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Rig Veda 9.5

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Enkindled, Pavamana, Lord, sends forth his light on, every side In friendly show, the bellowing Bull.

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He, Pavamana, Self-produced, speeds onward sharpening his horns: He glitters through the firmament.

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Brilliant like wealth, adorable, with splendour Pavamana shines, Mightily with the streams of meath.

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The tawny Pavamana, who strews from of old the grass with might, Is worshipped, God amid the Gods.

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The golden, the Celestial Doors are lifted with their frames on high, By Pavamana glorified.

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With passion Pavamana longs for the great lofty pair, well-formed Like beauteous maidens, Night and Dawn

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Both Gods who look on men I call, Celestial Heralds: Indra's Self Is Pavamana, yea, the Bull.

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This, Pavamana's sacrifice, shall the three beauteous Goddesses, Sarasvati and Bharati and Ila, Mighty One, attend.

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1 summon Tvashtar hither, our protector, champion, earliest-born, Indu is Indra, tawny Steer; Pavamana is Prajapati.

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O Pavamana, with the meath in streams anoint Vanaspati, The ever-green. the golden-hued, refulgent, with a thousand boughs.

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Come to the consecrating rite of Pavamana, all ye Gods,- Vayu, Surya, Brihaspati, Indra, and Agni, in accord.

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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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