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Rig Veda Book 1 Hymn 66 रयिर्न चित्रा सूरो न सन्द्र्गायुर्न पराणो नित्यो नसूनुः | तक्वा न भूर्णिर्वना सिषक्ति पयो न धेनुः शुचिर्विभावा || दाधार कषेममोको न रण्वो यवो न पक्वो जेता जनानाम | रषिर्न सतुभ्वा विक्षु परशस्तो वाजी न परीतो वयोदधति || दुरोकशोचिः करतुर्न नित्यो जायेव योनावरं विश्वस्मै | चित्रो यदभ्राट छवेतो न विक्षु रथो न रुक्मी तवेषः समत्सु || सेनेव सर्ष्टामं दधात्यस्तुर्न दिद्युत तवेषप्रतीका | यमो ह जातो यमो जनित्वं जारः कनीनां पतिर्जनीनाम || तं वश्चराथा वयं वसत्यास्तं न गावो नक्षन्त इद्धम | सिन्धुर्न कषोदः पर नीचीरैनोन नवन्त गावः सवर्द्र्शीके ||

rayirna citrā sūro na sandṛghāyurna prāṇo nityo nasūnuḥ | takvā na bhūrṇirvanā siṣakti payo na dhenuḥ śucirvibhāvā || dādhāra kṣemamoko na raṇvo yavo na pakvo jetā janānām | ṛṣirna stubhvā vikṣu praśasto vājī na prīto vayodadhati || durokaśociḥ kraturna nityo jāyeva yonāvaraṃ viśvasmai | citro yadabhrāṭ chveto na vikṣu ratho na rukmī tveṣaḥ samatsu || seneva sṛṣṭāmaṃ dadhātyasturna didyut tveṣapratīkā | yamo ha jāto yamo janitvaṃ jāraḥ kanīnāṃ patirjanīnām || taṃ vaścarāthā vayaṃ vasatyāstaṃ na ghāvo nakṣanta iddham | sindhurna kṣodaḥ pra nīcīrainon navanta ghāvaḥ svardṛśīke ||

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Rig Veda

  1. LIKE the Sun’s glance, like wealth of varied sort, like breath which is the life, like one’s own son, Like a swift bird, a cow who yields her milk, pure and refulgent to the wood he speeds. 2 He offers safety like a pleasant home, like ripened corn, the Conqueror of men. Like a Seer lauding, famed among the folk; like a steed friendly he vouchsafes us power. 3 With flame insatiate, like eternal might; caring for each one like a dame at home; Bright when he shines forth, whitish mid the folk, like a car, gold-decked, thundering to the fight. 4 He strikes with terror like a dart shot forth, e’en like an archer’s arrow tipped with flame; Master of present and of future life, the maidens’ lover and the matrons’ Lord. 5 To him lead all your ways: may we attain the kindled God as cows their home at eve. He drives the flames below as floods their swell: the rays rise up to the fair place of heaven.