Chapter 11The Tenth Hymn to Mitra-Varuna

AN INVOCATION TO THE SACRIFICE [The Rishi invokes Mitra and Varuna to the Soma offering as destroyers of the enemy and greateners of our being and as helpers of our thoughts by their mastery and wisdom.] aA no g t

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1. O destroyers of the Enemy, come with your greatenings,1 O Varuna, O Mitra, to this our delightful sacrifice. Evvy Eh c tsA vzZ Em rAjT

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2. O Varuna, O Mitra, you govern every man and are the wise thinkers; you are the rulers, nourish our thoughts. up n s

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3. Come, O Varuna, O Mitra, to our Soma offering, to the sacrifice of the giver, that you may drink of this wine. 1 By destroying the enemy, the hurters, who pervert and diminish our being, will and knowledge, they increase in us the largenesses proper to the “vast Truth”. When they govern, the control of the Dasyus is removed and the knowledge of the Truth increases in our thoughts.