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Rig Veda 7.99

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Men come not nigh thy majesty who growest beyond all bound and measure with thy body. Both thy two regions of the earth, O Vishnu, we know: thou God, knowest the highest also.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

None who is born or being born, God Vishnu, hath reached the utmost limit of thy grandeur. The vast high vault of heaven hast thou supported, and fixed earth's eastern pinnacle securely.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Rich in sweet food be ye, and rich in milch-kine, with fertile pastures, fain to do men service. Both these worlds, Vishnu, hast thou stayed asunder, and firmly fixed the earth with pegs around it.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Ye have made spacious room for sacrificing by generating Surya, Dawn, and Agni. O Heroes, ye have conquered in your battles even the bull-jawed Dasa's wiles and magic.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Ye have destroyed, thou, Indra, and thou Vishnu, Sambara's nine-and-ninety fenced castles. Ye Twain smote down a hundred times a thousand resistless heroes of the royal Varchin.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

This is the lofty hymn of praise, exalting the Lords of Mighty Stride, the strong and lofty. I laud you in the solemn synods, Vishnu: pour ye food on us in our camps, O Indra.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

O Vishnu, unto thee my lips cry Vashat! Let this mine offering, Sipivishta, please thee. May these my songs of eulogy exalt thee. Preserve us evermore, ye Gods, with blessings.

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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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