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Rig Veda 1.5

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

O come ye hither, sit ye down: to Indra sing ye forth, your song, companions, bringing hymns of praise.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

To him the richest of the rich, the Lord of treasures excellent, Indra, with Soma juice outpoured.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

May he stand by us in our need and in abundance for our wealth: May he come nigh us with his strength.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Whose pair of tawny horses yoked in battles foemen challenge not: To him, to Indra sing your song.

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Nigh to the Soma-drinker come, for his enjoyment, these pure drops, The Somas mingled with the curd.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Thou, grown at once to perfect strength, wast born to drink the Soma juice, Strong Indra, for preëminence.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

O Indra, lover of the song, may these quick Somas enter thee: May they bring bliss to thee the Sage.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Our chants of praise have strengthened thee, O Satakratu, and our lauds So strengthen thee the songs we sing.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Indra, whose succour never fails, accept these viands thousandfold, Wherein all manly powers abide.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

O Indra, thou who lovest song, let no man hurt our bodies, keep Slaughter far from us, for thou canst.

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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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