{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/rigveda/rv01106.htm","path":"hin/rigveda/rv01106.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda/rv01106.htm","text":"Rig Veda, tr. by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1896]\n1. CALL we for aid on Indra, Mitra, Varu\u1e47a and Agni and the Marut host and Aditi.\n Even as a chariot from a difficult ravine, bountiful Vasus, rescue us from all distress.\n 2 Come ye \u0100dityas for our full prosperity, in conquests of the foe, ye Gods, bring joy to us.\n Even as a chariot from a difficult ravine, bountiful Vasus, rescue us from all distress.\n 3 May the most glorious Fathers aid us, and the two Goddesses, Mothers of the Gods, who strengthen Law.\n Even as a chariot from a difficult ravine, bountiful Vasus, rescue us from all distress.\n 4 To mighty Nar\u0101\u015ba\u1e41sa, strengthening his might, to P\u016b\u1e63an, ruler over men, we pray with hymns.\n Even as a chariot from a difficult ravine, bountiful Vasus, rescue us from all distress.\n 5 B\u1e5bhaspati, make us evermore an easy path: we crave what boon thou hast for men in rest and stir.\n Like as a chariot from a difficult ravine, bountiful Vasus, rescue us from all distress.\n 6 Sunk in the pit the \u1e5a\u1e63i Kutsa called, to aid, Indra the V\u1e5btra-slayer, Lord of power and might.\n Even as a chariot from a difficult ravine, bountiful Vasus, rescue us from all distress.\n 7 May Aditi the Goddess guard us with the Gods: may the protecting God keep us with ceaseless care.\n This prayer of ours may Varu\u1e47a grant, and Mitra, and Aditi and Sindhu, Earth and Heaven.","title":"Rig Veda: Rig-Veda Book 1: HYMN CVI. Vi\u015bvedevas.","type":"page"}