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Rig Veda 9.61

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Flow onward, Indu, with this food for him who in thy wild delight Battered the nine-and-ninety down,

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Smote swiftly forts, and Sambara, then Yadu and that Turvaga, For pious Divodasa's sake.

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Finder of horses, pour on us horses and wealth in kine and gold, And, Indu, food in boundless store.

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We seek to win thy friendly love, even Pavamana's flowing o'er The limit of the cleansing sieve.

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With those same waves which in their stream oyerflow the purifying sieve, Soma; be gracious unto us.

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O Soma, being purified, bring us from all sides, for thou canst, Riches and food with hero sons.

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Him here, the Child whom streams have borne, the ten swift fingers beautify With the Adityas is he seen.

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With Indra and with Vayu he, effused, flows onward with, the beams Of Surya to the cleansing sieve.

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Flow rich in sweets and lovely for our Bhaga, Vayu, Pushan flow For Mitra and for Varuna.

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High is thy juice's birth: though set in heaven, on earth it hath obtained Strong sheltering power and great renown.

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Striving to win, with him we gain all wealth from the ungodly man, Yea, all the glories of mankind.

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Finder of room and freedom, flow for Indra whom we must adore, For Varuna and the Marut host.

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The Gods have come to Indu well-descended, beautified with milk, The active crusher of the foe.

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Even as mother cows their calf, so let our praise-songs strengthen him, Yea, him who winneth Indra's heart.

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Soma, pour blessings on our kine, pour forth the food that streams with milk Increase the sea that merits laud.

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From heaven hath Pavamana made, as 'twere, the marvellous thunder, and The lofty light of all mankind.

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The gladdening and auspicious juice of thee, of Pavamana, King! Flows o'er the woollen straining-cloth.

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Thy juice, O Pavamana, sends its rays abroad like splendid skill, Like lustre, all heaven's light, to see.

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Flow onward with that juice of thine most excellent, that brings delight, Slaying the wicked, dear to Gods.

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Killing the foeman and his hate, and winning booty every day, Gainer art thou of steeds and kine.

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Red-hued, be blended with the milk that seems to yield its lovely breast, Falcon-like resting in thine home.

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Flow onward thou who strengthenedst Indra to slaughter Vritra who Compassed and stayed the mighty floods.

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Soma who rainest gifts, may we win riches with our hero sons: Strengthen, as thou art cleansed, our hymns.

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Aided by thee, and through thy grace, may we be slayers when we war: Watch, Soma, at our solemn rites.

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Chasing our foemen, driving off the godless, Soma floweth on, Going to Indra's special place.

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O Pavamana, hither bring great riches, and destroy our foes: O Indu, grant heroic fame.

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A hundred obstacles have ne'er checked thee when fain to give thy boons, When, being cleansed, thou combatest.

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Indu, flow on, a mighty juice; glorify us among the folk: Drive all our enemies away.

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Indu, in this thy friendship most lofty and glorious may we Subdue all those who war with us.

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Those awful weapons that thou hast, sharpened at point to strike men down- Guard us therewith from every foe.

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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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