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Post by Anne Terri on Dec 16, 2011 16:22:52 GMT 1
RIGVEDA - BOOK 10 -HYMN CLXXIII. The King.
1. BE with us; I have chosen thee: stand stedfast and immovable. Let all the people wish for thee let not thy kingship fall away. 2 Be even here; fall not away be like a mountain unremoved. Stand stedfast here like Indra's self, and hold the kingship in the grasp. 3 This man hath Indra stablished, made secure by strong oblation's power. May Soma speak a benison, and Brahmaṇaspati, on him. 4 Firm is the sky and firm the earth, and stedfast also are these hills. Stedfast is all this living world, and stedfast is this King of men. 5 Stedfast, may Varuṇa the King, stedfast, the God Bṛhaspati, Stedfast, may Indra, stedfast too, may Agni keep thy stedfast reign. 6 On constant Soma let us think with constant sacrificial gift And then may Indra make the clans bring tribute unto thee alone.
Bibliography: Rigveda, translated by Ralph Thomas Hotchkin Griffith, (1896)
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