Rig Veda
udapruto na vayo rakṣamāṇā vāvadato abhriyasyeva ghoṣāḥ giribhrajo normayo madanto bṛhaspatim abhy arkā anāvan
Like birds who keep their watch, plashing in water, like the loud voices of the thundering rain-cloud, Like merry streamlets bursting from the mountain, thus to Brihaspati our hymns have sounded.
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The Son of Angirases, meeting the cattle, as Bhaga, brought in Aryaman among us. As Friend of men he decks the wife and husband: as for the race, Brihaspati, nerve our coursers.
sādhvaryā atithinīr iṣirā spārhāḥ suvarṇā anavadyarūpāḥ bṛhaspatiḥ parvatebhyo vitūryā nir gā ūpe yavam iva sthivibhyaḥ
Brihaspati, having won them from the mountains, strewed down, like barley out of winnowing- baskets, The vigorous, wandering cows who aid the pious, desired of all, of blameless form, well-coloured.
āpruṣāyan madhuna ṛtasya yonim avakṣipann arka ulkām iva dyoḥ bṛhaspatir uddharann aśmano gā bhūmyā udneva vi tvacam bibheda
As the Sun dews with meath the seat of Order, and casts a flaming meteor down from heaven. So from the rock Brihaspati forced the cattle, and cleft the earth's skin as it were with water.
apa jyotiṣā tamo antarikṣād udnaḥ śīpālam iva vāta ājat bṛhaspatir anumṛśyā valasyābhram iva vāta ā cakra ā gāḥ
Forth from mid air with light he drave the darkness, as the gale blows a lily from the fiver. Like the wind grasping at the cloud of Vala, Brihaspati gathered to himself the cattle,
yadā valasya pīyato jasum bhed bṛhaspatir agnitapobhir arkaiḥ dadbhir na jihvā pariviṣṭam ādad āvir nidhīṃr akṛṇod usriyāṇām
Brihaspati, when he with fiery lightnings cleft through the weapon of reviling Vala, Consumed.him as tongues cat what teeth have compassed: he threw the prisons of the red cows open.
bṛhaspatir amata hi tyad āsāṃ nāma svarīṇāṃ sadane guhā yat āṇḍeva bhittvā śakunasya garbham ud usriyāḥ parvatasya tmanājat
That secret name borne by the lowing cattle within the cave Brihaspati discovered, And drave, himself, the bright kine from the mountain, like a bird's young after the egg's disclosure.
aśnāpinaddham madhu pary apaśyan matsyaṃ na dīna udani kṣiyantam niṣ ṭaj jabhāra camasaṃ na vṛkṣād bṛhaspatir viraveṇā vikṛtya
He looked around on rock-imprisoned sweetness as one who eyes a fish in scanty water. Brihaspati, cleaving through with varied clamour, brought it forth like a bowl from out the timber.
soṣām avindat sa svaḥ so agniṃ so arkeṇa vi babādhe tamāṃsi bṛhaspatir govapuṣo valasya nir majjānaṃ na parvaṇo jabhāra
He found the light of heaven, and fire, and Morning: with lucid rays he forced apart the darkness. As from a joint, Brihaspati took the marrow of Vala as he gloried in his cattle.
himeva parṇā muṣitā vanāni bṛhaspatinākṛpayad valo gāḥ anānukṛtyam apunaś cakāra yāt sūryāmāsā mitha uccarātaḥ
As trees for foliage robbed by winter, Vala mourned for the cows Brihaspati had taken. He did a deed ne'er done, ne'er to be equalled, whereby the Sun and Moon ascend alternate.
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Like a dark steed adorned with pearl, the Fathers have decorated heaven With constellations. They set the light in day, in night the darkness. Brihaspati cleft the rock and found the cattle.
idam akarma namo abhriyāya yaḥ pūrvīr anv ā nonavīti bṛhaspatiḥ sa hi gobhiḥ so aśvaiḥ sa vīrebhiḥ sa nṛbhir no vayo dhāt
This homage have we offered to the Cloud God who thunders out to many in succession. May this Brihaspati vouchsafe us fulness of life with kine and horses, men, and heroes.