{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/rigveda/rv01181.htm","path":"hin/rigveda/rv01181.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda/rv01181.htm","text":"Rig Veda, tr. by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1896]\n1. WHAT, dearest Pair, is this in strength and riches that ye as Priests are bring from the waters?\n This sacrifice is your glorification, ye who protect mankind and give them treasures.\n 2 May your pure steeds, rain-drinkers, bring you hither, swift as the tempest, your celestial coursers,\n Rapid as thought, with fair backs, full of vigour, resplendent in their native light, O A\u015bvins.\n 3 Your car is like a torrent rushing downward: may it come nigh, broad-seated, for our welfare,\u2014\n Car holy, strong, that ever would be foremost, thought-swift, which ye, for whom we long, have mounted.\n 4 Here sprung to life, they both have sung together, with bodies free from stain, with signs that mark them;\n One of you Prince of Sacrifice, the Victor, the other counts as Heaven's auspicious offspring.\n 5 May your car-seat, down-gliding, golden-coloured, according to your wish approach our dwellings.\n Men shall feed full the bay steeds of the other, and, A\u015bvins they with roars shall stir the regions.\n 6 Forth comes your strong Bull like a cloud of autumn, sending abundant food of liquid sweetness.\n Let them feed with the other's ways and vigour: the upper streams have come and do us service.\n 7 Your constant song hath been sent forth, Disposers! that flows threefold in mighty strength, O A\u015bvins.\n Thus lauded, give the suppliant protection moving or resting hear mine invocation.\n 8 This song of bright contents for you is swelling in the men's hall where three-fold grass is ready.\n Your strong rain-cloud, ye Mighty Ones, hath swollen, honouring men as \u2019twere with milk's outpouring.\n 9 The prudent worshipper, like P\u016b\u1e63an, A\u015bvins! praises you as he praises Dawn and Agni,\n When, singing with devotion, he invokes you. May we find strengthening food in full abundance.","title":"Rig Veda: Rig-Veda Book 1: HYMN CLXXXI. A\u015bvins","type":"page"}