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Rig Veda · 505 of 1027
Mandala 6: HYMN LXIV. Dawn.
1.THE radiant Dawns have risen up for glory, in their white splendour like the waves of waters. She maketh paths all easy, fair to travel, and, rich, hath shown herself benign and friendly.
2.We see that thou art good: far shines thy lustre; thy beams, thy splendours have flown up to heaven. Decking thyself, thou makest bare thy bosom, shining in majesty, thou Goddess Morning.
3.Red are the kine and luminous that bear her the Blessed One who spreadeth through the distance. The foes she chaseth like a valiant archer, like a swift warrior she repelleth darkness.
4.Thy ways are easy on the hills: thou passest Invincible! Self-luminous! through waters. So lofty Goddess with thine ample pathway, Daughter of Heaven, bring wealth to give us comfort.
5.Dawn, bring me wealth: untroubled, with thine oxen thou bearest riches at thy will and pleasure; Thou who, a Goddess, Child of Heaven, hast shown thee lovely through bounty when we called thee early.
6.As the birds fly forth from their restingplaces, so men with store of food rise at thy dawning. Yea, to the liberal mortal who rernaineth at home, O Goddess Dawn, much good thou bringest.
Asked of Guide
Why does Dawn get called an oxen-bearing Goddess who brings wealth and chases foes?
The chapter portrays Dawn as a hospitable, potent deity whose arrival changes the world: she is “Child of Heaven,” radiant, and “bearest riches” with oxen—symbols of wealth and productive power in an agrarian society. Her light makes “paths all easy,” rouses people like birds and drives away darkness and enemies, so her coming literally and metaphorically secures prosperity and safety.
This hymn treats Dawn’s physical features—bosom bared, red kine, wide pathway—as images for tangible goods and social blessings: cattle, early labor, safe travel, and victory over threats. That concrete association of light with economic and communal well‑being echoes other Vedic hymns where a deity’s rising guarantees food and order, similar to how some Upanishadic passages link inner light with moral and social flourishing.
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