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Rig Veda 4.31

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With what help will he come to us, wonderful, ever-waxing Friend; With what most mighty company?

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What genuine and most liberal draught will spirit thee with juice to burst Open e'en strongly-guarded wealth?

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Do thou who art Protector of us thy friends who praise thee With hundred aids approach us.

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Like as a courser's circling wheel, so turn thee hitherward to us, Attracted by the hymns of men.

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Thou seekest as it were thine own stations with swift descent of powers: I share thee even with the Sun.

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What time thy courage and his wheels together, Indra, run their course With thee and with the Sun alike,

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So even, Lord of Power and Might, the people call thee Maghavan, Giver, who pauses not to think.

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And verily to him who toils and presses Soma juice for thee Thou quickly givest ample wealth.

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No, not a hundred hinderers can check thy gracious bounty's flow, Nor thy great deeds when thou wilt act.

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May thine assistance keep us safe, thy hundred and thy thousand aids: May all thy favours strengthen us.

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Do thou elect us this place for friendship and prosperity, And great celestial opulence.

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Favour us, Indra, evermore with overflowing store of wealth: With all thy succours aid thou us.

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With new protections, Indra, like an archer, open thou for us The stables that are filled with kine.

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Our chariot, Indra, boldly moves endued with splendour, ne'er repulsed, Winning for us both kine and steeds.

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O Surya, make our fame to be most excellent among the Gods, Most lofty as the heaven on high.

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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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