{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/rigveda/rv07054.htm","path":"hin/rigveda/rv07054.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda/rv07054.htm","text":"Rig Veda, tr. by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1896]\n1. ACKNOWLEDGE us, O Guardian of the Homestead: bring no disease, and give us happy entrance.\n Whate\u2019er we ask of thee, be pleased to grant it, and prosper thou quadrupeds and bipeds.\n 2 Protector of the Home, be our promoter: increase our wealth in kine and steeds, O Indu.\n May we be ever-youthful in thy friendship: be pleased in us as in his sons a father.\n 3 Through thy dear fellowship that bringeth welfare, may we be victors, Guardian of the Dwelling!\n Protect our happiness in rest and labour. Preserve us evermore, ye Gods, with blessings.","title":"Rig Veda: Rig-Veda, Book 7: HYMN LIV. Vastospati.","type":"page"}