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Rig Veda 4.8

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Your envoy who possesses all, Immortal, bearer of your gifts, Best worshipper, I woo with song.

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He, Mighty, knows the gift of wealth, he knows the deep recess of heaven: He shall bring hitherward the Gods.

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He knows, a God himself, to guide Gods to the righteous in his home: He gives e'en treasures that we love.

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He is the Herald: well-informed, he doth his errand to and fro, Knowing the deep recess of heaven.

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May we be they who gratify Agni with sacrificial gifts, Who cherish and enkindle him.

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Illustrious for wealth are they, and hero deeds, victorious, Who have served Agni reverently.

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So unto us, day after day, may riches craved by many come, And power and might spring up for us.

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That holy Singer in his strength shoots forth his arrows swifter than The swift shafts of the tribes of men.

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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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