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The Hymns of the Rigveda
Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith
2nd edition, Kotagiri (Nilgiri) 1896
From the Preface to the first edition, May 25th, 1889
"This work is an attempt to bring within easy reach of all readers of English a
translation of the Hymns of the Rigveda which while aiming especially at close
fidelity to the letter and the spirit of the original, shall be as readable and intelligible
as the nature of the subject and other circumstances permit."
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"My translation, which follows the text of Max Müller's splendid six-volume edition,
is partly based on the work of the great scholiast Sayana who was Prime Minister at
the court of the King of Vijaynagar - in what is now the Madras District of Bellary - in
the fourteenth century of our era. Sayana's Commentary has been consulted and
carefully considered for the general sense of every verse and for the meaning of
every word, and his interpretation has been followed whenever it seemed rational,
and consistent with the context, and with other passages in which the same word
or words occur."
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Preface to the second edition, October 15th, 1896
"This second edition of my translation is in the main a reprint in compacter and
cheapter form, with some corrections and other improvements in text and
commentary, of the original four-volume edition."
Notice
The English translation by Ralph Griffith is out of copyright since many decades.
Ralph Thomas Hotchkin Griffith (1826-1906), who was principal of Benares College,
translated the Rigveda and many other Vedic and Sanskrit texts into English.
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Griffith.pdf
This PDF file is desiged for students, who have to read a few hymns in translation.
If you have to study the complete Rigveda, you are recommended to buy a reprint,
because a reprint is much cheaper than making a printout of this entire PDF file.
1. "The Hymns of the Rgveda". Translated with a Popular Commentary by Ralph T.
H. Griffith. Edited by Prof. J. L. Shastri, Motilal Banarsidass, New Delhi, 1 volume,
new revised edition 1973, 707 pages, clothbo