Rasā
Rasa is the name of a western tributary of the Indus in the Rigveda (verse 5.53.9). The word rasa means "moisture, humidity" in Vedic Sanskrit.
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Quotes about Rasā
[edit]Rigveda
[edit]- Wherewith ye made Rasā swell full with water-floods, and urged to victory the car without a horse;
Wherewith Triśoka drove forth his recovered cows,—Come hither unto us, O Aśvins, with those aids.”- Rigveda I.112.12., as translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1889)
- “Let Sindhu with his wave bedew your horses: in fiery glow have the red birds come hither. Observed of all was that your rapid going, whereby ye were the Lords of Sūrya’s Daughter.”
- Rigveda IV.43.6, as translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith**
- Griffith does not use the word Rasa in his translation
- “Duly to each one hath my laud been offered. Strong be Varūtrī with her powers to succour. May the great Mother Rasā here befriend us, straight-handed, with the princes, striving forward.”
- Rigveda V.41.15, as translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith**
- “So let not Rasā, Krumu, or Anitabhā, Kubhā, or Sindhu hold you back. Let not the watery Sarayu obstruct your way. With us be all the bliss ye give.”
- Rigveda V.53.9, as translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith**
- “Into the pressed soma pour glory {= milk}, the full glory of the two world-halves. The Rasā (River {= water} should receive the bull.”
- Rigveda VIII.72.13, as translated by Jamison & Brereton**
- “On every side, O Soma, flow round us with thy protecting stream, As Rasā flows around the world.”
- Rigveda IX.41.6, as translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith**
- “What wish of Saramā hath brought her hither? The path leads far away to distant places. What charge hast thou for us? Where turns thy journey? How hast thou made thy way o’er Rasā’s waters.”
- “I come appointed messenger of Indra, seeking your ample stores of wealth, O Paṇis. This hath preserved me from the fear of crossing: thus have I made my way o’er Rasā’s waters.”
- Rigveda X.108.1-2, as translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith**
- “His, through his might, are these snow-covered mountains, and men call sea and Rasā his possession: His arms are these, his are these heavenly regions. What God shall we adore with our oblation?“
- Rigveda X.121.4, as translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith**
- With those aids by which you make the Rasa overflow with a flood of water, with those aids come to us, oh Ashwins (I.112.12).
- May the Rasa, the Mighty Mother, flow for us (V.41.15).
- Clear-seeing Soma flow, fill great Heaven and Earth, like the dawn the Sun with his rays. Flow to us from all sides with your most peaceful current, like the river Rasa around the world (IX.41.6).
- Your wide vehicle encompasses Heaven, when from the ocean it returns you. Let the Indus with the Rasa anoint your horses (IV.43.5-6).
- Whose they say are the Himalayas with their majesty, and the ocean with the Rasa, whose are these five directions, whose are these two arms, to the unknown God may we give our offering (X.121.4).
