{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/rigveda/rv01190.htm","path":"hin/rigveda/rv01190.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda/rv01190.htm","text":"Rig Veda, tr. by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1896]\n1. GLORIFY thou B\u1e5bhaspati, the scatheless, who must be praised with hymns, sweet-tongued and mighty,\n To whom as leader of the song, resplendent, worthy of lauds, both Gods and mortals listen.\n 2 On him wait songs according to the season even as a stream of pious men set moving.\n B\u1e5bhaspati\u2014for he laid out the expanses\u2014was, at the sacrifice, vast M\u0101tari\u015bvan.\n 3 The praise, the verse that offers adoration, may he bring forth, as the Sun sends his arms out,\n He who gives daily light through this God's wisdom, strong as a dread wild beast, and inoffensive.\n 4 His song of praise pervades the earth and heaven: let the wise worshipper draw it, like a courser.\n These of B\u1e5bhaspati, like hunters' arrows, go to the skies that change their hue like serpents.\n 5 Those, God, who count thee as a worthless bullock, and, wealthy sinners, live on thee the Bounteous,\u2014\n On fools like these no blessing thou bestowest: B\u1e5bhaspati, thou punishest the spiteful.\n 6 Like a fair path is he, where grass is pleasant, though hard to win, a Friend beloved most early.\n Those who unharmed by enemies behold us, while they would make them bare, stood closely compassed.\n 7 He to whom songs of praise go forth like torrents, as rivers eddying under banks flow sea-ward\u2014\n B\u1e5bhaspati the wise, the eager, closely looks upon both, the waters and the vessel.\n 8 So hath B\u1e5bhaspati, great, strong and mighty, the God exceeding powerful, been brought hither.\n May he thus lauded give us kine and horses. May we find strengthening food in full abundance.","title":"Rig Veda: Rig-Veda Book 1: HYMN CXC. B\u1e5bhaspati.","type":"page"}