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Sukta 160

Complete Rigveda Sukta with 5 mantras in Sanskrit, IAST transliteration, and source-aligned historical English where available.

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Sukta 160

Complete Rigveda Sukta with 5 mantras in Sanskrit, IAST transliteration, and source-aligned historical English where available.

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Rigveda 10.160.1

Rigveda 10.160.1
Source text

तीव्रस्याभिवयसो अस्य पाहि सर्वरथा वि हरी इह मुञ्च। इन्द्र मा त्वा यजमानासो अन्ये नि रीरमन्तुभ्यमिमे सुतासः॥

Transliteration

tīvrasyābhivayaso asya pāhi sarvarathā vi harī iha muñca | indra mā tvā yajamānāso anye ni rīramantubhyamime sutāsaḥ ||

Translation

TASTE this strong draught enriched with offered viands: with all thy chariot here unyoke thy Coursers. Let not those other sacrificers stay thee, Indra: these juices shed for thee are ready.

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

Rigveda 10.160.2

Rigveda 10.160.2
Source text

तुभ्यं सुतास्तुभ्यमु सोत्वासस्त्वां गिरः श्वात्र्या आ ह्वयन्ति। इन्द्रेदमद्य सवनं जुषाणो विश्वस्य विद्वाँ इह पाहि सोमम्॥

Transliteration

tubhyaṁ sutāstubhyamu sotvāsastvāṁ giraḥ śvātryā ā hvayanti | indredamadya savanaṁ juṣāṇo viśvasya vidvā iha pāhi somam ||

Translation

Thine is the juice effused, thine are the juices yet to be pressed: our resonant songs invite thee. O Indra, pleased to-day with this libation, come, thou who knowest all and drink the Soma.

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

Rigveda 10.160.3

Rigveda 10.160.3
Source text

य उशता मनसा सोममस्मै सर्वहृदा देवकामः सुनोति। न गा इन्द्रस्तस्य परा ददाति प्रशस्तमिच्चारुमस्मै कृणोति॥

Transliteration

ya uśatā manasā somamasmai sarvahṛdā devakāmaḥ sunoti | na gā indrastasya parā dadāti praśastamiccārumasmai kṛṇoti ||

Translation

Whoso, devoted to the God, effuses Soma for him with yearning heart and spirit,- Never doth Indra give away his cattle: for him he makes the lovely Soma famous.

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

Rigveda 10.160.4

Rigveda 10.160.4
Source text

अनुस्पष्टो भवत्येषो अस्य यो अस्मै रेवान्न सुनोति सोमम्। निररत्नौ मघवा तं दधाति ब्रह्मद्विषो हन्त्यनानुदिष्टः॥

Transliteration

anuspaṣṭo bhavatyeṣo asya yo asmai revānna sunoti somam | niraratnau maghavā taṁ dadhāti brahmadviṣo hantyanānudiṣṭaḥ ||

Translation

He looks with Ioving favour on the mortal who, like a rich man, pours for him the Soma. Maghavan in his bended arm supports him: he slays, unasked, the men who hate devotion.

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

Rigveda 10.160.5

Rigveda 10.160.5
Source text

अश्वायन्तो गव्यन्तो वाजयन्तो हवामहे त्वोपगन्तवा उ। आभूषन्तस्ते सुमतौ नवायां वयमिन्द्र त्वा शुनं हुवेम॥

Transliteration

aśvāyanto gavyanto vājayanto havāmahe tvopagantavā u | ābhūṣantaste sumatau navāyāṁ vayamindra tvā śunaṁ huvema ||

Translation

We call on thee to come to us, desirous of goods and spoil, of cattle, and of horses. For thy new love and favour are we present: let us invoke thee, Indra, as our welfare.

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

Sources and editorial record

  1. Rig Veda, Book 10, Hymn 160, translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)RV 10.160Internet Sacred Text Archive
  2. Rigveda Mandala 10, machine-readable Sanskrit and Roman textMandala 10Sanskrit Documents
  3. Rigveda Shakala Samhita, Mandala 10, Sukta 160RV 10.160Vedic Heritage Portal, Ministry of Culture, Government of India
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