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Rig Veda

Rig Veda 1.46

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Now Morning with her earliest light shines forth, dear Daughter of the Sky: High, Asvins, I extol your praise,

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Sons of the Sea, mighty to save discoverers of riches, ye Gods with deep thought who find out wealth.

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Your giant coursers hasten on over the region all in flames, When your car flies with winged steeds.

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He, liberal, lover of the flood, Lord of the House, the vigilant, Chiefs! with oblations feeds you full.

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Ye have regard unto our hymns, Nasatyas, thinking of our words: Drink boldly of the Soma juice.

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Vouchsafe to us, O Asvin Pair, such strength as, with attendant light, May through the darkness carry us.

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Come in the ship of these our hymns to bear you to the hither shore O Asvins, harness ye the car.

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The heaven's wide vessel is your own on the flood's shore your chariot waits Drops, with the hymn, have been prepared.

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Kanvas, the drops are in the heaven; the wealth is at the waters' place: Where will ye manifest your form?

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Light came to lighten up the branch, the Sun appeared as it were gold: And with its tongue shone forth the dark.

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The path of sacrifice was made to travel to the farther goal: The road of heaven was manifest.

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The singer of their praise awaits whatever grace the Asvins give, who save when Soma gladdens them.

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Ye dwellers with Vivasvan come, auspicious, as to Manu erst; come to the Soma and our praise.

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O circumambient Asvins, Dawn follows the brightness of your way: Approve with beams our solemn rites.

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Drink ye of our libations, grant protection, O ye Asvins Twain, With aids which none may interrupt.

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Sanskrit text: Oliver Hellwig, The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit (DCS), 2010–2024. CC BY 4.0. · Source ↗

Sanskrit text from The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit (DCS) by Oliver Hellwig, 2010–2024, https://github.com/OliverHellwig/sanskrit, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Changes: sentence parts joined per verse; only verses the DCS numbers are included (8483 of the Ṛgveda's 10,552).

Ralph T. H. Griffith's translation (1896–97). It is dated, and scholars now read many verses differently. A few verses Griffith left untranslated or moved to an appendix are not included.

Ralph T. H. Griffith, The Hymns of the Rigveda, 2nd edition (Benares: E. J. Lazarus, 1896–97). Public domain. Text from English Wikisource, checked against Internet Archive scans of the 1896–97 printing. · Source ↗

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