Rigveda Samhita — Mandala 2 — Chapter 27

RV 2 27.1

इमा गिर आदित्येभ्यो घृतस्नूः सनाद् राजभ्यो जुह्वा जुहोमि । शृणोतु मित्रो अर्यमा भगो नस् तुविजातो वरुणो दक्षो अꣳशः

imā gira ādityebhyo ghṛtasnūḥ sanād rājabhyo juhvā juhomi | śṛṇotu mitro aryamā bhago nas tuvijāto varuṇo dakṣo aṁśaḥ

These songs, dripping with ghee, I offer with the ladle to the Ādityas, kings from of old. May Mitra hear us, Aryaman, Bhaga, the mightily-born Varuṇa, Dakṣa, Aṁśa.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

RV 2 27.2

इमꣳ स्तोमꣳ सक्रतवो मे अद्य मित्रो अर्यमा वरुणो जुषन्त । आदित्यासः शुचयो धारपूता अवृजिना अनवद्या अरिष्टाः

imaṁ stomaṁ sakratavo me adya mitro aryamā varuṇo juṣanta | ādityāsaḥ śucayo dhārapūtā avṛjinā anavadyā ariṣṭāḥ

May Mitra, Aryaman, Varuṇa, being of one purpose, take pleasure today in this praise of mine — the Ādityas, radiant, purified as by a straining-stream, free of crookedness, blameless, unharmed.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

RV 2 27.3

त आदित्यास उरवो गभीरा अदब्धासो दिप्सन्तो भूर्यक्षाः । अन्तः पश्यन्ति वृजिनोत साधु सर्वꣳ राजभ्यः परमा चिद् अन्ति

ta ādityāsa uravo gabhīrā adabdhāso dipsanto bhūryakṣāḥ | antaḥ paśyanti vṛjinota sādhu sarvaṁ rājabhyaḥ paramā cid anti

Those Ādityas are broad, deep, undeceived (though others) seek to deceive (them), many-eyed; they see within (what is) crooked and (what is) straight; everything, even the farthest, is near to these kings.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

RV 2 27.4

धारयन्त आदित्यासो जगत् स्था देवा विश्वस्य भुवनस्य गोपाः । दीर्घाधियो रक्षमाणा असुर्यम् ऋतावानश् चयमाना ऋणानि

dhārayanta ādityāso jagat sthā devā viśvasya bhuvanasya gopāḥ | dīrghādhiyo rakṣamāṇā asuryam ṛtāvānaś cayamānā ṛṇāni

Upholding that which moves and that which moves not, Âdityas, Gods, protectors of all being, Provident, guarding well the world of spirits, true to eternal Law, the debt-exactors.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1896) (public domain)

RV 2 27.5

विद्याम् आदित्या अवसो वो अस्य यद् अर्यमन् भय आ चिन् मयोभु । युष्माकम् मित्रावरुणा प्रणीतौ परि श्वभ्रेव दुरितानि वृज्याम्

vidyām ādityā avaso vo asya yad aryaman bhaya ā cin mayobhu | yuṣmākam mitrāvaruṇā praṇītau pari śvabhreva duritāni vṛjyām

May we know, O Ādityas, this help of yours, which, O Aryaman, even in fear is refreshing. Under your guidance, Mitra and Varuṇa, may I steer clear of hard passages as (one avoids) pits.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

RV 2 27.6

सुगो हि वो अर्यमन् मित्र पन्था अनृक्षरो वरुण साधुर् अस्ति । तेनादित्या अधि वोचता नो यच्छता नो दुष्परिहन्तु शर्म

sugo hi vo aryaman mitra panthā anṛkṣaro varuṇa sādhur asti | tenādityā adhi vocatā no yacchatā no duṣparihantu śarma

For your path, O Aryaman, O Mitra, is easy to travel, thornless, O Varuṇa, and straight. By it, O Ādityas, speak on our behalf; extend to us a shelter hard to strike away.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

RV 2 27.7

पिपर्तु नो अदिती राजपुत्राति द्वेषाꣳस्य् अर्यमा सुगेभिः । बृहन् मित्रस्य वरुणस्य शर्मोप स्याम पुरुवीरा अरिष्टाः

pipartu no aditī rājaputrāti dveṣāṁsy aryamā sugebhiḥ | bṛhan mitrasya varuṇasya śarmopa syāma puruvīrā ariṣṭāḥ

May Aditi, whose sons are kings, carry us across the hostilities, and Aryaman by easy paths; may we, rich in men and unharmed, come to the lofty shelter of Mitra and of Varuṇa.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

RV 2 27.8

तिस्रो भूमीर् धारयन् त्रीꣳर् उत द्यून् त्रीणि व्रता विदथे अन्तर् एषाम् । ऋतेनादित्या महि वो महित्वꣳ तद् अर्यमन् वरुण मित्र चारु

tisro bhūmīr dhārayan trīm̐r uta dyūn trīṇi vratā vidathe antar eṣām | ṛtenādityā mahi vo mahitvaṁ tad aryaman varuṇa mitra cāru

They uphold the three earths and the three heavens; three ordinances (vratas) are within their assembly (vidatha). Through ṛta, O Ādityas, great is your greatness; that is dear, O Aryaman, Varuṇa, Mitra.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

RV 2 27.9

त्री रोचना दिव्या धारयन्त हिरण्ययाः शुचयो धारपूताः । अस्वप्नजो अनिमिषा अदब्धा उरुशꣳसा ऋजवे मर्त्याय

trī rocanā divyā dhārayanta hiraṇyayāḥ śucayo dhārapūtāḥ | asvapnajo animiṣā adabdhā uruśaṁsā ṛjave martyāya

They uphold the three heavenly luminous realms — (they who are) golden, gleaming, purified in the stream; sleepless, unblinking, undeceived, of wide pronouncement for the upright mortal.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

RV 2 27.10

त्वꣳ विश्वेषाꣳ वरुणासि राजा ये च देवा असुर ये च मर्ताः । शतꣳ नो रास्व शरदो विचक्षे ऽश्यामायूꣳषि सुधितानि पूर्वा

tvaṁ viśveṣāṁ varuṇāsi rājā ye ca devā asura ye ca martāḥ | śataṁ no rāsva śarado vicakṣe 'śyāmāyūṁṣi sudhitāni pūrvā

You, Varuṇa, are king of all, both those who are gods, O Asura, and those who are mortals. Grant us a hundred autumns to behold; may we attain the lifespans well-set, the former ones.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

RV 2 27.11

न दक्षिणा वि चिकिते न सव्या न प्राचीनम् आदित्या नोत पश्चा । पाक्या चिद् वसवो धीर्या चिद् युष्मानीतो अभयꣳ ज्योतिर् अश्याम्

na dakṣiṇā vi cikite na savyā na prācīnam ādityā nota paścā | pākyā cid vasavo dhīryā cid yuṣmānīto abhayaṁ jyotir aśyām

I do not discern the right nor the left, nor the front, O Ādityas, nor yet the rear. Whether in simplicity or in wisdom, O Vasus, led by you may I reach the fearless light.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

RV 2 27.12

यो राजभ्य ऋतनिभ्यो ददाश यꣳ वर्धयन्ति पुष्टयश् च नित्याः । स रेवान् याति प्रथमो रथेन वसुदावा विदथेषु प्रशस्तः

yo rājabhya ṛtanibhyo dadāśa yaṁ vardhayanti puṣṭayaś ca nityāḥ | sa revān yāti prathamo rathena vasudāvā vidatheṣu praśastaḥ

He who has given to the kings bound to ṛta, whom the unfailing prosperities make grow — he goes wealthy, foremost with his chariot, a giver of goods, lauded in the assemblies.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

RV 2 27.13

शुचिर् अपः सूयवसा अदब्ध उप क्षेति वृद्धवयाः सुवीरः । नकिष् टꣳ घ्नन्त्य् अन्तितो न दूराद् य आदित्यानाम् भवति प्रणीतौ

śucir apaḥ sūyavasā adabdha upa kṣeti vṛddhavayāḥ suvīraḥ | nakiṣ ṭaṁ ghnanty antito na dūrād ya ādityānām bhavati praṇītau

Pure, undeceived, he dwells beside waters and good pastures, with long life and good sons. None slay him from near or from far, who is under the guidance of the Ādityas.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

RV 2 27.14

अदिते मित्र वरुणोत मृऴ यद् वो वयꣳ चकृमा कच् चिद् आगः । उर्व् अश्याम् अभयꣳ ज्योतिर् इन्द्र मा नो दीर्घा अभि नशन् तमिस्राः

adite mitra varuṇota mṛḻa yad vo vayaṁ cakṛmā kac cid āgaḥ | urv aśyām abhayaṁ jyotir indra mā no dīrghā abhi naśan tamisrāḥ

O Aditi, Mitra, and Varuṇa, be merciful for whatever offence we have committed against you. May I reach the wide, fearless light, Indra; let not the long darknesses come upon us.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

RV 2 27.15

उभे अस्मै पीपयतः समीची दिवो वृष्टिꣳ सुभगो नाम पुष्यन् । उभा क्षयाव् आजयन् याति पृत्सूभाव् अर्धौ भवतः साधू अस्मै

ubhe asmai pīpayataḥ samīcī divo vṛṣṭiṁ subhago nāma puṣyan | ubhā kṣayāv ājayan yāti pṛtsūbhāv ardhau bhavataḥ sādhū asmai

Both the joined pair (heaven and earth) swell with the rain of heaven for him, and, fortunate, he thrives as a name; he goes conquering both dwellings in the battles; both flanks turn out well for him.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain

RV 2 27.16

या वो माया अभिद्रुहे यजत्राः पाशा आदित्या रिपवे विचृत्ताः । अश्वीव ताꣳ अति येषꣳ रथेनारिष्टा उराव् आ शर्मन् स्याम

yā vo māyā abhidruhe yajatrāḥ pāśā ādityā ripave vicṛttāḥ | aśvīva tām̐ ati yeṣaṁ rathenāriṣṭā urāv ā śarman syāma

Those arts of yours, O worshipful ones, that are against the malicious, and the snares, O Ādityas, spread out for the cheat — like a man with horses may I drive past them with my chariot; may we be unharmed in wide shelter.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

RV 2 27.17

माहम् मघोनो वरुण प्रियस्य भूरिदाव्न आ विदꣳ शूनम् आपेः । मा रायो राजन् सुयमाद् अव स्थाम् बृहद् वदेम विदथे सुवीराः

māham maghono varuṇa priyasya bhūridāvna ā vidaṁ śūnam āpeḥ | mā rāyo rājan suyamād ava sthām bṛhad vadema vidathe suvīrāḥ

May I not, Varuṇa, meet with the lack of a bountiful, dear, much-giving friend. May I not, O king, be left without well-controlled wealth. May we speak loftily in the assembly, with good sons.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition