प्रपथे पथाम् अजनिष्ट पूषा प्रपथे दिवः प्रपथे पृथिव्याः । उभे अभि प्रियतमे सधस्थे आ च परा च चरति प्रजानन् ॥१॥
prapathe pathām ajaniṣṭa pūṣā prapathe divaḥ prapathe pṛthivyāḥ | ubhe abhi priyatame sadhasthe ā ca parā ca carati prajānan ||1||
Pusan was born to move on distant pathways, on the road far from earth and far from heaven. To both most wonted places of assembly he travels and returns with perfect knowledge.
Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)This is the translator's rendering of the same verse where it occurs at RV 10.17.6; the wording of this text may differ in places.
pūṣemā āśā anu veda sarvāḥ so asmāṃ abhayatamena neṣat | svastidā āghṛṇiḥ sarvavīro 'prayuchan pura etu prajānan ||2||
Pusan knows all these realms: may he conduct us by ways that are most free from fear and danger. Giver of blessings, glowing, all-heroic, may he, the wise and watchful, go before us.
Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)This is the translator's rendering of the same verse where it occurs at RV 10.17.5; the wording of this text may differ in places.
पूषन् तव व्रते वयं न रिष्येम कदा चन । स्तोतारस् त इह स्मसि ॥३॥
pūṣan tava vrate vayaṃ na riṣyema kadā cana | stotāras ta iha smasi ||3||
Secure in thy protecting care, O Pusan, never may we fail. We here are they who sing thy praise.
Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)This is the translator's rendering of the same verse where it occurs at RV 6.54.9; the wording of this text may differ in places.