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Rig Veda 8.79

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

This here is Soma, ne'er restrained, active, all-conquering bursting forth, Rishi and Sage by sapience,

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All that is bare he covers o'er, all that is sick he medicines; The blind man sees, the cripple walks.

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Thou, Soma, givest wide defense against the hate of alien men, Hatreds that waste and weaken us.

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Thou by thine insight and thy skill, Impetuous One, from heaven and earth Drivest the sinner's enmity.

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When to their task they come with zeal, may they obtain the Giver's grace, And satisfy his wish who thirsts.

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So may he find what erst was lost, so may be speed the pious man, And lengthen his remaining life.

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Gracious, displaying tender love, unconquered, gentle in thy thoughts, Be sweet, O Soma, to our heart.

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O Soma, terrify us not; strike us not with alarm, O King: Wound not our heart with dazzling flame.

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When in my dwelling-place I see the wicked enemies of Gods, King, chase their hatred far away, thou Bounteous One, dispel our foes.

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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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