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Rigveda Samhita — Mandala 5 — Chapter 67

RV 5 67.1

बऴ् इत्था देव निष्कृतम् आदित्या यजतम् बृहत् । वरुण मित्रार्यमन् वर्षिष्ठꣳ क्षत्रम् आशाथे

baḻ itthā deva niṣkṛtam ādityā yajatam bṛhat | varuṇa mitrāryaman varṣiṣṭhaṁ kṣatram āśāthe

Truly so, O god, O Ādityas: (yours is) the meeting-place, worthy of sacrifice, lofty. Varuṇa, Mitra, Aryaman — you have attained the highest dominion.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

YE Gods, Âdityas, Varuṇa, Aryaman, Mitra, verily Have here obtained supremest sway, high, holy, set apart for you.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1896)

RV 5 67.2

आ यद् योनिꣳ हिरण्ययꣳ वरुण मित्र सदथः । धर्तारा चर्षणीनाꣳ यन्तꣳ सुम्नꣳ रिशादसा

ā yad yoniṁ hiraṇyayaṁ varuṇa mitra sadathaḥ | dhartārā carṣaṇīnāṁ yantaṁ sumnaṁ riśādasā

When you two sit down upon the golden seat, Varuṇa, Mitra — you upholders of the peoples, extend (your) favour, O destroyers of foes.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

When, Varuṇa and Mitra, ye sit in your golden dwelling-place, Ye Twain, supporters of mankind, foeslayers, give felicity.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1896)

RV 5 67.3

विश्वे हि विश्ववेदसो वरुणो मित्रो अर्यमा । व्रता पदेव सश्चिरे पान्ति मर्त्यꣳ रिषः

viśve hi viśvavedaso varuṇo mitro aryamā | vratā padeva saścire pānti martyaṁ riṣaḥ

For all (of them), possessing all knowledge — Varuṇa, Mitra, Aryaman — have kept close to their ordinances as to footprints; they guard the mortal from harm.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

All these, possessors of all wealth, Varuṇa, Mitra, Aryaman, Follow their ways, as if with feet, and guard from injury mortal man.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1896)

RV 5 67.4

ते हि सत्या ऋतस्पृश ऋतावानो जने-जने । सुनीथासः सुदानवो ऽꣳहोश् चिद् उरुचक्रयः

te hi satyā ṛtaspṛśa ṛtāvāno jane-jane | sunīthāsaḥ sudānavo 'ṁhoś cid urucakrayaḥ

For they are true, in contact with ṛta, possessors of ṛta among people after people; good guides, good givers, making wide room even out of narrow straits.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

For they are true, they cleave to Law, held holy among every race, Good leaders, bounteous in their gifts, deliverers even from distress.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1896)

RV 5 67.5

को नु वाम् मित्रास्तुतो वरुणो वा तनूनाम् । तत् सु वाम् एषते मतिर् अत्रिभ्य एषते मतिः

ko nu vām mitrāstuto varuṇo vā tanūnām | tat su vām eṣate matir atribhya eṣate matiḥ

Which of your persons, Varuṇa or Mitra, merits not our praise? Therefore our thought is turned to you, the Atris' thought is turned to you.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1896) (public domain)