{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/rigveda/rv01028.htm","path":"hin/rigveda/rv01028.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda/rv01028.htm","text":"Rig Veda, tr. by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1896]\n1 THERE where the broad-based stone raised on high to press the juices out,\n O Indra, drink with eager thirst the droppings which the mortar sheds.\n 2 Where, like broad hips, to hold the juice the platters of the press are laid,\n O Indra, drink with eager thirst the droppings which the mortar sheds.\n 3 There where the woman marks and leans the pestle's constant rise and fall,\n O Indra, drink with eager thirst the droppings which the mortar sheds.\n 4 Where, as with reins to guide a horse, they bind the churning-staff with cords,\n O Indra, drink with eager thirst the droppings which the mortar sheds.\n 5 If of a truth in every house, O Mortar thou art set for work,\n Here give thou forth thy clearest sound, loud as the drum of conquerors.\n 6 O Sovran of the Forest, as the wind blows soft in front of thee,\n Mortar, for Indra press thou forth the Soma juice that he may drink.\n 7 Best strength-givers, ye stretch wide jaws, O Sacrificial Implements,\n Like two bay horses champing herbs.\n 8 Ye Sovrans of the Forest, both swift, with swift pressers press to-day\n Sweet Soma juice for Indra's drink.\n 9 Take up in beakers what remains: the Soma on the filter pour,\n and on the ox-hide set the dregs.","title":"Rig Veda: Rig-Veda Book 1: HYMN XXVIII. Indra, Etc.","type":"page"}