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Post by Anne Terri on Aug 21, 2011 11:27:44 GMT 1
RIGVEDA –BOOK 5-HYMN LXXVIII. Aśvins.
1. YE Aśvins, hither come to us: Nāsatyas, be not disinclined. Fly hither like two swans unto the juice we shed. 2 O Aśvins, like a pair of deer, like two wild cattle to the mead: Fly hither like two swans unto the juice we shed. 3 O Aśvins rich in gifts, accept our sacrifice to prosper it: Fly hither like two swans unto the juice we shed. 4 As Atri when descending to the cavern called on you loudly like a wailing woman. Ye came to him, O Aśvins, with the freshest and most auspicious fleetness of a falcon. 5 Tree, part asunder like the side of her who bringeth forth a child. Ye Aśvins, listen to my call: loose Saptavadhri from his bonds. 6 For Saptavadhri, for the seer affrighted when he wept and wailed, Ye, Aśvins, with your magic powers rent up the tree and shattered it. 7 Like as the wind on every side ruffles a pool of lotuses, So stir in thee the babe unborn, so may the ten-month babe descend. 8 Like as the wind, like as the wood, like as the sea is set astir, So also, ten-month babe, descend together with the after-birth. 9 The child who hath for ten months' time been lying in his mother's side,— May he come forth alive, unharmed, yea, living from the living dame.
Bibliography: Rigveda, translated by Ralph Thomas Hotchkin Griffith, (1896)
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