水と牛への讃歌Waters or Cows

TURN, go not farther on your way: visit us, O ye Wealthy Ones. Agni and Soma, ye who bring riches again, secure us wealth.

向きを変えよ、汝らの道をさらに先へ行くな。われらを訪れよ、汝ら富める者たちよ。アグニとソーマよ、富を再びもたらす汝らよ、われらに富を確保せよ。

Make these return to us again, bring them beside us once again. May. Indra give them back to us, and Agni drive them hither-ward.

これらを再びわれらのもとに戻らせよ、もう一度われらの傍らに連れ来たれ。インドラが彼らをわれらに返し、アグニが彼らをこちらへ駆り立てんことを。

Let them return to us again: under this herdsman let them feed. Do thou, O Agni, keep them here, and let the wealth we have remain.

彼らが再びわれらのもとに戻らんことを。この牧者のもとで彼らを草食ませよ。汝、アグニよ、彼らをここに保て、そしてわれらのもつ富が留まらんことを。

1 call upon their herdsman, him who knoweth well their coming nigh, Their parting and their home-return, and watcheth their approach and rest.

われは彼らの牧者を呼ぶ、彼らが近づくことを、彼らの別れと帰還をよく知り、彼らの接近と休息を見守る者を。

Yea, let the herdsman, too, return, who marketh well their driving-forth; Marketh their wandering away, their turning back and coming home.

まことに、牧者もまた戻らんことを、彼らの追い出しをよく見定め、彼らのさまよい去ること、引き返すこと、家に帰ることを見定める者が。

Home-leader, lead them home to us; Indra, restore to us our kine: We will rejoice in them alive.

家へ導く者よ、彼らをわれらの家へ導け。インドラよ、われらの牛をわれらに回復せよ。われらは生きている彼らを喜ぶであろう。

1 offer you on every side butter and milk and strengthening food. May all the Holy Deities pour down on us a flood of wealth.

われは汝らにあらゆる方面にバターと乳と強める食物を捧げる。すべての聖なる神々がわれらの上に富の流れを注ぎ下さんことを。

O thou Home-leader, lead them home, restore them thou who bringest home. Four are the quarters of the earth; from these bring back to us our kine,

汝、家へ導く者よ、彼らを家に導け、家に連れ帰る汝よ、彼らを回復せよ。大地の方角は四つである。これらからわれらにわれらの牛を連れ戻せ。