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Rig Veda 9.53: O THOU with stones for arms, thy powers, crushing the fiends…
Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896) · From The Hymns of the Rigveda (1896)
O THOU with stones for arms, thy powers, crushing the fiends, have raised themselves:
Chase thou the foes who compass us.
Thou conquerest thus with might when car meets car, and when the prize is staked:
With fearless heart will I sing praise.
No one with evil thought assails this Pavamana's holy laws:
Crush him who fain would fight with thee.
For Indra to the streams they drive the tawny rapture-dropping Steed,
Indu the bringer of delight.
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Veda, The Rishis of the Rig. “Rig Veda 9.53: O THOU with stones for arms, thy powers, crushing the fiends….” Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/rigveda-rishis/774/.
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Veda, The Rishis of the Rig. “Rig Veda 9.53: O THOU with stones for arms, thy powers, crushing the fiends….” Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/rigveda-rishis/774/.
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