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THE SAMA VEDA<br />
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3. Send to us in a stream celestial riches, send us when thou art cleansed, what earth containeth,<br />
So that thereby we may acquire possessions and Rishihood in Jamadagni's manner!<br />
XIX Indra<br />
1. When thou, unequalled Maghavan, wast born to smite the Vritras dead,<br />
Thou spreadest out the spacious earth and didst support and prop the heavens.<br />
2. Then was the sacrifice produced for thee, the laud, and song of joy.<br />
In might thou art above this All, all that now is and yet shall be.<br />
3. Raw kine thou filledst with ripe milk. Thou madest Surya rise to heaven.<br />
Heat him as milk is heated with pure Sdma hymns, great joy to him who loves the song!<br />
XX Indra<br />
1. Rejoice: thy glory hath been quaffed, Lord of bay steeds! as 'twere the bowl's enlivening mead.<br />
Thine, Steer, is Indu, Steer, the Strong, best winner of a thousand spoils.<br />
2. Let our strong drink, most excellent, exhilarating, come to thee,<br />
Victorious, Indra! bringing gain, immortal conquering in fight!<br />
3. Thou, hero, winner of the spoil, urgest to speed the car of man.<br />
Burn, like a vessel with the flame, the riteless Dasyu, conqueror!<br />
CHAPTER III<br />
I Soma Pavamana<br />
1. Pour down the rain upon us, pour a wave of waters from the sky.<br />
And plenteous store of wholesome foood!<br />
2. Flow onward with that stream of thine, whereby the cows have come to us.<br />
The kine of strangers to our home.<br />
3. Dearest to Gods in sacred rites, pour on us fatness with thy stream,<br />
Pour down on us a flood of rain!<br />
4. To give as vigour, with thy stream run through the fleecy straining-cloth!<br />
For verily the Gods will hear.<br />
5. Onward hath Pavamana flowed and beaten off the Rakshasas.<br />
Flashing out splendour as of old.<br />
II Indra<br />
1. Bring forth oblations to the God who knoweth all, who fain would drink.<br />
The wanderer, lagging not behind the hero, coming nigh with, speed!<br />
2. With Somas go ye nigh to him chief drinker of the Soma's. juice:<br />
With beakers to the impetuous God, to Indra with the flowing, drops!<br />
3. What time with Somas, with the drops effused,, ye come beforethe God,<br />
Full wise, he knows the hope of each, and, bold one strikes this. foe and that.<br />
4. To him, Adhvaryu! yea, to him give offerings of the juiceexpressed!<br />
Will he not keep us safely from the spiteful curse of each, presumptuous high-born foe?<br />
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