Library·Ṛgveda Saṃhitā·10·10.10
ओ चित् सखायं सख्या ववृत्यां तिरः पुरू चिद् अर्णवं जगन्वान् । पितुर् नपातम् आ दधीत वेधा अधि क्षमि प्रतरं दीध्यानः ॥
o cit sakhāyaṃ sakhyā vavṛtyāṃ tiraḥ purū cid arṇavaṃ jaganvān | pitur napātam ā dadhīta vedhā adhi kṣami prataraṃ dīdhyānaḥ ||
Fain would I win my friend to kindly friendship. So may the Sage, come through the air's wide ocean, Remembering the earth and days to follow, obtain a son, the issue of his father.
Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)
न ते सखा सख्यं वष्ट्य् एतत् सलक्ष्मा यद् विषुरूपा भवाति । महस् पुत्रासो असुरस्य वीरा दिवो धर्तार उर्विया परि ख्यन् ॥
na te sakhā sakhyaṃ vaṣṭy etat salakṣmā yad viṣurūpā bhavāti | mahas putrāso asurasya vīrā divo dhartāra urviyā pari khyan ||
Thy friend loves not the friendship which considers her who is near in kindred as stranger. Sons of the mighty Asura, the Heroes, supporters of the heavens, see far around them.
Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)
उशन्ति घा ते अमृतास एतद् एकस्य चित् त्यजसम् मर्त्यस्य । नि ते मनो मनसि धाय्य् अस्मे जन्युः पतिस् तन्वम् आ विविश्याः ॥
uśanti ghā te amṛtāsa etad ekasya cit tyajasam martyasya | ni te mano manasi dhāyy asme janyuḥ patis tanvam ā viviśyāḥ ||
Yea, this the Immortals seek of thee with longing, progeny of the sole existing mortal. Then let thy soul and mine be knit together, and as a loving husband take thy consort.
Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)
न यत् पुरा चकृमा कद् ध नूनम् ऋता वदन्तो अनृतं रपेम । गन्धर्वो अप्स्व् अप्या च योषा सा नो नाभिः परमं जामि तन् नौ ॥
na yat purā cakṛmā kad dha nūnam ṛtā vadanto anṛtaṃ rapema | gandharvo apsv apyā ca yoṣā sā no nābhiḥ paramaṃ jāmi tan nau ||
Shall we do now what we ne'er did aforetime? we who spake righteously now talk impurely? Gandharva in the floods, the Dame of Waters-such is our bond, such our most lofty kinship.
Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)
गर्भे नु नौ जनिता दम्पती कर् देवस् त्वष्टा सविता विश्वरूपः । नकिर् अस्य प्र मिनन्ति व्रतानि वेद नाव् अस्य पृथिवी उत द्यौः ॥
garbhe nu nau janitā dampatī kar devas tvaṣṭā savitā viśvarūpaḥ | nakir asya pra minanti vratāni veda nāv asya pṛthivī uta dyauḥ ||
Even in the womb God Tvastar, Vivifier, shaping all forms, Creator, made us consorts. None violates his holy ordinances: that we are his the heavens and earth acknowledge.
Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)
को अस्य वेद प्रथमस्याह्नः क ईं ददर्श क इह प्र वोचत् । बृहन् मित्रस्य वरुणस्य धाम कद् उ ब्रव आहनो वीच्या नॄन् ॥
ko asya veda prathamasyāhnaḥ ka īṃ dadarśa ka iha pra vocat | bṛhan mitrasya varuṇasya dhāma kad u brava āhano vīcyā nṝn ||
Who knows that earliest day whereof thou speakest? Who hath beheld it? Who can here declare it? Great is the Law of Varuna and Mitra. What, wanton! wilt thou say to men to tempt them?
Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)
यमस्य मा यम्यं काम आगन् समाने योनौ सहशेय्याय । जायेव पत्ये तन्वं रिरिच्यां वि चिद् वृहेव रथ्येव चक्रा ॥
yamasya mā yamyaṃ kāma āgan samāne yonau sahaśeyyāya | jāyeva patye tanvaṃ riricyāṃ vi cid vṛheva rathyeva cakrā ||
I, Yami, am possessed by love of Yama, that I may rest on the same couch beside him. I as a wife would yield me to my husband. Like car-wheels let us speed to meet each other.
Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)
न तिष्ठन्ति न नि मिषन्त्य् एते देवानां स्पश इह ये चरन्ति । अन्येन मद् आहनो याहि तूयं तेन वि वृह रथ्येव चक्रा ॥
na tiṣṭhanti na ni miṣanty ete devānāṃ spaśa iha ye caranti | anyena mad āhano yāhi tūyaṃ tena vi vṛha rathyeva cakrā ||
They stand not still, they never close their eyelids, those sentinels of Gods who wander round us. Not me-go quickly, wanton, with another, and hasten like a chariot wheel to meet him.
Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)
रात्रीभिर् अस्मा अहभिर् दशस्येत् सूर्यस्य चक्षुर् मुहुर् उन् मिमीयात् । दिवा पृथिव्या मिथुना सबन्धू यमीर् यमस्य बिभृयाद् अजामि ॥
rātrībhir asmā ahabhir daśasyet sūryasya cakṣur muhur un mimīyāt | divā pṛthivyā mithunā sabandhū yamīr yamasya bibhṛyād ajāmi ||
May Surya's eye with days and nights endow him, and ever may his light spread out before him. In heaven and earth the kindred Pair commingle. On Yam! be the unbrotherly act of Yama.
Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)
आ घा ता गच्छान् उत्तरा युगानि यत्र जामयः कृणवन्न् अजामि । उप बर्बृहि वृषभाय बाहुम् अन्यम् इच्छस्व सुभगे पतिम् मत् ॥
ā ghā tā gacchān uttarā yugāni yatra jāmayaḥ kṛṇavann ajāmi | upa barbṛhi vṛṣabhāya bāhum anyam icchasva subhage patim mat ||
Sure there will come succeeding times when brothers and sisters will do acts unmeet for kinsfolk. Not me, O fair one,-seek another husband, and make thine arm a pillow for thy consort.
Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)
किम् भ्रातासद् यद् अनाथम् भवाति किम् उ स्वसा यन् निरृतिर् निगच्छात् । काममूता बह्व् एतद् रपामि तन्वा मे तन्वं सम् पिपृग्धि ॥
kim bhrātāsad yad anātham bhavāti kim u svasā yan nirṛtir nigacchāt | kāmamūtā bahv etad rapāmi tanvā me tanvaṃ sam pipṛgdhi ||
Is he a brother when no lord is left her? Is she a sister when Destruction cometh? Forced by my love these many words I utter. Come near, and hold me in thy close embraces.
Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)
न वा उ ते तन्वा तन्वं सम् पपृच्याम् पापम् आहुर् यः स्वसारं निगच्छात् । अन्येन मत् प्रमुदः कल्पयस्व न ते भ्राता सुभगे वष्ट्य् एतत् ॥
na vā u te tanvā tanvaṃ sam papṛcyām pāpam āhur yaḥ svasāraṃ nigacchāt | anyena mat pramudaḥ kalpayasva na te bhrātā subhage vaṣṭy etat ||
I will not fold mine arms about thy body: they call it sin when one comes near his sister. Not me,-prepare thy pleasures with another: thy brother seeks not this from thee, O fair one.
Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)
बतो बतासि यम नैव ते मनो हृदयं चाविदाम । अन्या किल त्वां कक्ष्येव युक्तम् परि ष्वजाते लिबुजेव वृक्षम् ॥
bato batāsi yama naiva te mano hṛdayaṃ cāvidāma | anyā kila tvāṃ kakṣyeva yuktam pari ṣvajāte libujeva vṛkṣam ||
Alas! thou art indeed a weakling, Yama we find in thee no trace of heart or spirit. As round the tree the woodbine clings, another will cling about thee girt as with a girdle.
Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)
अन्यम् ऊ षु त्वं यम्य् अन्य उ त्वाम् परि ष्वजाते लिबुजेव वृक्षम् । तस्य वा त्वम् मन इच्छा स वा तवाधा कृणुष्व संविदं सुभद्राम् ॥
anyam ū ṣu tvaṃ yamy anya u tvām pari ṣvajāte libujeva vṛkṣam | tasya vā tvam mana icchā sa vā tavādhā kṛṇuṣva saṃvidaṃ subhadrām ||
Embrace another, Yami; let another, even as the woodbine rings the tree, enfold thee. Win thou his heart and let him win thy fancy, and he shall form with thee a blest alliance.
Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)