{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/rigveda/rv01057.htm","path":"hin/rigveda/rv01057.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda/rv01057.htm","text":"Rig Veda, tr. by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1896]\n1 To him most liberal, lofty Lord of lofty wealth, verily powerful and strong, I bring my hymn,\u2014\n Whose checkless bounty, as of waters down a slope, is spread abroad for all that live, to give them strength.\n 2 Now all this world, for worship, shall come after thee\u2014the offerer's libations like floods to the depth,\n When the well-loved one seems to rest upon the hill, the thunderbolt of Indra, shatterer wrought of gold.\n 3 To him the terrible, most meet for lofty praise, like bright Dawn, now bring gifts with reverence in this rite,\n Whose being, for renown, yea, Indra-power and light, have been created, like bay steeds, to move with speed.\n 4 Thine, Indra, praised by many, excellently rich! are we who trusting in thy help draw near to thee.\n Lover of praise, none else but thou receives our laud: as earth loves all her creatures, love thou this our hymn.\n 5 Great is thy power, O Indra, we are thine. Fulfil, O Maghavan, the wish of this thy worshipper.\n After thee lofty heaven hath measured out its strength: to thee and to thy power this earth hath bowed itself.\n 6 Thou, who hast thunder for thy weapon, with thy bolt hast shattered into pieces this broad massive cloud.\n Thou hast sent down the obstructed floods that they may flow: thou hast, thine own for ever, all victorious might.","title":"Rig Veda: Rig-Veda Book 1: HYMN LVII. Indra.","type":"page"}