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Rig Veda 8.34

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Come hither, Indra, with thy Bays, come thou to Kanva's eulogy. Ye by command of yonder Dyaus, God bright by day! have gone to heaven.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

May the stone draw thee as it speaks, the Soma-stone with ringing voice. Ye by command of yonder Dyaus, God bright by day! have gone to heaven.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

The stones' rim shakes the Soma here like a wolf worrying a sheep. Ye by command of yonder Dyaus, God bright by day! have gone to heaven.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

The Kanvas call thee hitherward for succour and to win the spoil. Ye by command of yonder Dyaus, God bright by day! have gone to heaven.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

I set for thee, as for the Strong, the first draught of the juices shed.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Come with abundant blessings, come with perfect care to succour us.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Come, Lord of lofty thought, who hast infinite wealth and countless aids.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Adorable mid Gods, the Priest good to mankind shall bring thee near.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

As wings the falcon, so thy Bays rushing in joy shall carry thee.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Come from the enemy to us, to svaha and the Soma-draught.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Come hither with thine car inclined to hear, take pleasure in our lauds.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Lord of well-nourished Horses, come with well-fed Steeds alike in hue.

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Come hither from the mountains, come from regions of the sea of air.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Disclose to us O Hero, wealth in thousands both of kine and steeds.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Bring riches hitherward to us in hundreds, thousands, myriads. Ye by command of yonder Dyaus, God bright by day! have gone to heaven.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

The thousand steeds, the mightiest troop, which we and Indra have received From Vasurochis as a gift,

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

The brown that match the wind in speed, and bright bay coursers fleet of foot, Like Suns, resplendent are they all.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Mid the Pargvata's rich gifts, swift steeds whose wheels run rapidly, I seemed to stand amid a wood.

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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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