{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/rigveda/rv03041.htm","path":"hin/rigveda/rv03041.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda/rv03041.htm","text":"Rig Veda, tr. by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1896]\n1. INVOKED to drink the Soma juice, come with thy Bay Steeds, Thunder-armed\n Come, Indra, hitherward to me.\n 2 Our priest is seated, true to time; the grass is regularly strewn;\n The pressing-stones were set at morn.\n 3 These prayers, O thou who hearest prayer are offered: seat thee on the grass.\n Hero, enjoy the offered cake.\n 4 O V\u1e5btra-slayer, be thou pleased with these libations, with these hymns,\n Song-loving Indra, with our lauds.\n 5 Our hymns caress the Lord of Strength, vast, drinker of the Soma's juice,\n Indra, as mother-cows their calf.\n 6 Delight thee with the juice we pour for thine own great munificence:\n Yield not thy singer to reproach.\n 7 We, Indra, dearly loving thee, bearing oblation, sing thee hymns\n Thou, Vasu, dearly lovest us.\n 8 O thou to whom thy Bays are dear, loose not thy Horses far from us:\n Here glad thee, Indra, Lord divine.\n 9 May long-maned Coursers, dropping oil, bring thee on swift car hitherward,\n Indra, to seat thee on the grass.","title":"Rig Veda: Rig-Veda, Book 3: HYMN XLI. Indra.","type":"page"}