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Rigveda Samhita — Mandala 7 — Chapter 89

RV 7 89.1

मो षु वरुण मृन्मयꣳ गृहꣳ राजन्न् अहꣳ गमम् । मृऴा सुक्षत्र मृऴय

mo ṣu varuṇa mṛnmayaṁ gṛhaṁ rājann ahaṁ gamam | mṛḻā sukṣatra mṛḻaya

Let me not now go, O king Varuṇa, to the house made of clay. Be gracious, O good ruler, be gracious!

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

LET me not yet, King Varuṇa, enter into the house of clay: Have mercy, spare me, Mighty Lord.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1896)

RV 7 89.2

यद् एमि प्रस्फुरन्न् इव दृतिर् न ध्मातो अद्रिवः । मृऴा सुक्षत्र मृऴय

yad emi prasphurann iva dṛtir na dhmāto adrivaḥ | mṛḻā sukṣatra mṛḻaya

When I go trembling like a blown-up waterskin, O lord of the stone — be gracious, O good ruler, be gracious!

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

When, Thunderer! I move along tremulous like a wind-blown skin, Have mercy, spare me, Mighty Lord.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1896)

RV 7 89.3

क्रत्वः समह दीनता प्रतीपꣳ जगमा शुचे । मृऴा सुक्षत्र मृऴय

kratvaḥ samaha dīnatā pratīpaṁ jagamā śuce | mṛḻā sukṣatra mṛḻaya

Out of want, somehow, O bright one, I have gone against the current of (my own) resolve — be gracious, O good ruler, be gracious!

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

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

O Bright and Powerful God, through want of strength I erred and went astray Have mercy, spare me, Mighty Lord.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1896)

RV 7 89.4

अपाम् मध्ये तस्थिवाꣳसꣳ तृष्णाविदज् जरितारम् । मृऴा सुक्षत्र मृऴय

apām madhye tasthivāṁsaṁ tṛṣṇāvidaj jaritāram | mṛḻā sukṣatra mṛḻaya

Thirst has found the singer standing in the midst of the waters — be gracious, O good ruler, be gracious!

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

Thirst found thy worshipper though he stood in the midst of water-fijods: Have mercy, spare me, Mighty Lord.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1896)

RV 7 89.5

यत् किꣳ चेदꣳ वरुण दैव्ये जने ऽभिद्रोहम् मनुष्या३श् चरामसि । अचित्ती यत् तव धर्मा युयोपिम मा नस् तस्माद् एनसो देव रीरिषः

yat kiṁ cedaṁ varuṇa daivye jane 'bhidroham manuṣyā3ś carāmasi | acittī yat tava dharmā yuyopima mā nas tasmād enaso deva rīriṣaḥ

Whatever offence we men commit here against the divine folk, O Varuṇa, whatever of your ordinances we have disturbed through thoughtlessness — do not harm us, O god, for that sin.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

O Varuṇa, whatever the offence may be which we as men commit against the heavenly host, When through our want of thought we violate thy laws, punish us not, O God, for that iniquity.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1896)