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VEDIC HYMNS.
MANDALA IV. HYMN 13.
ASHTAKA III, ADHYAYA 5, VARGA 13.
1. Benevolent Agni has looked on the breaking of the shining dawns, on the bestowal of treasures. Come to the dwelling of the virtuous (mortal), ye Asvins. The god Sarya rises with his light.
2. The god Savitri has sent his light upward', shaking his banner? like a warrior who fights for cows 8 Varuna and Mitra follow the law, when they make the Sun rise on heaven.
3. Him whom (the gods) dwelling in firm peace, and never losing their object, have created for dispersing the darkness-Him, the Sun, the all-observer, the seven young fallow mares carry forward.
4. With (thy horses) most ready to run thou goest' forward, spreading out thy web (of light), removing (from the world) the black cloth (of darkness), O god. The rays of the Sun have shaken ? the darkness, and have sunk it into the waters like
a hide.
5. Unsupported, unattached, spread out downwards-turned-how is it that he does not fall down? By what power of his does he move? Who has seen (that) ? Erected as the pillar of Heaven he protects the firmament.
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