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The Hymns of the Rigveda, Vol. II

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Books 3 to 6 of the oldest Sanskrit hymns, in Griffith's 1890 verse translation with his commentary. The famous Gayatri verse is in Book 3, hymn 62.

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Made byRigveda (anonymous)
TranslatorRalph T. H. Griffith
LanguageEnglish
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Why we can share it: Internet Archive metadata for this Harvard copy (Google Books scan): possible-copyright-status NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT, copyright-region US. Title page dated 1890; Griffith died 1906.

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EventManu and Matsya (the fish)In the oldest Indian flood story, humanity's savior is a fish small enough to fit in a man's cupped hands. Manu raises it in a jar, then a trench, then the sea, and when the waters rise he ties his ship's rope to its horn; scholars debate whether the tale was borrowed from Mesopotamia. Where does the fish tow him?

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