{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/rigveda/rv05040.htm","path":"hin/rigveda/rv05040.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda/rv05040.htm","text":"Rig Veda, tr. by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1896]\n1. COME thou to what the stones have pressed, drink Soma, O thou Soma's Lord,\n Indra best V\u1e5btra-slayer Strong One, with the Strong.\n 2 Strong is the stone, the draught is strong, strong is this Soma that is pressed,\n Indra, best V\u1e5btra-slayer, Strong One with the Strong.\n 3 As strong I call on thee the Strong, O Thunder-armed, with various aids,\n Indra, best V\u1e5btra-slayer, Strong One with the Strong.\n 4 Impetuous, Thunderer, Strong, quelling the mighty, King, potent, V\u1e5btra-slayer, Soma-drinker,\n May he come hither with his yoked Bay Horses; may Indra gladden him at the noon libation.\n 5 O S\u016brya, when the Asura's descendant Svarbhanu, pierced thee through and through with darkness,\n All creatures looked like one who is bewildered, who knoweth not the place where he is standing.\n 6 What time thou smotest down Svarbhanu's magic that spread itself beneath the sky, O Indra,\n By his fourth sacred prayer Atri disoovered S\u016brya concealed in gloom that stayed his function.\n 7 Let not the oppressor with this dread, through anger swallow me up, for I am thine, O Atri.\n Mitra art thou, the sender of true blessings: thou and King Varu\u1e47a be both my helpers.\n 8 The Brahman Atri, as he set the press-stones, serving the Gods with praise and adoration,\n Established in the heaven the eye of S\u016brya, and caused Svarbhanu's magic arts to vanish.\n 9 The Atris found the Sun again, him whom Svarbhanu of the brood\n Of Asuras had pierced with gloom. This none besides had power to do.","title":"Rig Veda: Rig-Veda, Book 5: HYMN XL. Indra. S\u016brya. Atri.","type":"page"}