Library·Ṛgveda Saṃhitā·5·5.78
अश्विनाव् एह गच्छतं नासत्या मा वि वेनतम् । हंसाव् इव पततम् आ सुतां उप ॥
aśvināv eha gacchataṃ nāsatyā mā vi venatam | haṃsāv iva patatam ā sutāṃ upa ||
Ye Asvins, hither come to us: Nasatyas, be not disinclined. Fly hither like two swans unto the juice we shed.
Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)
अश्विना हरिणाव् इव गौराव् इवानु यवसम् । हंसाव् इव पततम् आ सुतां उप ॥
aśvinā hariṇāv iva gaurāv ivānu yavasam | haṃsāv iva patatam ā sutāṃ upa ||
O Asvins, like a pair of deer, like two wild cattle to the mead: Fly hither like two swans unto the juice we shed.
Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)
अश्विना वाजिनीवसू जुषेथां यज्ञम् इष्टये । हंसाव् इव पततम् आ सुतां उप ॥
aśvinā vājinīvasū juṣethāṃ yajñam iṣṭaye | haṃsāv iva patatam ā sutāṃ upa ||
O Asvins rich in gifts, accept our sacrifice to prosper it: Fly hither like two swans unto the juice we shed.
Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)
अत्रिर् यद् वाम् अवरोहन्न् ऋबीसम् अजोहवीन् नाधमानेव योषा । श्येनस्य चिज् जवसा नूतनेनागच्छतम् अश्विना शन्तमेन ॥
atrir yad vām avarohann ṛbīsam ajohavīn nādhamāneva yoṣā | śyenasya cij javasā nūtanenāgacchatam aśvinā śantamena ||
As Atri when descending to the cave called on you loudly like a wailing woman. Ye came to him, O Asvins, with the freshest and most auspicious fleetness of a falcon.
Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)
वि जिहीष्व वनस्पते योनिः सूष्यन्त्या इव । श्रुतम् मे अश्विना हवं सप्तवध्रिं च मुञ्चतम् ॥
vi jihīṣva vanaspate yoniḥ sūṣyantyā iva | śrutam me aśvinā havaṃ saptavadhriṃ ca muñcatam ||
Tree, part asunder like the side of her who bringeth forth a child. Ye Asvins, listen to my call: loose Saptavadhri from his bonds.
Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)
भीताय नाधमानाय ऋषये सप्तवध्रये । मायाभिर् अश्विना युवं वृक्षं सं च वि चाचथः ॥
bhītāya nādhamānāya ṛṣaye saptavadhraye | māyābhir aśvinā yuvaṃ vṛkṣaṃ saṃ ca vi cācathaḥ ||
For Saptavadhri, for the seer affrighted when he wept and waffled, Ye, Asvins, with your magic powers rent up the tree and shattered it.
Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)
यथा वातः पुष्करिणीं समिङ्गयति सर्वतः । एवा ते गर्भ एजतु निरैतु दशमास्यः ॥
yathā vātaḥ puṣkariṇīṃ samiṅgayati sarvataḥ | evā te garbha ejatu niraitu daśamāsyaḥ ||
Like as the wind on every side ruffles a pool of lotuses, So stir in thee the babe unborn, so may the ten-month babe descend.
Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)
यथा वातो यथा वनं यथा समुद्र एजति । एवा त्वं दशमास्य सहावेहि जरायुणा ॥
yathā vāto yathā vanaṃ yathā samudra ejati | evā tvaṃ daśamāsya sahāvehi jarāyuṇā ||
Like as the wind, like as the wood, like as the sea is set astir, So also, ten-month babe, descend together with the after-birth.
Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)
दश मासाञ् छशयानः कुमारो अधि मातरि । निरैतु जीवो अक्षतो जीवो जीवन्त्या अधि ॥
daśa māsāñ chaśayānaḥ kumāro adhi mātari | niraitu jīvo akṣato jīvo jīvantyā adhi ||
The child who hath for ten months' time been lying in his mother's side,- May he come forth alive, unharmed, yea, living from the living dame.
Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)