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THE SAMA VEDA<br />
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VII Mitra-Varuna<br />
1. This Soma hath been pressed for you, Low-strengtheners, Mitra, Varuna!<br />
List, list ye here to this may call!<br />
2. Both Kings who never injure aught have come to their sublimest home,<br />
The thousand-pillared, firmly based.<br />
3. Worshipped with fat libation. Lords of gifts, Adityas, sovran Kings,<br />
They wait on him whose life is true.<br />
VIII Indra<br />
1. Armed with the bones of dead Dadhyach, Indra with unresisted. might<br />
The nine-and-ninety Vritras slew.<br />
2. He, searching for the horse's head that in the mountains lay concealed,<br />
Found it in Saryandvdn lake.<br />
3. Then straight they recognized the mystic name of the creative Steer.<br />
There in the mansion of the Moon.<br />
IX Indra Agni<br />
I. As rain from out the cloud, for you, Indra and Agni, from my thought<br />
This noblest praise hath been produced.<br />
2. Indra and Agni, listen to the singer's call: accept his songs.<br />
Fulfil, ye mighty Lords, his prayers!<br />
3. Give us not up to indigence, ye heroes, Indra, Agni, nor<br />
To Slander and reproach of men!<br />
X Soma Pavamana<br />
1. Gold-Hued! as one who giveth strength flow on for Gods to drink, a draught<br />
For Vayu and the Marut host!<br />
2. The Steer shines brightly with the Gods, dear Sage in his appointed home.<br />
Even Pavamana unbeguiled.<br />
3. O Pavamana, sent by prayer, roaring about thy dwelling-place,<br />
Ascend to Vayu as Law bids!<br />
XI Soma Pavamana<br />
1. O Soma, Indu, every day thy friendship hath been my delight.<br />
Many fiends follow me; help me, thou tawny-hued: pass on beyond these barriers!<br />
2. Close to thy bosom am I. Soma, day and night draining the milk, O golden hued.<br />
Surya himself refulgent with his glow have we, as birds, o'ertaken in his course.<br />
XII Soma Pavamana<br />
1. Active, while being purified, he hath assailed all enemies: They deck the Sage with holy hymns.<br />
2. The Red hath mounted to his shrine; strong Indra hath approached the juice:<br />
In his firm dwelling let him rest!<br />
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