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Rig Veda 8.76

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Not to forsake me, I invoke this Indra girt by Maruts, Lord Of magic power who rules with might.

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This Indra with his Marut Friends clave into pieces Vritra's bead With hundred-knotted thunderbolt.

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Indra, with Marut Friends grown strong, hath rent asunder Vritra, and Released the waters of the sea.

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This is that Indra who, begirt by Maruts, won the light of heaven That he might drink the Soma juice.

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Mighty, impetuous, begirt by Maruts, him who loudly roars, Indra we invocate with songs.

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Indra begirt by Maruts we invoke after the ancient plan, That he may drink the Soma juice.

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O liberal Indra, Marut-girt, much-lauded Satakratu, drink The Soma at this sacrifice.

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To thee, O Indra, Marut-girt, these Soma juices, Thunderer! Are offered from the heart with lauds.

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Drink, Indra, with thy Marut Friends, pressed Soma at the morning rites, Whetting thy thunderbolt with strength.

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Arising in thy might, thy jaws thou shookest, Indra, having quaffed The Soma which the mortar pressed.

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Indra, both worlds complained to thee when uttering thy fearful roar, What time thou smotest Dasyus dead.

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From Indra have I measured out a song eight-footed with nine parts, Delicate, faithful. to the Law.

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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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