Atharva Veda 13.1

udehi vājin yo apsv antar idaṃ rāṣṭraṃ praviśa sūnṛtāvat yo rohito viśvam idaṃ jajāna sa tvā rāṣṭrāya subhṛtaṃ bibhartu

To Rohita (the sun, as ruddy one)

Rise up, O powerful one (? vājín) that [art] within the waters, enter into this kingdom [that is] full of pleasantness; the ruddy one (róhita) that generated this all—let him bear thee, well-borne, unto kingdom.

ud vāja āgan yo apsv antar viśa āroha tvadyonayo yāḥ somaṃ dadhāno 'pa oṣadhīr gāś catuṣpado dvipada āveśayeha

Up hath arisen the power (? vā́ja) that is within the waters; mount (ā-ruh) thou the clans (víç) that are sprung from thee (tvádyoni); assuming (dhā) the soma, the waters, the herbs, the kine, make thou the four-footed, the two-footed ones to enter here.

yūyam ugrā marutaḥ pṛśnimātara indreṇa yujā pramṛṇīta śatrūn ā vo rohitaḥ śṛṇavat sudānavas triṣaptāso marutaḥ svādusaṃmudaḥ

Do ye [who are] formidable, O Maruts, sons of the spotted mother, with Indra as ally, slaughter our foes; the ruddy one shall listen to you, ye liberal ones (sudā́nu), ye thrice seven Maruts that enjoy sweets together.

ruho ruroha rohita āruroha garbho janīnāṃ januṣām upastham tābhiḥ saṃrabdham anvavindan ṣaḍ urvīr gātuṃ prapaśyann iha rāṣṭram āhāḥ

The ruddy one ascended (ruh), mounted the ascents (rúh); [he,] the embryo of the wives, [mounted] the lap of births; him, taken hold of by them (f.), the six wide [spaces] discovered; seeing in advance the track, he hath brought (ā-hṛ) hither the kingdom.

ā te rāṣṭram iha rohito 'hārṣīd vyāsthan mṛdho abhayaṃ te abhūt tasmai te dyāvāpṛthivī revatībhiḥ kāmaṃ duhātām iha śakvarībhiḥ

The ruddy one hath brought hither thy kingdom; the scorners have scattered; fearlessness hath become thine; unto thee, being such, let heaven-and-earth, by the revátīs, yield (duh) here thy desire by the çákvarīs.

rohito dyāvāpṛthivī jajāna tatra tantuṃ parameṣṭhī tatāna tatra śiśriye 'ja ekapādo 'dṛṃhad dyāvāpṛthivī balena

The ruddy one generated heaven-and-earth; there the most exalted one stretched the line (tántu); there was supported (çri) the one-footed goat (? ajá); by strength he made firm (dṛh) heaven-and-earth.

rohito dyāvāpṛthivī adṛṃhat tena sva stabhitaṃ tena nākaḥ tenāntarikṣaṃ vimitā rajāṃsi tena devā amṛtam anvavindan

The ruddy one made firm heaven-and-earth; by him was established the sky (svàr), by him the firmament (nā́ka); by him the atmosphere, the spaces (rájas) were measured out; by him the gods discovered immortality (amṛ́ta).

vi rohito amṛśad viśvarūpaṃ samākurvāṇaḥ praruho ruhaś ca divaṃ rūḍhvā mahatā mahimnā saṃ te rāṣṭram anaktu payasā ghṛtena

The ruddy one examined (vi-mṛç) the all-formed, collecting to himself the fore-ascents and the ascents; having ascended the sky with great greatness, let him anoint (sam-añj) thy kingdom with milk, with ghee.

yās te ruhaḥ praruho yās ta āruho yābhir āpṛṇāsi divam antarikṣam tāsāṃ brahmaṇā payasā vavṛdhāno viśi rāṣṭre jāgṛhi rohitasya

What ascents, fore-ascents thou hast, what on-ascents (ārúh) thou hast, with which thou fillest the sky, the atmosphere, with the bráhman, with the milk of them increasing, do thou watch over the people (víç) in the kingdom of the ruddy one.

yās te viśas tapasaḥ saṃbabhūvur vatsaṃ gāyatrīm anu tā ihāguḥ tās tvā viśantu manasā śivena saṃmātā vatso abhyetu rohitaḥ

What clans (víç) of thine came into being out of ardor (tápas), those have come hither after the young (vatsá), the gāyatrī́; let them enter (ā-viç) into thee with propitious mind; let the ruddy young with its mother go against [them].

ūrdhvo rohito adhi nāke asthād viśvā rūpāṇi janayan yuvā kaviḥ tigmenāgnir jyotiṣā vibhāti tṛtīye cakre rajasi priyāṇi

The ruddy one hath stood aloft upon the firmament (nā́kā), generating all forms, [he,] young, poet; Agni shineth forth with keen light; in the third space (rájas) he hath done dear things.

sahasraśṛṅgo vṛṣabho jātavedā ghṛtāhutaḥ somapṛṣṭhaḥ suvīraḥ mā mā hāsīn nāthito net tvā jahāni gopoṣaṃ ca me vīrapoṣaṃ ca dhehi

The thousand-horned bull Jātavedas, offered to with ghee, soma-backed, having good heroes—let him not abandon me; let me not, a suppliant, abandon thee*; assign thou to me both prosperity in kine and prosperity in heroes.

rohito yajñasya janitā mukhaṃ ca rohitāya vācā śrotreṇa manasā juhomi rohitaṃ devā yanti sumanasyamānāḥ sa mā rohaiḥ sāmityai rohayatu

The ruddy one is generator and mouth of the sacrifice; to the ruddy one I make oblation with speech, with hearing, with mind; to the ruddy one go the gods with favoring mind; let him cause me to ascend with ascensions (róha) of meeting (sāmityá).

rohito yajñaṃ vyadadhād viśvakarmaṇe tasmāt tejāṃsy upa memāny āguḥ voceyaṃ te nābhiṃ bhuvanasyādhi majmani

The ruddy one disposed the sacrifice for Viçvakarman; therefrom have these brilliancies come unto me; may I speak thy navel (nā́bhi) upon the range (majmán) of existence.

ā tvā ruroha bṛhaty uta paṅktir ā kakub varcasā jātavedaḥ ā tvā rurohoṣṇihākṣaro vaṣaṭkāra ā tvā ruroha rohito retasā saha

Unto thee ascended bṛhatī́ and pan̄ktí, unto [thee], O Jātavedas, kakúbh with honor; unto thee ascended the uṣṇíhā syllable, the váṣaṭ-utterance; unto thee ascended the ruddy one along with seed.

ayaṃ vaste garbhaṃ pṛthivyā divaṃ vaste 'yam antarikṣam ayaṃ bradhnasya viṣṭapi svar lokān vyānaśe

This one clothes himself in the embryo (womb?) of the earth; this one clothes himself in the sky, the atmosphere; this one, on the summit of the reddish one, has penetrated the heaven (svàr), the worlds.

vācaspate pṛthivī naḥ syonā syonā yonis talpā naḥ suśevā ihaiva prāṇaḥ sakhye no astu taṃ tvā parameṣṭhin pary agnir āyuṣā varcasā dadhātu

O lord of speech, [be] earth pleasant to us; [be] the lair (yóni) pleasant, [be] our couch very propitious; just here be breath in our companionship; thee here, O most exalted one, let Agni surround with life-time, with honor.

vācaspata ṛtavaḥ pañca ye nau vaiśvakarmaṇāḥ pari ye saṃbabhūvuḥ ihaiva prāṇaḥ sakhye no astu taṃ tvā parameṣṭhin pari rohita āyuṣā varcasā dadhātu

O lord of speech, the five seasons that are ours, that came forth into being as Viçvakarman's—just here be breath in our companionship; thee here, O most exalted one, let the ruddy one surround with life-time, with honor.

vācaspate saumanasaṃ manaś ca goṣṭhe no gā janaya yoniṣu prajāḥ ihaiva prāṇaḥ sakhye no astu taṃ tvā parameṣṭhin pary aham āyuṣā varcasā dadhātu

O lord of speech, [generate] well-willing and mind; generate kine in our stall (goṣṭhá), progeny in our wombs (yóni); just here be breath in our companionship; thee here, O most exalted one, I surround with life-time, with honor.

pari tvā dhāt savitā devo agnir varcasā mitrāvaruṇāv abhi tvā sarvā arātīr avakrāmann ehīdaṃ rāṣṭram akaraḥ sūnṛtāvat

May Savitar, god Agni, surround thee [with honor]; with honor may Mitra-and-Varuṇa deck (abhi⌊+dhā⌋) thee; striding down all niggards come thou; thou hast made this kingdom full of pleasantness.

yaṃ tvā pṛṣatī rathe praṣṭir vahati rohita śubhā yāsi riṇann apaḥ

Thou whom the spotted one (f.), the side-horse, draws (vah) in the chariot, O ruddy one, thou goest with brightness (çúbh), making flow the waters.

anuvratā rohiṇī rohitasya sūriḥ suvarṇā bṛhatī suvarcāḥ tayā vājān viśvarūpāṁ jayema tayā viśvāḥ pṛtanā abhiṣyāma

She that is ruddy (róhiṇī) is submissive to the ruddy one, being liberal (sūrí), of beautiful color, vast (bṛhatī́), very splendid; by her may we conquer booty (? vā́jān) of all forms; by her may we overcome all fighters.

idaṃ sado rohiṇī rohitasyāsau panthāḥ pṛṣatī yena yāti tāṃ gandharvāḥ kaśyapā unnayanti tāṃ rakṣanti kavayo 'pramādam

Here the seat (sádas), she that is ruddy, of the ruddy one; yonder the road by which the spotted one (f.) goes; her the Gandharvas, the Kaçyapas, lead up; her the poets defend unremittingly.

sūryasyāśvā harayaḥ ketumantaḥ sadā vahanty amṛtāḥ sukhaṃ ratham ghṛtapāvā rohito bhrājamāno divaṃ devaḥ pṛṣatīm āviveśa

The sun's yellow (hári) bright (ketumánt) horses, immortal, constantly draw the easy-running chariot; the ghee-drinking ruddy one, shining (bhrāj), the god, entered the spotted sky.

yo rohito vṛṣabhas tigmaśṛṅgaḥ pary agniṃ pari sūryaṃ babhūva yo viṣṭabhnāti pṛthivīṃ divaṃ ca tasmād devā adhi sṛṣṭīḥ sṛjante

The ruddy one, the sharp-horned bull, who encompassed Agni, the sun, who props asunder (vi-stabh) the earth and the heaven—out of him do the gods create creations.

rohito divam āruhan mahataḥ pary arṇavāt sarvā ruroha rohito ruhaḥ

The ruddy one mounted the sky, out of the great sea (arṇavá); the ruddy one ascended all ascents.

vimimīṣva payasvatīṃ ghṛtācīṃ devānāṃ dhenur anapaspṛg eṣā indraḥ somaṃ pibatu kṣemo astv agniḥ prastautu vi mṛdho nudasva

Measure thou out (vi-mā) the milk-giving, ghee-dripping (ghṛtā́ñc) [cow]; this is the unresisting milch-cow of the gods. Let Indra drink the soma; let there be comfort (kṣéma); let Agni commence praising; do thou thrust away the scorners.

samiddho agniḥ samidhāno ghṛtavṛddho ghṛtāhutaḥ abhīṣāṭ viśvāṣāḍ agniḥ sapatnān hantu ye mama

Agni, kindled, being kindled, increased with ghee, offered to with ghee—let the overpowering, all-overpowering Agni slay them who are my rivals.

hantv enān pradahatv arir yo naḥ pṛtanyati kravyādāgninā vayaṃ sapatnān pradahāmasi

Let him slay them, burn [them] away,—the enemy (ári) who fights us; by the flesh-eating fire do we burn away our rivals.

avācīnān avajahīndra vajreṇa bāhumān adhā sapatnān māmakān agnes tejobhir ādiṣi

Do thou, O Indra, having arms, smite them down downward with the thunderbolt; then my rivals have I taken to myself with Agni's brightnesses (téjas).

agne sapatnān adharān pādayāsmad vyathayā sajātam utpipānaṃ bṛhaspate indrāgnī mitrāvaruṇāv adhare padyantām apratimanyūyamānāḥ

O Agni, make our rivals fall below us; stagger the truculent (utpípāna) fellow, O Brihaspati; O Indra-and-Agni, O Mitra-and-Varuṇa, let them fall below [us], impotent in their fury.

udyaṃs tvaṃ deva sūrya sapatnān ava me jahi avainān aśmanā jahi te yantv adhamaṃ tamaḥ

Do thou, O heavenly sun, arising, smite down my rivals; smite them down with the stone; let them go to lowest darkness.

vatso virājo vṛṣabho matīnām āruroha śukrapṛṣṭho 'ntarikṣam ghṛtenārkam abhyarcanti vatsaṃ brahma santaṃ brahmaṇā vardhayanti

The young (vatsá) of the virā́j, the bull of prayers (matí), mounted, bright-backed, the atmosphere; with ghee they sing (arc) the song (arká) unto the young; him, being bráhman, they increase with bráhman.

divaṃ ca roha pṛthivīṃ ca roha rāṣṭraṃ ca roha draviṇaṃ ca roha prajāṃ ca rohāmṛtaṃ ca roha rohitena tanvaṃ saṃspṛśasva

Both ascend thou to heaven and ascend to earth; both ascend to kingdom and ascend to property; both ascend to progeny and ascend to immortality; make thyself contiguous with the ruddy one.

ye devā rāṣṭrabhṛto 'bhito yanti sūryam taiṣ ṭe rohitaḥ saṃvidāno rāṣṭraṃ dadhātu sumanasyamānaḥ

The kingdom-bearing gods who go to surround (abhítas) the sun—in concord with them let the ruddy one, with favoring mind, assign kingdom to thee.

ut tvā yajñā brahmapūtā vahanty adhvagato harayas tvā vahanti tiraḥ samudram ati rocase 'rṇavam

Sacrifices purified by bráhman carry thee up; yellow (hári) roadsters draw (vah) thee; thou shinest over (ati-ruc) across the ocean, the sea.

rohite dyāvāpṛthivī adhiśrite vasujiti gojiti saṃdhanājiti sahasraṃ yasya janimāni sapta ca voceyaṃ te nābhiṃ bhuvanasyādhi majmani

On the ruddy one are set (çritá) heaven-and-earth, on the goods-conquering, kine-conquering, booty-conquering one, of whom the births are a thousand and seven; may I speak thy navel on the range of existence.

yaśā yāsi pradiśo diśaś ca yaśāḥ paśūnām uta carṣaṇīnām

Glorious thou goest to the directions and quarters, glorious of cattle and of people (carṣaṇí); glorious in the lap of earth, of Aditi, may I become pleasant (cā́ru) like Savitar.

amutra sann iha vetthetaḥ saṃs tāni paśyasi itaḥ paśyanti rocanaṃ divi sūryaṃ vipaścitam

Being yonder, thou knowest here; being on this side, thou seest those things; from this side they see the shining space (rócana), the inspired sun in the sky.

devo devān marcayasy antaś carasy arṇave samānam agnim indhate taṃ viduḥ kavayaḥ pare

Thou, a god, molestest (mṛc) the gods; thou goest about within the sea (arṇavá); they kindle the same fire; it the high (pára) poets know.

avaḥ pareṇa para enāvareṇa padā vatsaṃ bibhratī gaur udasthāt sā kadrīcī kaṃ svid ardhaṃ parāgāt kva svit sūte nahi yūthe asmin

Below the distant, thus beyond the lower, bearing her calf with her foot, the cow hath stood up; whitherwards, to what quarter, hath she forsooth gone away? where giveth she birth? for [it is] not in this herd.

ekapadī dvipadī sā catuṣpady aṣṭāpadī navapadī babhūvuṣī sahasrākṣarā bhuvanasya paṅktis tasyāḥ samudrā adhi vikṣaranti

One-footed, two-footed [is] she, four-footed; having become eight-footed, nine-footed, thousand-syllabled, a series of existence; out from her flow apart the oceans.

ārohan dyām amṛtaḥ prāva me vacaḥ ut tvā yajñā brahmapūtā vahanty adhvagato harayas tvā vahanti

Mounting the sky, immortal, do thou favor my words; sacrifices purified by bráhman carry thee up; yellow roadsters draw thee.

veda tat te amartya yat ta ākramaṇaṃ divi yat te sadhasthaṃ parame vyoman

I know that of thine, O immortal one, namely (yát) thy climb (ākrámaṇa) in the sky, thy station (sadhástha) in the highest firmament.

sūryo dyāṃ sūryaḥ pṛthivīṃ sūrya āpo 'tipaśyati sūryo bhūtasyaikaṃ cakṣur āruroha divaṃ mahīm

The sun overlooks (ati-paç) the sky, the sun the earth, the sun the waters; the sun, the one eye of what exists, hath mounted the great sky.

urvīr āsan paridhayo vedir bhūmir akalpata tatraitāv agnī ādhatta himaṃ ghraṃsaṃ ca rohitaḥ

The wide ones (urvī́) were the enclosures; the earth took shape as sacrificial hearth; there the ruddy one set (ā-dhā) these two fires, cold and heat.

himaṃ ghraṃsaṃ cādhāya yūpān kṛtvā parvatān varṣājyāv agnī ījāte rohitasya svarvidaḥ

Having set cold and heat, having made the mountains sacrificial posts (yū́pa), having rain as sacrificial butter, the two fires of the sky-finding ruddy one performed sacrifice (yaj).

svarvido rohitasya brahmaṇāgniḥ samidhyate tasmādghraṃsas tasmāddhimas tasmād yajño 'jāyata

The fire of the sky-finding ruddy one is kindled with bráhman; therefrom heat, therefrom cold, therefrom the sacrifice was born.

brahmaṇāgnī vāvṛdhānau brahmavṛddhau brahmāhutau brahmeddhāv agnī ījāte rohitasya svarvidaḥ

The two fires [are] increasing by bráhman, increased with bráhman, offered to with bráhman: kindled with bráhman, the two fires of the sky-finding ruddy one performed sacrifice.

satye anyaḥ samāhito 'psv anyaḥ samidhyate brahmeddhāv agnī ījāte rohitasya svarvidaḥ

The one is all set in truth, the other is kindled in the waters: kindled with etc. etc.

yaṃ vātaḥ pariśumbhati yaṃ vendro brahmaṇaspatiḥ brahmeddhāvagnī ījāte rohitasya svarvidaḥ

What one the wind adorns about, or what one Indra, Brahmaṇaspati: kindled with etc. etc.

vediṃ bhūmiṃ kalpayitvā divaṃ kṛtvā dakṣiṇām ghraṃsaṃ tad agniṃ kṛtvā cakāra viśvam ātmanvad varṣeṇājyena rohitaḥ

Having shaped (kḷp) the earth as sacrificial hearth, having made the sky sacrificial fee, then having made heat his fire, the ruddy one made all that has soul, with rain as sacrificial butter.

varṣam ājyaṃ ghraṃso agnir vedir bhūmir akalpata tatraitān parvatān agnir gīrbhir ūrdhvāṁ akalpayat

Rain as sacrificial butter, heat as fire, earth as sacrificial hearth took shape; there, with songs (gír), the fire shaped these mountains aloft.

gīrbhir ūrdhvān kalpayitvā rohito bhūmim abravīt tvayīdaṃ sarvaṃ jāyatāṃ yad bhūtaṃ yac ca bhāvyam

Having shaped [them] aloft by songs, the ruddy one said to the earth: in thee let this all be born, what is (bhūtá) or what is to be.

sa yajñaḥ prathamo bhūto bhavyo ajāyata tasmāddha jajña idaṃ sarvaṃ yat kiṃcedaṃ virocate rohitena ṛṣiṇābhṛtam

That first sacrifice was born [as] the one that is, that is to be; from that was born this all, whatsoever shines out (vi-ruc) here, brought (ā-bhṛ) by the ruddy one [as] seer.

yaś ca gāṃ padā sphurati pratyaṅ sūryaṃ ca mehati tasya vṛścāmi te mūlaṃ na chāyāṃ karavo 'param

Whoever both kicks a cow with the foot and urinates in face of the sun—of such a one I hew off (vraçc) thy root; thou shalt not further cast (kṛ) shadow.

yo mābhichāyam atyeṣi māṃ cāgniṃ cāntarā tasya vṛścāmi te mūlaṃ na chāyāṃ karavo 'param

Thou that goest past me shading me, and between me and the fire, I hew off thy root; thou shalt not further cast shadow.

yo adya deva sūrya tvāṃ ca māṃ cāntarāyati duṣvapnyaṃ tasmiṃchamalaṃ duritāni ca mṛjmahe

Whoso this day, O heavenly sun, shall go between both thee and me—on him we wipe off evil-dreaming, pollution, and difficulties.

mā pragāma patho vayaṃ mā yajñād indra sominaḥ mānta sthur no arātayaḥ

Let us not go forth from the road, nor, O Indra, from the sacrifice with soma; let not the niggards stand between us.

yo yajñasya prasādhanas tantur deveṣv ātataḥ tam āhutam aśīmahi

What line, accomplisher of the sacrifice, is stretched clear to the gods, that, sacrificed unto, may we attain.