Devi sukta
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Devi sukta, also known as Ambhrani sukta, is hymn 10.8.125 from the Rig Veda. It contains 8 verses and is dedicated to Vag Devi. The sukta is in the form of Devi letting every one know of her powers and capabilities.
Devi sukta is one of the important Vedic suktas and is recited by hundreds of people everyday. It is also recited at the end of the recitation of Devi Mahatmyam.
[edit] Translation
In the Translation of Ralph T.H. Griffith (1896):
- 1. I TRAVEL with the Rudras and the Vasus, with the Ādityas and All-Gods I wander.
- I hold aloft both Varuṇa and Mitra, Indra and Agni, and the Pair of Aśvins.
- 2 I cherish and sustain high-swelling Soma, and Tvaṣṭar I support, Pūṣan, and Bhaga.
- I load with wealth the zealous sacrificer who pours the juice and offers his oblation
- 3 I am the Queen, the gatherer-up of treasures, most thoughtful, first of those who merit worship.
- Thus Gods have established me in many places with many homes to enter and abide in.
- 4 Through me alone all eat the food that feeds them,—each man who sees, brewhes, hears the word outspoken
- They know it not, but yet they dwell beside me. Hear, one and all, the truth as I declare it.
- 5 I, verily, myself announce and utter the word that Gods and men alike shall welcome.
- I make the man I love exceeding mighty, make him a sage, a Ṛṣi, and a Brahman.
- 6 I bend the bow for Rudra that his arrow may strike and slay the hater of devotion.
- I rouse and order battle for the people, and I have penetrated Earth and Heaven.
- 7 On the world's summit I bring forth the Father: my home is in the waters, in the ocean.
- Thence I extend o’er all existing creatures, and touch even yonder heaven with my forehead.
- 8 I breathe a strong breath like the wind and tempest, the while I hold together all existence.
- Beyond this wide earth and beyond the heavens I have become so mighty in my grandeur.
