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Rig Veda 9.94: WHEN beauties strive for him as for a charger…
Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896) · From The Hymns of the Rigveda (1896)
WHEN beauties strive for him as for a charger, then strive the songs like soldiers for the sunlight.
Acting the Sage, he flows enrobed in waters and song as 'twere a stall that kine may prosper.
The worlds expand to him who from aforetime found light to spread the law of life eternal.
The swelling songs, like kine within the stable, in deep devotion call aloud on Indu.
When the sage bears his holy wisdom round him, like a car visiting all worlds, the Hero,
Becoming fame, mid Gods, unto the mortal, wealth to the skilled, worth praise mid the Ever-present,
For glory born be hath come forth to glory: he giveth life and glory to the singers.
They, clothed in glory, have become immortal. He, measured in his course, makes frays successful.
Stream to us food and vigour, kine and horses: give us broad lights and fill the Gods with rapture.
All there are easy things for thee to master thou, Pavamana Soma, quellest foemen.
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Veda, The Rishis of the Rig. “Rig Veda 9.94: WHEN beauties strive for him as for a charger….” Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/rigveda-rishis/815/.
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Veda, The Rishis of the Rig. “Rig Veda 9.94: WHEN beauties strive for him as for a charger….” Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/rigveda-rishis/815/.
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