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Rig Veda

Rig Veda 3.40

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Thee, Indra, we invoke, the Bull, what time the Soma is expressed. So drink thou of the savoury juice.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Indra, whom many laud, accept the strength-conferring Soma juice: Quaff, pour down drink that satisfies.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Indra, with all the Gods promote our wealth-bestowing sacrifice, Thou highly-lauded Lord of men.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Lord of the brave, to thee proceed these drops of Soma juice expressed, The bright drops to thy dwelling-place.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Within thy belly, Indra, take juice, Soma the most excellent: Thine are the drops celestial.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Drink our libation, Lord of hymns: with streams of meath thou art bedewed Our glory, Indra, is thy gift.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

To Indra go the treasures of the worshipper, which never fail: He drinks the Soma and is strong

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

From far away, from near at hand, O Vritra-slayer, come to us: Accept the songs we sing to thee.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

When from the space between the near and far thou art invoked by us, Thence, Indra. come thou hitherward.

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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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