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Rig Veda 4.48

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Taste offerings never tasted yet, as bards enjoy the foeman's wealth. O Vayu, on refulgent car come to the drinking of the juice.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Removing curses, drawn by teams, with Indra, seated by thy side, O Vayu, on refulgent car come to the drinking of the juice.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

The two dark treasuries of wealth that wear all beauties wait on thee. O Vayu, on refulgent car come to the drinking of the juice.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

May nine-and-ninety harnessed steeds who yoke them at thy will bring thee. O Vayu, on refulgent car come to the drinking of the juice.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Harness, O Vayu, to thy car a hundred well-fed tawny steeds, Yea, or a thousand steeds, and let thy chariot come to us with might.

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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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