{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/rigveda/rv10119.htm","path":"hin/rigveda/rv10119.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda/rv10119.htm","text":"Rig Veda, tr. by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1896]\n1. THIS, even this was my resolve, to win a cow, to win a steed:\n Have I not drunk of Soma juice?\n 2 Like violent gusts of wind the draughts that I have drunk have lifted me\n Have I not drunk of Soma juice?\n 3 The draughts I drank have borne me up, as fleet-foot horses draw a car:\n Have I not drunk of Soma juice?\n 4 The hymn hath reached me, like a cow who lows to meet her darling calf:\n Have I not drunk of Soma juice?\n 5 As a wright bends a chariot-seat so round my heart I bend the hymn:\n Have I not drunk of Soma juice?\n 6 Not as a mote within the eye count the Five Tribes of men with me:\n Have I not drunk of Soma juice?\n 7 The heavens and earth themselves have not grown equal to one half of me\n Have I not drunk of Soma juice?\n 8 I in my grandeur have surpassed the heavens and all this spacious earth\n Have I not drunk of Soma juice?\n 9 Aha! this spacious earth will I deposit either here or there\n Have I not drunk of Soma juice?\n 10 In one short moment will I smite the earth in fury here or there:\n Have I not drunk of Soma juice?\n 11 One of my flanks is in the sky; I let the other trail below:\n Have I not drunk of Soma juice?\n 12 1, greatest of the Mighty Ones, am lifted to the firmament:\n Have I not drunk of Soma juice?\n 13 I seek the worshipper's abode; oblation-bearer to the Gods:\n Have I not drunk of Soma juice?","title":"Rig Veda: Rig-Veda, Book 10: HYMN CXIX. Indra.","type":"page"}