Texts

the (chariot) driving early in the morning, extending to every clan, traveling at every dawn—(who attends to it) with insightful thought and labor? (Jamison and Brereton (2014))

You awaken early in the morning like a pitiable [?] old couple; at every dawn you, deserving the sacrifice, come to the house. (Jamison and Brereton (2014))

For whom do you become occulted, or for whom do you descend to his soma-pressings like kings’ sons, o men? (Jamison and Brereton (2014))

Like hunters on the track of wild elephants, we call you down in the evening and at dawn with our oblation. (Jamison and Brereton (2014))

You two bring refreshment to the man who pours the libation in proper order, you superior men, you lords of beauty. (Jamison and Brereton (2014))

Circling around you two, o Aśvins, Ghoṣā, the daughter of a king, said, “I ask you, o men: (Jamison and Brereton (2014))

Will you be there for me for the day and be there for the night? Will you exert your abilities (for me, as if) for a steed (to win the prize) of horse and chariot? (Jamison and Brereton (2014))

You two poets circle around your chariot, o Aśvins; you arrive at the clans of the singer, as Kutsa (arrived at the poet/Kavi Uśanā). (Jamison and Brereton (2014))

The bee holds the honey of you two encircled with her mouth, o Aśvins, as a young woman (holds) a tryst (within her mouth) [=keeps quiet about it]. (Jamison and Brereton (2014))

“You two came to Bhujyu, o Aśvins, you to Vaśa, you to Śiñjāra, to Uśanā. (Jamison and Brereton (2014))

The hostile man will circumvent your comradeship, but I find pleasure in your benevolence along with your help. (Jamison and Brereton (2014))

“You two make wide space for Kr̥ śa, you for Śayu, o Aśvins, you for the worshiper and the widow. (Jamison and Brereton (2014))

You two open up the thundering enclosure with its seven mouths for the sake of gain, o Aśvins.” (Jamison and Brereton (2014))

The maiden has been born, and the little lad has taken flight. And when sprouts have sprouted according to (the Aśvins’) wondrous powers, (Jamison and Brereton (2014))

the rivers flow for him as if into a valley; (she) is there for him for the day (and for the night): this is marriage! (Jamison and Brereton (2014))

They cry over the living; they make a mutual exchange at the rite. The men [=relatives of the couple] have been devising (the marriage) for a long stretch: (Jamison and Brereton (2014))