A History of Indian Literature v1.c8.s2.236

v1.c8.s2.236

There is one hymn in the Ṛgveda which is, in the higher sense, a Dānastuti, a "Praise of Generosity." It is the hymn Ṛv. X, 117, which is worthy of mention also because it strikes a moralizing note which is otherwise quite foreign to the Ṛgveda. The Ṛgveda is everything but a text-book of morals. And the hymn, which I give here in the translation of A. A. Macdonell,³ is quite isolated in the Ṛgveda:—