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Rig Veda

Rig Veda 1.156

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Far-shining, widely famed, going thy wonted way, fed with the oil, be helpful. Mitra-like, to us. So, Vishnu, e'en the wise must swell thy song of praise, and he who hath oblations pay thee solemn rites.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

He who brings gifts to him the Ancient and the Last, to Vishnu who ordains, together with his Spouse, Who tells the lofty birth of him the Lofty One, shall verily surpass in glory e'en his peer.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Him have ye satisfied, singers, as well as ye know, primeval gem of Order even from his birth. Ye, knowing e'en his name, have told it forth: may we, Vishnu, enjoy the grace of thee the Mighty One.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

The Sovran Varuna and both the Asvins wait on this the will of him who guides the Marut host. Vishnu hath power supreme and might that finds the day, and with his Friend unbars the stable of the kine.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Even he the Heavenly One who came for fellowship, Vishnu to Indra, godly to the godlier, Who Maker, throned in three worlds, helps the Aryan man, and gives the worshipper his share of Holy Law.

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Sanskrit text: Oliver Hellwig, The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit (DCS), 2010–2024. CC BY 4.0. · Source ↗

Sanskrit text from The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit (DCS) by Oliver Hellwig, 2010–2024, https://github.com/OliverHellwig/sanskrit, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Changes: sentence parts joined per verse; only verses the DCS numbers are included (8483 of the Ṛgveda's 10,552).

Ralph T. H. Griffith's translation (1896–97). It is dated, and scholars now read many verses differently. A few verses Griffith left untranslated or moved to an appendix are not included.

Ralph T. H. Griffith, The Hymns of the Rigveda, 2nd edition (Benares: E. J. Lazarus, 1896–97). Public domain. Text from English Wikisource, checked against Internet Archive scans of the 1896–97 printing. · Source ↗

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