On Veda
THEME/S
RIGVEDA
Mandala X: Sukta 146
(I)
FOREST-Range! Range of Forest!
Ever forward you seem to move!
Wherefore do you not enquire
for a village? Are you not afraid?
(2)
Here bellows the bull, there in answer
chirps a grasshopper –
A musical chord, as it were, playing
the glory of the woodland!
(3)
These seem to be cattle grazing
and those are huts for habitation;
and at eve-tide there seem to file
out of the forest a caravan of carts.
(4)
A call, as though, it is for a straying calf
or perhaps a tree is being cut down,
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Or even as we are in the woodland
now at night-fall do we hear a moan trailing?
(5)
But the forest slays none indeed;
unless there comes an intruder from outside.
Here you regale yourself with sweet fruits
and wander about as you like.
(6)
Sweet-scented, loaded with natural yields,
the Mother of animalkind,
To Her I raise this hymn of praise!
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