HYMN CXI. Ṛbhus: Rig Veda – Book 1 – Ralph T.H. Griffith, Translator
तक्षन रथं सुव्र्तं विदम्नापसस्तक्षन हरी इन्द्रवाहा वर्षण्वसू |
तक्षन पित्र्भ्यां रभवो युवद वयस्तक्षन्वत्साय मातरं सचाभुवम ||
आ नो यज्ञाय तक्षत रभुमद वयः करत्वे दक्षाय सुप्रजावतीमिषम |
यथा कषयाम सर्ववीरया विशा तन नःशर्धाय धासथा सविन्द्रियम ||
आ तक्षत सातिमस्मभ्यं रभवः सातिं रथाय सातिमर्वते नरः |
सातिं नो जैत्रीं सं महेत विश्वहा जामिमजामिं पर्तनासु सक्षणिम ||
रभुक्षणमिन्द्रमा हुव ऊतय रभून वाजान मरुतः सोमपीतये |
उभा मित्रावरुणा नूनमश्विना ते नो हिन्वन्तु सातये धिये जिषे ||
रभुर्भराय सं शिशातु सातिं समर्यजिद वाजो अस्मानविष्टु |
तन नो … ||
takṣan rathaṃ suvṛtaṃ vidamnāpasastakṣan harī indravāhā vṛṣaṇvasū |
takṣan pitṛbhyāṃ ṛbhavo yuvad vayastakṣanvatsāya mātaraṃ sacābhuvam ||
ā no yajñāya takṣata ṛbhumad vayaḥ kratve dakṣāya suprajāvatīmiṣam |
yathā kṣayāma sarvavīrayā viśā tan naḥśardhāya dhāsathā svindriyam ||
ā takṣata sātimasmabhyaṃ ṛbhavaḥ sātiṃ rathāya sātimarvate naraḥ |
sātiṃ no jaitrīṃ saṃ maheta viśvahā jāmimajāmiṃ pṛtanāsu sakṣaṇim ||
ṛbhukṣaṇamindramā huva ūtaya ṛbhūn vājān marutaḥ somapītaye |
ubhā mitrāvaruṇā nūnamaśvinā te no hinvantu sātaye dhiye jiṣe ||
ṛbhurbharāya saṃ śiśātu sātiṃ samaryajid vājo asmānaviṣṭu |
tan no … ||
English Translation
Translated by Ralph T.H. Griffith
1. WORKING with skill they wrought the lightly rolling car: they wrought the Bays who bear Indra and bring great gifts.
The Ṛbhus for their Parents made life young again; and fashioned for the calf a mother by its side.
2 For sacrifice make for us active vital power for skill and wisdom food with noble progeny.
Grant to our company this power most excellent, that with a family all-heroic we may dwell.
3 Do ye, O Ṛbhus, make prosperity for us, prosperity for car, ye Heroes, and for steed.
Grant us prosperity victorious evermore,
conquering foes in battle, strangers or akin.
4 Indra, the Ṛbhus’ Lord, I invocate for aid, the Ṛbhus, Vājas, Maruts to the Soma draught.
Varuṇa, Mitra, both, yea, and the Aśvins Twain: let them speed us to wealth, wisdom, and victory.
5 May Ṛbhu send prosperity for battle, may Vāja conquering in the fight protect us.
This prayer of ours may Varuṇa grant, and Mitra, and Aditi and Sindhu, Earth and Heaven.