{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/rigveda/rv09088.htm","path":"hin/rigveda/rv09088.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda/rv09088.htm","text":"Rig Veda, tr. by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1896]\n1. FOR thee this Soma is effused, O Indra: drink of this juice; for thee the stream is flowing-\n Soma, which thou thyself hast made and chosen, even Indu, for thy special drink to cheer thee.\n 2 Like a capacious car hath it been harnessed, the Mighty; to acquire abundant treasures.\n Then in the sacrifice they celebrated all triumphs won by Nahus -n the battle.\n 3 Like V\u0101yu with his team, moving at pleasure, most gracious when invoked like both N\u0101satyas,\n Thou art thyself like the Wealth-Giver, Soma! who grants all boons, like song-inspiring P\u016b\u1e63an.\n 4 Like Indra who hath done great deeds, thou, Soma, art slayer of the V\u1e5btras, Fort-destroyer.\n Like Pedu's horse who killed the brood of serpents, thus thou, O Soma, slayest every Dasyu.\n 5 Like Agni loosed amid the forest, fiercely he winneth splendour in the running waters.\n Like one who fights, the roaring of the mighty, thus Soma Pavamana sends his current.\n 6 These Somas passing through the fleecy filter, like rain descending from the clouds of heaven,\n Have been effused and poured into the beakers, swiftly like rivers running lowly seaward.\n 7 Flow onward like the potent band of Maruts, like that Celestial Host whom none revileth.\n Quickly be gracious unto us like waters, like sacrifice victorious, thousand-fashioned.\n 8 Thine are King Varu\u1e47a's eternal statutes, lofty and deep, O Soma, is thy glory.\n All-pure art thou like Mitra the beloved, adorable, like Aryaman, O Soma.","title":"Rig Veda: Rig-Veda, Book 9: HYMN LXXXVIII. Soma Pavamana.","type":"page"}