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<font size="4">Hymn to Sindhu</font></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><i><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>(The Mother of Rivers)</i><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>RIGVEDA</p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Mandala X: Sukta 75</p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>[These Rivers, named after
the well-known ancient rivers of the <st1:place>Punjab</st1:place>, are here
symbolic of the streamings, the forces of consciousness. They are, as it is
said, solar powers, the radiant energies of the Sun – the Supreme Light, their
seat and source. They are encompassing and flooding the whole universe
including the three domains, the Earth, the Heaven and the mid-region. The
foremost among them is the Sindhu; all the others are its branches and
tributaries. Indeed, they represent the Supreme Power (Parashakti) and her
emanations and manifestations and personalities.]</p>

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none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>(1)</p>

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none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>O <span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>WATERS</span>, the Poet-Creator proclaims your supreme great­ness in
the House of the Sun.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The Waters move out in
seven streams in each of three channels. Sindhu surpasses all hastening streams
in her stupendous urge.</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;</p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>(2)</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>God Varuna dug out the
path for your going when, O Sindhu, you rushed to meet the Plenitudes.</p>

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none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;</span>You surge over the fields and up along the
plateaus when<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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style='font-size:10.0pt;'>Page-19</span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>you move in front of these
moving streams as their Master and Ruler.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>(3)</p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>To the Heaven the echo
perseveres. And on the Earth the Sindhu by her lustre impels upward the sweep
of Infinity.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>It is
as though from the clouds pour out floods of rain. Indeed as she flows down,
the Sindhu comes roaring like a mighty bull.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>(4)</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Towards you, O Sindhu, as
towards their child the Mothers bellowing rush forth, heavy with milk they are.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Like a warrior king you
take lead in the outpouring when you drive forward all these streamings.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:11.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>(5)</p>

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mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>O <st1:place>Ganga</st1:place>
and Yamuna and Saraswati! O Shutudri with thy companion Parushni! Cling to this
hymn to you.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.25in right 3.95in;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;</span>O Marutbridha
with thy companion Asikni, O Arjikiya with
thy companion Vitasta and Sushoma lend your ears to me.</p>

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none;tab-stops:right 5.75pt 3.95in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>(6)</p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The first on your way you
joined with is Trishtama and then with Susartu and Rasa and Shwetya.</p>

<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent2 style='text-indent:.25in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>O Sindhu, with Kubha you joined Gomati, and Krumu with Mehatnu: with
all of them you move forward in one single movement.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>(7)</p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Driving straight, bright
and gleaming in her greatness, she overflows the wide spaces of speeding
realms.</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify; text-indent:10.55pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">Sindhu,
inviolate, the greatest worker among workers, she is like a marvellous-hued steed,
beautiful like the body of a woman.</p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>(8)</p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Sindhu
rides the perfect steed, drives a perfect chariot, wonderfully robed,
golden-hued, great deeds she does, full of the plenitudes is she.</p>

<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='text-indent:.25in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Youthful she is, rich in fine fleece, rich in fibrous reeds, she glides
over honey-bearing growths, she brings perfect delight (enjoyment).<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Sindhu has yoked horses to
her happy-going chariot. With that help she wins the plenitude in this
sacrifice.</p>

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none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Great is its greatness
that is at work. It is inviolate, shines in its own glory, exuberant in its
strength.</p>

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