{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/rigveda/rv05079.htm","path":"hin/rigveda/rv05079.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda/rv05079.htm","text":"Rig Veda, tr. by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1896]\n1. O HEAVENLY Dawn, awaken us to ample opulence to-day\n Even as thou hast wakened us with Satyasravas, Vayya's son, high-born! delightful with thy steeds!\n 2 Daughter of Heaven, thou dawnedst on Sunitha Sucadratha's son,\n So dawn thou on one mightier still, on Satyasravas, Vayya's son, high-born! delightful with thy steeds!\n 3 So, bringing treasure, dawn to-day on us thou Daughter of the Sky,\n As thou, O mightier yet. didst shine for Satyatravas, Vayya's son, high-born! delightful with thy steeds!\n 4 Here round about thee are the priests who laud thee, Bright One, with their hymns,\n And men with gifts, O Bounteous Dame, splendid with wealth and offering much, high-born! delightful with thy steeds!\n 5 Whatever these thy bands perform to please thee or to win them wealth,\n E\u2019en fain they gird us round and give rich gifts which ne\u2019er are reft away, high-born! delightful with thy steeds!\n 6 Give to these wealthy patrons fame, O affluent Dawn, with hero sons,\n To these our princes who have brought rich gifts ne\u2019er to be reft away, highborn! delightful with thy steeds!\n 7 Bring lofty and resplendent fame, O thou munificent Dawn, to these\n Our wealthy patrons who bestow rich gifts on us of steeds and kine, high-born! delightful with thy steeds!\n 8 Bring us, O Daughter of the Sky, subsistence in our herds of kine,\n Together with the sunbeams, with the shine of pure refulgent flames, highborn! delightful with thy steeds!\n 9 O Daughter of the Sky, shine forth; delay not to perform thy task.\n Let not the Sun with fervent heat consume thee like a robber foe, high-born! delightful with the steeds!\n 10 So much, and more exceedingly, O Dawn, it suits thee to bestow,\n Thou Radiant One who ceasest not to shine for those who sing thy praise, highborn! delightful with thy steeds!","title":"Rig Veda: Rig-Veda, Book 5: HYMN LXXIX. Dawn.","type":"page"}