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Rig Veda

Rig Veda 1.19

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

To this fair sacrifice to drink the milky draught thou art invoked: O Agni, with the Maruts come.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

No mortal man, no God exceeds thy mental power, O Mighty one: O Agni, with the Maruts come:

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All Gods devoid of guile, who know the mighty region of mid-air: O Agni, with those Maruts come.

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The terrible, who sing their song, not to be overcome by might: O Agni, with those Maruts come.

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Brilliant, and awful in their form, mighty, devourers of their foes': O Agni, with those Maruts come.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Who sit as Deities in heaven, above the sky-vault's luminous sphere: O Agni, with those Maruts come.

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Who scatter clouds about the sky, away over the billowy sea: O Agni, with those Maruts come.

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Who with their bright beams spread them forth over the ocean in their might O Agni, with those Maruts come.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

For thee, to be thine early draught, I pour the Soma-mingled meath: O Agni, with the Maruts come.

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Sanskrit text: Oliver Hellwig, The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit (DCS), 2010–2024. CC BY 4.0. · Source ↗

Sanskrit text from The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit (DCS) by Oliver Hellwig, 2010–2024, https://github.com/OliverHellwig/sanskrit, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Changes: sentence parts joined per verse; only verses the DCS numbers are included (8483 of the Ṛgveda's 10,552).

Ralph T. H. Griffith's translation (1896–97). It is dated, and scholars now read many verses differently. A few verses Griffith left untranslated or moved to an appendix are not included.

Ralph T. H. Griffith, The Hymns of the Rigveda, 2nd edition (Benares: E. J. Lazarus, 1896–97). Public domain. Text from English Wikisource, checked against Internet Archive scans of the 1896–97 printing. · Source ↗

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