Rig-veda Sanhita: A Collection of Ancient Hindu Hymns Constituting the 1. to the 8. Ashtaka, Or Book of the Rig-Veda, Volume 3
Trübner & Company, 1857
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abiding abundant according to Sáyana ADITI Áditya adorable AGNI amongst ANGIRAS Angirasas Anushṭubh Asuras AṣWINS ATRI battle bestow BHAGA Brahman BRIHASPATI butter cattle chariot cows Dasyus dawn deity and Rishi descendants desirous destroyer divine AGNI dwelling effused enemies epithet exhilaration favour fire firmament foes giver gods heaven and earth horses hymns immortal INDRA INDRA and AGNI invoke Jagati kindled KUTSA leaders of rites libation lord MAGHAVAN Mahidhara MARUTS mean metre is Trishṭubh mighty milk MITRA and VARUNA mortal Nirukta oblations offer opulent PARJANYA pious praise prayer priests propitiated protection protector PÚSHAN radiant rain Rakshasas rendered resplendent RIBHUS riches rivers RUDRA sacred grass sacred rites sacrifice sage Sáma-Veda SAMBARA SAVITRI scholiast shining showerer of benefits Soma juice stanza steeds strength SÚKTA Súrya thee who art thine thou art thou hast thunderbolt thy worshippers Varga VÁYU Veda verily vigour VISHNU VISWAMITRA VRITRA wealth worship Yajur-Veda Yajush
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Page 22 - Lord ; the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, which is by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away.
Page 297 - Sun concealed by the darkness impeding his functions. 7. (Surya speaks) Let not the Violator, Atri, through hunger swallow with fearful (darkness) me who am thine ; thou art Mitra, whose wealth is truth ; do thou and the royal Varuna both protect me.
Page 156 - Ajigarta, dying with hunger, was going to destroy his own son by selling him for some cattle ; yet he was guilty of no crime, for he only sought a remedy against famishing.
Page 111 - Let us adore the supremacy of that divine sun, the godhead who illuminates all, who recreates all, from whom all proceed, to whom all must return, whom we invoke to direct our understandings aright in our progress towards his holy seat.
Page 225 - May the ploughshares break up our land happily ; may the ploughman go happily with the oxen ; may PARJANYA (water the earth) with sweet showers happily : grant, 8una and S/ra, prosperity to us.2 StJKTA XIII.
Page 136 - ... always, accepts the sacrifice. 8. Thou who art all-knowing understandest the functions of a messenger (of the gods) at the sacrifice : well informed of both heaven and earth, and the intermediate (firmament), and a most intelligent, ancient, and amplifying envoy, thou goest up the ascents of heaven. 9. Dark is the path of thee who art bright; the light is before thee...
Page 154 - Vama-deva, whilst yet in the womb, was reluctant to be born in the usual manner, and resolved to come into the world through his mother's side. Aware of his purpose, the mother prayed to Aditi, who thereupon came with her son Indra to expostulate with the .Rishi." [This story accords with that told by the Buddhists of the birth of Buddha.] In the same hymn Vamadeva says, " In extreme destitution I have cooked the entrails of a dog...
Page 236 - Enemies have secreted amongst mortals the king of living beings, the asylum of men : may the prayers of ATRI set him free ; may those who revile be reviled. 7. Thou hast liberated the fettered SUNAHSEPA from a thousand stakes, for he was patient in endurance : so, AGNI, free us from our bonds, having sat down here (at our sacrifice), intelligent offerer of oblations.
Page 45 - Angirctfas) were delighted ; their shouts spread through heaven and earth ; they replaced the recovered kine in their places, and stationed guards over the cows. 11. INDRA, the slayer of VRITRA, let loose the milch kine, assisted by the Maruts, born for his aid, and entitled to praises and oblations, and the excellent (cows) contributing abundantly to sacred offerings, and yielding the butter of libation, milked for him sweet (sacrificial) food.
Page 34 - This, the apparatus of attrition is ready;1 the generation (of the flame) is ready ; take up this (stick) the protectress of mankind, and let us churn the fire as has been done of old.