{ "apiVersion": "v1", "kind": "Chapter", "metadata": { "generated": "2026-08-22T14:14:13Z", "language": "en", "book": "rig-veda-book-10", "chapter": 95 }, "data": { "n": 95, "bookSlug": "rig-veda-book-10", "bookCode": "RV10", "refId": "", "title": "", "translation": null, "segments": [], "lines": [], "paragraphs": [{ "n": 1, "refId": "RV10-95:1", "text": "translated by" },{ "n": 2, "refId": "RV10-95:2", "text": "1. Ho there, my consort! Stay, thou fierce-souled lady, and let us reason for a while together." },{ "n": 3, "refId": "RV10-95:3", "text": "Such thoughts as these of ours, while yet unspoken in days gone by have never brought us comfort." },{ "n": 4, "refId": "RV10-95:4", "text": "2. What am I now to do with this thy saying? I have gone from thee like the first of Mornings." },{ "n": 5, "refId": "RV10-95:5", "text": "Pururavas, return thou to thy dwelling: I, like the wind, am difficult to capture." },{ "n": 6, "refId": "RV10-95:6", "text": "3. Like a shaft sent for glory from the quiver, or swift-steed winning cattle winning hundreds." },{ "n": 7, "refId": "RV10-95:7", "text": "The lightning seemed to flash, as cowards planned it. The minstrels bleated like a lamb in trouble." },{ "n": 8, "refId": "RV10-95:8", "text": "4. Giving her husband's father life and riches, from the near dwelling, when her lover craved her," },{ "n": 9, "refId": "RV10-95:9", "text": "She sought the home wherein she found her pleasure, accepting day and night her lord's embraces." },{ "n": 10, "refId": "RV10-95:10", "text": "5. Thrice in the day didst thou embrace thy consort, though coldly she received thy fond caresses." },{ "n": 11, "refId": "RV10-95:11", "text": "To thy desires, Pururavas, I yielded: so wast thou king, O hero, of my body." },{ "n": 12, "refId": "RV10-95:12", "text": "6. The maids Sujirni, Sreni, Sumne-api, Charanyu, Granthini, and Hradecaksus,-" },{ "n": 13, "refId": "RV10-95:13", "text": "These like red kine have hastened forth, the bright ones, and like milch-cows have lowed in emulation." },{ "n": 14, "refId": "RV10-95:14", "text": "7. While he was born the Dames sate down together, the Rivers with free kindness gave him nurture;" },{ "n": 15, "refId": "RV10-95:15", "text": "And then, Pururavas, the Gods increased thee for mighty battle, to destroy the Dasyus." },{ "n": 16, "refId": "RV10-95:16", "text": "8. When I, a mortal, wooed to mine embraces these heavenly nymphs who laid aside their raiment," },{ "n": 17, "refId": "RV10-95:17", "text": "Like a scared snake they fled from me in terror, like chariot horses when the car has touched them." },{ "n": 18, "refId": "RV10-95:18", "text": "9. When, loving these Immortal Ones, the mortal hath converse with the nymphs as they allow him." },{ "n": 19, "refId": "RV10-95:19", "text": "Like swans they show the beauty of their bodies, like horses in their play they bite and nibble." },{ "n": 20, "refId": "RV10-95:20", "text": "10. She who flashed brilliant as the falling lightning brought me delicious presents from the waters." },{ "n": 21, "refId": "RV10-95:21", "text": "Now from the flood be born a strong young hero May Uruvasi prolong her life for ever" },{ "n": 22, "refId": "RV10-95:22", "text": "11. Thy birth hath made me drink from earthly milch-kine: this power, Pururavas, hast thou vouchsafed me." },{ "n": 23, "refId": "RV10-95:23", "text": "I knew, and, warned thee, on that day. Thou wouldst not hear me. What sayest thou, when naught avails thee?" },{ "n": 24, "refId": "RV10-95:24", "text": "12. When will the son be born and seek his father? Mourner-like, will he weep when first he knows him?" },{ "n": 25, "refId": "RV10-95:25", "text": "Who shall divide the accordant wife and husband, while fire is shining with thy consort's parents?" },{ "n": 26, "refId": "RV10-95:26", "text": "13. I will console him when his tears are falling: he shall not weep and cry for care that blesses." },{ "n": 27, "refId": "RV10-95:27", "text": "That which is thine, between us, will I send thee. Go home again, thou fool; thou hast not won me." },{ "n": 28, "refId": "RV10-95:28", "text": "14. Thy lover shall flee forth this day for ever, to seek, without return, the farthest distance." },{ "n": 29, "refId": "RV10-95:29", "text": "Then let his bed be in Destruction's bosom, and there let fierce rapacious wolves devour him." },{ "n": 30, "refId": "RV10-95:30", "text": "15. Nay, do not die, Pururavas, nor vanish: let not the evil-omened wolves devour thee." },{ "n": 31, "refId": "RV10-95:31", "text": "With women there can be no lasting friendship: hearts of hyenas are the hearts of women." },{ "n": 32, "refId": "RV10-95:32", "text": "16. When amid men in altered shape I sojourned, and through four autumns spent the nights among them," },{ "n": 33, "refId": "RV10-95:33", "text": "I tasted once a day a drop of butter; and even now with that am I am contented." },{ "n": 34, "refId": "RV10-95:34", "text": "17. I, her best love, call Urvasi to meet me, her who fills air and measures out the region." },{ "n": 35, "refId": "RV10-95:35", "text": "Let the gift brought by piety approach thee. Turn thou to me again: my heart is troubled." },{ "n": 36, "refId": "RV10-95:36", "text": "18. Thus speak these Gods to thee, O son of Ila: As death hath verily got thee for his subject," },{ "n": 37, "refId": "RV10-95:37", "text": "Thy sons shall serve the Gods with their oblation, and thou, moreover, shalt rejoice in Svarga." } ] }, "links": { "self": "/v1/library/books/rig-veda-book-10/chapters/95", "book": "/v1/library/books/rig-veda-book-10/", "chapters": "/v1/library/books/rig-veda-book-10/chapters/", "library": "/v1/library/", "schema": "/v1/schema/book/" } }