{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/rigveda/rv01041.htm","path":"hin/rigveda/rv01041.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda/rv01041.htm","text":"Rig Veda, tr. by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1896]\n1 NE\u2019ER is he injured whom the Gods Varu\u1e47a, Mitra, Aryaman,\n The excellently wise, protect.\n 2 He prospers ever, free from scathe, whom they, as with full hands, enrich,\n Whom they preserve from every foe.\n 3 The Kings drive far away from him his troubles and his enemies,\n And lead him safely o\u2019er distress.\n 4 Thornless, \u0100dityas, is the path, easy for him who seeks the Law:\n With him is naught to anger you.\n 5 What sacrifice, \u0100dityas, ye Heroes guide by the path direct,\u2014\n May that come nigh unto your thought.\n 6 That mortal, ever unsubdued, gains wealth and every precious thing,\n And children also of his own.\n 7 How, my friends, shall we prepare Aryaman's and Mitra's laud,\n Glorious food of Varu\u1e47a?\n 8 I point not out to you a man who strikes the pious, or reviles:\n Only with hymns I call you nigh.\n 9 Let him not love to speak ill words: but fear the One who holds all four\n Within his hand, until they fall.","title":"Rig Veda: Rig-Veda Book 1: HYMN XLI. Varu\u1e47a, Mitra, Aryaman.","type":"page"}