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Rig Veda 1.4

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

As a good cow to him who milks, we call the doer of fair deeds, To our assistance day by day.

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Come thou to our libations, drink of Soma; Soma-drinker thou! The rich One's rapture giveth kine.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

So may we be acquainted with thine innermost benevolence: Neglect us not, come hitherward.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Go to the wise unconquered One, ask thou of Indra, skilled in song, Him who is better than thy friends.

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Whether the men who mock us say, Depart unto another place, Ye who serve Indra and none else;

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Or whether, God of wondrous deeds, all our true people call us blest, Still may we dwell in Indra's care.

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Unto the swift One bring the swift, man-cheering, grace of sacrifice, That to the Friend gives wings and joy.

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Thou, Satakratu, drankest this and wast the Vritras' slayer; thou Helpest the warrior in the fray.

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We strengthen, Satakratu, thee, yea, thee the powerful in fight, That, Indra, we may win us wealth.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

To him the mighty stream of wealth, prompt friend of him who pours the juice, yea, to this Indra sing your song.

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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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