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Plain text of Rig Veda - Book The Tenth · Hymn XXXVI. To the One Lord, with His Signs and Angels

1 There are the Dawn and Night, the grand and beauteous Pair, Earth, Heaven, and the All-Seeing, the Friend, and the Companion.

The Mighty I call, the winds, mountains, and the floods, the servants of God, Heaven and Earth, the waters, and the sky.

2 May Heaven and Earth, wise, true to Holy Law, keep us in safety from distress and injury.

Let not malignant Destruction rule over us. We crave to-day this gracious favour of the Lord.

3 May mercy preserve us safe from all distress.

May we obtain the light of heaven without a foe. We crave this gracious favour of the Lord to-day.

4 May ringing press-stones keep the evil ones afar, ill dream, and Destruction, and each voracious fiend.

May the angels and the winds shelter us. We crave this gracious favour of the Lord to-day.

5 Full flow libations; on our grass let the Mighty sit; the Lord of Prayer the singer laud with songs!

Wise be our hearts' imaginings that we may live. We crave this gracious favour of the Lord to-day.

6 Ye twin healers, make our worship ascend to heaven, and animate the rite that it may send us bliss,

Offered with holy oil, with forward-speeding rein. We crave the gracious favour of the Lord to-day.

7 Hither I call the band of winds, swift to hear, great, purifying, bringing bliss, to be our friends.

May we increase our wealth to glorify our name. We crave this gracious favour of the Lord to-day.

8 We bring the Stay of Life, who makes the waters swell, swift-hearing, Friend of the righteous, who waits on worship.

May we control that power, whose rays are bright. We crave this gracious favour of the Lord to-day.

9 Alive ourselves, with living sons, devoid of guilt, may we win this with winners by fair means to win.

Let the prayer-haters bear our sin to every side. We crave this gracious favour of the Lord to-day.

10 Hear us, O ye who claim the worship of mankind, and give us, O Lord, the gift for which we pray,

Victorious wisdom, fame with heroes and with wealth. We crave to-day this gracious favour of the Lord.

11 We crave the gracious favour of the Lord to-day, great favour of the Great, sublime and free from foes,

That we may gain rich treasure sprung from hero sons. We crave this gracious favour of the Lord to-day.

12 In the keeping of the Lord of Light, and, for bliss, free from all sin before the Friend and the All-Seeing.

May we share the best animating help of the Giver of light. We crave this gracious favour of the Lord to-day.

13 All ye, the servants whom the Giver of light, the Father of truth, and the All-Seeing and the Friend govern,

Give us prosperity with hero children, and opulence in kine and various treasure.

14 O Giver of light, from east and west, O Giver of light, from north and south,

Giver of light, send us perfect health and comfort, Giver of light, let our days of life be lengthened!