Hymn to the All-Gods
Rigveda X.100 is a sūkta (hymn of praise) from Maṇḍala 10 of the Rigveda, one of the 1,028 hymns organized within the ten books of the oldest Veda. The Rigveda was composed approximately 1700–1100 BCE in Vedic Sanskrit and preserved through oral transmission across millennia.
This is a Good Works Translation produced for the Good Works Library from the Sanskrit of the Śākala recension.
1. Indra, be steadfast, bounteous lord — such is your benefit, praised here. Soma-drinker, attend to us for our increase. May Savitar, together with the gods, further our word that is renowned.
We choose wholeness — we choose Aditi.
2. Offer well the timely portion, forth to Vāyu, the pure drinker, who rushes eager for his share, who has won the drink of the bright milk.
We choose wholeness — we choose Aditi.
3. May god Savitar stir vitality in us, for the sacrificer who deals uprightly and presses the soma, so that we may serve the gods with simple sincerity.
We choose wholeness — we choose Aditi.
4. May Indra be well-disposed toward us, always. May King Soma grant us welfare, just as friends everywhere have made their bonds firm.
We choose wholeness — we choose Aditi.
5. By the hymn, by strength, Indra has taken hold of the frame of things. O Bṛhaspati, you are the one who lengthens our lifespan. The sacrifice is Manu, is our providence, is indeed our father.
We choose wholeness — we choose Aditi.
6. Indra's divine strength is indeed well-wrought; Agni in the house is the singer, the wise seer. And the sacrifice has become, at the gathering, our nearest and dearest.
We choose wholeness — we choose Aditi.
7. We have not done against you, in secret, much wrong, nor openly, O Vasus, anything that angers the gods. Let there be no shape of falsehood upon us, O gods.
We choose wholeness — we choose Aditi.
8. May Savitar drive affliction downward and away; farther still may the pressing-stones banish it, where the loud pressing-stone, presser of the sweet draught, is invoked.
We choose wholeness — we choose Aditi.
9. Let the pressing-stone stand upright for the presser, O Vasus. Keep all hostilities far away. May that god Savitar be our protector, worthy of praise.
We choose wholeness — we choose Aditi.
10. O cows, eat rich nourishment in the pasture, you who anoint yourselves in the vessel, at the seat of Ṛta. Let the body itself be medicine for the body.
We choose wholeness — we choose Aditi.
11. The singer who furthers our purpose is a lasting help to us all. Indra indeed is the kindly providence of those who have pressed the soma, whose heavenly udder is full and ready to pour.
We choose wholeness — we choose Aditi.
12. Your brightness is dazzling, fulfilling our purpose — your favor is real. There are rivals, seasoned by long striving, unyielding. By the most direct course, the one who serves hastens to reach the foremost of the herd.
Translator's note: verse 5's "paru" (joint, frame, articulation) is rendered conservatively as "the frame of things" — its precise sense here is uncertain. Verse 12 is the most syntactically compressed verse of the hymn and lacks the refrain found elsewhere; "spṛdhaḥ jaraṇiprāḥ" (rivals "filled with age") and the closing image of hastening toward the foremost of the herd are rendered literally rather than resolved into a single confident reading. The refrain "sarvatātim aditim vṛṇīmahe" carries both an abstract sense ("we choose wholeness and freedom from harm") and a sense addressed to the goddess Aditi; both readings are held together here as "we choose wholeness — we choose Aditi."
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Rigveda X.100 is drawn from the Śākala recension of the Rigveda, composed approximately 1700–1100 BCE. This is a Good Works Translation rendered verse by verse from the Sanskrit text printed below. Prepared for the Good Work Library by the Tianmu Anglican Church with AI-assisted translation.
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Source Text: ṛgveda X.100
Sanskrit source text from the Aufrecht edition (1877) via GRETIL (Van Nooten & Holland input). Presented here for reference, study, and verification alongside the English translation above.
indra dṛhya maghavan tvāvad id bhuja iha stutaḥ sutapā bodhi no vṛdhe |
devebhir naḥ savitā prāvatu śrutam ā sarvatātim aditiṁ vṛṇīmahe || 1 ||
bharāya su bharata bhāgam ṛtviyam pra vāyave śucipe krandadiṣṭaye |
gaurasya yaḥ payasaḥ pītim ānaśa ā sarvatātim aditiṁ vṛṇīmahe || 2 ||
ā no devaḥ savitā sāviṣad vaya ṛjūyate yajamānāya sunvate |
yathā devān pratibhūṣema pākavad ā sarvatātim aditiṁ vṛṇīmahe || 3 ||
indro asme sumanā astu viśvahā rājā somaḥ suvitasyādhy etu naḥ |
yathā-yathā mitradhitāni saṁdadhur ā sarvatātim aditiṁ vṛṇīmahe || 4 ||
indra ukthena śavasā parur dadhe bṛhaspate pratarītāsy āyuṣaḥ |
yajño manuḥ pramatir naḥ pitā hi kam ā sarvatātim aditiṁ vṛṇīmahe || 5 ||
indrasya nu sukṛtaṁ daivyaṁ saho 'gnir gṛhe jaritā medhiraḥ kaviḥ |
yajñaś ca bhūd vidathe cārur antama ā sarvatātim aditiṁ vṛṇīmahe || 6 ||
na vo guhā cakṛma bhūri duṣkṛtaṁ nāviṣṭyaṁ vasavo devaheḻanam |
mākir no devā anṛtasya varpasa ā sarvatātim aditiṁ vṛṇīmahe || 7 ||
apāmīvāṁ savitā sāviṣan nya1g varīya id apa sedhantv adrayaḥ |
grāvā yatra madhuṣud ucyate bṛhad ā sarvatātim aditiṁ vṛṇīmahe || 8 ||
ūrdhvo grāvā vasavo 'stu sotari viśvā dveṣāṁsi sanutar yuyota |
sa no devaḥ savitā pāyur īḍya ā sarvatātim aditiṁ vṛṇīmahe || 9 ||
ūrjaṁ gāvo yavase pīvo attana ṛtasya yāḥ sadane kośe aṅgdhve |
tanūr eva tanvo astu bheṣajam ā sarvatātim aditiṁ vṛṇīmahe || 10 ||
kratuprāvā jaritā śaśvatām ava indra id bhadrā pramatiḥ sutāvatām |
pūrṇam ūdhar divyaṁ yasya siktaya ā sarvatātim aditiṁ vṛṇīmahe || 11 ||
citras te bhānuḥ kratuprā abhiṣṭiḥ santi spṛdho jaraṇiprā adhṛṣṭāḥ |
rajiṣṭhayā rajyā paśva ā gos tūtūrṣati pary agraṁ duvasyuḥ || 12 ||
Source Colophon
Sanskrit text of the Rigveda, Śākala recension. The standard scholarly edition is the Bombay Oriental (Vishva Bandhu, 5 vols., 1963–66). IAST transliteration available from GRETIL (Göttingen Register of Electronic Texts in Indian Languages) and Vedaweb (University of Cologne). Both sources are open access. IAST transliteration from the Aufrecht edition (1877) via GRETIL (Van Nooten & Holland input, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).