{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/rigveda/rv07088.htm","path":"hin/rigveda/rv07088.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda/rv07088.htm","text":"Rig Veda, tr. by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1896]\n1. PRESENT to Varu\u1e47a thine hymn, Vasi\u1e63\u1e6dha, bright, most delightful to the Bounteous Giver,\n Who bringeth on to us the Bull, the lofty, the Holy, laden with a thousand treasures.\n 2 And now, as I am come before his presence, I take the face of Varu\u1e47a for Agni's.\n So might he bring-Lord also of the darkness-the light in heaven that I may see its beauty!\n 3 When Varu\u1e47a and I embark together and urge our boat into the midst of ocean,\n We, when we ride o\u2019er ridges of the waters, will swing within that swing and there be happy.\n 4 Varu\u1e47a placed Vasi\u1e63\u1e6dha in the vessel, and deftly with his niight made him a \u1e5a\u1e63i.\n When days shone bright the Sage made him a singer, while the heavens broadened and the Dawns were lengthened.\n 5 What hath become of those our ancient friendships, when without enmity we walked together?\n I, Varu\u1e47a, thou glorious Lord, have entered thy lofty home, thine house with thousand portals.\n 6 If he, thy true ally, hath sinned against thee, still, Varu\u1e47a, he is the friend thou lovedst.\n Let us not, Living One, as sinners I know thee: give shelter, as a Sage, to him who lauds thee.\n 7 While we abide in these fixed habitations, and from the lap of Aditi win favour,\n May Varu\u1e47a untie the bond that binds us. Preserve us evermore, ye Gods, with blessings.","title":"Rig Veda: Rig-Veda, Book 7: HYMN LXXXVIII. Varu\u1e47a.","type":"page"}