Hymn to the Viśvedevas
Rigveda VII.35 is a sūkta (hymn of praise) from Maṇḍala 7 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. May Indra and Agni be good for us with their help; may Indra and Varuna, who receive our offerings, be good for us. May Indra and Soma be good for our well-being, good for our welfare. May Indra and Pushan be good for us in the winning of strength.
2. May Bhaga be good for us, and may praise be good for us; may abundance be good for us, and may riches be good for us. May the praise of the true, well-ordered one be good for us; may Aryaman, born among many, be good for us.
3. May Dhatr be good for us, and may the Sustainer be good for us; may the wide-reaching one be good for us with her own powers. May the vast two world-halves be good for us, may the pressing-stone be good for us; may the good invocations of the gods be good for us.
4. May Agni, whose face is light, be good for us; may Mitra and Varuna and the Aśvins be good for us. May the good deeds of the righteous be good for us; may the swift wind blow toward us, bringing good.
5. May Heaven and Earth be good for us at the first invocation; may the mid-air be good for our seeing. May the plants and forest trees be good for us; may the victorious lord of the realm of space be good for us.
6. May the god Indra with the Vasus be good for us; may Varuna, rightly praised, with the Adityas, be good for us. May Rudra the healer with the Rudras be good for us; may Tvashtr with the divine women hear us here, well-disposed.
7. May Soma be good for us, may sacred speech be good for us; may the pressing-stones be good for us, and may the sacrifices be good for us. May the measures of the sacrificial post be good for us; may our offerings be good for us, and may the altar be good for us.
8. May the far-seeing sun rise well for us; may the four quarters be good for us. May the steadfast mountains be good for us; may the rivers be good for us, and may the waters be good for us.
9. May Aditi be good for us with her ordinances; may the Maruts, singers of bright hymns, be good for us. May Vishnu be good for us, and may Pushan be good for us; may the world that is to be born be good for us, and may Vayu be good for us.
10. May the god Savitr, our protector, be good for us; may the radiant dawns be good for us. May Parjanya be good for our offspring; may the beneficent lord of the field be good for us.
11. May the gods, the All-Gods, be good for us; may Sarasvati, together with our devotions, be good for us. May our attendants be good, and those who share in our gifts be good; may the heavenly ones, the earthly ones, and the watery ones be good for us.
12. May the lords of truth be good for us; may our horses be good for us, and may the cows be good for us. May the Ṛbhus, the skillful-handed makers of good things, be good for us; may the ancestors be good for us at our invocations.
13. May the god Aja Ekapad be good for us; may Ahi Budhnya be good for us, and may the ocean be good for us. May Apam Napat, the ford, be good for us; may Prishni, protected by the gods, be good for us.
14. May the Adityas, the Rudras, and the Vasus welcome this prayer, newly composed. May the heavenly ones and the earthly ones hear us, and those born of the earth, and those worthy of worship.
15. May those among the gods who are worthy of worship among the worshipful, worthy of Manu's sacrifice, immortal, knowers of the sacred order — may they grant us today far-reaching bounty. May you always protect us with blessings.
Translator's note: several terms resist a confident rendering and are kept conservative here: "svarūṇām mitayaḥ" (verse 7, the "measures of the sacrificial post") and "prasvaḥ" (verse 7, rendered "our offerings") are obscure ritual vocabulary; "bhavitram" (verse 9, "the world that is to be born") and "gojātāḥ" (verse 14, "those born of the earth") are likewise uncertain epithets whose precise sense is debated.
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Rigveda VII.35 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 VII.35
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.
śaṁ na indrāgnī bhavatām avobhiḥ śaṁ na indrāvaruṇā rātahavyā |
śam indrāsomā suvitāya śaṁ yoḥ śaṁ na indrāpūṣaṇā vājasātau || 1 ||
śaṁ no bhagaḥ śam u naḥ śaṁso astu śaṁ naḥ puraṁdhiḥ śam u santu rāyaḥ |
śaṁ naḥ satyasya suyamasya śaṁsaḥ śaṁ no aryamā purujāto astu || 2 ||
śaṁ no dhātā śam u dhartā no astu śaṁ na urūcī bhavatu svadhābhiḥ |
śaṁ rodasī bṛhatī śaṁ no adriḥ śaṁ no devānāṁ suhavāni santu || 3 ||
śaṁ no agnir jyotiranīko astu śaṁ no mitrāvaruṇāv aśvinā śam |
śaṁ naḥ sukṛtāṁ sukṛtāni santu śaṁ na iṣiro abhi vātu vātaḥ || 4 ||
śaṁ no dyāvāpṛthivī pūrvahūtau śam antarikṣaṁ dṛśaye no astu |
śaṁ na oṣadhīr vanino bhavantu śaṁ no rajasas patir astu jiṣṇuḥ || 5 ||
śaṁ na indro vasubhir devo astu śam ādityebhir varuṇaḥ suśaṁsaḥ |
śaṁ no rudro rudrebhir jalāṣaḥ śaṁ nas tvaṣṭā gnābhir iha śṛṇotu || 6 ||
śaṁ naḥ somo bhavatu brahma śaṁ naḥ śaṁ no grāvāṇaḥ śam u santu yajñāḥ |
śaṁ naḥ svarūṇām mitayo bhavantu śaṁ naḥ prasva1ḥ śam v astu vediḥ || 7 ||
śaṁ naḥ sūrya urucakṣā ud etu śaṁ naś catasraḥ pradiśo bhavantu |
śaṁ naḥ parvatā dhruvayo bhavantu śaṁ naḥ sindhavaḥ śam u santv āpaḥ || 8 ||
śaṁ no aditir bhavatu vratebhiḥ śaṁ no bhavantu marutaḥ svarkāḥ |
śaṁ no viṣṇuḥ śam u pūṣā no astu śaṁ no bhavitraṁ śam v astu vāyuḥ || 9 ||
śaṁ no devaḥ savitā trāyamāṇaḥ śaṁ no bhavantūṣaso vibhātīḥ |
śaṁ naḥ parjanyo bhavatu prajābhyaḥ śaṁ naḥ kṣetrasya patir astu śambhuḥ || 10 ||
śaṁ no devā viśvadevā bhavantu śaṁ sarasvatī saha dhībhir astu |
śam abhiṣācaḥ śam u rātiṣācaḥ śaṁ no divyāḥ pārthivāḥ śaṁ no apyāḥ || 11 ||
śaṁ no satyasya patayo bhavantu śaṁ no arvantaḥ śam u santu gāvaḥ |
śaṁ na ṛbhavaḥ sukṛtaḥ suhastāḥ śaṁ no bhavantu pitaro haveṣu || 12 ||
śaṁ no aja ekapād devo astu śaṁ no 'hir budhnya1ḥ śaṁ samudraḥ |
śaṁ no apāṁ napāt perur astu śaṁ naḥ pṛśnir bhavatu devagopā || 13 ||
ādityā rudrā vasavo juṣantedam brahma kriyamāṇaṁ navīyaḥ |
śṛṇvantu no divyāḥ pārthivāso gojātā uta ye yajñiyāsaḥ || 14 ||
ye devānāṁ yajñiyā yajñiyānām manor yajatrā amṛtā ṛtajñāḥ |
te no rāsantām urugāyam adya yūyam pāta svastibhiḥ sadā naḥ || 15 ||
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).