Religion

Rig Veda 3.41: INVOKED to drink the Soma juice…

by The Rishis of the Rig Veda c. 1500–1000 BCE (traditional; uncertain)

Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896) · From The Hymns of the Rigveda (1896)

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INVOKED to drink the Soma juice, come with thy Bay Steeds, Thunder-armed
Come, Indra, hitherward to me.

Our priest is seated, true to time; the grass is regularly strewn;
The pressing-stones were set at morn.

These prayers, O thou who hearest prayer are offered: seat thee on the grass.
Hero, enjoy the offered cake.

O Vrtra-slayer, be thou pleased with these libations, with these hymns,
Song-loving Indra, with our lauds.

Our hymns caress the Lord of Strength, vast, drinker of the Soma's juice,
Indra, as mother-cows their calf.

Delight thee with the juice we pour for thine own great munificence:
Yield not thy singer to reproach.

We, Indra, dearly loving thee, bearing oblation, sing thee hymns
Thou, Vasu, dearly lovest us.

O thou to whom thy Bays are dear, loose not thy Horses far from us:
Here glad thee, Indra, Lord divine.

May long-maned Coursers, dropping oil, bring thee on swift car hitherward,
Indra, to seat thee on the grass.

MLA

Veda, The Rishis of the Rig. “Rig Veda 3.41: INVOKED to drink the Soma juice….” Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/rigveda-rishis/273/.

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Veda, The Rishis of the Rig. “Rig Veda 3.41: INVOKED to drink the Soma juice….” Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/rigveda-rishis/273/.

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