Sukta 56

इदं त एकं पर ऊ त एकं तृतीयेन ज्योतिषा सं विशस्व। संवेशने तन्वश्चारुरेधि प्रियो देवानां परमे जनित्रे॥

idaṁ ta ekaṁ para ū ta ekaṁ tṛtīyena jyotiṣā saṁ viśasva | saṁveśane tanvaścāruredhi priyo devānāṁ parame janitre ||

HERE is one light for thee, another yonder: enter the third and he therewith united. Uniting with a body be thou welcome, dear to the Gods in their sublimest birthplace.

तनूष्टे वाजिन्तन्वं नयन्ती वाममस्मभ्यं धातु शर्म तुभ्यम्। अह्रुतो महो धरुणाय देवान्दिवीव ज्योतिः स्वमा मिमीयाः॥

tanūṣṭe vājintanvaṁ nayantī vāmamasmabhyaṁ dhātu śarma tubhyam | ahruto maho dharuṇāya devāndivīva jyotiḥ svamā mimīyāḥ ||

Bearing thy body, Vajin, may thy body afford us blessing and thyself protection. Unswerving, stablish as it were in heaven thine own light as the mighty God's supporter.

वाज्यसि वाजिनेना सुवेनीः सुवितः स्तोमं सुवितो दिवं गाः। सुवितो धर्म प्रथमानु सत्या सुवितो देवान्सुवितोऽनु पत्म॥

vājyasi vājinenā suvenīḥ suvitaḥ stomaṁ suvito divaṁ gāḥ | suvito dharma prathamānu satyā suvito devānsuvito'nu patma ||

Strong Steed art thou: go to the yearning Maidens with vigour, happily go to heaven and praises: Fly happily to the Gods with easy passage, according to the first and faithful statutes.

महिम्न एषां पितरश्चनेशिरे देवा देवेष्वदधुरपि क्रतुम्। समविव्यचुरुत यान्यत्विषुरैषां तनूषु नि विविशुः पुनः॥

mahimna eṣāṁ pitaraścaneśire devā deveṣvadadhurapi kratum | samavivyacuruta yānyatviṣuraiṣāṁ tanūṣu ni viviśuḥ punaḥ ||

Part of their grandeur have the Fathers also gained: the Gods have seated mental power in them as Gods. They have embraced within themselves all energies, which, issuing forth, again into their bodies pass.

सहोभिर्विश्वं परि चक्रमू रजः पूर्वा धामान्यमिता मिमानाः। तनूषु विश्वा भुवना नि येमिरे प्रासारयन्त पुरुध प्रजा अनु॥

sahobhirviśvaṁ pari cakramū rajaḥ pūrvā dhāmānyamitā mimānāḥ | tanūṣu viśvā bhuvanā ni yemire prāsārayanta purudha prajā anu ||

They strode through all the region with victorious might, establishing the old immeasurable laws. They compassed in their bodies all existing things, and streamed forth offipring in many successive forms.

द्विधा सूनवोऽसुरं स्वर्विदमास्थापयन्त तृतीयेन कर्मणा। स्वां प्रजां पितरः पित्र्यं सह आवरेष्वदधुस्तन्तुमाततम्॥

dvidhā sūnavo'suraṁ svarvidamāsthāpayanta tṛtīyena karmaṇā | svāṁ prajāṁ pitaraḥ pitryaṁ saha āvareṣvadadhustantumātatam ||

In two ways have the sons established in his place the Asura who finds the light, by the third act, As fathers, they have set their heritage on earth, their offspring, as a thread continuously spun out.

नावा न क्षोदः प्रदिशः पृथिव्याः स्वस्तिभिरति दुर्गाणि विश्वा। स्वां प्रजां बृहदुक्थो महित्वावरेष्वदधादा परेषु॥

nāvā na kṣodaḥ pradiśaḥ pṛthivyāḥ svastibhirati durgāṇi viśvā | svāṁ prajāṁ bṛhaduktho mahitvāvareṣvadadhādā pareṣu ||

As in a ship through billows, so through regions of air, with blessings, through toils and troubles Hath Brhaduktha brought his seed with glory, and placed it here and in the realms beyond us.