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Rig Veda 10.119

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

This, even this was my resolve, to win a cow, to win a steed: Have I not drunk of Soma juice?

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Like violent gusts of wind the draughts that I have drunk have lifted me Have I not drunk of Soma juice?

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The draughts I drank have borne me up, as fleet-foot horses draw a car: Have I not drunk of Soma juice?

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The hymn hath reached me, like a cow who lows to meet her darling calf: Have I not drunk of Soma juice?

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As a wright bends a chariot-seat so round my heart I bend the hymn: Have I not drunk of Soma juice?

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Not as a mote within the eye count the Five Tribes of men with me: Have I not drunk of Soma juice?

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The heavens and earth themselves have not grown equal to one half of me Have I not drunk of Soma juice?

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I in my grandeur have surpassed the heavens and all this spacious earth Have I not drunk of Soma juice?

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Aha! this spacious earth will I deposit either here or there Have I not drunk of Soma juice?

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

In one short moment will I smite the earth in fury here or there: Have I not drunk of Soma juice?

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

One of my flanks is in the sky; I let the other trail below: Have I not drunk of Soma juice?

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

1, greatest of the Mighty Ones, am lifted to the firmament: Have I not drunk of Soma juice?

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I seek the worshipper's abode; oblation-bearer to the Gods: Have I not drunk of Soma juice?

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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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