The Rig-Veda Mantras in the Grhya SūtrasStone Printing and Manufacturing Company, 1899 - 38 pages |
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9 MP abbreviated Açmanvati Agni aksan annam anuvāka APGS aptness arrow Avestan Baksheesh Bay Steeds belong bird Bloomfield Brahmanas bride bridegroom Bull ceremony chariot Class Class III conquer cows departing student DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY drop of Soma eating curds employed example fathers friends gay-hued stone genuine Grhy Gods Grhy a material Grhya Sutras hath hither hymn Indra interpretation KHGS kine Mayobhuh mrga oblation Oldenberg pādas performing of adoration pratika prayer quoted recites redescent RIG-VEDA MANTRAS rites pertaining ritual act rival wife rubricated rúcam Rudra rūpam sacrifice Samhita Sanskrit single verses Soma stanza Surya Sūtra svāhā svarná sweet tenth book textus receptus thee thou thy two Bay tvā vāka Varuna vastospate Vedic vrsā wedding hymn wedding journey word Yajur Veda yoge yoke thy yuktas ΙΟ
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Page 13 - His bright rays bear him up aloft, the God who knoweth all that lives, Surya, that all may look on him. The constellations pass away, like thieves, together with their beams, Before the all-beholding Sun.
Page 13 - ... that Rudra may remember us, Yea, all the Gods with one accord. 4 To Rudra Lord of sacrifice, of hymns and balmy medicines, We pray for joy and health and strength. 5 He shines in splendour like the Sun, refulgent as bright gold is he, The good, the best among the Gods. 6 May he grant health into our steeds, wellbeing to our rams and ewes, To men, to women, and to kine. 7 O Soma, set thou upon us the glory of a hundred men, The great renown of mighty chiefs.
Page 21 - The winds waft sweets, the rivers pour sweets for the man who keeps the Law : So may the plants be sweet for us.
Page 16 - Now from the noose of Varuna I free thee, wherewith Most Blessed Savitar hath bound thee. In Law's seat, to the world of virtuous action, I give thee up uninjured with thy consort. 25 Hence, and not thence, I send thee free. 1 make thee softly fettered there. That, Bounteous Indra, she may live blest in her fortune and her sons.
Page 19 - O stronger one, yea, mightier than the mightier ; And she who is my rival wife is lower than the lowest dames. 4. Her very name I utter not: she takes no pleasure in this man.
Page 22 - Singing the praises of refulgent mornings with his hymn's web, the priest, the poet, rises. Shine then to-day, rich maid, on him who lauds thee, shine down on us the gift of life and offspring.
Page 16 - YE, Waters, are beneficent: so help ye us to energy That we may look on great delight. 2. Give us a portion of the sap, the most auspicious that ye have, Like mothers in their longing love.
Page 14 - ForgottenBooks.org 3. Agni is Master of sublime dominion, Agni is Lord of strength and lofty riches. Straightway the self-reliant God, Most Youthful, gives treasures to the mortal who adores him. 4. Most Youthful God, whatever sin, through folly, we here, as human beings, have committed, In sight of Aditi make thou us sinless remit, entirely, Agni, our offences. 5. Even in the presence of great sin, 0 Agni, free us from prison of the Gods or mortals. Never may we who are thy friends be injured: grant...
Page 13 - Traversing sky and wide mid-air, thou metest with thy beams our days, Sun, seeing all things that have birth. 8 Seven Bay Steeds harnessed to thy car bear thee, O thou far-seeing one, God, Surya, with the radiant hair.
Page 14 - Rising this day, O rich in friends, ascending to the loftier heaven, Surya, remove my heart's disease, take from me this my yellow hue. 12 To parrots and to starlings let us give away my yellowness, Or this my yellowness let us transfer to Maritala trees. 13 With all his conquering vigour this Äditya hath gone up on high, Giving my foe into mine hand : let me not be my foeman's prey.