{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/rigveda/rv01187.htm","path":"hin/rigveda/rv01187.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda/rv01187.htm","text":"Rig Veda, tr. by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1896]\n1. Now will I glorify Food that upholds great strength,\n By whose invigorating power Trita rent V\u1e5btra limb from limb.\n 2 O pleasant Food, O Food of meath, thee have we chosen for our own,\n So be our kind protector thou.\n 3 Come hitherward to us, O Food, auspicious with auspicious help,\n Health-bringing, not unkind, a dear and guileless friend.\n 4 These juices which, O Food, are thine throughout the regions are diffused.\n like winds they have their place in heaven.\n 5 These gifts of thine, O Food, O Food most sweet to taste,\n These savours of thy juices work like creatures that have mighty necks.\n 6 In thee, O Food, is set the spirit of great Gods.\n Under thy flag brave deeds were done he slew the Dragon with thy help.\n 7 If thou be gone unto the splendour of the clouds,\n Even from thence, O Food of meath, prepared for our enjoyment, come.\n 8 Whatever morsel we consume from waters or from plants of earth, O Soma, wax thou fat thereby.\n 9 What Soma, we enjoy from thee in milky food or barley-brew, V\u0101t\u0101pi, grow thou fat thereby.\n 10 O Vegetable, Cake of meal, he wholesome, firm, and strengthening: V\u0101t\u0101pi, grow thou fat thereby.\n 11 O Food, from thee as such have we drawn forth with lauds, like cows, our sacrificial gifts,\n From thee who banquetest with Gods, from thee who banquetest with us.","title":"Rig Veda: Rig-Veda Book 1: HYMN CLXXXVII. Praise of Food.","type":"page"}