{"collection":"Hinduism","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_hin_rvsan_rv02027_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_hin_rvsan_rv02027_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_hin_rvsan_rv02027_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/rvsan/rv02027.htm","summary":"This is a devotional hymn (sukta) from the Rig Veda, one of Hinduism's oldest sacred texts (composed roughly 1500\u20131200 BCE), addressed collectively to the Adityas \u2014 a group of sovereign sky deities including Mitra, Varuna, Aryaman, Bhaga, Daksha, and Amsha, with Aditi as their divine mother. The hymn's central thrust is petition and praise: the poet offers sacred speech (stotra) in exchange for protection, safe passage through danger, long life, and release from sin or transgression. A distinctive emphasis runs throughout on the Adityas' moral omniscience \u2014 they are described as seeing all things, both crooked and straight, and as guardians of cosmic order (rita), which undergirds their authority over gods and mortals alike. Varuna in particular is addressed as universal king over all beings, and the poet asks him specifically for a hundred autumns of clear sight and well-ordered years. The hymn also makes a notable cosmological claim: the Adityas hold up three earths and three heavens and maintain three cosmic ordinances, with their greatness rooted in rita (truth/cosmic order). It closes with a confession of possible offense and a plea for forgiveness, situating the relationship between worshipper and deity within a framework of moral accountability rather than mere transactional ritual.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"The Rig Veda in Sanskrit: Rig Veda Book 2: Hymn 27","tradition":"Hinduism","translated_text":null,"word_count":606}