{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/rigveda/rv10109.htm","path":"hin/rigveda/rv10109.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda/rv10109.htm","text":"Rig Veda, tr. by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1896]\n1. THESE first, the boundless Sea, and M\u0101tari\u015bvan, fierce-glowing Fire, the Strong, the Bliss-bestower.\n And heavenly Floods, first-born by holy Order, exclaimed against the outrage on a Brahman.\n 2 King Soma first of all, without reluctance, made restitution of the Brahman's consort.\n Mitra and Varu\u1e47a were the inviters: Agni as Hota; took her hand and led her.\n 3 The man, her pledge, must by her hand be taken when they have cried, She is a Brahman's consort.\n She stayed not for a herald to conduct her: thus is the kingdom of a ruler guarded.\n 4 Thus spake of her those Gods of old, Seven \u1e5a\u1e63is who sate them down to their austere devotion:\n Dire is a Brahman's wife led home by others: in the supremest heaven she plants confusion.\n 5 The Brahmacari goes engaged in duty: he is a member of the Gods\u2019 own body.\n Through him B\u1e5bhaspati obtained his consort, as the Gods gained the ladle brought by Soma.\n 6 So then the Gods restored her, so men gave the woman back again.\n The Kings who kept their promises restored the Brahman's wedded wife,\n 7 Having restored the Brahman's wife, and freed them, with Gods\u2019 aid, from sin,\n They shared the fulness of the earth, and won themselves extended sway.","title":"Rig Veda: Rig-Veda, Book 10: HYMN CIX. Vi\u015bvedevas.","type":"page"}