Hymn to Vāyu and Indra-Vāyu
Rigveda IV.47 is a sūkta (hymn of praise) from Maṇḍala 4 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. O Vāyu, the bright first portion of the sweet soma has been offered to you at the rites that seek heaven. Come, desired god, with your yoked team, to drink the soma.
2. Indra and Vāyu, you two deserve to drink these soma drops. For the drops flow toward you both together, as waters flow to low ground.
3. O Vāyu and Indra, mighty ones, lords of strength, riding in a single chariot — come with your yoked team, for our help, to drink the soma.
4. The much-desired teams that are yours, O heroes, promised to the one who offers — grant those to us, O Indra-Vāyu, bearers of the sacrifice.
Translator's note: "niyut" (verses 1, 3, 4) names the yoked team of horses or wind-steeds proper to Vāyu; it is rendered here simply as "team" or "yoked team" rather than with an invented English term.
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Rigveda IV.47 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 IV.47
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.
vāyo śukro ayāmi te madhvo agraṁ diviṣṭiṣu |
ā yāhi somapītaye spārho deva niyutvatā || 1 ||
indraś ca vāyav eṣāṁ somānām pītim arhathaḥ |
yuvāṁ hi yantīndavo nimnam āpo na sadhryak || 2 ||
vāyav indraś ca śuṣmiṇā sarathaṁ śavasas patī |
niyutvantā na ūtaya ā yātaṁ somapītaye || 3 ||
yā vāṁ santi puruspṛho niyuto dāśuṣe narā |
asme tā yajñavāhasendravāyū ni yacchatam || 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).