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Book 5 >> HYMN 78 - Asvins
अश्विनाव एह गछतं नासत्या मा वि वेनतम |
हंसाव इव पततम आ सुतां उप
हंसाव इव पततम आ सुतां उप
English:- . YE Aśvins, hither come to us: Nāsatyas, be not disinclined.
Fly hither like two swans unto the juice we shed.
Fly hither like two swans unto the juice we shed.
अश्विना हरिणाव इव गौराव इवानु यवसम |
हंसाव इव पततम आ सुतां उप
English:- O Aśvins, like a pair of deer, like two wild cattle to the mead:
Fly hither like two swans unto the juice we shed.
Fly hither like two swans unto the juice we shed.
अश्विना वाजिनीवसू जुषेथां यज्ञम इष्टये |
हंसाव इव पततम आ सुतां उप
English:- O Aśvins rich in gifts, accept our sacrifice to prosper it:
Fly hither like two swans unto the juice we shed.
Fly hither like two swans unto the juice we shed.
अत्रिर यद वाम अवरोहन्न रबीसम अजोहवीन नाधमानेव योषा |
शयेनस्य चिज जवसा नूतनेनागछतम अश्विना शंतमेन
English:- As Atri when descending to the cavern called on you loudly like a wailing woman.
Ye came to him, O Aśvins, with the freshest and most auspicious fleetness of a falcon.
Ye came to him, O Aśvins, with the freshest and most auspicious fleetness of a falcon.
वि जिहीष्व वनस्पते योनिः सूष्यन्त्या इव |
शरुतम मे अश्विना हवं सप्तवध्रिं च मुञ्चतम
English:- Tree, part asunder like the side of her who bringeth forth a child.
Ye Aśvins, listen to my call: loose Saptavadhri from his bonds.
Ye Aśvins, listen to my call: loose Saptavadhri from his bonds.
भीताय नाधमानाय रषये सप्तवध्रये |
मायाभिर अश्विना युवं वर्क्षं सं च वि चाचथः
English:- For Saptavadhri, for the seer affrighted when he wept and wailed,
Ye, Aśvins, with your magic powers rent up the tree and shattered it.
Ye, Aśvins, with your magic powers rent up the tree and shattered it.
यथा वातः पुष्करिणीं समिङगयति सर्वतः |
एवा ते गर्भ एजतु निरैतु दशमास्यः
English:- 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.
So stir in thee the babe unborn, so may the ten-month babe descend.
यथा वातो यथा वनं यथा समुद्र एजति |
एवा तवं दशमास्य सहावेहि जरायुणा
English:- 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.
So also, ten-month babe, descend together with the after-birth.
दश मासाञ छशयानः कुमारो अधि मातरि |
निरैतु जीवो अक्षतो जीवो जीवन्त्या अधि
English:- 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.
May he come forth alive, unharmed, yea, living from the living dame.