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Rig Veda 1.42

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Shorten our ways, O Pushan, move aside obstruction in the path: Go close before us, cloud-born God.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Drive, Pushan, from our road the wolf, the wicked inauspicious wolf, Who lies in wait to injure us.

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Who lurks about the path we take, the robber with a guileful heart: Far from the road chase him away.

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Tread with thy foot and trample out the firebrand of the wicked one, The double-tongued, whoe'er he be.

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Wise Pushan, Wonder-Worker, we claim of thee now the aid wherewith Thou furtheredst our sires of old.

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So, Lord of all prosperity, best wielder of the golden sword, Make riches easy to be won.

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Past all pursuers lead us, make pleasant our path and fair to tread: O Pushan, find thou power for this.

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Lead us to meadows rich in grass: send on our way no early heat: O Pushan, find thou power for this.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Be gracious to us, fill us full, give, feed us, and invigorate: O Pushan, find thou power for this.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

No blame have we for Pushan; him we magnify with songs of praise: We seek the Mighty One for wealth.

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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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