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Rig Veda 4.49: DEAR is this offering in your mouth, O Indra and Brhaspati

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)

Religion

DEAR is this offering in your mouth, O Indra and Brhaspati:
Famed is the laud, the gladdening draught.

This lovely Soma is effused, O Indra and Brhaspati,
For you, to drink it and rejoice.

As Soma-drinkers to our house come,
Indra and Brhaspati-and Indra-to drink Soma juice.

Vouchsafe us riches hundredfold, O Indra, and Brhaspati,
With store of horses, thousandfold.

O Indra. and Brhaspati, we call you when the meath is shed,
With songs, to drink the Soma juice.

Drink, Indra and Brhaspati, the Soma in the giver's house:
Delight yourselves abiding there.

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MLA

Veda, The Rishis of the Rig. “Rig Veda 4.49: DEAR is this offering in your mouth, O Indra and Brhaspati.” Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/rigveda-rishis/343/.

Chicago

Veda, The Rishis of the Rig. “Rig Veda 4.49: DEAR is this offering in your mouth, O Indra and Brhaspati.” Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/rigveda-rishis/343/.

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