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1. YE Asvins, hither come to us: Nasatyas,
be not disinclined.
Fly hither like two swans unto the juice we shed.
2 O Asvins, like a pair of deer, like two
wild cattle to the mead:
Fly hither like two swans unto the juice we shed.
3 O Asvins rich in gifts, accept our sacrifice
to prosper it:
Fly hither like two swans unto the juice we shed.
4 As Atri when descending to the cavem
called on you loudly like a wailing woman.
Ye came to him, O Asvins, with the freshest and most
auspicious fleetness of a falcon.
5 Tree, part asunder like the side of her
who bringeth forth a child.
Ye Asvins, listen to my call: loose Saptavadhri from his
bonds.
6 For Saptavadhri, for the seer affrighted
when he wept and wafled,
Ye, Asvins, with your magic powers rent up the tree and
shattered it.
7 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.
8 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.
9 The child who hath for ten months' time
been lying in his mother's side, -
May he come forth alive, unharmed, yea, livingfrorn the
living dame.
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