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Rig Veda 9.104

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Sit down, O friends, and sing aloud to him who purifies himself: Deck him for glory, like a child, with holy rites.

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Unite him bringing household wealth, even as a calf, with mother kine, Him who hath double strength, the God, delighting juice.

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Purify him who gives us power, that he, most Blessed One, may be A banquet for the Troop, Mitra, and Varuna.

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Voices have sung aloud to thee as finder out of wealth for us: We clothe the hue thou wearest with a robe of milk.

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Thou, Indu, art the food of Gods, O Sovran of all gladdening drinks: As Friend for friend, be thou best finder of success.

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Drive utterly away from us each demon, each voracious fiend, The godless and the false: keep sorrow far away.

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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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