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Rig Veda 6.57: INDRA and Pusan will we call for friend ship and prosperity

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

INDRA and Pusan will we call for friend ship and prosperity
And for the winning of the spoil.

One by the Soma sits to drink juice which the mortar hath expressed:
The other longs for curd and meal.

Goats are the team that draws the one: the other hath Bay Steeds at hand;
With both of these he slays the fiends.

When Indra, wondrous strong, brought down the streams, the mighty waterfloods,
Pusan was standing by his side.

To this, to Pusan's favouring love, and Indra's, may we closely cling,
As to a tree's extended bough.

As one who drives a car draws in his reins, may we draw Pusan near,
And Indra, for our great success.

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MLA

Veda, The Rishis of the Rig. “Rig Veda 6.57: INDRA and Pusan will we call for friend ship and prosperity.” Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/rigveda-rishis/496/.

Chicago

Veda, The Rishis of the Rig. “Rig Veda 6.57: INDRA and Pusan will we call for friend ship and prosperity.” Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/rigveda-rishis/496/.

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