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Rig Veda 2.32: GRACIOUSLY further, O ye Heaven and Earth, this speech striving to win…

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)

Religion

GRACIOUSLY further, O ye Heaven and Earth, this speech striving to win reward, of me your worshipper.
First rank I give to you, Immortal, high extolled! I, fain to win me wealth, to you the migbty Pair.

Let not man's guile annoy us, secret or by day: give not us up a prey to these calamities.
Sever not thou our friendship: think thereon for us. This, with a heart that longs for bliss, we seek from thee.

Bring hither with benignant mind the willing Cow teeming with plenteous milk, full, inexhaustible.
O thou invoked by many, day by day I urge thee with my word, a charger rapid in his tread.

With eulogy I call on Raka swift to hear may she, auspicious, hear us, and herself observe.
With never-breaking needle may she sew her work, and give a hero son most wealthy, meet for praise.

All thy kind thoughts, O Raka, lovely in their form, wherewith thou grantest wealth to him who offers gifts-
With these come thou to us this day benevolent, O Blessed One, bestowing food of thousand sorts.

O broad-tressed Sinivali, thou who art the Sister of the Gods,
Accept the offered sacrifice, and, Goddess, grant us progeny.

With lovely fingers, lovely arms, prolific Mother of many sons-
Present the sacred gifts to her, to Sinivali Queen of men.

Her, Sinivali, her, Gungu, her, Raka, her, Sarasvati,
Indrani to mine aid I call, and Varunani for my weal.

MLA

Veda, The Rishis of the Rig. “Rig Veda 2.32: GRACIOUSLY further, O ye Heaven and Earth, this speech striving to win….” Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/rigveda-rishis/221/.

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Veda, The Rishis of the Rig. “Rig Veda 2.32: GRACIOUSLY further, O ye Heaven and Earth, this speech striving to win….” Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/rigveda-rishis/221/.

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