Rig Veda Mandal - 10 (Part - 10) HYMN 37 Surya1 Do homage unto Varuna's and Mitra's Eye: offer this solemn worship to the Mighty God, 2 May this my truthful speech guard me on every side wherever heaven and earth and days are
spread abroad. 3 No godless man from time remotest draws thee down when thou art driving forth with winged
dappled Steeds. 4 O Surya, with the light whereby thou scatterest gloom, and with thy ray impellest every moving
thing, 5 Sent forth thou guardest well the Universe's law, and in thy wonted way arisest free from wrath. 6 This invocation, these our words may Heaven and Earth, and Indra and the Waters and the Maruts hear. 7 Cheerful in spirit, evermore, and keen of sight, with store of children, free from sickness and from
sin, Surya, may we live long and look upon thee still, thee, O Far-seeing One, bringing the glorious light, 9 Thou by whose lustre all the world of life comes forth, and by thy beams again returns unto its rest, 10 Bless us with shine, bless us with perfect daylight, bless us with cold, with fervent heat and
lustre. 11 Gods, to our living creatures of both kinds vouchsafe protection, both to bipeds and to
quadrupeds, 12 If by some grievous sin we have provoked the Gods, O Deities, with the tongue or thoughtlessness of heart,
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