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Rig Veda

Rig Veda 8.94

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

The Cow, the famous Mother of the wealthy Maruts, pours her milk: Both horses of the cars are yoked,-

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She in whose bosom all the Gods, and Sun and Moon for men to see, Maintain their everlasting Laws.

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This all the pious sing to us, and sacred poets evermore: The Maruts to the Soma-draught

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Here is the Soma ready pressed of this the Maruts drink, of this Self-luminous the Asvins drink.

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Of this, moreover, purified, set in three places, procreant, Drink Varuna, Mitra, Aryaman.

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And Indra, like the Herald Priest, desirous of the milky juice, At early morn will quaff thereof.

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When have the Princes gleamed and shone through waters as through troops of foes'? When hasten they whose might is pure?

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What favour do I claim this day of you great Deities, you who are Wondrously splendid in yourselves?

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1 call, to drink the Soma, those Maruts who spread all realms of earth And luminous regions of the sky.

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You, even such, pure in your might, you, O ye Maruts, I invoke From heaven to drink this Soma juice.

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The Maruts, those who have sustained and propped the heavens and earth apart, I call to drink this Soma juice.

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That vigorous band of Maruts that abideth in the mountains, I Invoke to drink this Soma juice.

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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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