Hymn of Unity
Rigveda X.191 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. The hymn opens with a verse to Agni and turns, in its final three verses, into a well-known call for an assembly to hold one counsel, one mind, and one heart — the passage still quoted today as a hymn of concord.
1. Again and again, O mighty Agni, you draw together all the goods of the stranger. You are kindled in the place of offering — bring us wealth.
2. Come together, speak together, let your minds be of one accord — just as the gods of old, being in agreement, took up their share of the offering.
3. Common is your counsel, common your assembly, common your mind, joined is the thought of these gathered here. I proclaim to you a common counsel; with a shared offering I make oblation on your behalf.
4. Common be your intention, common your hearts; let your mind be common, so that you may be well united together.
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Rigveda X.191 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.191
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.
saṁ-sam id yuvase vṛṣann agne viśvāny arya ā |
iḻas pade sam idhyase sa no vasūny ā bhara || 1 ||
saṁ gacchadhvaṁ saṁ vadadhvaṁ saṁ vo manāṁsi jānatām |
devā bhāgaṁ yathā pūrve saṁjānānā upāsate || 2 ||
samāno mantraḥ samitiḥ samānī samānam manaḥ saha cittam eṣām |
samānam mantram abhi mantraye vaḥ samānena vo haviṣā juhomi || 3 ||
samānī va ākūtiḥ samānā hṛdayāni vaḥ |
samānam astu vo mano yathā vaḥ susahāsati || 4 ||
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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).