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1. Do homage unto Varuna's and
Mitra's Eye: offer this solemn worship to the Mighty God,
Who seeth far away, the Ensign, born of Gods.
Sing praises unto Surya, to the Son of Dyaus.
2 May this my truthful speech
guard me on every side wherever heaven and earth and days are spread abroad.
All else that is in motion finds a place of
rest: the waters ever flow and ever mounts the Sun.
3 No godless man from time
remotest draws thee down when thou art driving forth with winged dappled
Steeds.
One lustre waits upon thee moving to the cast,
and, Surya, thou arisest with a different light.
4 O Surya, with the light
whereby thou scatterest gloom, and with thy ray impellest every moving thing,
Keep far from us all feeble, worthless
sacrifice, and drive away disease and every evil dream.
5 Sent forth thou guardest
well the Universe's law, and in thy wonted way arisest free from wrath.
When Surya, we address our prayers to thee
to-day, may the Gods favour this our purpose and desire.
6 This invocation, these our
words may Heaven and Earth, and Indra and the Waters and the Maruts hear.
Ne'er may we suffer want in presence of the
Sun, and, living happy lives, may we attain old age.
7 Cheerful in spirit,
evermore, and keen of sight, with store of children, free from sickness and
from sin,
Long-living, may we look, O Surya, upon thee
uprising day by day, thou great as Mitra is!
8 Surya, may we live long and
look upon thee still, thee, O Far-seeing One, bringing the glorious light,
The radiant God, the spring of joy to every
eye, as thou art mounting up o'er the high shining flood.
9 Thou by whose lustre all the
world of life comes forth, and by thy beams again returns unto its rest,
O Surya with the golden hair, ascend for us day
after day, still bringing purer innocence.
10 Bless us with shine, bless
us with perfect daylight, bless us with cold, with fervent heat and lustre.
Bestow on us, O Surya, varied riches, to bless
us in our home and when we travel.
11 Gods, to our living
creatures of both kinds vouchsafe protection, both to bipeds and to quadrupeds,
That they may drink and eat invigorating food.
So grant us health and strength and perfect innocence.
12 If by some grievous sin we
have provoked the Gods, O Deities, with the tongue or thoughtlessness of heart,
That guilt, O Vasus, lay upon the Evil One, on
him who ever leads us into deep distress.
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