{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/rigveda/rv06053.htm","path":"hin/rigveda/rv06053.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda/rv06053.htm","text":"Rig Veda, tr. by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1896]\n1. LORD of the path, O P\u016b\u1e63an, we have yoked and bound thee to our hymn,\n Even as a car, to win the prize.\n 2 Bring us the wealth that men require, a manly master of a house,\n Free-handed with the liberal meed.\n 3 Even him who would not give, do thou,\n O glowing P\u016b\u1e63an, urge to give,\n And make the niggard's soul grow soft.\n 4 Clear paths that we may win the prize; scatter our enemies afar.\n Strong God, be all our thoughts fulfilled.\n 5 Penetrate with an awl, O Sage, the hearts of avaricious churls,\n And make them subject to our will.\n 6 Thrust with thine awl, O P\u016b\u1e63an: seek that which the niggard's heart holds dear,\n And make him subject to our will.\n 7 Tear up and read in pieces, Sage, the hearts of avaricious churls,\n And make them subject to our will.\n 8 Thou, glowing P\u016b\u1e63an, carriest an awl that urges men to prayer;\n Therewith do thou tear up and rend to shreds the heart of every one.\n 9 Thou bearest, glowing Lord! a goad with horny point that guides the cows\n Thence do we seek thy gift of bliss.\n 10 And make this hymn of ours produce kine, horses, and a store of wealth\n For our delight and use as men.","title":"Rig Veda: Rig-Veda, Book 6: HYMN LIII. P\u016b\u1e63an.","type":"page"}