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1. ROUSE ye for him who keeps the Law, yoke
your steeds, Aiyins, to your car
Let your protecting help be near.
2 Come, Asvins, with your car more swift
than is the twinkling of an eye
Let your protecting help be near.
3 Asvins, ye overlaid with cold the fiery
pit for Atri's sake:
Let your protecting help be near.
4 Where are ye? whither are ye gone?
whither, like falcons, have ye flown?
Let your protecting help be near.
5 If ye at any time this day are listening
to this my call,
Let your protecting help be near.
6 The Asvins, fust to hear our prayer, for
closest kinship I approach:
Let your protecting help be near.
7 For Atri ye, O Asvins, made a
dwellingplace to shield him well,
Let your protecting help be near.
8 Ye warded off the fervent heat for Atri
when he sweetly spake:
Let your protecting help be near.
9 Erst Saptavadbri by his prayer obtained
the trenchant edge of fire:
Let your protecting help be near.
10 Come hither, O ye Lords of wealth, and
listen to this call of mine:
Let your protecting help be near.
11 What is this praise told forth of you as
Elders in the ancient way?
Let your protecting help be near.
12 One common brotherhood is yours, Asvins
your kindred is the same:
Let your protecting help be near.
13 This is your chariot, Asvins, which
speeds through the regions, earth and heaven
Let your protecting aid be near.
14 Approach ye hitherward to us with
thousands both of steeds and kine:
Let your protecting help be near.
15 Pass us not by, remember us with
thousands both of kine aud steeds:
Let your protecting help be near.
16 The purple-tinted Dawn hath risen, and
true to Law hath made the light
Let your protecting help be near.
17 He looked upon the Asvins, as an
axearmed man upon a tree:
Let your protecting help be near.
18 By the black band encompassed round,
break it down, bold one, like a fort.
Let your protecting help be near.
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