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Sama Veda II.4.2.7: Indu hath started forth for Indra's settled place
Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1895) · From Hymns of the Samaveda (1895)
1. Indu hath started forth for Indra's settled place, and slights not,. as a friend, the promise of his friend.
Soma comes onward like a youth with youthful maids, and gains the beaker by a course of hundred paths.
2. Your hymns of pleasant sound, praiseworthy, fond of lauds, have come into the hall enclosed for sacrifice.
Singers have hymned the golden-coloured as he sports, and milchkine have come near to meet him with their milk,
3. O Soma, Indu, while they cleanse thee, with thy wave pour orb us plentiful accumulated food,
Which, ceaseless, thrice a day shall yield us hero power enriched. with store of nourishment, and strength, and meath.
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Veda, The Rishis of the Sama. “Sama Veda II.4.2.7: Indu hath started forth for Indra's settled place.” Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/samaveda-rishis/218/.
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Veda, The Rishis of the Sama. “Sama Veda II.4.2.7: Indu hath started forth for Indra's settled place.” Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/samaveda-rishis/218/.
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