{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/rigveda/rv01029.htm","path":"hin/rigveda/rv01029.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda/rv01029.htm","text":"Rig Veda, tr. by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1896]\n1 O SOMA DRINKER, ever true, utterly hopeless though we be,\n Do thou, O Indra, give us hope of beauteous horses and of kine,\n In thousands, O most wealthy One.\n 2 O Lord of Strength, whose jaws are strong, great deeds are thine, the powerful:\n Do thou, O Indra, give us hope of beauteous horses and of kine,\n In thousands, O most wealthy One.\n 3 Lull thou asleep, to wake no more, the pair who on each other look\n Do thou, O Indra, give us hope of beauteous horses and of kine,\n In thousands, O most wealthy One.\n 4 Hero, let hostile spirits sleep, and every gentler genius wake:\n Do thou, O Indra, give us hope of beauteous horses and of kine,\n In thousands, O most wealthy One.\n 5 Destroy this ass, O Indra, who in tones discordant brays to thee:\n Do thou, O Indra, give us hope of beauteous horses and of kine,\n In thousands, O most wealthy One.\n 6 Far distant on the forest fall the tempest in a circling course!\n Do thou, O Indra, give us hope of beauteous horses and of kine,\n In thousands, O most wealthy One.\n 7 Slay each reviler, and destroy him who in secret injures us:\n Do thou, O Indra, give us hope of beauteous horses and of kine\n In thousands, O most wealthy One.","title":"Rig Veda: Rig-Veda Book 1: HYMN XXIX. Indra.","type":"page"}