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Rig Veda

Rig Veda 9.45

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Flow, thou who viewest men, to give delight, to entertain the Gods, Indu, to Indra for his drink.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Stream to thine embassy for us: thou hastenest, for Indra, to The Gods, O better than our friends.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

We balm thee, red of hue, with milk to fit thee for the rapturous joy: Unbar for us the doors of wealth.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

He through the sieve hath passed, as comes a courser to the pole, to run Indu belongs unto the Gods.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

All friends have lauded him as he sports in the wood, beyond the fleece: Singers have chanted Indu's praise.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Flow, Indu, with that stream wherein steeped thou announcest to the man Who worships thee heroic strength.

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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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