HYMN CXC. Brhaspati.
1.GLORIFY thou Brhaspati, the scatheless, who must be praised with hymns,
sweet-tongued and mighty,
To whom as leader of the song, resplendent, worthy of lauds, both Gods and
mortals listen.
2 On him wait songs according to the season even as a stream of pious men set
moving.
Brhaspati-for helaid out the expanses- was, at the sacrifice, vast Matarisvan.
3 The praise, the verse that offers adoration, may he bring forth, as the Sun
sends his arms out,
He who gives daily light through this God's wisdom, strong as a dread wild
beast, and inoffensive.
4 His song of praise pervades the earth and heaven - let the wise worshipper
draw it, like a courser.
These of Brhaspati, like hunters' arrows, go to the skies that change their hue
like serpents.
5 Those, God, who count thee as a worthless bullock, and, wealthy sinners, live
on thee the Bounteous,-
On fools like these no blessing thou bestowest: Brhaspati, thou punishest the
spiteful.
6 Like a fair path is he, where grass is pleasant, though hard to win, a Friend
beloved most early.
Those who unharmed by enemies behold us, while: they would make them bare, stood
closely compassed.
7 He to whom songs of praise go forth like torrents, as rivers eddying under
banks flow sea-ward-
Brhaspati the wise, the eager, closely looks upon both, the waters and the
vessel.
8 So hath Brhaspati, great, strong and mighty, the God exceeding powerful, been
brought hither.
May he thus lauded give us kine and horses. May we find strengthening food in
full abundance.
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