{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/rigveda/rv05078.htm","path":"hin/rigveda/rv05078.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda/rv05078.htm","text":"Rig Veda, tr. by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1896]\n1. YE A\u015bvins, hither come to us: N\u0101satyas, be not disinclined.\n Fly hither like two swans unto the juice we shed.\n 2 O A\u015bvins, like a pair of deer, like two wild cattle to the mead:\n Fly hither like two swans unto the juice we shed.\n 3 O A\u015bvins rich in gifts, accept our sacrifice to prosper it:\n Fly hither like two swans unto the juice we shed.\n 4 As Atri when descending to the cavern called on you loudly like a wailing woman.\n Ye came to him, O A\u015bvins, with the freshest and most auspicious fleetness of a falcon.\n 5 Tree, part asunder like the side of her who bringeth forth a child.\n Ye A\u015bvins, listen to my call: loose Saptavadhri from his bonds.\n 6 For Saptavadhri, for the seer affrighted when he wept and wailed,\n Ye, A\u015bvins, with your magic powers rent up the tree and shattered it.\n 7 Like as the wind on every side ruffles a pool of lotuses,\n So stir in thee the babe unborn, so may the ten-month babe descend.\n 8 Like as the wind, like as the wood, like as the sea is set astir,\n So also, ten-month babe, descend together with the after-birth.\n 9 The child who hath for ten months' time been lying in his mother's side,\u2014\n May he come forth alive, unharmed, yea, living from the living dame.","title":"Rig Veda: Rig-Veda, Book 5: HYMN LXXVIII. A\u015bvins.","type":"page"}