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Rig Veda 8.83

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

We choose unto ourselves that high protection of the Mighty Gods That it may help and succour us.

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May they be ever our allies, Varuna, Mitra, Aryaman, Far-seeing Gods who prosper us.

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Ye furtherers of holy Law, transport us safe o'er many woes, As over water-floods in ships.

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Dear wealth be Aryaman to us, Varuna dear wealth meet for praise: Dear wealth we choose unto ourselves.

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For Sovrans of dear wealth are ye, Adityas, not of sinner's wealth, Ye sapient Gods who slay the foe.

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We in our homes, ye Baunteous Ones, and while we journey on the road, Invoke you, Gods, to prosper us.

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Regard us, Indra, Vishnu, here, ye Asvins and the Marut host, Us who are kith and kin to you.

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Ye Bounteous Ones, from time of old we here set forth our brotherhood, Our kinship in. the Mother's womb.

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Then come with Indra for your chief, as early day, ye Bounteous Gods Yea, 1 address you now for this.

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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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