{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/rigveda/rv04052.htm","path":"hin/rigveda/rv04052.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda/rv04052.htm","text":"Rig Veda, tr. by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1896]\n1. THIS Lady, giver of delight, after her Sister shining forth, Daughter of Heaven, hath shown herself.-\n 2 Unfailing, Mother of the Kine, in colour like a bright red mare,\n The Dawn became the A\u015bvins' Friend.\n 3 Yea, and thou art the A\u015bvins' Friend, the Mother of the Kine art thou:\n O Dawn thou rulest over wealth.\n 4 Thinking of thee, O joyous One, as her who driveth hate away,\n We woke to meet thee with our lauds.\n 5 Our eyes behold thy blessed rays like troops of cattle loosed to feed.\n Dawn hath filled full the wide expanse.\n 6 When thou hast filled it, Fulgent One! thou layest bare the gloom with light.\n After thy nature aid us, Dawn.\n 7 Thou overspreadest heaven with rays, the dear wide region of mid-air.\n With thy bright shining lustre, Dawn.","title":"Rig Veda: Rig-Veda, Book 4: HYMN LII. Dawn.","type":"page"}