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Rig Veda 10.119: THIS, even this was my resolve, to win a cow, to win a steed

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)

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THIS, even this was my resolve, to win a cow, to win a steed:
Have I not drunk of Soma juice?

Like violent gusts of wind the draughts that I have drunk have lifted me
Have I not drunk of Soma juice?

The draughts I drank have borne me up, as fleet-foot horses draw a car:
Have I not drunk of Soma juice?

The hymn hath reached me, like a cow who lows to meet her darling calf:
Have I not drunk of Soma juice?

As a wright bends a chariot-seat so round my heart I bend the hymn:
Have I not drunk of Soma juice?

Not as a mote within the eye count the Five Tribes of men with me:
Have I not drunk of Soma juice?

The heavens and earth themselves have not grown equal to one half of me
Have I not drunk of Soma juice?

I in my grandeur have surpassed the heavens and all this spacious earth
Have I not drunk of Soma juice?

Aha! this spacious earth will I deposit either here or there
Have I not drunk of Soma juice?

In one short moment will I smite the earth in fury here or there:
Have I not drunk of Soma juice?

One of my flanks is in the sky; I let the other trail below:
Have I not drunk of Soma juice?

1, greatest of the Mighty Ones, am lifted to the firmament:
Have I not drunk of Soma juice?

I seek the worshipper's abode; oblation-bearer to the Gods:
Have I not drunk of Soma juice?

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Veda, The Rishis of the Rig. “Rig Veda 10.119: THIS, even this was my resolve, to win a cow, to win a steed.” Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/rigveda-rishis/954/.

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Veda, The Rishis of the Rig. “Rig Veda 10.119: THIS, even this was my resolve, to win a cow, to win a steed.” Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/rigveda-rishis/954/.

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