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Rig Veda 9.109

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Pleasant to Indra's Mitra's, Pushan's Bhaga's taste, sped onward, Soma, with thy flowing stream.

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Let Indra drink, O Soma, of thy juice for wisdom, and all Deities for strength.

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So flow thou on as bright celestial juice, flow to the vast, immortal dwelling-place.

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Flow onward, Soma, as a mighty sea, as Father of the Gods to every form.

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Flow on, O Soma, radiant for the Gods and Heaven and Earth and bless our progeny.

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Thou, bright Juice, art Sustainer of the sky: flow, mighty, in accordance with true Law.

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Soma, flow splendid with thy copious stream through the great fleece as in the olden time.

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Bom, led by men, joyous, and purified, let the Light-finder make all blessings flow:

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Indu, while cleansed, keeping the people safe, shall give us all possessions for our own.

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Flow on for wisdom, Soma, and for power, as a strong courser bathed, to win the prize.

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The pressers purify this juice of thine, the Soma, for delight, and lofty fame

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They deck the Gold-hued Infant, newly born, even Soma, Indu, in the sieve for Gods.

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Fair Indu hath flowed on for rapturous joy, Sage for good fortune in the waters' lap.

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He bears the beauteous name of Indra, that wherewith he overcame all demon foes.

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All Deities are wont to drink of him, pressed by the men and blent with milk and curds.

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He hath flowed forth with thousand streams effused, flowed through the filter and the sheep's long wool.

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With endless genial flow the Strong hath run, purified by the waters, blent with milk.

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Pressed out with stones, directed by the men, go forth, O Soma, into Indra's throat.

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The mighty Soma with a thousand streams is poured to Indra through the cleansing sieve.

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Indu they balm with pleasant milky juice for Indra, for the Steer, for his delight.

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Lightly, for sheen, they cleanse thee for the Gods, gold-coloured, wearing water as thy robe.

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Indu to Indra streams, yea, downward streams, Strong, flowing to the floods, and mingling -there.

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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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