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Rig Veda 3.37

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

O Indra, for the strength that slays Vritra and conquers in the fight, We turn thee hitherward to us.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

O Indra, Lord of Hundred Powers, may those who praise thee hitherward. Direct thy spirit and thine eye.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

O Indra, Lord of Hundred Powers, with all our songs we invocate Thy names for triumph over foes.

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We strive for glory through the powers immense of him whom many praise, Of Indra who supports mankind.

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For Vritra's slaughter I address Indra whom many invocate, To win us booty in the wars.

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In battles be victorious. We seek thee, Lord of Hundred Powers, Indra, that Vritra may be slain.

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In splendid combats of the hosts, in glories where the fight is won. Indra, be victor over foes.

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Drink thou the Soma for our help, bright, vigilant, exceeding strong, O Indra, Lord of Hundred Powers.

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O Satakratu, powers which thou mid the Five Races hast displayed- These, Indra, do I claim of thee.

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Indra, great glory hast thou gained. Win splendid fame which none may mar We make thy might perpetual.

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Come to us either from anear, Or, Sakra, come from far away. Indra, wherever be thy home, come to us thence, O Thunder-armed.

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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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