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Rig Veda 8.77

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Scarcely was Satakratu, born when of his Mother he inquired, Who are the mighty? Who are famed?

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Then Savassi declared to him Aurnavabha, Ahisuva: Son, these be they thou must o'erthrow

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The Vritra-slayer smote them all as spokes are hammered into naves: The Dasyu-killer waxed in might.

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Then Indra at a single draught drank the contents of thirty pails, Pails that were filled with Soma juice.

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Indra in groundless realms of space pierced the Gandharva through, that he Might make Brahmans' strength increase.

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Down from the mountains Indra shot hither his well-directed shaft: He gained the ready brew of rice.

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One only is that shaft of thine, with thousand feathers, hundred barbs, Which, Indra, thou hast made thy friend.

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Strong as the Gbhus at thy birth, therewith to those who praise thee, men, And women, bring thou food to eat.

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By thee these exploits were achieved, the mightiest deeds, abundantly: Firm in thy heart thou settest them.

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All these things Vishnu brought, the Lord of ample stride whom thou hadst sent- A hundred buffaloes, a brew of rice and milk: and Indra, slew the ravening boar

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Most deadly is thy bow, successful, fashioned well: good is thine arrow, decked with gold. Warlike and well equipped thine arms are, which increase sweetness for him who drinks the sweet.

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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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