{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/rigveda/rv04040.htm","path":"hin/rigveda/rv04040.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda/rv04040.htm","text":"Rig Veda, tr. by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1896]\n1. LET us recite the praise of Dadhikr\u0101van: may all the Mornings move me to exertion;\n Praise of the Lord of Waters, Dawn, and Agni, B\u1e5bhaspati Son of A\u1e45giras, and S\u016brya.\n 2 Brave, seeking war and booty, dwelling with the good and with the swift, may he hasten the food of Dawn.\n May he the true, the fleet, the lover of the course, the bird-like Dadhikr\u0101van, bring food, strength, and light.\n 3 His pinion, rapid runner, fans him m his way, as of a bird that hastens onward to its aim,\n And, as it were a falcon's gliding through the air, strikes Dadhikr\u0101van's side as he speeds on with might.\n 4 Bound by the neck and by the flanks and by the mouth, the vigorous Courser lends new swiftness to his speed.\n Drawing himself together, as his strength allows, Dadhikr\u0101s springs along the windings of the paths.\n 5 The Ha\u1e41sa homed in light, the Vasu in mid-air, the priest beside the altar, in the house the guest,\n Dweller in noblest place, mid men, in truth, in sky, born of flood, kine, truth, mountain, he is holy Law.","title":"Rig Veda: Rig-Veda, Book 4: HYMN XL. Dadhikr\u0101van.","type":"page"}