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Rig Veda 4.52

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

This Lady, giver of delight, after her Sister shining forth, Daughter of Heaven, hath shown herself.-

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Unfailing, Mother of the Kine, in colour like a bright red mare, The Dawn became the Asvins' Friend.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Yea, and thou art the Asvins' Friend, the Mother of the Kine art thou: O Dawn thou rulest over wealth.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Thinking of thee, O joyous One, as her who driveth hate away, We woke to meet thee with our lauds.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Our eyes behold thy blessed rays like troops of cattle loosed to feed. Dawn hath filled full the wide expanse.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

When thou hast filled it, Fulgent One! thou layest bare the gloom with light. After thy nature aid us, Dawn.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Thou overspreadest heaven with rays, the dear wide region of mid-air. With thy bright shining lustre, Dawn.

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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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