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Do mention the blog address and name of writer when you copy this article<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n This article deals with contradictions in Vedas more particularly the Rig Veda. Contradictions in religious scriptures prove that either it is not a word of God because a god cannot make mistakes, or it is that the scripture underwent interpolations over time resulting in conflicting views within the scripture. Books like The Oriental Studies by John Muir and Vedic Mythology by Arthur Anthony Macdonell were very helpful on this topic, I have taken some points from my previous articles as well. Due to time constraints, I couldn’t write more, if God wills then I will add more contradictions in this article. And I request you to please mention the blog link when you copy this article, appreciate the hard work of writers by crediting the writer.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 100 Jars of Sura (wine) Rig Veda 1.116.7 “O Heroes, ye gave wisdom to Kak\u1e63\u012bv\u0101n who sprang from Pajra’s line, who sang your praises. Ye poured forth from the hoof of your strong charger a hundred jars of wine as from a strainer.” Tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith<\/p>\n 100 Jars of Madhu (honey)<\/strong><\/p>\n Rig Veda 1.117.6 “Kak\u1e63\u012bv\u0101n, Pajra’s son, must laud that exploit of yours, N\u0101satyas, Heroes, ye who wander! When from the hoof of your strong horse ye showered a hundred jars of honey for the people.” Tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith<\/p>\n Madhu sometime also denotes wine but that’s probably not applicable here. If it meant sweet wine then the word Sura should have also been used here which is not the case. It clearly says that Ashwins (Nasatyas) drew 100 jars of Madhu (Honey).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Rig Veda 1.85.10-11 “They with their vigorous strength pushed the well up on high, and clove the cloud in twain though it was passing strong. The Maruts, bounteous Givers, sending forth their voice, in the wild joy of Soma wrought their glorious deeds. They drave the cloud transverse directed hitherward, and poured the fountain forth for thirsting Gotama\u2026” Tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith<\/p>\n Nasatyas\/Ashwins<\/strong><\/p>\n Rig Veda 1.116.9 “Ye lifted up the well, O ye Nasatyas, and set the base on high to open downward. Streams flowed for folk of Gotama who thirsted, like rain to bring forth thousandfold abundance.” Tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Rig Veda 1.112.8 “Mighty Ones, with what powers ye gave Par\u0101v\u1e5bj aid what time ye made the blind and lame to see and walk\u2026” Tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith<\/p>\n Indra Rig Veda 2.15.7 “Conscious of the disappearance of the damsels, the (Rishi) Parivrij, becoming manifest, stood up; the lame man overtook (them), the blind man beheld (them): in the exhilaration of the Soma, Indra has done these (deeds).” Tr. H.H. Wilson<\/p>\n Griffith’s translation is not clear hence I quoted Wilson’s translation here but Ralph T.H. Griffith writes in the footnotes of this verse, “Paravrij, here rendered ‘the outcast,’ is taken by Sayana as the name of a Rishi who was lame and blind. When some girls made sport of him he prayed to Indra and was made sound.”<\/p>\n Soma<\/strong><\/p>\n Rig Veda 10.25.11 “This to the sage who offers gifts brings power that comes from wealth in kine.<\/p>\n This, better than the seven, hath-at your glad carouse-furthered the blind, the cripple. Thou art waxing great.” Tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Atharva Veda 13.1.7 “Rohita made firm heaven and earth, by him the (heavenly) light was established, by him the firmament. By him the atmosphere and the spaces were measured out, through him the gods obtained immortality.” Tr. Maurice Bloomfield<\/p>\n Savitar<\/strong><\/p>\n Rig Veda 4.54.2; Yajur Veda 33.54 “For thou at first producest for the holy Gods the noblest of all portions, immortality: Thereafter as a gift to men, O Savitar, thou openest existence, life succeeding life.” Tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith<\/p>\n Agni<\/strong><\/p>\n Rig Veda 6.7.4 “To thee, Immortal! when to life thou springest, all the Gods sing for joy as to their infant. They by thy mental powers were made immortal, Vai\u015bv\u0101nara, when thou shonest from thy Parents.” Tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith<\/p>\n Atharva Veda 4.23.6 “Through whom the Gods discovered life eternal\u2026” Tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith<\/p>\n Yajur Veda 32.10 “He is our kin, our Father and Begetter: he knows all beings and all Ordinances, In whom the Gods obtaining life eternal have risen upward to the third high station.” Tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith<\/p>\n By drinking Soma<\/strong><\/p>\n Rig Veda 9.106.8 “Thy drops that swim in water have exalted Indra to delight: The Gods have drunk thee up for immortality.” Tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith<\/p>\n Kushtha plant regarded as immortal Atharva Veda 6.95.2 “There moved through heaven a golden ship, a ship with cordage wrought of gold. There Gods obtained the Kushtha plant, the flower of immortality.” Tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mares Rig Veda 1.50.9 “The Sun has yoked the seven mares that safely draw his chariot…” Tr. H.H. Wilson Horses<\/strong><\/p>\n Rig Veda 5.45.9 “Borne by his Coursers Seven may S\u016brya visit the field that spreadeth wide for his long journey\u2026” Tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Rig Veda 3.48.2 “On the day on which thou wast born, thou didst drink at will the mountain-abiding nectar of this Soma plant, for thy youthful parent mother (Aditi), in the dwelling of thy great sire (Kasyapa), gave it to thee before she gave the breast.” Tr. H.H. Wilson<\/p>\n Rig Veda 7.98.3 “As soon as born, Indra, thou hast drunk the Soma for thine invigoration: thy mother (Aditi) proclaimed thy greatness…” Tr. H.H. Wilson<\/p>\n Falcon Suparna Rig Veda 3.43.7 “Drink of the strong pressed out by strong ones, Indra, that which the Falcon brought thee when thou longedst\u2026” Tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith<\/p>\n According to the story, Soma was not available to gods, the falcon Suparna was the first one to bring Soma to Vedic gods.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Rig Veda 1.80.2 “That exceedingly exhilarating Soma juice, which was brought by the hawk, (from heaven), when poured forth, has exhilarated thee, so that, in thy vigour, thunderer, thou hast struck Vritra from the sky, manifesting thine own sovereignty.” Tr. H.H. Willson<\/p>\n Indra killed Namuchi<\/strong><\/p>\n Rig Veda 6.20.6 “And the hawk bore to Indra the exhilarating Soma, when, bruising the head of the oppressor Namuchi…” Tr. H.H. Wilson<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Verses suggesting that the Soma was brought for Indra<\/strong><\/p>\n Rig Veda 6.20.6 “And the hawk bore to Indra the exhilarating Soma, when, bruising the head of the oppressor Namuchi…” Tr. H.H. Wilson<\/p>\n Rig Veda 3.43.7 “Drink of the strong pressed out by strong ones, Indra, that which the Falcon brought thee when thou longedst\u2026” Tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith<\/p>\n Brought for Humans to perform sacrifices<\/strong><\/p>\n Rig Veda 4.26.4 “May this bird, Maruts, be pre-eminent over (other) hawks, since with a wheelless car the swift-winged bore the Soma, accepted by the gods, to Manu.” Tr. H.H. Wilson<\/p>\n Humans are mentioned as Manu in above verse. Following verse states that Vedic god Agni commanded the eagle to bring down the Soma and suggests that it was brought for the Aryans for the sacrifice,<\/p>\n Rig Veda 10.11.4 “The hawk sent (by Agni) to the sacrifice has brought the dripping copious all-seeing (Soma) libation. When the Arya people chose the victorious Agni as the ministrant priest, then the sacred rite is celebrated.” Tr. H.H. Wilson<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 100 Castles\/Cities Rig Veda 2.14.6 “Ye ministers, to him who as with thunder demolished \u015aambara’s hundred ancient castles\u2026” Tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith<\/p>\n Though it is mentioned elsewhere that Indra gave the hundredth castle to Divodasa but Rig Veda 2.14.6 talks about demolishing all 100 castles.<\/p>\n Rig Veda 6.31.4 “Thou smotest to the ground the hundred castles, impregnable, of Sambara the Dasyu…” Tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith<\/p>\n 90 Castles\/Cities<\/strong><\/p>\n Rig Veda 1.130.7 “For P\u016bru thou hast shattered, Indra ninety forts, for Divod\u0101sa thy boon servant with thy bolt, O Dancer, for thy worshipper. For Atithigva he, the Strong, brought \u015aambara from the mountain down\u2026” Tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith<\/p>\n 99 Castles\/Cities Rig Veda 2.19.6 “\u2026And Indra, for the sake of Divodasa demolished Sambara’s nine-and-ninety castles.” Tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Unsure about creator Rig Veda 10.129.6-7 Who verily knows and who can here declare it, whence it was born and whence comes this creation? The Gods are later than this world’s production. Who knows then whence it first came into being? He, the first origin of this creation, whether he formed it all or did not form it, Whose eye controls this world in highest heaven, he verily knows it, or perhaps he knows not.<\/p>\n Rig Veda 1.185.1 “Which of these two, (Heaven and Earth), is prior, which posterior; how were they engendered; (declare), sages, who knows this? verily, you uphold the universe of itself, and the days (and nights) revovle as if they had wheels.” Tr. H.H. Wilson<\/p>\n Unknown\/Supreme God Rig Veda 1.160.4 “Among the skilful Gods most skilled is he, who made the two world-halves which bring prosperity to all; Who with great wisdom measured both the regions out, and stablished them with pillars that shall ne’er decay.” Tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith<\/p>\n Indra Rig Veda 10.51.4 “\u2026For from thy body thou hast generated at the same time the Mother and the Father.” Tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith<\/p>\n Rig Veda 8.36.4 “Creator of the heaven, creator of the earth, O \u015aatakratu, drink Soma to make thee glad.” Tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith<\/p>\n Brahma<\/strong><\/p>\n Yajur Veda 31.12 “Forth from his navel came mid-air; the sky was fashioned from his head; Earth from his feet\u2026” Tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith<\/p>\n Vishwakarma<\/strong><\/p>\n Rig Veda 10.82.1 “THE Father of the eye, the Wise in spirit, created both these worlds submerged in fatness. Then when the eastern ends were firmly fastened, the heavens and the earth were far extended.” Tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith<\/p>\n Aja<\/strong><\/p>\n Atharva Veda 9.5.20 “This Unborn cleft apart in the beginning: his breast became the earth, his back was heaven\u2026” Tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith<\/p>\n Dhatar Rig Veda 10.90.3 “\u2026He formed in order Heaven and Earth, the regions of the air, and light.” Tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith<\/p>\n Visvakarman Rig Veda 10.81.2 “\u2026Whence Visvakarman, seeing all, producing the earth, with mighty power disclosed the heavens.” Tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith<\/p>\n Tvastar Rig Veda 10.110.9 “Hotar more skilled in sacrifice, bring hither with speed to-day God Tva\u1e63\u1e6dar, thou who knowest. Even him who formed these two, the Earth and Heaven the Parents, with their forms, and every creature.” Tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith<\/p>\n Ribhus Rig Veda 4.34.9 “\u1e5abhus, who helped their Parents and the A\u015bvins, who formed the Milch-cow and the pair of horses, Made armour, set the heaven and earth asunder,\u2014far- reaching Heroes, they have made good offspring.” Tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith<\/p>\n Hiranyagarba Rig Veda 10.121.9 “Neer may he harm us who is earth’s Begetter, nor he whose laws are sure, the heavens’ Creator, He who brought forth the great and lucid waters. What God shall we adore with our oblation?” Tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith<\/p>\n <\/p>\n From breath of God Atharva Veda 19.27.7 “With vital breath the Gods produced the Sun whose face turn every way.”<\/p>\n From eye of Brahma<\/strong><\/p>\n Yajur Veda 31.12 “The Moon was gendered from his mind, and from his eye the Sun had birth\u2026” Tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith<\/p>\n From Vritra<\/strong><\/p>\n Atharva Veda 4.10.5 “From ocean sprang the Amulet, from Vritra sprang the Lord of Day\u2026” Tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith<\/p>\n Indra generated the Sun Rig Veda 2.12.7 “\u2026He who gave being to the Sun and Morning, who leads the waters, He, O men, is Indra.” Tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith<\/p>\n Soma created the Sun<\/strong><\/p>\n Rig Veda 9.96.5 “Father of holy hymns, Soma flows onward the Father of the earth, Father of heaven: Father of Agni, S\u016brya’s generator, the Father who begat Indra and Vi\u1e63\u1e47u.” Tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith<\/p>\n Rig Veda 9.42.1 “ENGENDERING the Sun in floods, engendering heaven’s lights, green-hued, Robed in the waters and the milk.” Tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith<\/p>\n Dhatar<\/strong><\/p>\n Rig Veda 10.190.3 “Dh\u0101tar, the great Creator, then formed in due order Sun and Moon\u2026” Tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Agni Rig Veda 10.156.4 “O Agni, thou hast made the Sun, Eternal Star, to mount the sky, Bestowing light on living men.”<\/p>\n Indra<\/strong><\/p>\n Rig Veda 8.12.30 “When yonder Sun, that brilliant light, thou settest in the heaven above\u2026”<\/p>\n Atharva Veda 20.38.6 “Indra hath raised the Sun aloft in heaven that he may see afar\u2026”<\/p>\n Indra & Vishnu Rig Veda 7.99.4 “\u2026Ye have made spacious room for sacrificing by generating S\u016brya, Dawn, and Agni.” Tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith<\/p>\n Angiras<\/strong><\/p>\n Rig Veda 10.62.2-3 “\u2026O ye A\u1e45girases. Welcome the son of Manu, ye who are most wise. Ye raised the Sun to heaven by everlasting Law\u2026”<\/p>\n Atri<\/strong><\/p>\n Atharva Veda 13.2.12 “Atri established thee in heaven. O Surya\u2026”<\/p>\n Varuna<\/strong><\/p>\n Yajur Veda 4.31 “\u2026S\u00fbrya in heaven and Soma on the mountain.”<\/p>\n Mitra-Varuna Rig Veda 5.6.7 “Wise, with your Law and through the Asura’s magic power ye guard the ordinances, Mitra-Varu\u1e47a. Ye by eternal Order govern all the world. Ye set the Sun in heaven as a refulgent car.” Tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith<\/p>\n Soma<\/strong><\/p>\n Rig Veda 9.107.7 “Bountiful, best of furtherers, Soma floweth on, \u1e5a\u1e63i and Singer, keen of sight. Thou hast become a Sage most welcome to the Gods: thou madest S\u016brya mount to heaven.” Tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Nasadiya Sukta version<\/strong><\/p>\n Rig Veda 10.72.1-4 Let us proclaim with a clear voice the generations of the gods (the divine company), who, when their praises are recited, look (favourably on the worshipper) in this latter age. Brahmanaspati filled these (generations of the gods) with breath as a blacksmith (his bellows) in the first age of the gods the existent was born of the non-existent. In the first age of the gods the existent was born of the non-existent; after that the quarters (of the horizon) were born, and after them the upward-growing (trees). The earth was born from the upward-growing (tree), the quarters were born from the earth; Daksha was born from Aditi, and afterwards Aditi from Daksha. \u2013 Tr. H.H Wilson<\/p>\n Purusha Sukta version<\/strong><\/p>\n Rig Veda 10.90.8-14 “From that great general sacrifice the dripping fat was gathered up…<\/p>\n He formed the creatures of-the air, and animals both wild and tame. From it were horses born, from it all cattle with two rows of teeth: From it were generated kine, from it the goats and sheep were born…The Moon was gendered from his mind, and from his eye the Sun had birth; Indra and Agni from his mouth were born, and V\u0101yu from his breath. Forth from his navel came mid-air the sky was fashioned from his head Earth from his feet, and from his car the regions. Thus they formed the worlds.” Tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Yes, God(s) created the universe Refer Nasadiya Sukta 72 and Purusha Sukta 90 of Rig Veda Mandala 10.<\/p>\n No, God(s) did not create the universe Rig Veda 10.129.6-7 Who verily knows and who can here declare it, whence it was born and whence comes this creation? The Gods are later than this world’s production. Who knows then whence it first came into being? He, the first origin of this creation, whether he formed it all or did not form it, Whose eye controls this world in highest heaven, he verily knows it, or perhaps he knows not.<\/p>\n Rig Veda 1.185.1 “Which of these two, (Heaven and Earth), is prior, which posterior; how were they engendered; (declare), sages, who knows this? verily, you uphold the universe of itself, and the days (and nights) revovle as if they had wheels.” Tr. H.H. Wilson<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Earth and Heaven were created by God(s) Rig Veda 4.34.9 “\u1e5abhus, who helped their Parents and the A\u015bvins, who formed the Milch-cow and the pair of horses, Made armour, set the heaven and earth asunder,\u2014far- reaching Heroes, they have made good offspring.” Tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith<\/p>\n This is the biggest blunder here, Veda states that Ribhus were mortals and attained godhood through their deeds (Rig Veda 4.35.8) then how come it were them who created earth and heaven? Another blunder mentioned below is that Veda are confused about who created earth and heaven, what was created first, the earth or the heaven? Rig Veda 1.185.1 “Which of these two, (Heaven and Earth), is prior, which posterior; how were they engendered; (declare), sages, who knows this? verily, you uphold the universe of itself, and the days (and nights) revovle as if they had wheels.” Tr. H.H. Wilson<\/p>\n Creation of earth and heaven is ascribed to various deities such as to Soma and Pushan (Rig Veda 2.40.1); Dhatr (Rig Veda 5.190.3); Hiranyagarbha (Rig Veda 10.121.9); Purusha (Rig Veda 10.90.14)<\/p>\n Earth and Heaven are creator of Gods Rig Veda 1.159.1 “I PRAISE with sacrifices mighty Heaven and Earth at festivals, the wise, the Strengtheners of Law. Who, having Gods for progeny, conjoined with Gods, through wonder-working wisdom bring forth choicest boons.” Tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith<\/p>\n <\/p>\n From Non-Existence Atharva Veda 10.7.25 “Great, verily, are those Gods who sprang from non-existence into life. Further, men say that that one part of Skambha is nonentity.” Tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith<\/p>\n Gods came after the creation<\/strong><\/p>\n Rig Veda 10.129.6 “Who verily knows and who can here declare it, whence it was born and whence comes this creation? The Gods are later than this world’s production. Who knows then whence it first came into being?” Tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith<\/p>\n Usha (Dawn) is mother of gods<\/strong><\/p>\n Rig Veda 1.113.19 “Mother of Gods, Aditi’s form of glory, ensign of sacrifice, shine forth exalted\u2026” Tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Brahmanaspati<\/strong><\/p>\n Rig Veda 2.26.3 “Who with oblation and a true believing heart serves Brahma\u1e47aspati the Father of the Gods\u2026” Tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith<\/p>\n Soma<\/strong><\/p>\n Rig Veda 9.87.2 “Indu, the well-armed God, is flowing onward, who quells the curse and guards from treacherous onslaught, Father, begetter of the Gods, most skilful, the buttress of the heavens and earth’s supporter.” Tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith<\/p>\n Dyaus Atharva Veda 9.10.12 “Dyaus is our father, our begetter: kinship is here. This great Earth is our kin and mother.Between the wide-spread world-halves is the birth-place. The Father laid the Daughter’s germ within it.” Tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 33 Deities<\/strong><\/p>\n Rig Veda 1.45.2 “Agni, the Gods who understand give ear unto the worshipper: Lord of Red Steeds, who lovest song, bring thou those Three-and-Thirty Gods.” Tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith<\/p>\n Yajur Veda 7.19 “O ye eleven Gods whose home is heaven, O ye eleven who make earth your dwelling. Ye who with might, eleven, live in waters, accept this sacrifice, Ye Gods, with pleasure.” Tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith<\/p>\n 34 Rig Veda 10.55.3 “…the classes of seven in their seasons, with the thirty-four (deities,) (endowed) with light of like nature, and with various functions.” Tr. H.H. Wilson<\/p>\n 339 Deities<\/strong><\/p>\n Rig Veda 10.52.6 “The Deities three hundred and thirty-nine, have served and honoured Agni\u2026” Tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith<\/p>\n 3339 Deities<\/strong><\/p>\n Rig Veda 3.9.9 “Three times a hundred Gods and thrice a thousand, and three times ten and nine have worshipped Agni\u2026” Tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Varuna Rig Veda 5.85.3 “Varu\u1e47a lets the big cask, opening downward, flow through the heaven and earth and air’s mid-region. Therewith the universe’s Sovran waters earth as the shower of rain bedews the barley.” Tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith<\/p>\n Rig Veda 2.27.10 “Thou over all, O Varu\u1e47a, art Sovran, be they Gods, Asura! or be they mortals\u2026” Tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith<\/p>\n Atharva Veda 1.10.1 “This Asura rules over the gods; the commands of Varuna, the ruler\u2026” Tr. Maurice Bloomfield<\/p>\n Indra alone is the King Rig Veda 3.46.2 “\u2026Thyself alone the universe’s Sovran: so send forth men to combat and to rest them.” Tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith<\/p>\n Rig Veda 1.174.1 “Thou art the King of all the Gods, O Indra: protect the men\u2026” Tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Tvastar Rig Veda 10.48.3 “For me hath Tva\u1e63\u1e6dar forged the iron thunderbolt\u2026” Tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith<\/p>\n Rig Veda 1.32.2 “He slew the Dragon lying on the mountain: his heavenly bolt of thunder Tva\u1e63\u1e6dar fashioned\u2026” Tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith<\/p>\n Kavya Usana Rig Veda 1.121.12 “Mount Indra, lover of the men thou guardest, the well-yoked horses of the wind, best bearers. The bolt which K\u0101vya U\u015ban\u0101 erst gave thee, strong, gladdening, V\u1e5btra-slaying, hath he fashioned.” Tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith<\/p>\n Indra himself Rig Veda 1.121.3 “Lord of red dawns, he came victorious, daily to the A\u1e45girases’ former invocation. His bolt and team hath he prepared, and stablished the heaven for quadrupeds and men two-footed.” Tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Brown\/Tawny (Babhru) Rig Veda 2.33.5 “May I with praise-songs win that Rudra’s favour who is adored with gifts and invocations. Ne’er may the tawny God, fair-checked, and gracious, swifthearing, yield us to this evil purpose. ” Tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith<\/p>\n Red with dark blue belly Yajur Veda 16.7 “May he who glides away, whose neck is azure, and whose hue is red, He whom the herdsmen, whom the girls who carry water have beheld, may he when seen be kind to us.” Tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith<\/p>\n Atharva Veda 15.1.7 “His belly is dark-blue, his back is red\u2026” Tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Twenty-One Atharva Veda 13.1.3 “Let Rohita, ye bounteous givers, hear you, thrice-seven Maruts who delight in sweetness!” Tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith<\/p>\n Forty-Nine Rig Veda 5.52.16-17 “\u2026And the impetuous Rudra they, the Mighty Ones, declared their Sire. The mighty ones, the seven times seven, have singly given me hundred gifts\u2026” Tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith<\/p>\n\n
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