{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/rigveda/rv10009.htm","path":"hin/rigveda/rv10009.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda/rv10009.htm","text":"Rig Veda, tr. by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1896]\n1. YE, Waters, are beneficent: so help ye us to energy\n That we may look on great delight.\n 2 Give us a portion of the sap, the most auspicious that ye have,\n Like mothers in their longing love.\n 3 To you we gladly come for him to whose abode ye send us on;\n And, Waters, give us procreant strength.\n 4 The Waters. be to us for drink, Goddesses for our aid and bliss:\n Let them stream to us health and strength.\n 5 1 beg the Floods to give us balm, these Queens who rule o\u2019er precious things,\n And have supreme control of men.\n 6 Within the Waters-Soma thus hath told me-dwell all balms that heal,\n And Agni, he who blesseth all.\n 7 O Waters, teem with medicine to keep my body safe from harm,\n So that I long may see the Sun.\n 8 Whatever sin is found in me, whatever evil I have wrought,\n If I have lied or falsely sworn, Waters, remove it far from me.\n 9 The Waters I this day have sought, and to their moisture have we come:\n O Agni, rich in milk, come thou, and with thy splendour cover me.","title":"Rig Veda: Rig-Veda, Book 10: HYMN IX. Waters.","type":"page"}