Sukta 139

सूर्यरश्मिर्हरिकेशः पुरस्तात्सविता ज्योतिरुदयाँ अजस्रम्। तस्य पूषा प्रसवे याति विद्वान्सम्पश्यन्विश्वा भुवनानि गोपाः॥

sūryaraśmirharikeśaḥ purastātsavitā jyotirudayā ajasram | tasya pūṣā prasave yāti vidvānsampaśyanviśvā bhuvanāni gopāḥ ||

SAVITAR, golden-haired, hath lifted eastward, bright With the sunbeams, his eternal lustre; He in whose energy wise Pusan marches, surveying all existence like a herdsman.

नृचक्षा एष दिवो मध्य आस्त आपप्रिवान्रोदसी अन्तरिक्षम्। स विश्वाचीरभि चष्टे घृताचीरन्तरा पूर्वमपरं च केतुम्॥

nṛcakṣā eṣa divo madhya āsta āpaprivānrodasī antarikṣam | sa viśvācīrabhi caṣṭe ghṛtācīrantarā pūrvamaparaṁ ca ketum ||

Beholding men he sits amid the heaven filling the two world-halves and air's wide region. He looks upon the rich far-spreading pastures between the eastern and the western limit.

रायो बुध्नः संगमनो वसूनां विश्वा रूपाभि चष्टे शचीभिः। देव इव सविता सत्यधर्मेन्द्रो न तस्थौ समरे धनानाम्॥

rāyo budhnaḥ saṁgamano vasūnāṁ viśvā rūpābhi caṣṭe śacībhiḥ | deva iva savitā satyadharmendro na tasthau samare dhanānām ||

He, root of wealth, the gatherer-up of treasures, looks with his might on every form and figure. Savitar, like a God.whose Law is constant, stands in the battle for the spoil like Indra.

विश्वावसुं सोम गन्धर्वमापो ददृशुषीस्तदृतेना व्यायन्। तदन्ववैदिन्द्रो रारहाण आसां परि सूर्यस्य परिधीँरपश्यत्॥

viśvāvasuṁ soma gandharvamāpo dadṛśuṣīstadṛtenā vyāyan | tadanvavaidindro rārahāṇa āsāṁ pari sūryasya paridhīrapaśyat ||

Waters from sacrifice came to the Gandharva Visvavasu, O Soma, when they saw him. Indra, approaching quickly, marked their going, and looked around upon the Sun's enclosures.

विश्वावसुरभि तन्नो गृणातु दिव्यो गन्धर्वो रजसो विमानः। यद्वा घा सत्यमुत यन्न विद्म धियो हिन्वानो धिय इन्नो अव्याः॥

viśvāvasurabhi tanno gṛṇātu divyo gandharvo rajaso vimānaḥ | yadvā ghā satyamuta yanna vidma dhiyo hinvāno dhiya inno avyāḥ ||

This song Visvavasu shall sing us, meter of air's mid-realm celestial Gandharva, That we may know aright both truth and falsehood: may he inspire our thoughts and help our praises.

सस्निमविन्दच्चरणे नदीनामपावृणोद्दुरो अश्मव्रजानाम्। प्रासां गन्धर्वो अमृतानि वोचदिन्द्रो दक्षं परि जानादहीनाम्॥

sasnimavindaccaraṇe nadīnāmapāvṛṇodduro aśmavrajānām | prāsāṁ gandharvo amṛtāni vocadindro dakṣaṁ pari jānādahīnām ||

In the floods' track he found the bootyseeker: the rocky cow-pen's doors he threw wide open. These, the Gandharva told him, Rowed with Amrta. Indra knew well the puissancc of the dragons.