A History of Sanskrit Literature c7.56

c7.56

*This light has come, of all the lights the fairest,*
*The brilliant brightness has been born, far-shining.*
*Urged onward for god Savitri's uprising,*
*Night now has yielded up her place to Morning.*

*The sisters' pathway is the same, unending:*
*Taught by the gods, alternately they tread it.*
*Fair-shaped, of different forms and yet one-minded,*
*Night and Morning clash not, nor do they linger.*

*Bright leader of glad sounds, she shines effulgent:*
*Widely she has unclosed for us her portals.*
*Arousing all the world, she shows us riches:*
*Dawn has awakened every living creature.*

*There Heaven's Daughter has appeared before us,*
*The maiden flushing in her brilliant garments.*
*Thou sovran lady of all earthly treasure,*
*Auspicious Dawn, flush here to-day upon us.*

*In the sky's framework she has shone with splendour;*
*The goddess has cast off the robe of darkness.*
*Wakening up the world with ruddy horses,*
*Upon her well-yoked chariot Dawn is coming.*

*Bringing upon it many bounteous blessings,*
*Brightly shining, she spreads her brilliant lustre.*
*Last of the countless mornings that have gone by,*
*First of bright morns to come has Dawn arisen.*

*Arise! the breath, the life, again has reached us:*
*Darkness has gone away and light is coming.*
*She leaves a pathway for the sun to travel:*
*We have arrived where men prolong existence.*