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Sukta 64

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 7.64.1

Rigveda 7.64.1
Source text

दिवि क्षयन्ता रजसः पृथिव्यां प्र वां घृतस्य निर्णिजो ददीरन्। हव्यं नो मित्रो अर्यमा सुजातो राजा सुक्षत्रो वरुणो जुषन्त॥

Transliteration

divi kṣayantā rajasaḥ pṛthivyāṁ pra vāṁ ghṛtasya nirṇijo dadīran | havyaṁ no mitro aryamā sujāto rājā sukṣatro varuṇo juṣanta ||

Translation

YE Twain who rule, in heaven and earth, the region, clothed be your clouds in robes of oil and fatness. May the imperial Varuna, and Mitra, and high-born Aryaman accept our presents.

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

Rigveda 7.64.2

Rigveda 7.64.2
Source text

आ राजाना मह ऋतस्य गोपा सिन्धुपती क्षत्रिया यातमर्वाक्। इळां नो मित्रावरुणोत वृष्टिमव दिव इन्वतं जीरदानू॥

Transliteration

ā rājānā maha ṛtasya gopā sindhupatī kṣatriyā yātamarvāk | iḻāṁ no mitrāvaruṇota vṛṣṭimava diva invataṁ jīradānū ||

Translation

Kings, guards of rrtighty everlasting Order, come hitherward, ye Princes, Lords of Rivers. Send us from heaven, O Varuna and Mitra, rain and sweet food, ye who pour down your bounties.

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

Rigveda 7.64.3

Rigveda 7.64.3
Source text

मित्रस्तन्नो वरुणो देवो अर्यः प्र साधिष्ठेभिः पथिभिर्नयन्तु। ब्रवद्यथा न आदरिः सुदास इषा मदेम सह देवगोपाः॥

Transliteration

mitrastanno varuṇo devo aryaḥ pra sādhiṣṭhebhiḥ pathibhirnayantu | bravadyathā na ādariḥ sudāsa iṣā madema saha devagopāḥ ||

Translation

May the dear God, and Varuna and Mitra conduct us by the most effective pathways, That foes may say unto Sudas our chieftain, May, we, too, joy in food with Gods to guard us.

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

Rigveda 7.64.4

Rigveda 7.64.4
Source text

यो वां गर्तं मनसा तक्षदेतमूर्ध्वां धीतिं कृणवद्धारयच्च। उक्षेथां मित्रावरुणा घृतेन ता राजाना सुक्षितीस्तर्पयेथाम्॥

Transliteration

yo vāṁ gartaṁ manasā takṣadetamūrdhvāṁ dhītiṁ kṛṇavaddhārayacca | ukṣethāṁ mitrāvaruṇā ghṛtena tā rājānā sukṣitīstarpayethām ||

Translation

Him who hath wrought for you this car in spirit, who makes the song rise upward and sustains it, Bedew with fatness, Varuna nd Mitra ye Kings, make glad the pleasant dwelling-places.

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

Rigveda 7.64.5

Rigveda 7.64.5
Source text

एष स्तोमो वरुण मित्र तुभ्यं सोमः शुक्रो न वायवेऽयामि। अविष्टं धियो जिगृतं पुरंधीर्यूयं पात स्वस्तिभिः सदा नः॥

Transliteration

eṣa stomo varuṇa mitra tubhyaṁ somaḥ śukro na vāyave'yāmi | aviṣṭaṁ dhiyo jigṛtaṁ puraṁdhīryūyaṁ pāta svastibhiḥ sadā naḥ ||

Translation

To you this laud, O Varuna and Mitra is offered like bright Soma juice to Vayu. Favour our songs of praise, wake thought and spirit. Preserve us evermore, ye Gods, with blessings.

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

Sources and editorial record

  1. Rig Veda, Book 7, Hymn 64, translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)RV 7.64Internet Sacred Text Archive
  2. Rigveda Mandala 7, machine-readable Sanskrit and Roman textMandala 7Sanskrit Documents
  3. Rigveda Shakala Samhita, Mandala 7, Sukta 64RV 7.64Vedic Heritage Portal, Ministry of Culture, Government of India
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