{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/rigveda/rv05062.htm","path":"hin/rigveda/rv05062.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda/rv05062.htm","text":"Rig Veda, tr. by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1896]\n1. BY your high Law firm order is established there where they loose for travel S\u016brya's horses.\n Ten hundred stood together: there I looked on this the most marvellous Deities' one chief glory.\n 2 This, Mitra-Varu\u1e47a, is your special greatness: floods that stood there they with the days attracted.\n Ye cause to flow all voices of the cowpen: your single chariotfelly hath rolled hither.\n 3 O Mitra-Varu\u1e47a, ye by your greatness, both Kings, have firmly stablished earth and heaven,\n Ye caused the cows to stream, the plants to flourish, and, scattering swift drops, sent down the rain-flood.\n 4 Let your well-harnessed horses bear you hither: hitherward let them come with reins drawn tightly.\n A covering cloud of sacred oil attends you, and your streams flow to us from days aforetime.\n 5 To make the lustre wider and more famous, guarding the sacred grass with veneration,\n Ye, Mitra-Varu\u1e47a, firm, strong, awe-inspiring, are seated on a throne amid oblations.\n 6 With hands that shed no blood, guarding the pious, whom, Varuni3, ye save amid oblations.\n Ye Twain, together, Kings of willing spirit, uphold dominion based on thousand pillars.\n 7 Adorned with gold, its columns are of iron. in heaven it glitters like a whip for horses;\n Or stablished on a field deep-spoiled and fruitful. So may we share the meath that loads your car-seat.\n 8 Ye mount your car gold-hued at break of morning, and iron-pillared when the Sun is setting,\n And from that place, O Varu\u1e47a and Mitra, behold infinity and limit~tion.\n 9 Bountiful guardians of the world! the shelter that is impenetrable, strongest, flawless,\n Aid us with that, O Varu\u1e47a and Mitra, and when we long to win may we be victors.","title":"Rig Veda: Rig-Veda, Book 5: HYMN LXII. Mitra-Varu\u1e47a","type":"page"}