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Rig Veda 7.31

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Sing ye a song, to make him glad, to Indra, Lord of Tawny Steeds, The Soma-drinker, O my friends.

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To him the Bounteous say the laud, and let us glorify, as men May do, the Giver of true gifts.

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O Indra, Lord of boundless might, for us thou winnest strength and kine, Thou winnest gold for us, Good Lord.

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Faithful to thee we loudly sing, heroic Indra, songs to thee: Mark, O Good Lord, this act of ours.

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Give us not up to man's reproach, to foeman's hateful calumny: In thee alone is all my strength.

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Thou art mine ample coat of mail, my Champion, Vritra-Slayer, thou: With thee for Friend I brave the foe.

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Yea, great art thou whose conquering might two independent Powers confess. The Heaven, O India, and the Earth.

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So let the voice surround thee, which attends the Maruts on their way, Reaching thee with the rays of light.

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Let the ascending drops attain to thee, the Wondrous God, in heaven: Let all the folk bow down to thee.

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Bring to the Wise, the Great, who waxeth mighty, your offerings, and make ready your devotion; To many clans he goeth, man's controller.

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For Indra, the sublime, the far-pervading, have singers generated prayer and praises: The sages never violate his statutes.

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The choirs have stablished Indra King for ever, for victory, him whose anger is resistless: And, for the Bays' Lord, strengthened those he loveth.

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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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