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Rig Veda 1.7

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Indra the singers with high praise, Indra reciters with their lauds, Indra the choirs have glorified.

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Indra hath ever close to him his two bay steeds and word-yoked car, Indra the golden, thunder-armed.

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Indra hath raised the Sun on high in heaven, that he may see afar: He burst the mountain for the kine.

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Help us, O Indra, in the frays, yea, frays, where thousand spoils are gained, With awful aids, O awful One.

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In mighty battle we invoke Indra, Indra in lesser fight, The Friend who bends his bolt at fiends.

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Unclose, our manly Hero, thou for ever bounteous, yonder cloud, For us, thou irresistible.

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Still higher, at each strain of mine, thunder-armed Indra's praises rise: I find no laud worthy of him.

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Even as the bull drives on the herds, he drives the people with his might, The Ruler irresistible:

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Indra who rules with single sway men, riches, and the fivefold race Of those who dwell upon the earth.

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For your sake from each side we call Indra away from other men: Ours, and none others', may he be.

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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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