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Rig Veda 4.34

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

To this our sacrifice come Ribhu, Vibhvan, Vaja, and Indra with the gift of riches, Because this day hath Dhishana the Goddess set drink for you: the gladdening draughts have reached you.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Knowing your birth and rich in gathered treasure, Ribhus, rejoice together with the Ritus. The gladdening draughts and wisdom have approached you: send ye us riches with good store of heroes.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

For you was made this sacrifice, O Ribhus, which ye, like men, won for yourselves aforetime. To you come all who find in you their pleasure: ye all were-even the two elder-Vajas.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Now for the mortal worshipper, O Heroes, for him who served you, was the gift of riches. Drink, Vajas, Ribhus! unto you is offered, to gladden you, the third and great libation.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Come to us, Heroes, Vajas and Ribhukshans, glorified for the sake of mighty treasure. These draughts approach you as the day is closing, as cows, whose calves are newly-born, their stable.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Come to this sacrifice of ours, ye Children of Strength, invoked with humble adoration. Drink of this meath, Wealth-givers, joined with Indra with whom ye are in full accord, ye Princes.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Close knit with Varuna drink the Soma, Indra; close-knit, hymn-lover! with the Maruts drink it: Close-knit with drinkers first, who drink in season; close-knit with heavenly Dames who give us treasures.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Rejoice in full accord with the Adityas, in concord with the Parvatas, O Ribhus; In full accord with Savitar, Divine One; in full accord with floods that pour forth riches.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Ribhus, who helped their Parents and the Asvins, who formed the Milch-cow and the pair of horses, Made armour, set the heaven and earth asunder,-far- reaching Heroes, they have made good offspring.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Ye who have wealth in cattle and in booty, in heroes, in rich sustenance and treasure, Such, O ye Ribhus, first to drink, rejoicing, give unto us and those who laud our present.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Ye were not far: we have not left you thirsting, blameless in this our sacrifice, O Ribhus. Rejoice you with the Maruts and with Indra, with the Kings, Gods! that ye may give us riches.

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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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