{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/rigveda/rv10145.htm","path":"hin/rigveda/rv10145.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda/rv10145.htm","text":"Rig Veda, tr. by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1896]\n1. FROM out the earth I dig this plant, a herb of most effectual power,\n Wherewith one quells the rival wife and gains the husband for oneself.\n 2 Auspicious, with expanded leaves, sent by the Gods, victorious plant,\n Blow thou the rival wife away, and make my husband only mine.\n 3 Stronger am 1, O Stronger One, yea, mightier than the mightier;\n And she who is my rival wife is lower than the lowest dames.\n 4 Her very name I utter not: she takes no pleasure in this man.\n Far into distance most remote drive we the rival wife away.\n 5 I am the conqueror, and thou, thou also act victorious:\n As victory attends us both we will subdue my fellow-wife.\n 6 I have gained thee for vanquisher, have grasped thee with a stronger spell.\n As a cow hastens to her calf, so let thy spirit speed te me, hasten like water on its way.","title":"Rig Veda: Rig-Veda, Book 10: HYMN CXLV. Sapatnibadhanam.","type":"page"}