viśvakarma sūktam

He who performs the sacrifice of all these worlds, the Seer, the Invoker, our Father, wishing for wealth through his blessings, entered into the supreme and glorious abode of the hidden light.

Vishvakarma, the Creator, the Ordainer, the Supreme Seer, who encompasses all things by his mind; those who seek his grace rejoice in the offerings, where sages speak of the One who is beyond the seven seers.

He who is our Father, our Creator, our Ordainer, who knows all places and all beings, who gave names to the gods and is the One alone; to Him, all other worlds go to seek answers.

The ancient seers, like singers of old, offered wealth to Him; those who, in the formless and the formed, measured out the realms of space and fashioned all these existing things.

You do not know Him who created all this; He is something else that dwells within you. Wrapped in a mist, they wander about, babbling, obsessed with worldly life, and reciting hymns without true understanding.

Beyond the heavens, beyond this earth, beyond the gods and the demons, what was that first germ that the waters held, in which all the gods gathered together?

The waters held that first germ, in which all the gods gathered together; established in the navel of the Unborn, upon which all these worlds are supported.

Vishvakarma was indeed born as the first divine being, then he became the Gandharva as the second; the third was the Father, the Creator of herbs, who distributed the womb of the waters into many forms.

The Father of the eye, wise in mind, generated the essence of sacrifice and the food of life; when the ancient foundations were made firm, then the heaven and the earth stretched forth.

He who has eyes on all sides, a face on all sides, hands on all sides, and feet on all sides; the One God, creating heaven and earth, strikes them into being with his arms and his wings.

What was the firm foundation, what was the source, and what was the material from which Vishvakarma, the all-seeing Lord, created the earth and stretched out the heavens with His creative power?

What was the wood, and what was the tree from which they fashioned the earth and the heavens? O wise ones, contemplate in your minds, what was the basis upon which He stood while sustaining all the worlds?

O Vishvakarma, instruct your friends in the sacrificial offerings; teach us the nature of your highest, lowest, and intermediate forms. O Self-Sustaining Lord, may you be pleased to sacrifice for yourself through your own divine form.

Let us invoke today for our protection the Lord of Speech, Vishvakarma, who is yoked by the mind and is the bestower of strength. May He, who is the source of all happiness and the performer of perfect deeds, graciously accept our nearest invocations.

O Vishvakarma, may you be strengthened by our offerings; be pleased to sacrifice for yourself through your own divine form. May all opposing forces around us be confounded, and may the bountiful Lord be our protector here.

O Vishvakarma, through the act of sacrifice, you made Indra our protector and invincible. To Him, all the people have bowed down in submission; may He, the fierce and worthy recipient of all offerings, always prevail. Salutations to the Lord of the oceans, the knower of all paths, the Lord of the rivers, and the Father of all streams. Offer the immortal oblation to Vishvakarma, day after day.