{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/rigveda/rv07044.htm","path":"hin/rigveda/rv07044.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda/rv07044.htm","text":"Rig Veda, tr. by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1896]\n1. I CALL on Dadhikr\u0101s, the first, to give you aid, the A\u015bvins, Bhaga, Dawn, and Agni kindled well,\n Indra, and Vi\u1e63\u1e47u, P\u016b\u1e63an, Brahma\u1e47aspati, \u0100dityas, Heaven and Earth, the Waters, and the Light.\n 2 When, rising, to the sacrifice we hasten, awaking Dadhikr\u0101s with adorations.\n Seating on sacred grass the Goddess I\u1e37\u0101. let us invoke the sage swift-hearing A\u015bvins.\n 3 While I am thus arousing Dadhikr\u0101van I speak to Agni, Earth, and Dawn, and S\u016brya,\n The red, the brown of Varu\u1e47a ever mindful: may they ward off from us all grief and trouble.\n 4 Foremost is Dadhikr\u0101van, vigorous courser; in forefront of the cars, his way he knoweth,\n Closely allied with S\u016brya and with Morning, \u0100dityas, and A\u1e45girases, and Vasus.\n 5 May Dadhikr\u0101s prepare the way we travel that we may pass along the path of Order.\n May Agni bear us, and the Heavenly Army: hear us all Mighty Ones whom none deceiveth.","title":"Rig Veda: Rig-Veda, Book 7: HYMN XLIV. Dadhikr\u0101s.","type":"page"}