Hymn to Savitṛ
Rigveda V.82 is a sūkta (hymn of praise) from Maṇḍala 5 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. We choose that bounty of the god Savitṛ — the best, the most all-sustaining — and we set our minds on the swift portion of Bhaga.
2. Indeed, whatever is dear and most inherently glorious of this Savitṛ — they do not violate his self-rule.
3. He indeed, Savitṛ the bounteous, sends down treasures to the one who gives offerings; we ask for that wondrous portion.
4. Today, O god Savitṛ, grant us good fortune together with offspring; drive far away the evil dream.
5. O god Savitṛ, drive away all hardships; bring toward us whatever is auspicious.
6. Guiltless before Aditi, at the impelling of the god Savitṛ, may we hold fast to all good things.
7. Today with our hymns we choose Savitṛ, the god of all gods, the true lord, whose urging is true.
8. Savitṛ, the thoughtful god, who goes unfailingly ahead of these two — day and night.
9. Savitṛ, who makes all these born creatures hear him through his call, and sends them forth.
Translator's note: verse 1's "bhojanam" (enjoyment, sustenance, portion) and "bhagasya" (of Bhaga, both the deity of fortune and the common noun "portion, share") are read together as Savitṛ's bounty being also a portion associated with Bhaga; verse 3 renders "bhagaḥ" the same way, as an epithet ("the bounteous one") rather than a separate deity's name, since the verse's grammatical subject remains Savitṛ. Verse 8's "ime ubhe ahanī" ("these two days") is translated as "day and night," the standard Vedic sense of the dual.
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Rigveda V.82 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 V.82
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.
tat savitur vṛṇīmahe vayaṁ devasya bhojanam |
śreṣṭhaṁ sarvadhātamaṁ turam bhagasya dhīmahi || 1 ||
asya hi svayaśastaraṁ savituḥ kac cana priyam |
na minanti svarājyam || 2 ||
sa hi ratnāni dāśuṣe suvāti savitā bhagaḥ |
tam bhāgaṁ citram īmahe || 3 ||
adyā no deva savitaḥ prajāvat sāvīḥ saubhagam |
parā duṣṣvapnyaṁ suva || 4 ||
viśvāni deva savitar duritāni parā suva |
yad bhadraṁ tan na ā suva || 5 ||
anāgaso aditaye devasya savituḥ save |
viśvā vāmāni dhīmahi || 6 ||
ā viśvadevaṁ satpatiṁ sūktair adyā vṛṇīmahe |
satyasavaṁ savitāram || 7 ||
ya ime ubhe ahanī pura ety aprayucchan |
svādhīr devaḥ savitā || 8 ||
ya imā viśvā jātāny āśrāvayati ślokena |
pra ca suvāti savitā || 9 ||
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).