{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/rigveda/rv10101.htm","path":"hin/rigveda/rv10101.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda/rv10101.htm","text":"Rig Veda, tr. by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1896]\n1. WAKE with one mind, my friends, and kindle Agni, ye who are many and who dwell together.\n Agni and Dadhikr\u0101s and Dawn the Goddess, you, Gods with Indra, I call down to help us.\n 2 Make pleasant hymns, spin out your songs and praises: build ye a ship equipped with oars for transport.\n Prepare the implements, make all things ready, and let the sacrifice, my friends, go forward.\n 3 Lay on the yokes, and fasten well the traces: formed is the furrow, sow the seed within it.\n Through song may we find bearing fraught with plenty: near to the ripened grain approach the sickle.\n 4 Wise, through desire of bliss from Gods, the skilful bind the traces fast, And lay the yokes on either side.\n 5 Arrange the buckets in their place securely fasten on the straps.\n We will pour forth the well that hath a copious stream, fair-flowing well that never fails.\n 6 I pour the water from the well with pails prepared and goodly straps,\n Unfailing, full, with plenteous stream.\n 7 Refresh the horses, win the prize before you: equip a chariot fraught with happy fortune.\n Pour forth the well with stone wheel, wooden buckets, the drink of heroes, with the trough for armour.\n 8 Prepare the cow-stall, for there drink your heroes: stitch ye the coats of armour, wide and many.\n Make iron forts, secure from all assailants let not your pitcher leak: stay it securely.\n 9 Hither, for help, I turn the holy heavenly mind of you the Holy Gods, that longs for sacrifice.\n May it pour milk for us, even as a stately cow who, having sought the pasture, yields a thousand streams.\n 10 Pour golden juice within the wooden vessel: with stone-made axes fashion ye and form it.\n Embrace and compass it with tenfold girdle, and to both chariot-poles attach the car-horse.\n 11 Between both poles the car-horse goes pressed closely, as in his dwelling moves the doubly-wedded.\n Lay in the wood the Soviran of the Forest, and sink the well although ye do not dig it.\n 12 Indra is he, O men, who gives us happiness: sport, urge the giver of delight to win us strength\n Bring quickly down, O priests, hither to give us aid, to drink the Soma, Indra Son of Nistigri.","title":"Rig Veda: Rig-Veda, Book 10: HYMN CI. Vi\u015bvedevas.","type":"page"}