Rig Veda 10.9

Ye, Waters, are beneficent: so help ye us to energy That we may look on great delight.

Give us a portion of the sap, the most auspicious that ye have, Like mothers in their longing love.

To you we gladly come for him to whose abode ye send us on; And, Waters, give us procreant strength.

The Waters. be to us for drink, Goddesses for our aid and bliss: Let them stream to us health and strength.

1 beg the Floods to give us balm, these Queens who rule o'er precious things, And have supreme control of men.

Within the Waters-Soma thus hath told me-dwell all balms that heal, And Agni, he who blesseth all.

O Waters, teem with medicine to keep my body safe from harm, So that I long may see the Sun.

Whatever sin is found in me, whatever evil I have wrought, If I have lied or falsely sworn, Waters, remove it far from me.

The Waters I this day have sought, and to their moisture have we come: O Agni, rich in milk, come thou, and with thy splendour cover me.