{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/rigveda/rv02031.htm","path":"hin/rigveda/rv02031.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda/rv02031.htm","text":"Rig Veda, tr. by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1896]\n1. HELP, Varu\u1e47a and Mitra, O ye Twain allied with Vasus, Rudras, and \u0100dityas, help our car,\n That, as the wild birds of the forest from their home, our horses may fly forth, glad, eager for renown.\n 2 Yea, now ye Gods of one accord speed on our car what time among the folk it seeks an act of might;\n When, hasting through the region with the stamp of hoofs, our swift steeds trample on the ridges of the earth.\n 3 Or may our Indra here, the Friend of all mankind, coming from heaven, most wise, girt by the Marut host,\n Accompany, with aid untroubled by a foe, our car to mighty gain, to win the meed of strength.\n 4 Or may this Tva\u1e63\u1e6dar, God who rules the world with power, one-minded with the Goddesses speed forth our car;\n I\u1e37\u0101 and Bhaga the celestial, Earth and Heaven, P\u016b\u1e63an, Purandhi, and the A\u015bvins, ruling Lords.\n 5 Or, seen alternate, those two blessed Goddesses, Morning and Night who stir all living things to act:\n While with my newest song I praise you both, O Earth, that from what moves not ye may spread forth threefold food.\n 6 Your blessing as a boon for suppliants we desire: the Dragon of the Deep, and Aja-Ekap\u0101d,\n Trita, \u1e5abhuk\u1e63an, Savitar shall joy in us, and the Floods\u2019 swift Child in our worship and our prayer.\n 7 These earnest prayers I pray to you, ye Holy: to pay you honour, living men have formed them,\n Men fain to win the prize and glory. May they win, as a car-horse might the goal, your notice.","title":"Rig Veda: Rig-Veda, Book 2: HYMN XXXI. Vi\u015bvedevas.","type":"page"}