{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/rigveda/rv07055.htm","path":"hin/rigveda/rv07055.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda/rv07055.htm","text":"Rig Veda, tr. by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1896]\n1. VASTOSPATI, who killest all disease and wearest every form,\n Be an auspicious Friend to us.\n 2 When, O bright Son of Saram\u0101, thou showest, tawny-hued! thy teeth,\n They gleam like lances' points within thy mouth when thou wouldst bite; go thou to steep.\n 3 Saram\u0101's Son, retrace thy way: bark at the robber and the thief.\n At Indra's singers barkest thou? Why dust thou seek to terrify us? Go to sleep.\n 4 Be on thy guard against the boar, and let the boar beware of thee.\n At Indra's singers barkest thou? Why dost thou seek to terrify us? Go to sleep.\n 5 Sleep mother, let the father sleep, sleep dog and master of the house.\n Let all the kinsmen sleep, sleep all the people who are round about.\n 6 The man who sits, the man who walks, and whosoever looks on us,\n Of these we closely shut the eyes, even as we closely shut this house.\n 7 The Bull who hath a thousand horns, who rises up from out the sea,\u2014\n By him the Strong and Mighty One we lull and make the people sleep.\n 8 The women sleeping in the court, lying without, or stretched on beds,\n The matrons with their odorous sweetsthese, one and all, we lull to sleep.","title":"Rig Veda: Rig-Veda, Book 7: HYMN LV. Vastospati.","type":"page"}