RIGVEDA –BOOK 5-HYMN LXX. Mitra-Varuṇa.
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Post by Anne Terri on Aug 21, 2011 11:19:09 GMT 1
RIGVEDA –BOOK 5-HYMN LXX. Mitra-Varuṇa.
1. EVEN far and wide, O Varuṇa and Mitra, doth your grace extend.
May I obtain your kind good-will.
2 From you, benignant Gods, may we gain fully food for sustenance.
Such, O ye Rudras, my we be.
3 Guard us, O Rudras. with your guar4 save us, ye skilled to save, my we
Subdue the Dasyus, we ourselves,
4 Or ne’er may we, O Wondrous Strong, enjoy another's solemn feast,
Ourselves, our sons, or progeny.
Bibliography: Rigveda, translated by Ralph Thomas Hotchkin Griffith, (1896)
1. EVEN far and wide, O Varuṇa and Mitra, doth your grace extend.
May I obtain your kind good-will.
2 From you, benignant Gods, may we gain fully food for sustenance.
Such, O ye Rudras, my we be.
3 Guard us, O Rudras. with your guar4 save us, ye skilled to save, my we
Subdue the Dasyus, we ourselves,
4 Or ne’er may we, O Wondrous Strong, enjoy another's solemn feast,
Ourselves, our sons, or progeny.
Bibliography: Rigveda, translated by Ralph Thomas Hotchkin Griffith, (1896)