{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/rigveda/rv08053.htm","path":"hin/rigveda/rv08053.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda/rv08053.htm","text":"Rig Veda, tr. by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1896]\n1. MAY our hymns give thee great delight. Display thy bounty, Thunderer.\n Drive off the enemies of prayer.\n 2 Crush with thy foot the niggard churls who bring no gifts. Mighty art thou\n There is not one to equal thee.\n 3 Thou art the Lord of Soma pressed, Soma impressed is also thine.\n Thou art the Sovran of the folk.\n 4 Come, go thou forth, dwelling in heaven and listening to the prayers of men:\n Thou fillest both the heavens and earth.\n 5 Even that hill with rocky heights, with hundreds, thousands, held within.\n Thou for thy worshippers brakest through.\n 6 We call on thee both night and day to taste the flowing Soma juice:\n Do thou fulfil our heart's desire.\n 7 Where is that ever-youthful Steer, strong. necked and never yet bent down?\n What Brahman ministers to him?\n 8 To whose libation doth the Steer, betake him with delight therein?\n Who takes delight in Indra now?\n 9 Whom, V\u1e5btra-slayer, have thy gift and hero powers accompanied?\n Who is thy dearest in the laud?\n 10 For thee among mankind, among the P\u016brus is this Soma shed.\n Hasten thou hither: drink thereof.\n 11 This, growing by Soma and by \u015aarya\u1e47\u0101v\u0101n, dear to thee,\n In \u0100rj\u012bk\u012bya, cheers thee best.\n 12 Hasten thou hitherward, and drink this for munificence to-day,\n Delightful for thine eager draught.","title":"Rig Veda: Rig-Veda, Book 8: HYMN LIII. Indra.","type":"page"}