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Rigveda Samhita — Mandala 8 — Chapter 73

RV 8 73.1

उद् ईराथाम् ऋतायते युञ्जाथाम् अश्विना रथम् । अन्ति षद् भूतु वाम् अवः

ud īrāthām ṛtāyate yuñjāthām aśvinā ratham | anti ṣad bhūtu vām avaḥ

Rise up, you two, for him who follows the ṛta; yoke your chariot, O Aśvins: let your help be close at hand.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

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ROUSE ye for him who keeps the Law, yoke your steeds, Aṣvins, to your car Let your protecting help be near.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1896)

RV 8 73.2

निमिषश् चिज् जवीयसा रथेना यातम् अश्विना । अन्ति षद् भूतु वाम् अवः

nimiṣaś cij javīyasā rathenā yātam aśvinā | anti ṣad bhūtu vām avaḥ

Come, O Aśvins, with a chariot swifter than the blink of an eye: let your help be close at hand.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

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Come, Aṣvins, with your car more swift than is the twinkling of an eye Let your protecting help be near.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1896)

RV 8 73.3

उप स्तृणीतम् अत्रये हिमेन घर्मम् अश्विना । अन्ति षद् भूतु वाम् अवः

upa stṛṇītam atraye himena gharmam aśvinā | anti ṣad bhūtu vām avaḥ

Spread over the glowing heat with cold for Atri, O Aśvins: let your help be close at hand.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

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Aṣvins, ye overlaid with cold the fiery pit for Atri's sake: Let your protecting help be near.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1896)

RV 8 73.4

कुह स्थः कुह जग्मथुः कुह श्येनेव पेतथुः । अन्ति षद् भूतु वाम् अवः

kuha sthaḥ kuha jagmathuḥ kuha śyeneva petathuḥ | anti ṣad bhūtu vām avaḥ

Where are you? Where have you gone? Where have you flown off like two falcons? Let your help be close at hand.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

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Where are ye? whither are ye gone? whither, like falcons, have ye flown? Let your protecting help be near.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1896)

RV 8 73.5

यद् अद्य कर्हि कर्हि चिच् छुश्रूयातम् इमꣳ हवम् । अन्ति षद् भूतु वाम् अवः

yad adya karhi karhi cic chuśrūyātam imaṁ havam | anti ṣad bhūtu vām avaḥ

If today, at whatever moment, you two should hear this call — let your help be close at hand.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

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If ye at any time this day are listening to this my call, Let your protecting help be near.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1896)

RV 8 73.6

अश्विना यामहूतमा नेदिष्ठꣳ याम्य् आप्यम् । अन्ति षद् भूतु वाम् अवः

aśvinā yāmahūtamā nediṣṭhaṁ yāmy āpyam | anti ṣad bhūtu vām avaḥ

O Aśvins, most invoked on your journey, I seek the nearest kinship (with you): let your help be close at hand.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain

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The Aṣvins, fust to hear our prayer, for closest kinship I approach: Let your protecting help be near.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1896)

RV 8 73.7

अवन्तम् अत्रये गृहꣳ कृणुतꣳ युवम् अश्विना । अन्ति षद् भूतु वाम् अवः

avantam atraye gṛhaṁ kṛṇutaṁ yuvam aśvinā | anti ṣad bhūtu vām avaḥ

Make the house protecting for Atri, you two, O Aśvins: let your help be close at hand.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain

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For Atri ye, O Aṣvins, made a dwellingplace to shield him well, Let your protecting help be near.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1896)

RV 8 73.8

वरेथे अग्निम् आतपो वदते वल्ग्व् अत्रये । अन्ति षद् भूतु वाम् अवः

varethe agnim ātapo vadate valgv atraye | anti ṣad bhūtu vām avaḥ

You two ward off the fire that scorches; it speaks pleasantly to Atri: let your help be close at hand.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain

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Ye warded off the fervent heat for Atri when he sweetly spake: Let your protecting help be near.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1896)

RV 8 73.9

प्र सप्तवध्रिर् आशसा धाराम् अग्नेर् अशायत । अन्ति षद् भूतु वाम् अवः

pra saptavadhrir āśasā dhārām agner aśāyata | anti ṣad bhūtu vām avaḥ

Saptavadhri with his prayer laid himself down on the flame of Agni: let your help be close at hand.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain

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Erst Saptavadbri by his prayer obtained the trenchant edge of fire: Let your protecting help be near.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1896)

RV 8 73.10

इहा गतꣳ वृषण्वसू शृणुतम् म इमꣳ हवम् । अन्ति षद् भूतु वाम् अवः

ihā gataṁ vṛṣaṇvasū śṛṇutam ma imaṁ havam | anti ṣad bhūtu vām avaḥ

Come here, you two rich in bulls, hear this call of mine: let your help be close at hand.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

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Come hither, O ye Lords of wealth, and listen to this call of mine: Let your protecting help be near.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1896)

RV 8 73.11

किम् इदꣳ वाम् पुराणवज् जरतोर् इव शस्यते । अन्ति षद् भूतु वाम् अवः

kim idaṁ vām purāṇavaj jarator iva śasyate | anti ṣad bhūtu vām avaḥ

What is this of yours that is recited as of old, as of an aged man? Let your help be close at hand.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain

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What is this praise told forth of you as Elders in the ancient way? Let your protecting help be near.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1896)

RV 8 73.12

समानꣳ वाꣳ सजात्यꣳ समानो बन्धुर् अश्विना । अन्ति षद् भूतु वाम् अवः

samānaṁ vāṁ sajātyaṁ samāno bandhur aśvinā | anti ṣad bhūtu vām avaḥ

One and the same is your kinship, one and the same your bond, O Aśvins: let your help be close at hand.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

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One common brotherhood is yours, Aṣvins your kindred is the same: Let your protecting help be near.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1896)

RV 8 73.13

यो वाꣳ रजाꣳस्य् अश्विना रथो वियाति रोदसी । अन्ति षद् भूतु वाम् अवः

yo vāṁ rajāṁsy aśvinā ratho viyāti rodasī | anti ṣad bhūtu vām avaḥ

Your chariot, O Aśvins, which traverses the spaces and the two worlds — let your help be close at hand.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

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This is your chariot, Aṣvins, which speeds through the regions, earth and heaven: Let your protecting aid be near.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1896)

RV 8 73.14

आ नो गव्येभिर् अश्व्यैः सहस्रैर् उप गच्छतम् । अन्ति षद् भूतु वाम् अवः

ā no gavyebhir aśvyaiḥ sahasrair upa gacchatam | anti ṣad bhūtu vām avaḥ

Come to us with thousands of cows and horses: let your help be close at hand.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

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Approach ye hitherward to us with thousands both of steeds and kine : Let your protecting help be near.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1896)

RV 8 73.15

मा नो गव्येभिर् अश्व्यैः सहस्रेभिर् अति ख्यतम् । अन्ति षद् भूतु वाम् अवः

mā no gavyebhir aśvyaiḥ sahasrebhir ati khyatam | anti ṣad bhūtu vām avaḥ

Do not look past us with your thousands of cattle and horses: let your help be close at hand.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

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Pass us not by, remember us with thousands both of kine and steeds; Let your protecting help be near.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1896)

RV 8 73.16

अरुणप्सुर् उषा अभूद् अकर् ज्योतिर् ऋतावरी । अन्ति षद् भूतु वाम् अवः

aruṇapsur uṣā abhūd akar jyotir ṛtāvarī | anti ṣad bhūtu vām avaḥ

Ruddy in form, Uṣas has appeared; the keeper of ṛta has made light: let your help be close at hand.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

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The purple tinted Dawn hath risen, and true to Law hath made the light: Let your protecting help be near.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1896)

RV 8 73.17

अश्विना सु विचाकशद् वृक्षम् परशुमाꣳ इव । अन्ति षद् भूतु वाम् अवः

aśvinā su vicākaśad vṛkṣam paraśumām̐ iva | anti ṣad bhūtu vām avaḥ

O Aśvins, (he) gazing keenly out, like a man with an axe at a tree — let your help be close at hand.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain

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He looked upon the Aṣvins, as an axe-armed man upon a tree: Let your protecting help be near.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1896)

RV 8 73.18

पुरꣳ न धृष्णव् आ रुज कृष्णया बाधितो विशा । अन्ति षद् भूतु वाम् अवः

puraṁ na dhṛṣṇav ā ruja kṛṣṇayā bādhito viśā | anti ṣad bhūtu vām avaḥ

Break open (the enemy) like a fort, O bold one, pressed as (we are) by the black tribe — let your help be close at hand.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain

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By the black band encompassed round, break it down, bold one, like a fort. Let your protecting help be near.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1896)