{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/rigveda/rv02032.htm","path":"hin/rigveda/rv02032.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda/rv02032.htm","text":"Rig Veda, tr. by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1896]\n1. GRACIOUSLY further, O ye Heaven and Earth, this speech striving to win reward, of me your worshipper.\n First rank I give to you, Immortal, high extolled! I, fain to win me wealth, to you the mighty Pair.\n 2 Let not man's guile annoy us, secret or by day: give not us up a prey to these calamities.\n Sever not thou our friendship: think thereon for us. This, with a heart that longs for bliss, we seek from thee.\n 3 Bring hither with benignant mind the willing Cow teeming with plenteous milk, full, inexhaustible.\n O thou invoked by many, day by day I urge thee with my word, a charger rapid in his tread.\n 4 With eulogy I call on R\u0101k\u0101 swift to hear may she, auspicious, hear us, and herself observe.\n With never-breaking needle may she sew her work, and give a hero son most wealthy, meet for praise.\n 5 All thy kind thoughts, O R\u0101k\u0101, lovely in their form, wherewith thou grantest wealth to him who offers gifts\u2014\n With these come thou to us this day benevolent, O Blessed One, bestowing food of thousand sorts.\n 6 O broad-tressed Sin\u012bv\u0101l\u012b, thou who art the Sister of the Gods,\n Accept the offered sacrifice, and, Goddess, grant us progeny.\n 7 With lovely fingers, lovely arms, prolific Mother of many sons\u2014\n Present the sacred gifts to her, to Sin\u012bv\u0101l\u012b Queen of men.\n 8 Her, Sin\u012bv\u0101l\u012b, her, Gung\u016b, her, R\u0101k\u0101, her, Sarasvat\u012b, Indr\u0101\u1e47\u012b to mine aid I call, and Varu\u1e47\u0101n\u012b for my weal.","title":"Rig Veda: Rig-Veda, Book 2: HYMN XXXII. Various Deities.","type":"page"}