{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/rigveda/rv01047.htm","path":"hin/rigveda/rv01047.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda/rv01047.htm","text":"Rig Veda, tr. by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1896]\n1 A\u015aVINS, for you who strengthen Law this sweetest Soma hath been shed.\n Drink this expressed ere yesterday and give riches to him who offers it.\n 2 Come, O ye A\u015bvins, mounted on your triple car three-seated, beautiful of form\n To you at sacrifice the Ka\u1e47vas send the prayer: graciously listen to their call.\n 3 O A\u015bvins, ye who strengthen Law, drink ye this sweetest Soma juice.\n Borne on your wealth-fraught car come ye this day to him who offers, ye of wondrous deeds.\n 4 Omniscient A\u015bvins, on the thrice-heaped grass bedew with the sweet juice the sacrifice.\n The sons of Ka\u1e47va, striving heavenward, call on you with draughts of Soma juice out-poured.\n 5 O A\u015bvins, with those aids wherewith ye guarded Ka\u1e47va carefully,\n Keep us, O Lords of Splendour: drink the Soma juice, ye strengtheners of holy law.\n 6 O Mighty Ones, ye gave Sud\u0101s abundant food, brought on your treasure-laden car;\n So now vouchsafe to us the wealth which many crave, either from heaven or from the sea.\n 7 N\u0101satyas, whether ye be far away or close to Turva\u015ba,\n Borne on your lightly-rolling chariot come to us, together with the sunbeams come.\n 8 So let your coursers, ornaments of sacrifice, bring you to our libations here.\n Bestowing food on him who acts and gives aright, sit, Chiefs, upon the sacred grass.\n 9 Come, O N\u0101satyas, on your car decked with a sunbright canopy,\n Whereon ye ever bring wealth to the worshipper, to drink the Soma's pleasant juice.\n 10 With lauds and songs of praise we call them down to us, that they, most rich, may succour us;\n For ye have ever in the Ka\u1e47vas' well-loved house, O A\u015bvins, drunk the Soma juice.","title":"Rig Veda: Rig-Veda Book 1: HYMN XLVII. A\u015bvins.","type":"page"}