{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/rigveda/rv08080.htm","path":"hin/rigveda/rv08080.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda/rv08080.htm","text":"Rig Veda, tr. by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1896]\n1. DOWN to the stream a maiden came, and found the Soma by the way.\n Bearing it to her home she said, For Indra will I press thee out, for \u015aakra will I press thee out.\n 2 Thou roaming yonder, little man, beholding every house in turn,\n Drink thou this Soma pressed with teeth, accompanied with grain and curds, with cake of meal and song of praise.\n 3 Fain would we learn to know thee well, nor yet can we attain to thee.\n Still slowly and in gradual drops, O Indu, unto Indra flow.\n 4 Will he not help and work for us? Will he not make us wealthier?\n Shall we not, hostile to our lord, unite ourselves to Indra now?\n 5 O Indra, cause to sprout again three places, these which I declare,\u2014\n My father's head, his cultured field, and this the part below my waist.\n 6 Make all of these grow crops of hair, you cultivated field of ours,\n My body, and my father's head.\n 7 Cleansing Apala, Indra! thrice, thou gavest sunlike skin to her,\n Drawn, \u015aatakratu! through the hole of car, of wagon, and of yoke.","title":"Rig Veda: Rig-Veda, Book 8: HYMN LXXX. Indra.","type":"page"}