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Rig Veda 6.55

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Son of Deliverance, come, bright God! Let us twain go together: be our charioteer of sacrifice.

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We pray for wealth to thee most skilled of charioteers, with braided hair, Lord of great riches, and our Friend.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Bright God whose steeds are goats, thou art a stream of wealth, a treasure-heap, The Friend of every pious man.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Pushan, who driveth goats for steeds, the strong and Mighty, who is called His Sister's lover, will we laud.

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His Mother's suitor I address. May he who loves his Sister hear, Brother of Indra, and my Friend.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

May the sure-footed goats come nigh, conveying Pushan on his car, The God who visiteth mankind.

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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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