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Rig Veda 8.38

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Ye Twain are Priests of sacrifice, winners in war and holy works: Indra and Agni, mark this well.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Ye bounteous riders on the car, ye Vritra-slayers unsubdued: Indra and Agni, mark this well.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

The men with pressing-stones have pressed this meath of yours which gives delight: Indra, and Agni, mark this well.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Accept our sacrifice for weal, sharers of praise! the Soma shed: Indra and Agni, Heroes, come.

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Be pleased with these libations which attract you to our sacred gifts Indra and Agni, Heroes, come.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Accept this eulogy of mine whose model is the Gayatri: Indra and Agni, Heroes, Come.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Come with the early-faring Gods, ye who are Lords of genuine wealth: Indra-Agni, to the Soma-draught

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Hear ye the call of Atris, hear Syavasva as he sheds the juice: Indra-Agni to the Soma-draught

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Thus have I called you to our aid as sages called on you of old: Indra-Agni to the Soma draught!

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Indra's and Agni's grace I claim, Sarasvati's associates To whom this psalm of praise is sung.

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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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