A Healing Hymn to the All-Gods
Rigveda X.137 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. And, O gods, you lift up again the one who has fallen; and, O gods, you bring back to life the one who has sinned.
2. These two winds blow, O Wind — one from the river, one from the far distance: let one blow vigor to you; let the other blow away whatever hurt there is.
3. O Wind, bring healing here; O Wind, blow away whatever hurt there is. For you are the healer of everything; you go as the messenger of the gods.
4. I have come to you with means of peace, and with means of safety. I have brought you good strength; I drive your disease away.
5. Let the gods protect here; let the troop of the Maruts protect; let all beings protect — so that this one may be free of hurt.
6. The waters indeed are healing; the waters drive sickness away. The waters are the healing of everything; let them make healing for you.
7. With the two ten-branched hands, and with the tongue, forerunner of speech — with these health-giving ones we touch you.
Translator's note: verse 7's "ten-branched" (daśaśākhābhyām) describes the two hands by their ten fingers, imagined as branches; "forerunner of speech" (vācaḥ purogavī) describes the tongue as what goes ahead of spoken words.
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Rigveda X.137 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.137
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.
uta devā avahitaṁ devā un nayathā punaḥ |
utāgaś cakruṣaṁ devā devā jīvayathā punaḥ || 1 ||
dvāv imau vātau vāta ā sindhor ā parāvataḥ |
dakṣaṁ te anya ā vātu parānyo vātu yad rapaḥ || 2 ||
ā vāta vāhi bheṣajaṁ vi vāta vāhi yad rapaḥ |
tvaṁ hi viśvabheṣajo devānāṁ dūta īyase || 3 ||
ā tvāgamaṁ śaṁtātibhir atho ariṣṭatātibhiḥ |
dakṣaṁ te bhadram ābhārṣam parā yakṣmaṁ suvāmi te || 4 ||
trāyantām iha devās trāyatām marutāṁ gaṇaḥ |
trāyantāṁ viśvā bhūtāni yathāyam arapā asat || 5 ||
āpa id vā u bheṣajīr āpo amīvacātanīḥ |
āpaḥ sarvasya bheṣajīs tās te kṛṇvantu bheṣajam || 6 ||
hastābhyāṁ daśaśākhābhyāṁ jihvā vācaḥ purogavī |
anāmayitnubhyāṁ tvā tābhyāṁ tvopa spṛśāmasi || 7 ||
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).