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Rig Veda 3.12

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Moved, Indra-Agni, by our hymn, come to the juice, the precious dew: Drink ye thereof, impelled by song.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

O Indra-Agni, with the man who lauds you comes the wakening rite: So drink ye both this juice assured.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Through force of sacrifice I choose Indra-Agni who love the wise: With Sorna let these sate them here.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Indra and Agni I invoke, joint-victors, bounteous, unsubdued, Foe-slayers, best to win the spoil.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Indra and Agni, singers skilled in melody hymn you, bringing lauds: I choose you for the sacred food.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Indra and Agni, ye cast down the ninety forts which DAsas held, Together, with one mighty deed.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

To Indra-Agni reverent thoughts go forward from the holy task Along the path of sacred Law.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

O Indra-Agni, powers are yours, and dwellings and delightful food Good is your readiness to act.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Indra and Agni, in your deeds of might ye deck heaven's lucid realms: Famed is that hero strength of yours.

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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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