{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/rigveda/rv07061.htm","path":"hin/rigveda/rv07061.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda/rv07061.htm","text":"Rig Veda, tr. by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1896]\n1. O VARUNA and Mitra, S\u016brya spreading the beauteous light of you Twain Gods ariseth.\n He who beholdetb all existing creatures observetb well the zeal that is in mortals.\n 2 The holy sage, renowned afar, directeth his hymns to you, O Varu\u1e47a and Mitra,\u2014\n He whose devotions, sapient Gods, ye favour so that ye fill, as \u2019twere, with power his autumns.\n 3 From the wide earth, O Varu\u1e47a and Mitra from the great lofty heaven, ye, Bounteous Givers, -\n Have in the fields and houses set your warder-, who visit every spot and watch unceasing.\n 4 I praise the strength of Varu\u1e47a and Mitra that strength, by mightiness, keeps both worlds asunder.\n Heroless pass the months of the ungodly he who loves sacrifice makes his home enduring.\n 5 Steers, all infallible are these your people in whom no wondrous thing is seen, no worship.\n Guile follows close the men who are untruthful: no secrets may be hidden from your knowledge.\n 6 I will exalt your sacrifice with homage: as priest, I, Mitra-Varu\u1e47a, invoke you.\n May these new hymns and prayers that I have fashioned delight you to the profit of the singer.\n 7 This priestly task, Gods! Varu\u1e47a and Mitra! hath been performed for you at sacrifices.\n Convey us safely over every peril. Preserve us evermore, ye Gods, with blessings.","title":"Rig Veda: Rig-Veda, Book 7: HYMN LXI. Mitra-Varu\u1e47a.","type":"page"}