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Rig Veda

Rig Veda 1.90

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

May Varuna with guidance straight, and Mitra lead us, he who knows, And Aryaman in accord with Gods.

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For they are dealers forth of wealth, and, not deluded, with their might Guard evermore the holy laws.

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Shelter may they vouchsafe to us, Immortal Gods to mortal men, Chasing our enemies away.

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May they mark out our paths to bliss, Indra, the Maruts, Pushan, and Bhaga, the Gods to be adored.

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Yea, Pushan, Vishnu, ye who run your course, enrich our hymns with kine; Bless us with all prosperity.

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The winds waft sweets, the rivers pour sweets for the man who keeps the Law So may the plants be sweet for us.

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Sweet be the night and sweet the dawns, sweet the terrestrial atmosphere; Sweet be our Father Heaven to us.

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May the tall tree be full of sweets for us, and full of sweets the Sun: May our milch-kine be sweet for us.

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Be Mitra gracious unto us, and Varuna and Aryaman: Indra, Brihaspati be kind, and Vishnu of the mighty stride.

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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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