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Rig Veda

Rig Veda 1.41

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Ne'er is he injured whom the Gods Varuna, Mitra, Aryaman, The excellently wise, protect.

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He prospers ever, free from scathe, whom they, as with full hands, enrich, Whom they preserve from every foe.

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The Kings drive far away from him his troubles and his enemies, And lead him safely o'er distress.

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Thornless, Adityas, is the path, easy for him who seeks the Law: With him is naught to anger you.

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What sacrifice, Adityas, ye Heroes guide by the path direct,— May that come nigh unto your thought.

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That mortal, ever unsubdued, gains wealth and every precious thing, And children also of his own.

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How, my friends, shall we prepare Aryaman's and Mitra's laud, Glorious food of Varuna?

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I point not out to you a man who strikes the pious, or reviles: Only with hymns I call you nigh.

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Let him not love to speak ill words: but fear the One who holds all four Within his hand, until they fall.

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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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