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Rig Veda 9.37

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Soma, the Steer, effused for draught, flows to the purifying sieve, Slaying the fiends, loving the Gods.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Far-sighted, tawny-coloured, he flows to the sieve, intelligent, Bellowing, to his place of rest.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

This vigorous Pavamana runs forth to the luminous realm of heaven, Fiend-slayer, through the fleecy sieve.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

This Payamana up above Trita's high ridge hath made the Sun, Together with the Sisters, shine.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

This Vritra-slaying Steer, effused, Soma room-giver, ne'er deceived, Hath gone, as 'twere, to win the spoil.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Urged onward by the sage, the God speeds forward to the casks of wood, Indu to Indra willingly.

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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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