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Rig Veda 8.78

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Bring us a thousand, Indra, as our guerdon for the Soma juice: Hundreds of kine, O Hero, bring.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Bring cattle, bring us ornament, bring us embellishment and steeds, Give us, besides, two rings of gold.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

And, Bold One, bring in ample store rich jewels to adorn this ear, For thou, Good Lord, art far renowned.

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None other is there for the priest, Hero! but thou, to give him gifts, To win much spoil and prosper him.

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Indra can never be brought low, Sakra can never be subdued: He heareth and beholdeth all.

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He spieth out the wrath of man, he who can never be deceived: Ere blame can come he marketh it.

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He hath his stomach full of might, the Vritra-slayer, Conqueror, The Soma-drinker, ordering all.

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In thee all treasures are combined, Soma all blessed things in thee, Uninjured, easy to bestow.

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To thee speeds forth my hope that craves the gift of corn, and kine and gold, Yea, craving horses, speeds to thee.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Indra, through hope in thee alone even this sickle do I grasp. Fill my hand, Maghavan, with all that it can hold of barley cut or gathered up.

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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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