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Rig Veda 9.56: SWIFT to the purifying sieve flows Soma as exalted Law
Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896) · From The Hymns of the Rigveda (1896)
SWIFT to the purifying sieve flows Soma as exalted Law,
Slaying the fiends, loving the Gods.
When Soma pours the strengthening food a hundred ever-active streams
To Indra's friendship win their way.
Ten Dames have sung to welcome thee, even as a maiden greets her love:
O Soma, thou art decked to win.
Flow hitherward, O Indu, sweet to Indra and to Visnu: guard
The men, the singers, from distress.
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Veda, The Rishis of the Rig. “Rig Veda 9.56: SWIFT to the purifying sieve flows Soma as exalted Law.” Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/rigveda-rishis/777/.
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Veda, The Rishis of the Rig. “Rig Veda 9.56: SWIFT to the purifying sieve flows Soma as exalted Law.” Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/rigveda-rishis/777/.
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