Sukta 68

उदप्रुतो न वयो रक्षमाणा वावदतो अभ्रियस्येव घोषाः। गिरिभ्रजो नोर्मयो मदन्तो बृहस्पतिमभ्यर्का अनावन्॥

udapruto na vayo rakṣamāṇā vāvadato abhriyasyeva ghoṣāḥ | giribhrajo normayo madanto bṛhaspatimabhyarkā anāvan ||

LIKE birds who keep their watch, plashing in water, like the loud voices of the thundering rain- cloud, Like merry streamlets bursting from the mountain, thus to Brhaspati our hymns have sounded.

सं गोभिराङ्गिरसो नक्षमाणो भग इवेदर्यमणं निनाय। जने मित्रो न दम्पती अनक्ति बृहस्पते वाजयाशूँरिवाजौ॥

saṁ gobhirāṅgiraso nakṣamāṇo bhaga ivedaryamaṇaṁ nināya | jane mitro na dampatī anakti bṛhaspate vājayāśūrivājau ||

The Son of Angirases, meeting the cattle, as Bhaga, brought in Aryaman among us. As Friend of men he decks the wife and husband: as for the race, Brhaspati, nerve our coursers.

साध्वर्या अतिथिनीरिषिराः स्पार्हाः सुवर्णा अनवद्यरूपाः। बृहस्पतिः पर्वतेभ्यो वितूर्या निर्गा ऊपे यवमिव स्थिविभ्यः॥

sādhvaryā atithinīriṣirāḥ spārhāḥ suvarṇā anavadyarūpāḥ | bṛhaspatiḥ parvatebhyo vitūryā nirgā ūpe yavamiva sthivibhyaḥ ||

Brhaspati, having won them from the mountains, strewed down, like barley out of winnowing- baskets, The vigorous, wandering cows who aid the pious, desired of all, of blameless form, well-coloured.

आप्रुषायन्मधुन ऋतस्य योनिमवक्षिपन्नर्क उल्कामिव द्योः। बृहस्पतिरुद्धरन्नश्मनो गा भूम्या उद्नेव वि त्वचं बिभेद॥

āpruṣāyanmadhuna ṛtasya yonimavakṣipannarka ulkāmiva dyoḥ | bṛhaspatiruddharannaśmano gā bhūmyā udneva vi tvacaṁ bibheda ||

As the Sun dews with meath the seat of Order, and casts a flaming meteor down from heaven. So from the rock Brhaspati forced the cattle, and cleft the earth's skin as it were with water.

अप ज्योतिषा तमो अन्तरिक्षादुद्नः शीपालमिव वात आजत्। बृहस्पतिरनुमृश्या वलस्याभ्रमिव वात आ चक्र आ गाः॥

apa jyotiṣā tamo antarikṣādudnaḥ śīpālamiva vāta ājat | bṛhaspatiranumṛśyā valasyābhramiva vāta ā cakra ā gāḥ ||

Forth from mid air with light he dravc the darkness, as the gale blows a lily from the fiver. Like the wind grasping at the cloud of Vala, Brhaspati gathered to himself the cattle,

यदा वलस्य पीयतो जसुं भेद्बृहस्पतिरग्नितपोभिरर्कैः। दद्भिर्न जिह्वा परिविष्टमाददाविर्निधीँरकृणोदुस्रियाणाम्॥

yadā valasya pīyato jasuṁ bhedbṛhaspatiragnitapobhirarkaiḥ | dadbhirna jihvā pariviṣṭamādadāvirnidhīrakṛṇodusriyāṇām ||

Brhaspati, when he with fiery lightnings cleft through the weapon of reviling Vala, Consumed.him as tongues cat what teeth have compassed: he threw the prisons of the red cows open.

बृहस्पतिरमत हि त्यदासां नाम स्वरीणां सदने गुहा यत्। आण्डेव भित्त्वा शकुनस्य गर्भमुदुस्रियाः पर्वतस्य त्मनाजत्॥

bṛhaspatiramata hi tyadāsāṁ nāma svarīṇāṁ sadane guhā yat | āṇḍeva bhittvā śakunasya garbhamudusriyāḥ parvatasya tmanājat ||

That secret name borne by the lowing cattle within the cave Brhaspati discovered, And drave, himself, the bright kine from the mountain, like a bird's young after the egg's disclosure.

अश्नापिनद्धं मधु पर्यपश्यन्मत्स्यं न दीन उदनि क्षियन्तम्। निष्टज्जभार चमसं न वृक्षाद्बृहस्पतिर्विरवेणा विकृत्य॥

aśnāpinaddhaṁ madhu paryapaśyanmatsyaṁ na dīna udani kṣiyantam | niṣṭajjabhāra camasaṁ na vṛkṣādbṛhaspatirviraveṇā vikṛtya ||

He looked around on rock-imprisoned sweetness as one who eyes a fish in scanty water. Brhaspati, cleaving through with varied clamour, brought it forth like a bowl from out the timber.

सोषामविन्दत्स स्वः सो अग्निं सो अर्केण वि बबाधे तमांसि। बृहस्पतिर्गोवपुषो वलस्य निर्मज्जानं न पर्वणो जभार॥

soṣāmavindatsa svaḥ so agniṁ so arkeṇa vi babādhe tamāṁsi | bṛhaspatirgovapuṣo valasya nirmajjānaṁ na parvaṇo jabhāra ||

He found the light of heaven, and fire, and Morning: with lucid rays he forced apart the darkness. As from a joint, Brhaspati took the marrow of Vala as he gloried in his cattle.

हिमेव पर्णा मुषिता वनानि बृहस्पतिनाकृपयद्वलो गाः। अनानुकृत्यमपुनश्चकार यात्सूर्यामासा मिथ उच्चरातः॥

himeva parṇā muṣitā vanāni bṛhaspatinākṛpayadvalo gāḥ | anānukṛtyamapunaścakāra yātsūryāmāsā mitha uccarātaḥ ||

As trees for foliage robbed by winter, Vala mourned for the cows Brhaspati had taken. He did a deed ne'er done, ne'er to be equalled, whereby the Sun and Moon ascend alternate.

अभि श्यावं न कृशनेभिरश्वं नक्षत्रेभिः पितरो द्यामपिंशन्। रात्र्यां तमो अदधुर्ज्योतिरहन्बृहस्पतिर्भिनदद्रिं विदद्गाः॥

abhi śyāvaṁ na kṛśanebhiraśvaṁ nakṣatrebhiḥ pitaro dyāmapiṁśan | rātryāṁ tamo adadhurjyotirahanbṛhaspatirbhinadadriṁ vidadgāḥ ||

Like a dark steed adorned with pearl, the Fathers have decorated heaven With constellations. They set the light in day, in night the darkness. Brhaspati cleft the rock and found the cattle.

इदमकर्म नमो अभ्रियाय यः पूर्वीरन्वानोनवीति। बृहस्पतिः स हि गोभिः सो अश्वैः स वीरेभिः स नृभिर्नो वयो धात्॥

idamakarma namo abhriyāya yaḥ pūrvīranvānonavīti | bṛhaspatiḥ sa hi gobhiḥ so aśvaiḥ sa vīrebhiḥ sa nṛbhirno vayo dhāt ||

This homage have we.offered to the Cloud God who thunders out to many in succession. May this Brhaspati vouchsafe us fulness of life with kine and horses, men, and heroes.