{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/rigveda/rv04033.htm","path":"hin/rigveda/rv04033.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda/rv04033.htm","text":"Rig Veda, tr. by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1896]\n1. I SEND my voice as herald to the \u1e5abhus; I crave the white cow for the overspreading.\n Wind-sped, the Skillful Ones in rapid motion have in an instant compassed round the heaven.\n 2 What time the Rbus had with care and marvels done proper service to assist their Parents,\n They won the friendship of the Gods; the Sages carried away the fruit of their devotion.\n 3 May they who made their Parents, who were lying like posts that moulder, young again for ever,\u2014\n May V\u0101ja, Vibhvan, \u1e5abhu, joined with Indra , protect our sacrifice, the Soma-lovers.\n 4 As for a year the \u1e5abhus kept the Milch-cow, throughout a year fashioned and formed her body,\n And through a year's space still sustained her brightness, through these their labours they were made immortal.\n 5 Two beakers let us make,\u2014thus said the eldest. Let us make three,\u2014this was the younger's sentence.\n Four beakers let us make,\u2014thus spoke the youngest. Tva\u1e63\u1e6dar approved this rede of yours, O \u1e5abhus.\n 6 The men spake truth and even so they acted: this Godlike way of theirs the \u1e5abhus followed.\n And Tva\u1e63\u1e6dar, when he looked on the four beakers resplendent as the day, was moved with envy.\n 7 When for twelve days the \u1e5abhus joyed reposing as guests of him who never may be hidden,\n They made fair fertile fields, they brought the rivers. Plants spread o\u2019er deserts, waters filled the hollows.\n 8 May they who formed the swift car, bearing Heroes, and the Cow omniform and all-impelling,\n Even may they form wealth for us,\u2014the \u1e5abhus, dexterous-handed, deft in work and gracious.\n 9 So in their work the Gods had satisfaction, pondering it with thought and mental insight.\n The Gods\u2019 expert artificer was V\u0101ja, Indra's \u1e5abhuk\u1e63an, Varu\u1e47a's was Vibhvan.\n 10 They who made glad with sacrifice and praises, wrought the two Bays, his docile Steeds, for Indra,\u2014\n \u1e5abhus, as those who wish a friend to prosper, bestow upon us gear and growth of riches.\n 11 This day have they set gladdening drink before you. Not without toil are Gods inclined to friendship.\n Therefore do ye who are so great, O \u1e5abhus, vouchsafe us treasures at this third libation.","title":"Rig Veda: Rig-Veda, Book 4: HYMN XXXIII. \u1e5abhus.","type":"page"}