Sukta 103

संवत्सरं शशयाना ब्राह्मणा व्रतचारिणः। वाचं पर्जन्यजिन्वितां प्र मण्डूका अवादिषुः॥

saṁvatsaraṁ śaśayānā brāhmaṇā vratacāriṇaḥ | vācaṁ parjanyajinvitāṁ pra maṇḍūkā avādiṣuḥ ||

THEY who lay quiet for a year, the Brahmans who fulfil their vows, The Frogs have lifted up their voice, the voice Parjanya hath inspired.

दिव्या आपो अभि यदेनमायन्दृतिं न शुष्कं सरसी शयानम्। गवामह न मायुर्वत्सिनीनां मण्डूकानां वग्नुरत्रा समेति॥

divyā āpo abhi yadenamāyandṛtiṁ na śuṣkaṁ sarasī śayānam | gavāmaha na māyurvatsinīnāṁ maṇḍūkānāṁ vagnuratrā sameti ||

What time on these, as on a dry skin lying in the pool's bed, the floods of heaven descended, The music of the Frogs comes forth in concert like the cows lowing with their calves beside them.

यदीमेनाँ उशतो अभ्यवर्षीत्तृष्यावतः प्रावृष्यागतायाम्। अख्खलीकृत्या पितरं न पुत्रो अन्यो अन्यमुप वदन्तमेति॥

yadīmenā uśato abhyavarṣīttṛṣyāvataḥ prāvṛṣyāgatāyām | akhkhalīkṛtyā pitaraṁ na putro anyo anyamupa vadantameti ||

When at the coming of the Rains the water has poured upon them as they yearned and thirsted, One seeks another as he talks and greets him with cries of pleasure as a son his father.

अन्यो अन्यमनु गृभ्णात्येनोरपां प्रसर्गे यदमन्दिषाताम्। मण्डूको यदभिवृष्टः कनिष्कन्पृश्निः सम्पृङ्क्ते हरितेन वाचम्॥

anyo anyamanu gṛbhṇātyenorapāṁ prasarge yadamandiṣātām | maṇḍūko yadabhivṛṣṭaḥ kaniṣkanpṛśniḥ sampṛṅkte haritena vācam ||

Each of these twain receives the other kindly, while they are revelling in the flow of waters, When the Frog moistened by the rain springs forward, and Green and Spotty both combine their voices.

यदेषामन्यो अन्यस्य वाचं शाक्तस्येव वदति शिक्षमाणः। सर्वं तदेषां समृधेव पर्व यत्सुवाचो वदथनाध्यप्सु॥

yadeṣāmanyo anyasya vācaṁ śāktasyeva vadati śikṣamāṇaḥ | sarvaṁ tadeṣāṁ samṛdheva parva yatsuvāco vadathanādhyapsu ||

When one of these repeats the other's language, as he who learns the lesson of the teacher, Your every limb seems to be growing larger as ye converse with eloquence on the waters.

गोमायुरेको अजमायुरेकः पृश्निरेको हरित एक एषाम्। समानं नाम बिभ्रतो विरूपाः पुरुत्रा वाचं पिपिशुर्वदन्तः॥

gomāyureko ajamāyurekaḥ pṛśnireko harita eka eṣām | samānaṁ nāma bibhrato virūpāḥ purutrā vācaṁ pipiśurvadantaḥ ||

Onc is Cow-bellow and Goat-bleat the other, one Frog is Green and one of them is Spotty. They bear one common name, and yet they vary, and, talking, modulate the voice diversely.

ब्राह्मणासो अतिरात्रे न सोमे सरो न पूर्णमभितो वदन्तः। संवत्सरस्य तदहः परि ष्ठ यन्मण्डूकाः प्रावृषीणं बभूव॥

brāhmaṇāso atirātre na some saro na pūrṇamabhito vadantaḥ | saṁvatsarasya tadahaḥ pari ṣṭha yanmaṇḍūkāḥ prāvṛṣīṇaṁ babhūva ||

As Brahmans, sitting round the brimful vessel, talk at the Soma-rite of Atiratra, So, Frogs, ye gather round the pool to honour this day of all the year, the first of Rain-time.

ब्राह्मणासः सोमिनो वाचमक्रत ब्रह्म कृण्वन्तः परिवत्सरीणम्। अध्वर्यवो घर्मिणः सिष्विदाना आविर्भवन्ति गुह्या न के चित्॥

brāhmaṇāsaḥ somino vācamakrata brahma kṛṇvantaḥ parivatsarīṇam | adhvaryavo gharmiṇaḥ siṣvidānā āvirbhavanti guhyā na ke cit ||

These Brahmans with the Soma juice, performing their year-long rite, have lifted up their voices; And these Adhvaryus, sweating with their kettles, come forth and show themselves, and none are hidden.

देवहितिं जुगुपुर्द्वादशस्य ऋतुं नरो न प्र मिनन्त्येते। संवत्सरे प्रावृष्यागतायां तप्ता घर्मा अश्नुवते विसर्गम्॥

devahitiṁ jugupurdvādaśasya ṛtuṁ naro na pra minantyete | saṁvatsare prāvṛṣyāgatāyāṁ taptā gharmā aśnuvate visargam ||

They keep the twelve month's God-appointed order, and never do the men neglect the season. Soon as the Rain-time in the year returneth, these who were heated kettles gain their freedom.

गोमायुरदादजमायुरदात्पृश्निरदाद्धरितो नो वसूनि। गवां मण्डूका ददतः शतानि सहस्रसावे प्र तिरन्त आयुः॥

gomāyuradādajamāyuradātpṛśniradāddharito no vasūni | gavāṁ maṇḍūkā dadataḥ śatāni sahasrasāve pra tiranta āyuḥ ||

Cow-bellow and Goat-bleat have granted riches, and Green and Spotty have vouchsafed us treasure. The Frogs who give us cows in hundreds lengthen our lives in this most fertilizing season.