Hymn to Soma Pavamana
Rigveda IX.114 is a sūkta (hymn of praise) from Maṇḍala 9 of the Rigveda, one of the 1,028 hymns organized within the ten books of the oldest Veda. The Rigveda was composed approximately 1700–1100 BCE in Vedic Sanskrit and preserved through oral transmission across millennia.
This is a Good Works Translation produced for the Good Works Library from the Sanskrit of the Śākala recension.
1. Whoever has followed the courses of the purifying drop — him they call "blessed with good offspring," whoever has fixed his mind on you, O Soma. Flow on, O drop, for Indra.
2. O seer Kashyapa, strengthen the songs with the praise-hymns of the mantra-makers; bow to King Soma, who was born lord of the plants. Flow on, O drop, for Indra.
3. Seven directions, each with its own sun; seven Hotar priests as officiants; the gods, the Adityas, who are seven — with them, O Soma, guard us. Flow on, O drop, for Indra.
4. Whatever cooked oblation is yours, O King, with that, O Soma, guard us. Let no malicious foe get the better of us, and let nothing afflict us at all. Flow on, O drop, for Indra.
Translator's note: the refrain "indrāyendo pari srava" is rendered literally as "flow on, O drop, for Indra" in every verse, matching the Sanskrit exactly rather than varying the English for style. "Suprajāḥ" (verse 1) literally means "having good progeny"; "arātīvān" (verse 4) denotes one who is hostile or grudging, here translated "malicious foe."
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Rigveda IX.114 is drawn from the Śākala recension of the Rigveda, composed approximately 1700–1100 BCE. This is a Good Works Translation rendered verse by verse from the Sanskrit text printed below. Prepared for the Good Work Library by the Tianmu Anglican Church with AI-assisted translation.
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Source Text: ṛgveda IX.114
Sanskrit source text from the Aufrecht edition (1877) via GRETIL (Van Nooten & Holland input). Presented here for reference, study, and verification alongside the English translation above.
ya indoḥ pavamānasyānu dhāmāny akramīt |
tam āhuḥ suprajā iti yas te somāvidhan mana indrāyendo pari srava || 1 ||
ṛṣe mantrakṛtāṁ stomaiḥ kaśyapodvardhayan giraḥ |
somaṁ namasya rājānaṁ yo jajñe vīrudhām patir indrāyendo pari srava || 2 ||
sapta diśo nānāsūryāḥ sapta hotāra ṛtvijaḥ |
devā ādityā ye sapta tebhiḥ somābhi rakṣa na indrāyendo pari srava || 3 ||
yat te rājañ chṛtaṁ havis tena somābhi rakṣa naḥ |
arātīvā mā nas tārīn mo ca naḥ kiṁ canāmamad indrāyendo pari srava || 4 ||
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Sanskrit text of the Rigveda, Śākala recension. The standard scholarly edition is the Bombay Oriental (Vishva Bandhu, 5 vols., 1963–66). IAST transliteration available from GRETIL (Göttingen Register of Electronic Texts in Indian Languages) and Vedaweb (University of Cologne). Both sources are open access. IAST transliteration from the Aufrecht edition (1877) via GRETIL (Van Nooten & Holland input, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).