{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/rigveda/rv09010.htm","path":"hin/rigveda/rv09010.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda/rv09010.htm","text":"Rig Veda, tr. by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1896]\n1. LIKE cars that thunder on their way, like coursers eager for renown,\n Have Soma-drops flowed forth for wealth.\n 2 Forth have they rushed from holding hands, like chariots that are urged to speed,\n Like joyful songs of singing-men.\n 3 The Somas deck themselves with milk, as Kings are graced with eulogies,\n And, with seven priests, the sacrifice.\n 4 Pressed for the gladdening draught, the drops flow forth abundantly with song,\n The Soma juices in a stream.\n 5 Winning Vivasv\u0101n's glory and producing Morning's light, the Suns\n Pass through the openings of the cloth.\n 6 The singing-men of ancient time open the doors of sacred songs,\u2014\n Men, for the mighty to accept.\n 7 Combined in close society sit the seven priests, the brother-hood,\n Filling the station of the One.\n 8 He gives us kinship with the Gods, and with the Sun unites our eye:\n The Sage's ofrspring hath appeared.\n 9 The Sun with his dear eye beholds that quarter of the heavens which priests\n Have placed within the sacred cell.","title":"Rig Veda: Rig-Veda, Book 9: HYMN X. Soma Pavamana.","type":"page"}