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Rig Veda 5.66

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

O sapient man, call the Two Gods, the very wise, who slay the foe. For Varuna, whose form is Law, place offerings for his great delight.

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For they have won unbroken sway in full perfection, power divine. And, like high laws, the world of man hath been made beautiful as light.

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Therefore we praise you that your cars may travel far in front of ours- You who accept the eulogy of Ratahavya with his hymns.

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And ye show whom, Wondrous Gods with fulness of intelligence. By men's discernment are ye marked, O ye whose might is purified.

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This is the Law sublime, O Earth: to aid the Rishis' toil for fame The Two, wide-spreading, are prepared. They come with ample overflow.

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Mitra, ye Gods with wandering eyes, would that the worshippers and we Might strive to reach the realm ye rule, most spacious and protected well,

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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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