Sent forth as an envoy upon your course, you superintend each creature’s welfare, rising with calm unvarying. May the Gods grant us to achieve our goal today!
Rig Veda X, 37, 5
This prayer of ours may Heaven and Earth, the Waters, Indra, and the Maruts heed! May we never be deprived of the Sun’s shining, may we attain old age in happiness!
Rig Veda X, 37, 6
Keen of mind and keen of sight, free from sickness, free from sin, rich in children, may we see you rise as a friend, O Sun, till a long life’s end!
Rig Veda X, 37, 7
O farseeing Sun, the bearer of Light, the joy of every single eye, may we live to see your glorious radiance flooding in as you ascend on high!
Rig Veda X, 37, 8
Om. Janaka, Emperor of Videha, performed a sacrifice in which gifts were freely distributed among the priests. Brahmin scholars from the countries of Kuru and Panchala were assembled there. Emperor Tanaka of Videha wished to know which of these brahminswas the most erudite Vedic scholar. So he confined a thousand cows in a pen and fastened on the horns of each ten padas of gold.
Yajur Veda, Brihadaranyaka Upanishad III, I-Yajnavalkya and Asvala, 1
