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Rig Veda 8.37

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

This prayer, and those who shed the juice, in wars with Vritra thou holpest, Indra, Lord of Strength, with all thy succours. O Vritra-slayer, from libation poured at noon, drink of the Soma juice, thou blameless Thunderer.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Thou mighty Conqueror of hostile armaments, O Indra, Lord of Strength, with all thy saving help.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Sole Ruler, thou art Sovran of this world of life, O Indra, Lord of Strength, with all thy saving help.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Thou only sunderest these two consistent worlds, O Indra, Lord of Strength, with all thy saving help.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Thou art the Lord supreme o'er rest and energy, O Indra, Lord of Strength, with all thy saving help.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Thou helpest one to power, and one thou hast not helped, O Indra, Lord of Strength, with all thy saving aid.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Hear thou Syavasva while he sings to thee, as erst thou heardest Atri when he wrought his holy rites. Indra, thou only gavest Trasadasyu aid in the fierce fight with heroes, strengthening his powers.

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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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