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Rig Veda 1.9

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Come, Indra, and delight thee with the juice at all the Soma feasts, Protector, mighty in thy strength.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

To Indra pour ye forth the juice, the active gladdening juice to him The gladdening, omnific God.

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O Lord of all men, fair of cheek, rejoice thee in the gladdening lauds, Present at these drink-offerings.

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Songs have outpoured themselves to thee, Indra, the strong, the guardian Lord, And raised themselves unsatisfied.

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Send to us bounty manifold, O Indra, worthy of' our wish, For power supreme is only thine.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

O Indra, stimulate thereto us emulously fain for wealth, And glorious, O most splendid One.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Give, Indra, wide and lofty fame, wealthy in cattle and in strength, Lasting our life-time, failing not.

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Grant us high fame, O Indra, grant riches bestowing thousands, those Fair fruits of earth borne home in wains.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Praising with songs the praise-worthy who cometh to our aid, we call Indra, the Treasure-Lord of wealth.

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To lofty Indra, dweller by each libation, the pious man Sings forth aloud a strengthening hymn.

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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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