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Sukta 39

Complete Rigveda Sukta with 5 mantras in Sanskrit, IAST transliteration, and source-aligned historical English where available.

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Complete Rigveda Sukta with 5 mantras in Sanskrit, IAST transliteration, and source-aligned historical English where available.

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Rigveda 6.39.1

Rigveda 6.39.1
Source text

मन्द्रस्य कवेर्दिव्यस्य वह्नेर्विप्रमन्मनो वचनस्य मध्वः। अपा नस्तस्य सचनस्य देवेषो युवस्व गृणते गोअग्राः॥

Transliteration

mandrasya kaverdivyasya vahnervipramanmano vacanasya madhvaḥ | apā nastasya sacanasya deveṣo yuvasva gṛṇate goagrāḥ ||

Translation

OF this our charming, our celestial Soma, eloquent, wise, Priest, with inspired devotion, Of this thy close attendant, hast thou drunken. God, send the singer food with milk to grace it.

English translation: Ralph T. H. Griffith, 1896.

Rigveda 6.39.2

Rigveda 6.39.2
Source text

अयमुशानः पर्यद्रिमुस्रा ऋतधीतिभिरृतयुग्युजानः। रुजदरुग्णं वि वलस्य सानुं पणीँर्वचोभिरभि योधदिन्द्रः॥

Transliteration

ayamuśānaḥ paryadrimusrā ṛtadhītibhirṛtayugyujānaḥ | rujadarugṇaṁ vi valasya sānuṁ paṇīrvacobhirabhi yodhadindraḥ ||

Translation

Craving the kine, rushing against the mountain led on by Law, with holyminded comrades, He broke the never-broken ridge of Vala. With words of might Indra subdued the Panis.

English translation: Ralph T. H. Griffith, 1896.

Rigveda 6.39.3

Rigveda 6.39.3
Source text

अयं द्योतयदद्युतो व्यक्तून्दोषा वस्तोः शरद इन्दुरिन्द्र। इमं केतुमदधुर्नू चिदह्नां शुचिजन्मन उषसश्चकार॥

Transliteration

ayaṁ dyotayadadyuto vyaktūndoṣā vastoḥ śarada indurindra | imaṁ ketumadadhurnū cidahnāṁ śucijanmana uṣasaścakāra ||

Translation

This Indu lighted darksome nights, O Indra, throughout the years, at morning and at evening. Him have they stablished as the days' bright ensign. He made the Mornings to be born in splendour.

English translation: Ralph T. H. Griffith, 1896.

Rigveda 6.39.4

Rigveda 6.39.4
Source text

अयं रोचयदरुचो रुचानोऽयं वासयद्व्यृतेन पूर्वीः। अयमीयत ऋतयुग्भिरश्वैः स्वर्विदा नाभिना चर्षणिप्राः॥

Transliteration

ayaṁ rocayadaruco rucāno'yaṁ vāsayadvyṛtena pūrvīḥ | ayamīyata ṛtayugbhiraśvaiḥ svarvidā nābhinā carṣaṇiprāḥ ||

Translation

He shone and caused to shme the worlds that shone not. By Law he lighted up the host of Mornings. He moves with Steeds yoked by eternal Order, contenting men with nave that finds the sunlight.

English translation: Ralph T. H. Griffith, 1896.

Rigveda 6.39.5

Rigveda 6.39.5
Source text

नू गृणानो गृणते प्रत्न राजन्निषः पिन्व वसुदेयाय पूर्वीः। अप ओषधीरविषा वनानि गा अर्वतो नॄनृचसे रिरीहि॥

Transliteration

nū gṛṇāno gṛṇate pratna rājanniṣaḥ pinva vasudeyāya pūrvīḥ | apa oṣadhīraviṣā vanāni gā arvato nṝnṛcase rirīhi ||

Translation

Now, praised, O Ancient King! fill thou the singer with plenteous food that he may deal forth treasures. Give waters, herbs that have no poison, forests, and kine, and steeds, and men, to him who lauds thee.

English translation: Ralph T. H. Griffith, 1896.

Sources and editorial record

  1. Rig Veda, Book 6, Hymn 39, translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)RV 6.39Internet Sacred Text Archive
  2. Rigveda Mandala 6, machine-readable Sanskrit and Roman textMandala 6Sanskrit Documents
  3. Rigveda Shakala Samhita, Mandala 6, Sukta 39RV 6.39Vedic Heritage Portal, Ministry of Culture, Government of India
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