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Rig Veda 1.17

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

I crave help from the Imperial Lords, from Indra-Varuna; may they Both favour one of us like me.

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Guardians of men, ye ever come with ready succour at the call Of every singer such as I.

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Sate you, according to your wish, O Indra-Varuna, with wealth: Fain would we have you nearest us.

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May we be sharers of the powers, sharers of the benevolence Of you who give strength bounteously.

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Indra and Varuna, among givers of thousands, meet for praise, Are Powers who merit highest laud.

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Through their protection may we gain great store of wealth, and heap it up Enough and still to spare, be ours.

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O Indra-Varuna, on you for wealth in many a form I call: Still keep ye us victorious.

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O Indra-Varuna, through our songs that seek to win you to ourselves, Give us at once your sheltering help.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

O Indra-Varuna, to you may fair praise which I offer come, Joint eulogy which ye dignify.

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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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