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Rig Veda 10.139: SAVITAR, golden-haired, hath lifted eastward, bright With the sunbeams, his eternal lustre

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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SAVITAR, golden-haired, hath lifted eastward, bright With the sunbeams, his eternal lustre;
He in whose energy wise Pusan marches, surveying all existence like a herdsman.

Beholding men he sits amid the heaven filling the two world-halves and air's wide region.
He looks upon the rich far-spreading pastures between the eastern and the western limit.

He, root of wealth, the gatherer-up of treasures, looks with his might on every form and figure.
Savitar, like a God whose Law is constant, stands in the battle for the spoil like Indra.

Waters from sacrifice came to the Gandharva Visvavasu, O Soma, when they saw him.
Indra, approaching quickly, marked their going, and looked around upon the Sun's enclosures.

This song Visvavasu shall sing us, meter of air's mid-realm celestial Gandharva,
That we may know aright both truth and falsehood: may he inspire our thoughts and help our praises.

In the floods' track he found the booty seeker: the rocky cow-pen's doors he threw wide open.
These, the Gandharva told him, Rowed with Amrta. Indra knew well the puissance of the dragons.

MLA

Veda, The Rishis of the Rig. “Rig Veda 10.139: SAVITAR, golden-haired, hath lifted eastward, bright With the sunbeams, his eternal lustre.” Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/rigveda-rishis/974/.

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Veda, The Rishis of the Rig. “Rig Veda 10.139: SAVITAR, golden-haired, hath lifted eastward, bright With the sunbeams, his eternal lustre.” Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/rigveda-rishis/974/.

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