{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/rigveda/rv08072.htm","path":"hin/rigveda/rv08072.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda/rv08072.htm","text":"Rig Veda, tr. by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1896]\n1. WE choose unto ourselves that high protection of the Mighty Gods\n That it may help and succour us.\n 2 May they be ever our allies, Varu\u1e47a, Mitra, Aryaman,\n Far-seeing Gods who prosper us.\n 3 Ye furtherers of holy Law, transport us safe o\u2019er many woes,\n As over water-floods in ships.\n 4 Dear wealth be Aryaman to us, Varu\u1e47a dear wealth meet for praise:\n Dear wealth we choose unto ourselves.\n 5 For Sovrans of dear wealth are ye, \u0100dityas, not of sinner's wealth,\n Ye sapient Gods who slay the foe.\n 6 We in our homes, ye Bounteous Ones, and while we journey on the road,\n Invoke you, Gods, to prosper us.\n 7 Regard us, Indra, Vi\u1e63\u1e47u, here, ye A\u015bvins and the Marut host,\n Us who are kith and kin to you.\n 8 Ye Bounteous Ones, from time of old we here set forth our brotherhood,\n Our kinship in. the Mother's womb.\n 9 Then come with Indra for your chief, as early day, ye Bounteous Gods\n Yea, 1 address you now for this.","title":"Rig Veda: Rig-Veda, Book 8: HYMN LXXII. Vi\u015bvedevas.","type":"page"}