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Rig Veda

Rig Veda 9.16

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

The pressers from the Soma-press send forth thy juice for rapturous joy The speckled sap runs like a flood.

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With strength we follow through the sieve him who brings might and wins the kine, Enrobed in water with his juice.

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Pour on the sieve the Soma, ne'er subdued in waters, waterless, And make it pure for Indra's drink.

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Moved by the purifier's thought, the Soma flows into the sieve: By wisdom it hath gained its home.

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With humble homage, Indra, have the Soma-drops flowed forth to thee, Contending for the glorious prize.

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Purified in his fleecy garb, attaining every beauty, he Stands, hero-like, amid the kine.

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Swelling, as 'twere, to heights of heaven, the stream of the creative juice Falls lightly on the cleansing sieve.

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Thus, Soma, purifying him who knoweth song mid living men, Thou wanderest through the cloth of wool.

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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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