{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/rigveda/rv01017.htm","path":"hin/rigveda/rv01017.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda/rv01017.htm","text":"Rig Veda, tr. by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1896]\n1 I CRAVE help from the Imperial Lords, from Indra-Varu\u1e47a; may they\n Both favour one of us like me.\n 2 Guardians of men, ye ever come with ready succour at the call\n Of every singer such as I.\n 3 Sate you, according to your wish, O Indra-Varu\u1e47a, with wealth:\n Fain would we have you nearest us.\n 4 May we be sharers of the powers, sharers of the benevolence\n Of you who give strength bounteously.\n 5 Indra and Varu\u1e47a, among givers of thousands, meet for praise,\n Are Powers who merit highest laud.\n 6 Through their protection may we gain great store of wealth, and heap it up\n Enough and still to spare, be ours.\n 7 O Indra-Varu\u1e47a, on you for wealth in many a form I call:\n Still keep ye us victorious.\n 8 O Indra-Varu\u1e47a, through our songs that seek to win you to ourselves,\n Give us at once your sheltering help.\n 9 O Indra-Varu\u1e47a, to you may fair praise which I offer come,\n Joint eulogy which ye dignify.","title":"Rig Veda: Rig-Veda Book 1: HYMN XVII. Indra-Varu\u1e47a","type":"page"}