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Rig Veda 5.39

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Stone-darting Indra. Wondrous One, what wealth is richly given from thee, That bounty, Treasure-Finder! bring filling both thy hands, to us.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Bring what thou deemest worth the wish, O Indra, that which is in heaven. So may we know thee as thou art, boundless in thy munificence.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Thy lofty spirit, far-renowned as fain to give and prompt to win,- With this thou rendest e'en the firm, Stone-Darter! so to gain thee strength.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Singers with many songs have made Indra propitious to their fame, Him who is King of human kind, most liberal of your wealthy ones.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

To him, to Indra must be sung the poet's word, the hymn of praise. To him, accepter of the prayer, the Atris raise their songs on high, the Atris beautify their songs.

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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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