{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe46/sbe46103.htm","path":"hin/sbe46/sbe46103.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe46/sbe46103.htm","text":"Vedic Hymns, Part II (SBE46), by Hermann Oldenberg [1897]\n1. Agni G\u00e2tavedas, the god, has looked on the dawns that shine with all their might 1. Come hither, O N\u00e2satyas 2, wide-ruling (gods), on your chariot to this our sacrifice.\n2. The god Savitri has sent his shine upward, producing light for the whole world. The Sun, shining with his rays, has filled Heaven and Earth and the air.\n3. The red one 1, carrying hither (bliss) 2, has come with her light, the great, brilliant one, shining with her rays. Ushas, the goddess, awakening (all beings) to welfare, goes along on her well-yoked chariot.\n4. May those chariots and horses, most ready to drive, drive you 1 hither at the break of dawn. For these Somas are for you that you may drink the honey-drink 2. Rejoice, O manly ones, at this sacrifice.\n5\u0305 IV, 13, 5.\nThe same Rishi and metre.\u2014No verse of this hymn occurs in the other Samhit\u00e2s. On the parallelism in which IV, 14 stands to IV, 13, see the introductory note on IV, 13.\nNote 1. On m\u00e1hobhih, see vol. xxxii, p. 196 seq. (I, 165, 5, note 3). Here the word refers to the powerful light of\nthe dawn, not of Agni, cf. VI, 64, 2. \u00fashah devi r\u00f3kam\u00e2n\u00e2 m\u00e1hobhih.\nNote 2. On the mention of the N\u00e2satyas (Asvins) in this connection, compare the introductory note on IV, 13.\nNote 1. The Dawn as before.\nNote 2. That an object like 'bliss' is to be supplied, is shown by such passages as I, 48, 9. \u00fashah \u2026 \u00e2v\u00e1hant\u00ee bh\u00fb\u00b4ri asm\u00e1bhyam sa\u00fabhagam; I, 92, 3. (the Dawns) \u00edsham v\u00e1hant\u00eeh sukr\u00edte sud\u00e2\u00b4nave; I, 113, 15. (the Dawn) \u00e2v\u00e1hant\u00ee p\u00f3shy\u00e2 v\u00e2\u00b4ry\u00e2ni.\nNote 1. The text has the dual of the pronoun. The Asvins are addressed.\nNote 2. It is the peculiar character of the Asvins that they drink m\u00e1dhu; see Hillebrandt, Vedische Mythologie, vol. i, p. 239 seq. H. O., Religion des Veda, p. 208, note 4; p. 367, note 2.","title":"Vedic Hymns, Part II (SBE46): IV, 14","type":"page"}