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Rig Veda

Rig Veda 8.64

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

May our hymns give thee great delight. Display thy bounty, Thunderer. Drive off the enemies of prayer.

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Crush with thy foot the niggard churls who bring no gifts. Mighty art thou There is not one to equal thee.

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Thou art the Lord of Soma pressed, Soma impressed is also thine. Thou art the Sovran of the folk.

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Come, go thou forth, dwelling in heaven and listening to the prayers of men: Thou fillest both the heavens and earth.

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Even that hill with rocky heights, with hundreds, thousands, held within. Thou for thy worshippers brakest through.

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We call on thee both night and day to taste the flowing Soma juice: Do thou fulfil our heart's desire.

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Where is that ever-youthful Steer, strong. necked and never yet bent down? What Brahman ministers to him?

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To whose libation doth the Steer, betake him with delight therein? Who takes delight in Indra now?

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Whom, Vritra-slayer, have thy gift and hero powers accompanied? Who is thy dearest in the laud?

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For thee among mankind, among the Purus is this Soma shed. Hasten thou hither: drink thereof.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

This, growing by Soma and by Saryanavan, dear to thee, In Arjikiya, cheers thee best.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Hasten thou hitherward, and drink this for munificence to-day, Delightful for thine eager draught.

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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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