four-cornered weapon with his arms.For beauty he sought the wool of the spotted sheep, whose joints he joined for friendship.
4.22.3 Born greatest of the gods, the god had great prizes and great power.Holding the shining mace in his arms, he shook heaven and earth by his might.
4.22.4 All the enclosures and many slopes shook; high heaven and earth trembled at his birth.The powerful one brought the two mothers near; winds sounded around him like men around a cow.
4.22.5 These great deeds of yours, Indra, should be declared at every pressing.Bold hero, you bravely attacked the serpent with your mace and strength.
4.22.6 All these deeds of yours are true, strong man; streams flow from the bull's udder.Then, afraid of you in your bull-like fury, the rivers rushed along quickly.
4.22.7 Then the divine sister rivers praised you with words of help, lord of bay horses.You released them from their bonds to flow along their long course.
4.22.8 The exhilarating drop has been pressed, as a river flows; the worker's task has power for you.From us toward you comes the light's gleaming beam, as a swift horse follows its reins.
4.22.9 Give us the highest, greatest strength, always, mighty conqueror.Make our obstacles easy to overcome; strike the hostile mortal with your weapon.
4.22.10 Listen to us alone, Indra, and bring us bright prizes.Give us every abundant food; be a giver of cows to us, generous one.
4.22.11 Now that you are praised, Indra, pour food on your singer like rivers.A new prayer has been made for you, lord of bay horses; let us always drive with wisdom.
Hymn 4.23 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: Indra, or truth in verses 8–10. Meter: Trishtubh.
4.23.1 How has the great one grown, and whose priest's sacrifice and soma has he enjoyed?Drinking gladly, taking pleasure in the pressed drink, the high one has grown eager for shining wealth.
4.23.2 What hero has joined his feast? Who has reached him with good thoughts?When is his wonderful help seen, when will it help the worshiper who works for it?
4.23.3 How does Indra hear when called? How does he hear and learn of this help?What are his many likenesses, and how can they call him a guardian of the singer?
4.23.4 How will a struggling worshiper obtain his wealth, thinking of him?Will the god become a knower of my truths, accepting respect when offered?
4.23.5 How and when at dawn did the god welcome the friendship of a mortal?How and when does he show friendship to friends who set their desire on him with a good team?
4.23.6 What food and friendship does he give his friends? When can we speak of our brotherhood?Beautiful are his forms for us to see; his shining gift is as bright as the sun and the cow.
4.23.7 He seeks to kill the treacherous oppressor without Indra; he sharpens his fierce weapons for the charge.Even when debts stand against us, the fierce one drove distant, unknown dawns away.
4.23.8 Truth has many sources of nourishment; thinking in truth destroys crookedness.Truth's voice pierces deaf ears, waking a human being to awareness.
4.23.9 Truth has firm foundations and many beautiful forms to show.Through truth they seek long-lasting food; through truth the cows entered truth.
4.23.10 One who holds to truth wins truth; truth's strength quickly seeks cows.For truth, the two wide, deep lands yield their finest milk.
4.23.11 Now that you are praised, Indra, pour food on your singer like rivers.A new prayer has been made for you, lord of bay horses; let us always drive with wisdom.
Hymn 4.24 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: Indra. Meter: Trishtubh, Anushtubh.
4.24.1 What fine praise will bring Indra, son of strength, here to give gifts?For the hero gives treasures to his singer and owns the cattle; he drives off our attackers, people.
4.24.2 He should be called and praised for killing Vritra; well-praised Indra truly gives gifts.The generous one makes room for the mortal who offers him pressed soma and prayers on his journey.
4.24.3 Men call him in the contest, giving up their lives to seek protection.When both sides come together and give everything, they fight to gain children and grandchildren.
4.24.4 People seek a plan in the harnessing of fierce powers, competing to win waters.When peoples turn to war, some at last call for Indra in battle.
4.24.5 Then some worship Indra's strength; the cook pours out his prepared cake.Then soma is mixed by the presser; then they are happy to worship the bull.
4.24.6 He makes room for the person who presses soma for Indra's pleasure.With one united mind they choose him and make him a friend in battles.
4.24.7 Whoever presses soma for Indra today, cooks dishes and roasts grain,Indra answers the devoted person's words, placing his bull's strength in that person.
4.24.8 When he sees a contest approaching, when the enemy has spotted a long battle,He shouts to his wife, to the strong one at home, sharpened by soma pressers.
4.24.9 He offered a greater price and got less; returning, unsold, he wished for a deal.He did not give the greater for the lesser; skillful people milk the poor dry and drive them onward.
4.24.10 Who will buy this Indra of mine for ten milk cows?When he has killed the obstacles, let him give Indra back to me.
4.24.11 Now that you are praised, Indra, pour food on your singer like rivers.A new prayer has been made for you, lord of bay horses; let us always drive with wisdom.
Hymn 4.25 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: Indra. Meter: Trishtubh.
4.25.1 What man today longs for the gods and wishes to enjoy Indra's friendship?Who, with fire kindled and soma pressed, asks for great help in the fight?
4.25.2 Who honors the one pleased with soma by speech, or seeks him when dawn comes?Who wants Indra as a partner, friend, and brother? Who seeks the wise one's help?
4.25.3 Who asks for the gods' help today? Who worships the Adityas, Aditi, and light?Whose pressed drops do the Ashvins, Indra, and Agni gladly drink together?
4.25.4 Agni will give shelter to the one who says, “Let us press for Indra,”And let him see the sun rise for a long time, serving the most manly of men.
4.25.5 Neither many nor few defeat that person; Aditi gives him broad protection.The worker and soma-presser are dear to Indra, and his helpful friend is dear to him.
4.25.6 Indra readily helps the brave presser who keeps working; he alone prepares his food.He is neither relative, friend, nor brother to a non-presser; he brings down the hard-to-help who speak against him.
4.25.7 Indra, drinker of pressed soma, will not make friends with a wealthy, stingy Pani who never presses it.He takes away that man's goods and strikes him naked; he stands alone with the presser who cooks for him.
4.25.8 Men far away, near, and in between call Indra; travelers and people at rest call Indra.Those at home, those fighting, and those seeking prizes call Indra.
Hymn 4.26 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama, or Indra in verses 1–3. Deity: Indra or the self in verses 1–3; the falcon in verses 4–7. Meter: Trishtubh.
4.26.1 “I was Manu and I was Surya; I am the wise poet Kakshivat.I prepared Kutsa, son of Arjuna; I am the poet Ushanas. Look at me.”
4.26.2 “I gave the earth to the Arya and rain to the mortal who offers gifts.I led out the roaring waters; the gods followed my guidance.”
4.26.3 “Rejoicing, I broke Shambara's ninety-nine forts.I gave the hundredth dwelling to Divodasa Atithigva for complete protection.”
4.26.4 Let the falcon rise above the other birds, Maruts; let it fly fast above other falcons.Without wheels, by its own power, the great-winged bird brought Manu the offering loved by the gods.
4.26.5 When it brought the trembling prize, it was released along broad paths, fast as thought.It flew quickly with sweet soma; the falcon won glory there as well.
4.26.6 The straight-flying falcon, holding the drop, brought exhilarating soma from far away.The bird grasped it and took it from the high heavens with the gods' help.
4.26.7 The falcon took and brought soma, along with a thousand and ten thousand pressings.There the wise one drove away enemies through soma's joy; the unwise became wise.
Hymn 4.27 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: the falcon, or Indra in verse 5. Meter: Trishtubh, Shakvari.
4.27.1 “While still in the womb I knew all the births of these gods.A hundred iron forts guarded me, but then I flew out with a falcon's speed.”
4.27.2 The bird did not carry me off at its own wish; it surpassed its opponents through strength and courage.The wise one drove enemies away from me and even crossed the winds in its great force.
4.27.3 When the falcon cried out from heaven and the wind carried the wise one along,Krishanu shot an arrow from his bow at it, aiming hard with all his heart.
4.27.4 The straight-flying falcon brought it from the high seat, as one brings Bhujyu to Indra.A feather of the bird fell during its journey along the path.
4.27.5 Then generous Indra took the white bowl, colored with milk and full of bright soma,Prepared by the priests, the first of the sweet drink, to drink for joy; the hero took it to drink for joy.
Hymn 4.28 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: Indra, or Indra and Soma. Meter: Trishtubh.
4.28.1 With you as ally, Soma, Indra made waters flow for Manu, your friend.He killed the serpent, set seven rivers free, and opened their blocked channels.
4.28.2 With you as ally, soma drop, Indra suddenly stopped the sun's wheel by force.As it moved above the great height, he laid the great deceiver down for all time.
4.28.3 Indra killed and Agni burned the Dasyus, soma drop, in the midday battle.In their hard-to-enter stronghold, the two of you with your skill killed many thousands with arrows.
4.28.4 You drove the Dasyus out of every place, Indra, and made the Dasa peoples powerless and without praise.You both pressed and crushed the enemies, winning honor with your weapons.
4.28.5 So truly, generous Indra and Soma, you split open the broad store of horses and cattle.You broke with stone what was shut and hidden and poured it out, breaking even the earth.
Hymn 4.29 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: Indra. Meter: Trishtubh.
4.29.1 Come to us, Indra, praised, with your bay horses, help, and prizes, enjoying the drink.Despite the enemy's many soma pressings, you come, sung with hymns and truly giving gifts.
4.29.2 The wise, manly one comes when called by soma pressers to the sacrifice.With good horses and no fear, he rejoices among the pressing heroes.
4.29.3 Let him hear in his ears so he may help win prizes; let him take the favored path to enjoy them.Growing mightier, powerful Indra will give us an easy crossing and freedom from fear.
4.29.4 He comes with help to the asking poet who calls and praises him,Mace in hand, bringing hundreds and thousands of swift draft horses along with him.
4.29.5 Protected by you, generous Indra, may we be rich, generous poets praising you,Sharing the great wealth of heaven, worth asking for, to give away in plenty.
Hymn 4.30 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: Indra; Indra and Ushas in verses 9–11. Meter: Gayatri, Anushtubh.
4.30.1 No one stands above you, Indra; no one is greater, killer of Vritra.No one else is like you.
4.30.2 All peoples turn around you like a wheel, always.You are always great and famous.
4.30.3 Even all the gods together could not defeat you, Indra,When you went past both day and night.
4.30.4 When you took the sun's wheel for Kutsa,So that he could fight those under pressure, Indra.
4.30.5 When you alone fought all the challenging gods,You killed those who opposed you, Indra.
4.30.6 And when for the mortal's sake, Indra, you released the sun,You helped Etasha with your powers.
4.30.7 Why are you so angry then, generous killer of Vritra?There you passed beyond Danu.
4.30.8 You did this strong and manly thing, Indra:You struck the young, hard-to-kill woman, the daughter of heaven.
4.30.9 Great Indra crushed Ushas, daughter of heaven,Though she was so great herself.
4.30.10 The Dawn fled in fear from her broken wagonWhen the bull smashed it apart.
4.30.11 Her wagon lies there, thoroughly crushed, by the Vipash river.She fled far away from it.
4.30.12 With your power, Indra, you also surrounded the Sindhu,Which had spread out over the land without a bank.
4.30.13 You boldly wiped out Shushna's store of goodsWhen you smashed his forts.
4.30.14 You knocked down Shambara, a Dasa and son of Kulitara,From a high mountain, Indra.
4.30.15 You killed hundreds of thousands of Varchin's DasasLike the five spokes fixed to a wheel.
4.30.16 You also brought back in your hymns, Indra of a hundred powers,The abandoned son of the unmarried woman.
4.30.17 And you, lord of power, knowing the way,Carried Turvasha and Yadu across without a swim.
4.30.18 And at once, Indra, you carried the Arya across the Sarayu,And killed Arna and Chitraratha.
4.30.19 You abandoned both the blind and the lame, killer of Vritra.That deed is not counted among your kindnesses.
4.30.20 Indra destroyed a hundred stone fortsFor generous Divodasa.
4.30.21 By his power Indra put thirty thousand Dasas to sleepFor Dabhiti's sake.
4.30.22 You remain the same, Indra, killer of Vritra and keeper of cattle,The one who has gathered all these things together.
4.30.23 Whatever strong and manly deed you do now, Indra,No one today can diminish it.
4.30.24 May the god Aryaman give you one good thing after another.May Pushan give good, Bhaga good, and the kind god good.
Hymn 4.31 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: Indra. Meter: Gayatri.
4.31.1 With what wonderful help will our ever-growing friend come here?With what most powerful protection?
4.31.2 Which drink will most delight you, true and greatest of generous ones,So you will break down even a strong storehouse of goods?
4.31.3 Help us, your friends and singers;Be with us through a hundred acts of help.
4.31.4 Come back to us like the turning wheel of a racehorse,With your teams for the peoples.
4.31.5 You travel down the slopes of our plans like a footstep,Sharing in the sun's radiance.
4.31.6 When your anger and your wheels are set together, Indra,They are set in you and in the sun.
4.31.7 They call you generous, lord of power,A tireless giver.
4.31.8 At once you give the one who works and presses somaEven abundant treasure.
4.31.9 Even a hundred opponents cannot hold back your giftsOr the acts you intend to perform.
4.31.10 Let your hundred kinds of help protect us, and your thousand kinds of help;Let every form of your support protect us.
4.31.11 Choose us here for friendship and well-being,For great wealth shining like heaven.
4.31.12 Always protect us, Indra, with abundant wealth;Protect us with every kind of help.
4.31.13 With fresh help, Indra, open for us the pens full of cattle,As a herder opens them.
4.31.14 Our chariot moves boldly, bright and impossible to turn back, Indra,Seeking cattle and horses.
4.31.15 Make our reputation highest among the gods, Surya,High above us as the sky.
Hymn 4.32 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: Indra; Indra's horses in verses 23–24. Meter: Gayatri.
4.32.1 Come here to our side, Indra, killer of Vritra,Great one, with powerful help.
4.32.2 You are a swift whirlwind, wonderful among wonders;You do wonderful things to help us.
4.32.3 Even with a small force of your friendsYou defeat the enemy swelling with power.
4.32.4 We are with you, Indra, and sing to you.Help each of us in turn.
4.32.5 Come to us, lord of the stone, with your wonderful help,Blameless and impossible to resist.
4.32.6 Let us be friends with someone like you, Indra, rich in cattle,Allies in the fierce contest for prizes.
4.32.7 You alone, Indra, control the prize of cattle.Give us plenty of food.
4.32.8 Nothing stops you, Indra, lover of song, when you wish to give giftsTo those who praise you.
4.32.9 The Gautamas have praised you with songs, Indra,Seeking your gifts in the fierce contest for prizes.
4.32.10 Let us tell of the acts of strength you performed rejoicing,When you attacked and broke the Dasa forts.
4.32.11 Wise men praise the manly deeds you performed,Indra, lover of song, at the soma pressings.
4.32.12 The Gautamas who bring praises have made you grow, Indra.Give them the fame of heroes.
4.32.13 You belong to all people, Indra, from ancient times;So we call upon you.
4.32.14 Come near us, generous one, and enjoy our drink,Indra, drinker of soma.
4.32.15 Let our hymn and our thoughts bring you here, Indra;Turn your bay horses this way.
4.32.16 Eat our offering cake and enjoy our songs,Like a man courting a woman.
4.32.17 We ask Indra for a thousand yoked horsesAnd a hundred vats of soma.
4.32.18 We call for hundreds of thousands of your cattle;Let your gifts come to us.
4.32.19 We ask you for ten jars of gold;You give generously, killer of Vritra.
4.32.20 Generous one, give us plenty; do not bring just a little.You want to give much, Indra.
4.32.21 You are famous for generosity in many places, hero, killer of Vritra.Share your gifts with us.
4.32.22 I praise your two brown horses, sharp-eyed descendant of the cattle winner.Do not let the cattle escape from us with them.
4.32.23 The two brown horses look lovely on their journeys,Like young girls at a small, new wooden post.
4.32.24 The two brown horses are enough for me when they go toward dawn,Enough when they go away from dawn; they never fail on their journeys.
Hymn 4.33 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: the Ribhus. Meter: Trishtubh.
4.33.1 I send my words to the Ribhus like a messenger, spread out my offering, and praise the white cow.Driven by wind, through swift work they quickly passed around the sky.
4.33.2 When the Ribhus made their old parents young again through skillful work,The wise ones became friends of the gods and brought strength to humankind.
4.33.3 They made their aged parents young again, though they had lain like old sacrificial posts.Let Vaja, Vibhvan, and Ribhu, together with Indra, sweet as honey, protect our sacrifice.
4.33.4 For a year the Ribhus guarded the cow; for a year they shaped her.For a year they carried her light; through these works they gained immortality.
4.33.5 The eldest said, “I will make two cups”; the middle one said, “We will make three.”The youngest said, “I will make four.” Tvashtri praised your words for that, Ribhus.
4.33.6 The men spoke truth and did just that; the Ribhus followed this plan by their own power.Tvashtri saw four shining cups, beautiful as days, and was amazed.
4.33.7 When the Ribhus slept for twelve days as guests of the unhidden one,They made the fields good, directed the rivers, and made dry ground grow plants and low places fill with water.
4.33.8 You made a smooth-running chariot fit for men, and a cow of every shape that helps everyone.Carve out wealth for us, Ribhus, with your own resources and your skilled hands.
4.33.9 The gods welcomed these men, who thought and worked with skill.Vaja became Indra's skilled worker, Ribhu the gods', and Vibhvan Varuna's.
4.33.10 You made two well-yoked horses for Indra, who rejoice at wise praises.Ribhus, grant us wealth and growing riches and keep us safe like friends.
4.33.11 The gods established today's drink and your enjoyment; friendship needs a person who has worked hard.Now at this third pressing, Ribhus, give us wealth.
Hymn 4.34 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: the Ribhus. Meter: Trishtubh.
4.34.1 Let Ribhu, Vibhvan, Vaja, and Indra come to this sacrifice to grant treasure.For the divine thought has set today's drink before you; gather for the joy it gives.
4.34.2 Knowing the time of your birth and the reward of prizes, rejoice with the seasons, Ribhus.Let your joys and generous thought come together; send us wealth and strong sons.
4.34.3 This sacrifice has been made for you, Ribhus, as from long ago you have taken your place among people.Come to enjoy it; the best of all prizes are now ready.
4.34.4 Today your treasure is ready for the mortal who serves and gives, men.Drink, Vajas and Ribhus; I give you the great third pressing to enjoy.
4.34.5 Come to us, Vajas and Ribhus, great men praised for your riches.The drinks offered to you at day's end have come home like cattle just born.
4.34.6 Come to this sacrifice, sons of strength, called here with respect.Drink the sweet drink together with Indra, you generous ones and keepers of treasure.
4.34.7 Drink soma together with Varuna, Indra, and with the Maruts, lover of songs.Join the first drinkers and the seasonal drinkers, the divine wives and keepers of treasure.
4.34.8 Rejoice together with the Adityas, Ribhus, and together with the mountains.Join divine Savitar and the treasure-bearing rivers.
4.34.9 You made the Ashvins' chariot, your parents, the cow for help, and the horses, Ribhus.You made supports and separated heaven and earth, Vibhvan's men, with your skillful hands.
4.34.10 You give wealth full of cattle, prizes, sons, goods, and abundant food.Give it to us, first to drink and rejoicing Ribhus, who praise gifts.
4.34.11 Let nothing be lost to you; we have not been careless at this sacrifice, Ribhus.Rejoice with Indra, the Maruts, and the royal gods, to grant treasure.
Hymn 4.35 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: the Ribhus. Meter: Trishtubh.
4.35.1 Come here, sons of strength, Ribhus descended from Sudhanvan; do not stay away.Here at this pressing your reward waits; let your joys follow Indra here.
4.35.2 The Ribhus' reward has come here; the well-pressed soma is ready to drink.Through good work and skill, you made four cups out of one.
4.35.3 You made four cups out of one, saying, “Learn to divide it, friend.”Then you entered the path of immortality, skilled Ribhus, joining the company of gods.
4.35.4 What material was that cup made from, that you divided into four with skill?Now press and drink the sweet soma, Ribhus, to enjoy this pressing.
4.35.5 By your skill you made your parents young and made a cup for the gods to drink from.With skill you made Indra's two bay horses, able to pull him, Ribhus rich in prizes.
4.35.6 For whoever presses you a strong drink at day's end for your enjoyment, Vajas,Shape wealth full of brave sons, Ribhus, strong ones rejoicing.
4.35.7 You drank the morning pressing, bay-horsed Indra; the midday pressing belongs to you alone.Drink with the treasure-giving Ribhus, the friends you made through their good work.
4.35.8 You became gods through skillful work and sat in heaven like falcons.Give us treasure, sons of strength, immortal descendants of Sudhanvan.
4.35.9 You made the third pressing into treasure through the work of your skilled hands.Here it is, poured out for you, Ribhus; drink with Indra's joys.
Hymn 4.36 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: the Ribhus. Meter: Jagati, Trishtubh.
4.36.1 Born without horses or reins, the praised three-wheeled chariot circles the air.That is your great divine achievement, Ribhus, as is nourishing heaven and earth.
4.36.2 You made a smooth-running, well-designed chariot that does not swerve, working from thought.We invite you, Vajas and Ribhus, to drink from this pressing.
4.36.3 Your fine achievement, Vajas, Ribhus, and Vibhvan, made you great among gods:You made your very old parents young again so they could travel.
4.36.4 You made four cups out of one and freed the cow from its skin by your thought.You then gained immortality among the gods; this deserves our praise, Vajas and Ribhus.
4.36.5 A person's wealth comes first in fame when it comes from the Ribhus, men known for prizes.Carved by Vibhvan, celebrated at gatherings, protected by the gods, that man knows many people.
4.36.6 He has a prizewinning horse and a poet's command of words; he is a warrior and archer, hard to overcome in battle.He has growing wealth and brave sons, the man favored by Vaja, Vibhvan, and the Ribhus.
4.36.7 The best visible honor has been laid on you; accept this praise, Vajas and Ribhus.You are thoughtful, skilled, and wise poets; with this prayer we invite you.
4.36.8 Wise Ribhus, beyond our own understanding, shape for us every manly form of nourishment,Bright prizes, finest strength and vigor, wealth, and a long life.
4.36.9 Here give us children and wealth; here shape for us the reputation that comes with sons.Give us that bright prize, Ribhus, through which we may outshine others.
Hymn 4.37 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: the Ribhus. Meter: Trishtubh, Anushtubh.
4.37.1 Come to our sacrifice, Vajas and Ribhus, gods, by the paths the gods travel,As you brought cheerful sacrifice among Manu's peoples on good days.
4.37.2 Let today's offerings, washed with ghee, delight your hearts and minds.The full pressed drinks will please you, and when drunk they will stir your skill and wisdom.
4.37.3 I offer you this praise three times, as the gods arranged, Vajas and Ribhus.Like Manu I offer soma to you among later peoples under the broad sky.
4.37.4 Your horses are well-fed, your chariots shine, and you wear iron helmets and beautiful ornaments.Sons of Indra, sons of strength, your first drink comes to you for enjoyment.
4.37.5 We call upon Ribhu and the Ribhus for wealth, with Vaja, our prize-winning ally,Together with Indra and the Ashvins, to win lasting success.
4.37.6 The mortal you and Indra protect, Ribhus,May win through thought, at the gathering of sacrifice and with his horse.
4.37.7 Open paths for our worship, Vajas and Ribhus.Praised generous ones, let all hopes be met for us.
4.37.8 Bring us that wealth, Vajas, Ribhus, Indra, and the Ashvins,Along with horses, to share plentiful gifts with people.
Hymn 4.38 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: Dadhikra; Heaven and Earth in verse 1. Meter: Trishtubh.
4.38.1 You two have given gifts before, including those Trasadasyu brought to the Purus.You gave them productive fields and overwhelming strength against the Dasyus.
4.38.2 You gave Dadhikra, the swift horse who drives off many enemies and serves every people,A straight-flying falcon, swift as a drop, working like a king and hero for men.
4.38.3 All the Purus rejoice over him as he races down a slope,Kicking with his feet, eager for the prize, leading chariots and rushing like the wind.
4.38.4 In battle he runs forward toward cattle, and secretly makes his way among them.He appears openly at gatherings, overcomes resistance, and moves among people.
4.38.5 The peoples shout after him in contests, as after a thief taking a cloak.He swoops low like a hungry falcon toward fame and a herd of cattle.
4.38.6 First he rushes forward, diving into the lines of chariots.Beautiful as a bride wearing a garland, he licks at the dust he has scattered around.
4.38.7 This strong horse, true to the right order, wants to prove himself in the contest.Moving fast among runners, the straight-flying one throws dust up over his brows.
4.38.8 His foes fear him as if heaven itself were thundering in anger.When he fights a thousand, fearsome and unstoppable, he makes ready for the clash.
4.38.9 People praise his forward rush, the speedy horse who crosses human settlements and defeats others.They say as they set off for battle, “Dadhikra has gone ahead of thousands.”
4.38.10 May Dadhikra spread his strength across the five peoples, like the sun spreading light over the waters.May the prize-winning horse, winner of thousands and hundreds, sweeten these words with honey.
Hymn 4.39 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: Dadhikra. Meter: Trishtubh, Anushtubh.
4.39.1 Let us praise swift Dadhikra and honor him along with Heaven and Earth.May the Dawns as they rise urge me onward; let him carry us past every difficulty.
4.39.2 I celebrate the mighty horse Dadhikra, full of purpose, strong and prized by many,Whom Mitra and Varuna gave to the Purus, shining like Agni and swift to cross distances.
4.39.3 May Aditi make free of guilt the person who honors the horse DadhikraAt sunrise when Agni is kindled, together with Mitra and Varuna.
4.39.4 As we ask for Dadhikra's great food and strength and praise the Maruts' good name,We call on Varuna, Mitra, Agni, and mace-armed Indra for our well-being.
4.39.5 Both sides call on him as they set out for the sacrifice, as they call on Indra.Mitra and Varuna gave us the horse Dadhikra to spur mortals on.
4.39.6 I have praised Dadhikra, the winning racehorse.May he make our mouths fragrant and carry our lives onward.
Hymn 4.40 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: Dadhikra, Surya in verse 5. Meter: Jagati, Trishtubh.
4.40.1 Let us celebrate Dadhikra now; may all the Dawns urge me on,With waters, Agni, Ushas, Surya, and victorious Brihaspati, son of Angiras.
4.40.2 Active, seeking cattle, serving, wanting fame and food, he runs through dawns.Running truly, flying fast, Dadhikra brings forth food, strength, and sunlight.
4.40.3 As he speeds along, his mane flies behind him like a bird's wing.Dadhikra crosses with such power and energy that he looks like a falcon in flight.
4.40.4 The horse speeds ahead, the bit in his mouth and fastenings at his neck and flank.Dadhikra pursues his purpose and snorts along the bends in the road.
4.40.5 A swan in pure light, a good one in the air, a priest at the altar, a guest in the home;Living among people, among the best, in truth and in the sky, born of waters, cows, truth, and mountain: truth itself.
Hymn 4.41 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: Indra and Varuna. Meter: Trishtubh.
4.41.1 Indra and Varuna, who wins your favor? The immortal offering song calls you like a priest.What thoughtful and respectful words of ours touch your hearts?
4.41.2 The mortal who has made you two gods friends through offerings, Indra and Varuna,Kills enemies and obstacles in battle and becomes famous through your great help.
4.41.3 You two will give treasure to those men who work for it, Indra and Varuna,When the two friends delight one another with pressed soma and fine offerings.
4.41.4 Indra and Varuna, powerful ones, direct the strongest shining weapon againstWhoever is malicious, preys on us, or plots harm; show your overwhelming strength against him.
4.41.5 Indra and Varuna, lead our thought as bulls lead the cow.Let this great cow give us a thousand streams of milk to help us reach safety.
4.41.6 For our children, their descendants, fields, sight of the sun, and strength among men,Stand by us here, marvelous Indra and Varuna, with help when trouble surrounds us.
4.41.7 We choose you for lasting help and close friendship, generous heroes,As our dear guardians and strong fathers who give us well-being when we seek cattle.
4.41.8 Our thoughts go to you for help as racers go to a contest, generous ones.They come to the soma like cows to a sight of beauty, my songs to Indra and thoughts to Varuna.
4.41.9 These thoughts of mine come to Indra and Varuna seeking wealth.Like those seeking goods, like quick messengers begging for fame, they approach you.
4.41.10 May we always control a flourishing supply of horses, chariots, and wealth.May you send teams of riches to us with new acts of help.
4.41.11 Come to us, great Indra and Varuna, with great help in our contest for prizes.When weapons fly in battle, may we be the ones who win your fight.
Hymn 4.42 — Seer: Trasadasyu Paurukutsya. Deity: Trasadasyu; Indra and Varuna in verses 7–10. Meter: Trishtubh.
4.42.1 “My royal rule is twofold, over the whole world, as the immortal gods support us.The gods follow Varuna's purpose; I rule the best people's fortified home.”
4.42.2 “I am King Varuna. The first divine powers have been placed in me.The gods follow Varuna's purpose; I rule the best people's fortified home.”
4.42.3 “I am Indra and Varuna; the two wide, deep regions are well made by my greatness.Like Tvashtri, knowing every being, I move and uphold heaven and earth.”
4.42.4 “I have filled the waters in their outpouring; I have held heaven in the home of truth.Through truth Aditi's son, keeper of truth, spread out the threefold earth.”
4.42.5 “Men with fine horses seeking prizes call on me; fighters call on me in battle.I win the contest; I am generous Indra, raising the dust with overwhelming strength.”
4.42.6 “I have done all these things; no one can resist my unmatched divine power.When soma and hymns fill me with joy, the two boundless realms tremble.”
4.42.7 “You know all beings and tell of them to Varuna, wise one.You are known for killing the obstacles; you released the dammed rivers, Indra.”
4.42.8 “Our fathers were there, the seven sages, when Durgaha was bound.They worshiped Trasadasyu, half divine, like Indra who breaks through obstacles.”
4.42.9 “Purukutsani served you with offerings and respect, Indra and Varuna.Then you gave her King Trasadasyu, half divine, a killer of obstacles.”
4.42.10 “May we win wealth and rejoice through our offering, gods, as cows rejoice in grass.Give us that unfailing cow for all our days, Indra and Varuna.”
Hymn 4.43 — Seers: Purumilha and Ajamila, sons of Suhotra. Deity: the Ashvins. Meter: Trishtubh.
4.43.1 Which god will hear our praise among those worthy of worship? Which one will welcome it?In whose heart among immortals shall we place this fine, precious song that calls easily?
4.43.2 Who will be kind? Which god comes fastest and does the most good?Whose chariot, they say, has fast-running horses, the one Surya's daughter chose?
4.43.3 You travel quickly through all the days, powerful as Indra in the night.Born of heaven, heavenly birds, which of your skills makes you most skillful?
4.43.4 What can compare to you? How will you come when called, Ashvins?Who can rival your greatness? Sweet and skillful ones, protect us with your help.
4.43.5 Your wide chariot circles the sky as it turns from the sea.Sweet ones, rain sweetness on it, while ripe provisions feed you both.
4.43.6 The Sindhu washed your horses with flowing water; ruddy birds came around them in the sunlight.That fast journey of yours is well known, the one on which you became husbands of Surya's daughter.
4.43.7 When I offer the same shared gift to both of you here, may your kindness bring us treasures.Protect your singer, Ashvins; my longing rests with you both.
Hymn 4.44 — Seers: Purumilha and Ajamila, sons of Suhotra. Deity: the Ashvins. Meter: Trishtubh.
4.44.1 We call upon your chariot today, Ashvins, wide-ranging and meeting the light,Which carries Surya's daughter, offers room to live, carries songs, and seeks many treasures.
4.44.2 You win that divine beauty through your skills, children of heaven, Ashvins.Food gathers around your beautiful form as your strong horses pull your chariot.
4.44.3 Who will make you offerings today for help, the pressed drink, or praise?What person holding to the ancient truth has respectfully called you, Ashvins?
4.44.4 Come to this sacrifice in your golden chariot that reaches many places, Ashvins.Drink the sweet soma and give treasure to the one who serves you.
4.44.5 Come from heaven or earth in your smoothly rolling golden chariot.Do not let others seeking the gods hold you back when I have joined myself to your ancient bond.
4.44.6 Now make our wealth great and full of sons, skillful Ashvins, among all of us.The men of the Ajamila family have brought their songs and shared praise to you.
4.44.7 When I offer the same shared gift to both of you here, may your kindness bring us treasures.Protect your singer, Ashvins; my longing rests with you both.
Hymn 4.45 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: the Ashvins. Meter: Jagati, Trishtubh.
4.45.1 The light rises and the chariot is yoked, circling at the top of the sky.On it sit three paired provisions; the fourth container overflows with honey.
4.45.2 At dawn your honey-filled provisions rise, horses yoked to your chariot.They uncover the surrounding darkness and spread bright sunlight across the air.
4.45.3 Drink honey with honey-drinking mouths and yoke your chariot to the sweet drink.Fill the turning roads with honey and carry the vessel full of honey, Ashvins.
4.45.4 Your tireless golden-winged swans, full of honey, call out as they wake at dawn.Flying high, they bring joy and touch joy, like flies seeking honey as you go to the pressings.
4.45.5 Well-tended, honey-filled fires glow at dawn, Ashvins,When the quick, sharp-eyed man with clean hands has pressed sweet soma with stones.
4.45.6 Moving through the days with eager thirst, they spread bright sunlight across the air.Even the sun sets his horses in motion; you know all the roads by your own power.
4.45.7 I have spoken a thoughtful prayer to you, Ashvins; your chariot has fine horses and does not grow old.With it you quickly cross the regions to the generous host bringing an offering.
Hymn 4.46 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama, or Indra in verses 1–3. Deity: Indra and Vayu; Vayu in verse 1. Meter: Gayatri.
4.46.1 Drink first of the sweet pressed drinks at the daytime rites, Vayu,For you are the first to drink.
4.46.2 With a hundred forms of help, your teams and Indra as your charioteer,Vayu, satisfy yourselves with the pressed drink.
4.46.3 Let a thousand bay horses bring you both, Indra and Vayu,Here to the offering to drink soma.
4.46.4 You two ride a well-prepared chariot with a golden seat,Indra and Vayu, reaching to the sky.
4.46.5 Come to the giver in a strong and roomy chariot;Come here, Indra and Vayu.
4.46.6 This soma has been pressed, Indra and Vayu; drink it togetherWith the gods at the giver's home.
4.46.7 Let your arrival and the unharnessing of your horses happen here, Indra and Vayu,Here where you will drink soma.
Hymn 4.47 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: Indra and Vayu; Vayu in verse 1. Meter: Anushtubh.
4.47.1 The bright first drink of sweet soma is offered to you at daytime rites, Vayu.Come to drink it, god worth asking for, with your team of horses.
4.47.2 You and Indra deserve to drink this soma, Vayu.For the drops go toward you both as waters flow downhill together.
4.47.3 Vayu and Indra, lords of strength and power, come on the same chariot,With your horses, to help us and drink soma.
4.47.4 You have horses many people desire, men, ready for the giver.Harness them for us to bring the sacrifice, Indra and Vayu.
Hymn 4.48 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: Vayu. Meter: Anushtubh.
4.48.1 The offerings are spread out, guarded like rich gifts of the enemy.Vayu, come in your shining chariot to drink the pressed soma.
4.48.2 Driving away hostile speech, with teams of horses and Indra as charioteer,Vayu, come in your shining chariot to drink the pressed soma.
4.48.3 The two dark, treasure-bearing ones are yoked, marked in every color.Vayu, come in your shining chariot to drink the pressed soma.
4.48.4 Let ninety-nine horses yoked by thought carry you.Vayu, come in your shining chariot to drink the pressed soma.
4.48.5 Yoke a hundred strong bay horses for yourself, Vayu,Or let your thousand-horse chariot come in its strength.
Hymn 4.49 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: Indra and Brihaspati. Meter: Gayatri.
4.49.1 This beloved offering is before you, Indra and Brihaspati.Hymns and songs of joy are sung to you.
4.49.2 This soma is poured out for you, Indra and Brihaspati,Sweet to drink and enjoy.
4.49.3 Come to our house, Indra and Brihaspati,Drinkers of soma, to drink soma.
4.49.4 Give us wealth, Indra and Brihaspati, with a hundred cows,With horses and a thousand more.
4.49.5 At the pressing we call on you with songs, Indra and Brihaspati,To drink this soma.
4.49.6 Drink soma at the giver's house, Indra and Brihaspati;Take delight there in your home.
Hymn 4.50 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: Brihaspati; Indra and Brihaspati in verses 10–11. Meter: Trishtubh, Jagati.
4.50.1 Brihaspati, established in three places, propped up the ends of the earth by force with his roar.Ancient wise poets thinking of him placed this one with the pleasant tongue before them.
4.50.2 They spread your fine insight around us, Brihaspati, shaking and rejoicing.Protect the spring of this abundant, swelling, unfailing stream.
4.50.3 From the farthest distance, Brihaspati, those who touch truth have settled near you.Wells dug for you, milked from the rock, drip sweetness all around in abundance.
4.50.4 At his first birth in the highest sky of the great light, Brihaspati,Seven-mouthed and born in many places, drove out darkness with his seven rays and roar.
4.50.5 With his well-praising group of singers he broke Vala's hard enclosure by his roar.Brihaspati, who brings offerings, drove out the lowing cattle with a shout.
4.50.6 Let us worship him, the father and strong god of all, with sacrifices, respect, and offerings.Brihaspati, let us have good children and brave sons and control our own wealth.
4.50.7 That man stands as king over all his enemies through power and courageWho honors and praises Brihaspati, supporting him well and giving him the first share.
4.50.8 He lives settled in his own home, and abundance keeps flowing for him.Peoples bow freely to the king whose priest goes ahead of him.
4.50.9 He wins treasure that no one can resist, both from enemies and from his own people.The gods protect the king who makes room for the priest seeking help.
4.50.10 Drink soma together at this sacrifice, Indra and Brihaspati, enjoying it, rich in strength.Let the drops enter you both; give us wealth full of brave children.
4.50.11 Brihaspati and Indra, increase our strength together, and let us enjoy your favor.Help our thoughts and wake abundant gifts; crush the hostility of hostile men.
Hymn 4.51 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: Ushas. Meter: Trishtubh.
4.51.1 That many-colored light has risen in the east with its signs out of darkness.Now the shining daughters of heaven, the Dawns, make a path for people.
4.51.2 The bright Dawns stand in front like posts placed at sacrifices.As they rise pure and shining, they open the doors of darkness's enclosure.
4.51.3 The generous Dawns rise today, waking givers to grant gifts.Let the Panis sleep without seeing, unaware in the middle of darkness.
4.51.4 Goddesses, will your journey today be old or new?With it you shone, wealthy, for the nine Angirases, the ten Angirases, and the seven-mouthed one.
4.51.5 With horses yoked in the right order, divine Dawns, you pass through the worlds at once.You wake the sleeping to life and movement, both those with two feet and those with four.
4.51.6 Which one is ancient? In which dawn did they arrange the Ribhus' works?As the bright Dawns move in beauty, alike and ageless, we cannot distinguish them.
4.51.7 Those Dawns in the past were good, born of truth and bringing glorious help.The person who worshiped, labored with hymns, and praised them quickly gained wealth.
4.51.8 They travel alike in front, alike in their reach and spread.Awake at the place of truth, the goddess Dawns grow old like cattle released from their pen.
4.51.9 The Dawns travel alike in form and color, without marks of aging.With shining, spotless bodies they cover the great darkness with their brightness.
4.51.10 Shining daughters of heaven, give us wealth with children, goddesses.Waking to your kindly gifts, may we have brave sons.
4.51.11 Shining daughters of heaven, Dawns, I call to you as the sign of sacrifice.Let us be famous among peoples; may Heaven and goddess Earth grant that.
Hymn 4.52 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: Ushas. Meter: Gayatri.
4.52.1 That kind woman, daughter of heaven,Appears at dawn after her sister.
4.52.2 Red and lovely as a mare, mother of cattle and keeper of truth,Ushas has become the Ashvins' friend.
4.52.3 You are the Ashvins' friend and the mother of cows,Ushas; you also rule over riches.
4.52.4 We have greeted you with songs, knowing one full of kind words,You who drive hatred away.
4.52.5 Your fine rays appear like cattle released from the pen.Ushas fills the wide expanse with light.
4.52.6 Radiant one, filling the sky and turning darkness away with light,Follow your own way, Ushas.
4.52.7 You stretch rays across heaven and the wide, dear sky between,Ushas, with your bright flame.
Hymn 4.53 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: Savitar. Meter: Jagati.
4.53.1 We choose the great, precious protection of wise, divine Savitar,The shelter he himself grants the giver; may the great god bring it to us with his daylight.
4.53.2 The wise supporter of heaven and lord of living beings puts on his yellow robe.Savitar, watching closely, spreading out and filling space, brings the happiness we praise.
4.53.3 The god fills the regions of sky and earth, speaking according to his own law.Savitar stretches out his arms in his work, setting the moving world to rest or setting it in motion with daylight.
4.53.4 Invincible Savitar watches over living things and guards his ordinances.With arms stretched out for all creatures, true to his word, he rules the great course.
4.53.5 In his greatness Savitar surrounds three spaces in the air, three regions and three lights.He fills three heavens and three earths and protects us by himself with three ordinances.
4.53.6 The god Savitar, whose favor is great, sets in motion and brings to rest both moving and still things.May he grant our home shelter against trouble, guarded threefold.
4.53.7 Let the god come with the seasons and grow our household; let Savitar give us food and good children.May he sustain us through nights and days and provide us wealth with children.
Hymn 4.54 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: Savitar. Meter: Jagati, Trishtubh.
4.54.1 Now divine Savitar should be praised by us and called upon by men today.He shares out treasures among human beings; may he give us the best wealth here.
4.54.2 To the gods, worthy of sacrifice, you first grant immortality and its best share.Then, Savitar, you open up successive lives to human beings.
4.54.3 Whatever wrong we have done without thinking among divine people, through poor judgment or human power,Among gods or people, Savitar, make us free of guilt here.
4.54.4 The divine Savitar's work cannot fail, since he upholds the entire world.As he moves along earth's broad space and heaven's summit, what he sets in motion is real.
4.54.5 You send these homes, led by Indra, out from the great mountains.Just as they fly out, they settle again at your command, Savitar.
4.54.6 May your three daily acts of setting in motion give us good fortune day after day, Savitar.May Indra, Heaven and Earth, the river with waters, and Aditi with the Adityas give us shelter.
Hymn 4.55 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: the All-Gods. Meter: Trishtubh, Gayatri.
4.55.1 Which of you will protect us, Vasus? Heaven and Earth and Aditi, keep us safe.Mitra and Varuna, who can guard us from a stronger mortal? Which gods make room at your sacrifice?
4.55.2 Those who praised the ancient homes rose up as the wise spread light.The organizers, who think in truth, placed them there tirelessly, shining with wonder.
4.55.3 I praise Aditi of the household and the river with songs, asking the goddess for well-being and friendship.May Dawn and Night, both secure, protect us on both days.
4.55.4 Aryaman and Varuna know the path; Agni, lord of food, knows the way to good fortune.Indra and Vishnu, praised like men, give us shelter and strong protection.
4.55.5 We ask for the help of the mountain, the Maruts, the god who guards us, and bountiful Bhaga.May Mitra protect us from the trouble people cause and from trouble caused by friends.
4.55.6 Let Heaven and Earth be praised now with Ahi Budhnya and these offerings.As seekers go toward the ocean, the heated rivers opened their path.
4.55.7 May goddess Aditi protect us with the gods; may the guarding god never fail to save us.For we cannot bear to lose the protection of Mitra and Varuna, or the shelter of Agni.
4.55.8 Agni rules over riches and great good fortune.May he give them to us.
4.55.9 Generous Ushas, bring us many desirable things with your kind words,Rich in prizes as you are.
4.55.10 May Savitar, Bhaga, Varuna, Mitra, and AryamanAnd Indra come to us with gifts.
Hymn 4.56 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: Heaven and Earth. Meter: Trishtubh, Gayatri.
4.56.1 Great Heaven and Earth, the eldest here, shine with bright songs.The bull roars as he stretches out the two vast ones and spreads them wide by his acts.
4.56.2 The two goddesses stand with the gods, fit for worship, undiminished and pouring plenty.Keeping truth and without deceit, parents of gods, they guide sacrifice with shining songs.
4.56.3 The one who gave birth to Heaven and Earth did fine work among living things.The wise one stretched out these two vast, deep, well-shaped regions without supports by his skill.
4.56.4 Let Heaven and Earth, joined in goodwill, feed us and guard us with great shelter like a married pair.Wide-reaching ones, protect every worshiper; let us always drive with wisdom.
4.56.5 We bring our great praise before you, Heaven and Earth,Pure ones, to honor you.
4.56.6 Purifying one another with your bodies, you rule through your own power.You have carried truth from ancient times.
4.56.7 You fulfill Mitra's great ordinance, crossing over and filling up the truth.You sit around the sacrifice.
Hymn 4.57 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: the Lord of the Field, Shuna, Shun and Shira, and Sita. Meter: Anushtubh, Ushnih, Trishtubh.
4.57.1 With the lord of the field as a helpful friend, we win our way.May he grow our cattle and horses and treat us kindly.
4.57.2 Lord of the field, pour out a sweet wave for us, like a cow giving milk.Let those who rule over truth show us kindness with sweetness flowing like well-purified ghee.
4.57.3 Let plants, heavens, waters, and the air between be sweet for us.Let the lord of the field be sweet to us; may we follow him without harm.
4.57.4 May the draft animals work well, the men work well, and the plow turn well.Let the straps be fastened well; lift the goad to good effect.
4.57.5 Shuna and Shira, welcome these words; with the water you have made in heaven,Water this field.
4.57.6 Come toward us, fortunate Furrow; we honor you.Make us fortunate and fruitful.
4.57.7 Let Indra take hold of the furrow and Pushan guide it forward.Let it give us its rich milk year after year.
4.57.8 May our plowshares turn the soil well and the farmers guide their teams well.May Parjanya bring sweet rain; Shuna and Shira, give us good fortune.
Hymn 4.58 — Seer: Vamadeva Gautama. Deity: Agni, or Surya, the waters, the cows, or praise of ghee. Meter: Trishtubh, Jagati.
4.58.1 A sweet wave rose from the sea and joined immortality by a hidden name.The secret name of ghee is the tongue of the gods and the center of immortality.
4.58.2 Let us proclaim the name of ghee and hold it at this sacrifice with respect.Let the priest hear it praised; the four-horned bull has spoken it.
4.58.3 He has four horns and three feet, two heads and seven hands.Bound in three ways, the bull roars; the great god has entered mortals.
4.58.4 The gods found the ghee hidden in the cow, concealed in three places by the Panis.Indra made one part, Surya another; they made a third from Vena by their own power.
4.58.5 They flow from the heart's ocean, with a hundred channels, unseen by an enemy.I watch the streams of ghee; among them stands a golden reed.
4.58.6 They flow together like rivers, purified inwardly by heart and mind.These waves of ghee run like deer fleeing a hunter's arrow.
4.58.7 They rush forward as fast as the river Sindhu, propelled by wind.The streams of ghee are like a red horse breaking through the barrier and swelling with waves.
4.58.8 They flow toward Agni like beautiful women going to a meeting, smiling.The streams of ghee reach the kindling wood, and Jatavedas gladly welcomes them.
4.58.9 I watch them as brides dressed for a wedding, anointing themselves.The streams of ghee flow toward the place where soma is pressed and sacrifice is made.
4.58.10 Flow toward fine praise and the contest for cattle; bring us welcome riches.Carry this sacrifice to our gods; streams of ghee flow sweetly.
4.58.11 Your home is where the whole world rests: within the sea, the heart, and life.The sweet wave was brought to the face of the waters, to the struggle; may we gain it.