{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/rigveda/rv07077.htm","path":"hin/rigveda/rv07077.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda/rv07077.htm","text":"Rig Veda, tr. by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1896]\n1. SHE hath shone brightly like a youthful woman, stirring to motion every living creature.\n Agni hath come to feed on mortal? fuel. She hath made light and chased away the darkness.\n 2 Turned to this All, far-spreading, she hath risen and shone in brightness with white robes about her.\n She hath beamed forth lovely with golden colours, Mother of kine, Guide of the days she bringeth.\n 3 Bearing the Gods\u2019 own Eye, auspicious Lady, leading her Courser white and fair to look on,\n Distinguished by her bean-is Dawn shines apparent, come forth to all the world with wondrous treasure.\n 4 Draw nigh with wealth and dawn away the foeman: prepare for us wide pasture free from danger.\n Drive away those who hate us, bring us riches: pour bounty, opulent Lady, on the singer.\n 5 Send thy most excellent beams to shine and light us, giving us lengthened days, O Dawn, O Goddess,\n Granting us food, thou who hast all things precious, and bounty rich in chariots, kine, and horses.\n 6 O U\u1e63as, nobly-born, Daughter of Heaven, whom the Vasisthas with their hymns make mighty,\n Bestow thou on us vast and glorious riches. Preserve us evermore, ye Gods, with blessings.","title":"Rig Veda: Rig-Veda, Book 7: HYMN LXXVIT. Dawn.","type":"page"}