{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/rigveda/rv09016.htm","path":"hin/rigveda/rv09016.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda/rv09016.htm","text":"Rig Veda, tr. by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1896]\n1. THE pressers from the Soma-press send forth thy juice for rapturous joy\n The speckled sap runs like a flood.\n 2 With strength we follow through the sieve him who brings might and wins the kine,\n Enrobed in water with his juice.\n 3 Pour on the sieve the Soma, ne\u2019er subdued in waters, waterless,\n And make it pure for Indra's drink.\n 4 Moved by the purifier's thought, the Soma flows into the sieve:\n By wisdom it hath gained its home.\n 5 With humble homage, Indra, have the Soma-drops flowed forth to thee,\n Contending for the glorious prize.\n 6 Purified in his fleecy garb, attaining every beauty, he\n Stands, hero-like, amid the kine.\n 7 Swelling, as \u2019twere, to heights of heaven, the stream of the creative juice\n Falls lightly on the cleansing sieve.\n 8 Thus, Soma, purifying himwho knoweth song mid living men,\n Thou wanderest through the cloth of wool.","title":"Rig Veda: Rig-Veda, Book 9: HYMN XVI. Soma Pavamana.","type":"page"}