{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/rigveda/rv10098.htm","path":"hin/rigveda/rv10098.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda/rv10098.htm","text":"Rig Veda, tr. by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1896]\n1. COME, be thou Mitra, Varu\u1e47a, or P\u016b\u1e63an, come, O B\u1e5bhaspati, to mine oblation:\n With Maruts, Vasus, or \u0100dityas, make thou Parjanya pour for Santanu his rain-drops.\n 2 The God, intelligent, the speedy envoy whom thou hast sent hath come to me, Devapi:\n Address thyself to me and turn thee hither within thy lips will I put brilliant language.\n 3 Within my mouth, B\u1e5bhaspati, deposit speech lucid, vigorous, and free from weakness,\n Thereby to win for Santanu the rain-fall. The meath-rich drop from heaven hath passed within it.\n 4 Let the sweet drops descend on us, O Indra: give us enough to lade a thousand wagons.\n Sit to thy Hotar task; pay worship duly, and serve the Gods, Devapi, with oblation.\n 5 Knowing the God's good-will, Devapi, \u1e5a\u1e63i, the son of Rstisena, sate as Hotar.\n He hath brought down from heaven's most lofty summit the ocean of the rain, celestial waters.\n 6 Gathered together in that highest ocean, the waters stood by deities obstructed.\n They burried down set free by Arstisena, in gaping clefts, urged onward by Devapi.\n 7 When as chief priest for Santanu, Devapi, chosen for Hotar's duty, prayed beseeching,\n Graciously pleased B\u1e5bhaspati vouchsafed him a voice that reached the Gods and won the waters.\n 8 O Agni whom Devapi Arstisena, the mortal man, hath kindled in his glory,\n Joying in him with all the Gods together, urge on the sender of the rain, Parjanya.\n 9 All ancient \u1e5a\u1e63is with their songs approached thee, even thee, O Much-invoked, at sacrifices.\n We have provided wagon-loads in thousands: come to the solemn rite, Lord of Red Horses.\n 10 The wagon-loads, the nine-and-ninety thousand, these have been offered up to thee, O Agni.\n Hero, with these increase thy many bodies, and, stimulated, send us rain from heaven.\n 11 Give thou these ninety thousand loads, O Agni, to Indra, to the Bull, to be his portion.\n Knowing the paths which Deities duly travel, set mid the Gods in heaven Aulana also.\n 12 O Agni, drive afar our foes, our troubles chase malady away and wicked demons.\n From this air-ocean, from the lofty heavens, send down on us a mighty flood of waters.","title":"Rig Veda: Rig-Veda, Book 10: HYMN XCVIII. The Gods.","type":"page"}