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Rig Veda

Rig Veda 1.43

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

What shall we sing to Rudra, strong, most bounteous, excellently wise, That shall be dearest to his heart?

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

That Aditi may grant the grace of Rudra to our folk, our kine, Our cattle and our progeny;

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That Mitra and that Varuna, that Rudra may remember us, Yea, all the Gods with one accord.

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To Rudra Lord of sacrifice, of hymns and balmy medicines, We pray for joy and health and strength.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

He shines in splendour like the Sun, refulgent as bright gold is he, The good, the best among the Gods.

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May he grant health into our steeds, wellbeing to our rams and ewes, To men, to women, and to kine.

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O Soma, set thou upon us the glory of a hundred men, The great renown of mighty chiefs.

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Let not malignities, nor those who trouble Soma, hinder us. Indu, give us a share of strength.

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Soma! head, central point, love these; Soma! know these as serving thee, Children of thee Immortal, at the highest place 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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