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Rig Veda 9.42

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Engendering the Sun in floods, engendering heaven's lights, green-hued, Robed in the waters and the milk,

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

According to primeval plan this Soma, with his stream, effused Flows purely on, a God for Gods.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

For him victorious, waxen great, the juices with a thousand powers Are purified for winning spoil.

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Shedding the ancient fluid he is poured into the cleansing sieve: He, thundering, hath produced the Gods.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Soma, while purifying, sends hither all things to be desired, He sends the Gods who strengthen Law.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Soma, effused, pour on us wealth in kine, in heroes, steeds, and spoil, Send us abundant store of food.

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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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