{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/rigveda/rv10146.htm","path":"hin/rigveda/rv10146.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda/rv10146.htm","text":"Rig Veda, tr. by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1896]\n1. GODDESS of wild and forest who seemest to vanish from the sight.\n How is it that thou seekest not the village? Art thou not afraid?\n 2 What time the grasshopper replies and swells the shrill cicala's voice,\n Seeming to sound with tinkling bells, the Lady of the Wood exults.\n 3 And, yonder, cattle seem to graze, what seems a dwelling-place appears:\n Or else at eve the Lady of the Forest seems to free the wains.\n 4 Here one is calling to his cow, another there hath felled a tree:\n At eve the dweller in the wood fancies that somebody hath screamed.\n 5 The Goddess never slays, unless some murderous enemy approach.\n Man eats of savoury fruit and then takes, even as he wills, his rest.\n 6 Now have I praised the Forest Queen, sweet-scented, redolent of balm,\n The Mother of all sylvan things, who tills not but hath stores of food.","title":"Rig Veda: Rig-Veda, Book 10: HYMN CXLVI. Aranyani.","type":"page"}