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Rig Veda

Rig Veda 1.188

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Winner of thousands, kindled, thou shinest a God with Gods to-day. Bear out oblations, envoy, Sage.

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Child of Thyself the sacrifice is for the righteous blent with meath, Presenting viands thousandfold.

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Invoked and worthy of our praise bring Gods whose due is sacrifice: Thou, Agni, givest countless gifts.

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To seat a thousand Heroes they eastward have strewn the grass with might, Whereon, Adityas, ye shine forth.

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The sovran all-imperial Doors, wide, good, many and manifold, Have poured their streams of holy oil.

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With gay adornment, fair to see, in glorious beauty shine they forth: Let Night and Morning rest them here.

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Let these two Sages first of all, heralds divine and eloquent, Perform for us this sacrifice.

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You I address, Sarasvati, and Bharati, and Ila, all: Urge ye us on to glorious fame.

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Tvashtar the Lord hath made all forms and all the cattle of the field Cause them to multiply for us.

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Send to the Gods, Vanaspati, thyself, the sacrificial draught: Let Agni make the oblations sweet.

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Agni, preceder of the Gods, is honoured with the sacred song: He glows at offerings blest with Hail!

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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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