{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/rigveda/rv01040.htm","path":"hin/rigveda/rv01040.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda/rv01040.htm","text":"Rig Veda, tr. by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1896]\n1 O BRAHMA\u1e46ASPATI, stand up: God-serving men we pray to thee.\n May they who give good gifts, the Maruts, come to us. Indra, most swift, be thou with them.\n 2 O Son of Strength, each mortal calls to thee for aid when spoil of battle waits for him.\n O Maruts, may this man who loves you well obtain wealth of good steeds and hero might.\n 3 May Brahma\u1e47aspati draw nigh, may S\u016bn\u1e5bt\u0101 the Goddess come,\n And Gods bring to this rite which gives the five-fold gift the Hero, lover of mankind.\n 4 He who bestows a noble guerdon on the priest wins fame that never shall decay.\n For him we offer sacred hero-giving food, peerless and conquering easily.\n 5 Now Brahma\u1e47aspati speaks forth aloud the solemn hymn of praise,\n Wherein Indra and Varu\u1e47a, Mitra, Aryaman, the Gods, have made their dwelling place.\n 6 May we in holy synods, Gods! recite that hymn, peerless, that brings felicity.\n If you, O Heroes, graciously accept this word, may it obtain all bliss from you.\n 7 Who shall approach the pious? who the man whose sacred grass is trimmed?\n The offerer with his folk advances more and more: he fills his house with precious things.\n 8 He amplifies his lordly might, with kings he slays: e\u2019en mid alarms he dwells secure\n In great or lesser fight none checks him, none subdues,\u2014the wielder of the thunderbolt.","title":"Rig Veda: Rig-Veda Book 1: HYMN XL. Brahma\u1e47aspati","type":"page"}