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Rig Veda 9.47

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Great as he was, Soma hath gained strength by this high solemnity: joyous he riseth like a bull.

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His task is done: his crushings of the Dasyus are made manifest: He sternly reckoneth their debts.

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Soon as his song of praise is born, the Soma, Indra's juice, becomes A thousand-winning thunderbolt.

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Seer and Sustainer, he himself desireth riches for the sage When he embellisheth his songs.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Fain would they both win riches as in races of the steeds. In war Thou art upon the conquerors' side.

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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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