Book 9 >> HYMN 110 - Soma Pavamana



पर्यू षु पर धन्व वाजसातये परि वर्त्राणि सक्षणिः |
दविषस्तरध्या रणया न ईयसे
English:- . O'ERPOWERING Vṛtras, forward run to win great strength:
Thou speedest to subdue like one exacting debts.

अनु हि तवा सुतं सोम मदामसि महे समर्यराज्ये |
वाजानभि पवमान पर गाहसे
English:- In thee, effused, O Soma, we rejoice ourselves for great supremacy in fight.
Thou, Pavamana, enterest into mighty deeds,

अजीजनो हि पवमान सूर्यं विधारे शक्मना पयः |
गोजीरया रंहमानः पुरन्ध्या
English:- O Pavamana, thou didst generate the Sun, and spread the moisture out with power,
Hasting to us with plenty vivified with milk.

अजीजनो अम्र्त मर्त्येष्वा रतस्य धर्मन्नम्र्तस्य चारुणः |
सदासरो वाजमछा सनिष्यदत
English:- Thou didst produce him, Deathless God mid mortal men for maintenance of Law and lovely Amṛta:
Thou evermore hast moved making strength flow to us.

अभ्य-अभि हि शरवसा ततर्दिथोत्सं न कं चिज्जनपानमक्षितम |
शर्याभिर्न भरमाणो गभस्त्योः
English:- All round about hast thou with glory pierced for us as 'twere a never-failing well for men to drink,
Borne on thy way in fragments from the presser's arms.

आदीं के चित पश्यमानास आप्यं वसुरुचो दिव्या अभ्यनूषत |
वारं न देवः सविता वयूर्णुते
English:- Then, beautifully radiant, certain Heavenly Ones, have sung to him their kinship as they looked thereon,
And Savitar the God opens as 'twere a stall.

तवे सोम परथमा वर्क्तबर्हिषो महे वाजाय शरवसे धियन्दधुः |
स तवं नो वीर वीर्याय चोदय
English:- Soma, the men of old whose grass was trimmed addressed the hymn to thee for mighty strength and for renown:
So, Hero, urge us onward to heroic power.

दिवः पीयूषं पूर्व्यं यदुक्थ्यं महो गाहाद दिव आनिरधुक्षत |
इन्द्रमभि जायमानं समस्वरन
English:- They have drained forth from out the great depth of the sky the old primeval milk of heaven that claims the laud:
They lifted up their voice to Indra athis birth.

अध यदिमे पवमान रोदसी इमा च विश्वा भुवनाभि मज्मना |
यूथे न निष्ठा वर्षभो वि तिष्ठसे
English:- As long as thou, O Pavamana, art above this earth and heaven and all existence in thy might,
Thou standest like a Bull the chief amid the herd.

सोमः पुनानो अव्यये वारे शिशुर्न करीळन पवमानो अक्षाः |
सहस्रधारः शतवाज इन्दुः
English:- In the sheep's wool hath Soma Pavamana flowed, while they cleanse him, like a playful infant,
Indu with hundred powers and hundred currents.

एष पुनानो मधुमान रतावेन्द्रायेन्दुः पवते सवादुरूर्मिः |
वाजसनिर्वरिवोविद वयोधाः
English:- Holy and sweet, while purified, this Indu flows on, a wave of pleasant taste, to Indra,-
Strength-winner, Treasure-finder, Life. bestower.

स पवस्व सहमानः पर्तन्यून सेधन रक्षांस्यप दुर्गहाणि |
सवायुधः सासह्वान सोम शत्रून
English:- So flow thou on, subduing our assailants, chasing the demons hard to beencountered,
Well-armed and conquering our foes, O Soma.