Plain text of Rig Veda - Book The Tenth · Hymn XIX. Waters or Cows
1 Turn, go not farther on your way: visit us, O ye Wealthy Ones. O Lord of Light and Giver of gifts, ye who bring riches again, secure us wealth.
2 Make these return to us again, bring them beside us once again.
May the Mighty give them back to us, and the Radiant One drive them hitherward.
3 Let them return to us again: under this herdsman let them feed.
Do thou, O Lord, keep them here, and let the wealth we have remain.
4 I call upon their herdsman, him who knoweth well their coming nigh,
Their parting and their home-return, and watcheth their approach and rest.
5 Yea, let the herdsman, too, return, who marketh well their driving-form;
Marketh their wandering away, their turning back and coming home.
6 Home-leader, lead them home to us; O Mighty One, restore to us our kine:
We will rejoice in them alive.
7 I offer you on every side butter and milk and strengthening food.
May the Lord pour down on us a flood of wealth.
8 O thou Home-leader, lead them home, restore them thou who bringest home.
Four are the quarters of the earth; from these bring back to us our kine.