{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/rigveda/rv09023.htm","path":"hin/rigveda/rv09023.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda/rv09023.htm","text":"Rig Veda, tr. by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1896]\n1. SWIFT Soma drops have been effused in streams of meath, the gladdening drink,\n For sacred lore of every kind.\n 2 Hither to newer. resting-place the ancient Living Ones are come.\n They made the Sun that he might shine.\n 3 O Pavamana, bring to us the unsacrificing foeman's wealth,\n And give us food with progeny.\n 4 The living Somas being cleansed diffuse exhilarating drink,\n Turned to the vat which drips with meath.\n 5 Soma gows on intelligent, possessing sap and mighty strength,\n Brave Hero who repels the curse.\n 6 For Indra, Soma! thou art cleansed, a feast-companion for the Gods:\n 1ndu, thou fain wilt win us strength\n 7 When he had drunken draughts of this, Indra smote down resistless foes:\n Yea, smote them, and shall smite them still.","title":"Rig Veda: Rig-Veda, Book 9: HYMN XXIII. Soma Pavamana.","type":"page"}