Devi Sukta Rig Veda 127 Ratri Sukta

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10.10.15 (127)

 

Rishi Kushika, Son of Sobhari, or Ratri (Night) Daughter of

Bharadwaja; Devata is Ratri Personified; Chhandas Gayatri

 

1. The divine Night approaching looked upon many places with her

eyes, she has assumed all beauties.

2. The immortal goddess has filled the expanded firmament, the low

places and the high places, she fights the darkness with luster.

3. The advancing goddess prepared the way for her sister Dawn, and

then the darkness departs.

4. May she be favorable to us today upon whose approach we re-enter

our dwellings, as birds re-enter their nest upon a tree.

5. Men have re-entered their dwellings, and beasts and birds and the

swift hawks.

6. Keep off, O Urmya, the she-wolf, keep off the wolf and the robber,

and be safely passed by us.

7. The all-embracing, black, diffused darkness has approached me;

discharge it, Ushas, as if it were a debt.

8. I have brought these verses before thee like milch kine; accept, O

Night, daughter of the sky, my oblation as the eulogy of one about to

conquer.

 

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