{
  "apiVersion": "v1",
  "kind": "Chapter",
  "metadata": {
    "generated": "2026-08-22T14:14:13Z",
    "language": "en",
    "book": "rig-veda-book-10",
    "chapter": 17
  },
  "data": {
    "n": 17,
    "bookSlug": "rig-veda-book-10",
    "bookCode": "RV10",
    "refId": "",
    "title": "",
    "translation": null,
    "segments": [],
    "lines": [],
    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "RV10-17:1",
        "text": "translated by"
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "RV10-17:2",
        "text": "1. TVASTAR prepares the bridal of his Daughter: all the world hears the tidings and assembles."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "RV10-17:3",
        "text": "But Yama's Mother, Spouse of great Vivasvan, vanished as she was carried to her dwelling."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "RV10-17:4",
        "text": "2. From mortal men they hid the Immortal Lady, made one like her and gave her to Vivasvan."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "RV10-17:5",
        "text": "Saranyu brought to him the Asvin brothers, and then deserted both twinned pairs of children."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "RV10-17:6",
        "text": "3. Guard of the world, whose cattle ne'er are injured, may Pusan bear thee hence, for he hath knowledge."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "RV10-17:7",
        "text": "May he consign thee to these Fathers' keeping, and to the gracious Gods let Agni give thee."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "RV10-17:8",
        "text": "4. May Ayu, giver of all life, protect thee, and bear thee forward on the distant pathway."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "RV10-17:9",
        "text": "Thither let Savitar the God transport thee, where dwell the pious who have passed-before thee."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "RV10-17:10",
        "text": "5. Pusan knows all these realms: may he conduct us by ways that are most free from fear and danger."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "RV10-17:11",
        "text": "Giver of blessings, glowing, all-heroic, may he, the wise and watchful, go before us."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "RV10-17:12",
        "text": "6. Pusan was born to move on distant pathways, on the road far from earth and far from heaven."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "RV10-17:13",
        "text": "To both most wonted places of assembly he travels and returns with perfect knowledge."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "RV10-17:14",
        "text": "7. The pious call Sarasvati, they worship Sarasvati while sacrifice proceedeth."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "RV10-17:15",
        "text": "The pious called Sarasvati aforetime. Sarasvati send bliss to him who giveth."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "RV10-17:16",
        "text": "8. Sarasvati, who camest with the Fathers, with them rejoicing thee in our oblations,"
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "RV10-17:17",
        "text": "Seated upon this sacred grass be joyful, and give us strengthening food that brings no sickness."
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "RV10-17:18",
        "text": "9. Thou, called on as Sarasvati by Fathers who come right forward to our solemn service,"
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "RV10-17:19",
        "text": "Give food and wealth to present sacrificers, a portion, worth a thousand, of refreshment."
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "RV10-17:20",
        "text": "10. The Mother Floods shall make us bright and shining, cleansers of holy oil, with oil shall cleanse us:"
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "RV10-17:21",
        "text": "For, Goddesses, they bear off all defilement: I, rise up from them purified and brightened."
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "RV10-17:22",
        "text": "11. Through days of earliest date the Drop descended on this place and on that which was before it."
      },{
        "n": 23,
        "refId": "RV10-17:23",
        "text": "I offer up, throughout the seven oblations, the Drop which still to one same place is moving."
      },{
        "n": 24,
        "refId": "RV10-17:24",
        "text": "12. The Drop that falls, thy stalk which arms have shaken, which from the bosom of the press hath fallen,"
      },{
        "n": 25,
        "refId": "RV10-17:25",
        "text": "Or from the Adhvaryu's purifying filter, I offer thee with heart and cry of Vasat!"
      },{
        "n": 26,
        "refId": "RV10-17:26",
        "text": "13. That fallen Drop of thine, the stalk which from the ladle fell away,"
      },{
        "n": 27,
        "refId": "RV10-17:27",
        "text": "This present God Brhaspati shall pour it forth to make us rich."
      },{
        "n": 28,
        "refId": "RV10-17:28",
        "text": "14. The plants of earth are rich in milk, and rich in milk is this my speech;"
      },{
        "n": 29,
        "refId": "RV10-17:29",
        "text": "And rich in milk the essence of the Waters: make me pure therewith."
      }
    ]
  },
  "links": {
    "self": "/v1/library/books/rig-veda-book-10/chapters/17",
    "book": "/v1/library/books/rig-veda-book-10/",
    "chapters": "/v1/library/books/rig-veda-book-10/chapters/",
    "library": "/v1/library/",
    "schema": "/v1/schema/book/"
  }
}