HYMN XIX. Waters or Cows. – Rig Veda – Book 10

नि वर्तध्वं मानु गातास्मान सिषक्त रेवतीः |
अग्नीषोमापुनर्वसू अस्मे धारयतं रयिम ||

पुनरेना नि वर्तय पुनरेना नया कुरु |
इन्द्र एणा नियछत्वग्निरेना उपाजतु ||

पुनरेता नि वर्तन्तामस्मिन पुष्यन्तु गोपतौ |
इहैवाग्नेनि धारयेह तिष्ठतु या रयिः ||

यन नियानं नययनं संज्ञानं यत परायणम |
आवर्तनं निवर्तनं यो गोपा अपि तं हुवे ||

य उदानड वययनं य उदानट परायणम |
आवर्तनंनिवर्तनमपि गोपा नि वर्तताम ||

आ निवर्त नि वर्तय पुनर्न इन्द्र गा देहि |
जीवाभिर्भुनजामहै ||

परि वो विश्वतो दध ऊर्जा घर्तेन पयसा |
ये देवाः केच यज्ञियास्ते रय्या सं सर्जन्तु नः ||

आ निवर्तन वर्तय नि निवर्तन वर्तय |
भूम्याश्चतस्रःप्रदिशस्ताभ्य एना नि वर्तय ||

ni vartadhvaṃ mānu ghātāsmān siṣakta revatīḥ |
aghnīṣomāpunarvasū asme dhārayataṃ rayim ||

punarenā ni vartaya punarenā nyā kuru |
indra eṇā niyachatvaghnirenā upājatu ||

punaretā ni vartantāmasmin puṣyantu ghopatau |
ihaivāghneni dhārayeha tiṣṭhatu yā rayiḥ ||

yan niyānaṃ nyayanaṃ saṃjñānaṃ yat parāyaṇam |
āvartanaṃ nivartanaṃ yo ghopā api taṃ huve ||

ya udānaḍ vyayanaṃ ya udānaṭ parāyaṇam |
āvartanaṃnivartanamapi ghopā ni vartatām ||

ā nivarta ni vartaya punarna indra ghā dehi |
jīvābhirbhunajāmahai ||

pari vo viśvato dadha ūrjā ghṛtena payasā |
ye devāḥ keca yajñiyāste rayyā saṃ sṛjantu naḥ ||

ā nivartana vartaya ni nivartana vartaya |
bhūmyāścatasraḥpradiśastābhya enā ni vartaya ||

English Translation

Translated by Ralph T.H. Griffith

1. TURN, go not farther on your way: visit us, O ye Wealthy Ones.
Agni and Soma, ye who bring riches again, secure us wealth.

2 Make these return to us again, bring them beside us once again.
May. Indra give them back to us, and Agni drive them hither-ward.

3 Let them return to us again: under this herdsman let them feed.
Do thou, O Agni, keep them here, and let the wealth we have remain.

4 1 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-forth;
Marketh their wandering away, their turning back and coming home.

6 Home-leader, lead them home to us; Indra, restore to us our kine:
We will rejoice in them alive.

7 1 offer you on every side butter and milk and strengthening food.
May all the Holy Deities 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,