{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/rigveda/rv01035.htm","path":"hin/rigveda/rv01035.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda/rv01035.htm","text":"Rig Veda, tr. by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1896]\n1 AGNI I first invoke for our prosperity; I call on Mitra, Varu\u1e47a, to aid us here.\n I call on Night who gives rest to all moving life; I call on Savitar the God to lend us help.\n 2 Throughout the dusky firmament advancing, laying to rest the immortal and the mortal,\n Borne in his golden chariot he cometh, Savitar, God who looks on every creature.\n 3 The God moves by the upward path, the downward; with two bright Bays, adorable, he journeys.\n Savitar comes, the God from the far distance, and chases from us all distress and sorrow.\n 4 His chariot decked with pearl, of various colours, lofty, with golden pole, the God hath mounted,\n The many-rayed One, Savitar the holy, bound, bearing power and might, for darksome regions.\n 5 Drawing the gold-yoked car his Bays, white-footed, have manifested light to all the peoples.\n Held in the lap of Savitar, divine One, all men, all beings have their place for ever.\n 6 Three heavens there are; two Savitar's, adjacent: in Yama's world is one, the home of heroes,\n As on a linch-pin, firm, rest things immortal: he who hath known it let him here declare it.\n 7 He, strong of wing, hath lightened up the regions, deep-quivering Asura, the gentle Leader.\n Where now is S\u016brya, where is one to tell us to what celestial sphere his ray hath wandered?\n 8 The earth's eight points his brightness hath illumined, three desert regions and the Seven Rivers.\n God Savitar the gold-eyed hath come hither, giving choice treasures unto him who worships.\n 9 The golden-handed Savitar, far-seeing, goes on his way between the earth and heaven,\n Drives away sickness, bids the Sun approach us, and spreads the bright sky through the darksome region.\n 10 May he, gold-handed Asura, kind Leader, come hither to us with his help and favour.\n Driving off R\u0101k\u1e63asas and Y\u0101tudh\u0101nas, the God is present, praised in hymns at evening.\n 11 O Savitar, thine ancient dustless pathways are well established in the air's mid-region:\n O God, come by those paths so fair to travel, preserve thou us from harm this day, and bless us.","title":"Rig Veda: Rig-Veda Book 1: HYMN XXXV. Savitar.","type":"page"}