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Rig Veda 8.81

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Indra, God of the mighty arm, gather for us with thy right hand Manifold and nutritious spoil.

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We know thee mighty in thy deeds, of mighty bounty, mighty wealth, Mighty in measure, prompt to aid.

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Hero, when thou art fain to give, neither may Gods nor mortal men Restrain thee like a fearful Bull.

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Come, let us glorify Indra, Lord supreme of wealth, Self-ruling King: In bounty may he harm us not.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Let prelude sound and following chant so let him hear the Saman sung, And with his bounty answer us.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

O Indra, with thy right hand bring, and with thy left remember us. Let us not lose our share of wealth.

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Come nigh, O Bold One, boldly bring hither the riches of the churl Who giveth least of all the folk.

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Indra, the booty which thou hast with holy singers to receive, Even that booty win with us.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Indra, thy swiftly-coming spoil, the booty which rejoices all, Sounds quick in concert with our hopes.

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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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