Svasti na Indro

One of the most-recited closing verses in Hindu ritual, and one of the few that names four separate gods and asks each for the same single thing: svasti, well-being, literally 'good being'. The word is old enough that the Nirukta already has to gloss it, and Sayana quotes that gloss here — svasti ity avināśa-nāma, 'svasti is a word for non-destruction'. Tarkshya, named in the second line, is the son of Trksa and is identified with Garuda; ariṣṭanemi, his epithet, means the one whose chariot-rim is never damaged, which is why this verse attached itself to travel and to the start of journeys. The sukta as a whole is the Vaishvadeva hymn a no bhadrah kratavo yantu vishvatah. Sayana's introduction records its liturgical use: it is the concluding verse-set of the Vaishvadeva shastra at the Agnishtoma.