HYMN XIII Havirdhanas. – Rig Veda – Book 10

युजे वां बरह्म पूर्व्यं नमोभिर्वि शलोक एतु पथ्येवसूरेः |
शर्ण्वन्तु विश्वे अम्र्तस्य पुत्रा आ ये धामानिदिव्यानि तस्थुः ||

यमे इव यतमाने यदैतं पर वां भरन मानुषादेवयन्तः |
आ सीदतं सवमु लोकं विदाने सवासस्थेभवतमिन्दवे नः ||

पञ्च पदानि रुपो अन्वरोहं चतुष्पदीमन्वेमि वरतेन |
अक्षरेण परति मिम एतां रतस्य नाभावधि सं पुनामि ||

देवेभ्यः कमव्र्णीत मर्त्युं परजायै कमम्र्तंनाव्र्णीत |
बर्हस्पतिं यज्ञमक्र्ण्वत रषिं परियांयमस्तन्वं परारिरेचीत ||

सप्त कषरन्ति शिशवे मरुत्वते पित्रे पुत्रासो अप्यवीवतन्न्र्तम |
उभे इदस्योभयस्य राजत उभे यतेते उभयस्यपुष्यतः ||

yuje vāṃ brahma pūrvyaṃ namobhirvi śloka etu pathyevasūreḥ |
śṛṇvantu viśve amṛtasya putrā ā ye dhāmānidivyāni tasthuḥ ||

yame iva yatamāne yadaitaṃ pra vāṃ bharan mānuṣādevayantaḥ |
ā sīdataṃ svamu lokaṃ vidāne svāsasthebhavatamindave naḥ ||

pañca padāni rupo anvarohaṃ catuṣpadīmanvemi vratena |
akṣareṇa prati mima etāṃ ṛtasya nābhāvadhi saṃ punāmi ||

devebhyaḥ kamavṛṇīta mṛtyuṃ prajāyai kamamṛtaṃnāvṛṇīta |
bṛhaspatiṃ yajñamakṛṇvata ṛṣiṃ priyāṃyamastanvaṃ prārirecīt ||

sapta kṣaranti śiśave marutvate pitre putrāso apyavīvatannṛtam |
ubhe idasyobhayasya rājata ubhe yatete ubhayasyapuṣyataḥ ||

English Translation

Translated by Ralph T.H. Griffith

1. I YOKE with prayer your ancient inspiration: may the laud rise as on the prince’s pathway.
All Sons of Immortality shall hear it, all the possessors of celestial natures.

2 When speeding ye came nigh us like twin sisters, religious-hearted votaries brought you forward.
Take your place, ye who know your proper station: be near, be very near unto our Soma.

3 Five paces have I risen from Earth. I follow her who hath four feet with devout observance.
This by the Sacred Syllable have I measured: I purify in the central place of Order,

4 He, for God’s sake, chose death to be his portion. He chose not, for men’s good, a life eternal
They sacrificed Bṛhaspati the Ṛṣi. Yama delivered up his own dear body.

5 The Seven flow to the Youth on whom the Maruts wait: the Sons unto the Father brought the sacrifice.
Both these are his, as his they are the Lords of both: both toil; belonging unto both they prosper well.