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Rig Veda 1.172: WONDERFUL let your coming be…

by The Rishis of the Rig Veda c. 1500–1000 BCE (traditional; uncertain)

Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896) · From The Hymns of the Rigveda (1896)

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WONDERFUL let your coming be, wondrous with help, ye Bounteous Ones,
Maruts, who gleam as serpents gleam.

Far be from us, O Maruts, ye free givers, your impetuous shaft;
Far from us be the stone ye hurl.

O Bounteous Givers, touch ye not, O Maruts, Trnskanda's folk;
Lift ye us up that we may live.

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Veda, The Rishis of the Rig. “Rig Veda 1.172: WONDERFUL let your coming be….” Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/rigveda-rishis/171/.

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Veda, The Rishis of the Rig. “Rig Veda 1.172: WONDERFUL let your coming be….” Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/rigveda-rishis/171/.

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