Hymn to Soma Pavamana
Rigveda IX.13 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. Soma, being purified, streams in a thousand channels past the fleece, toward the trysting place of Vāyu and Indra.
2. Sing out, you who seek his help, to the self-purifying, inspired one — pressed out to bring the gods to the feast.
3. The thousand-formed Soma juices flow clear to win strength, hymned and praised, to bring the gods to the feast.
4. And for us too, purify yourself to win strength — bring us abundant food, O shining drop, and vigorous sons.
5. Let the divine drops, once pressed, flow here and bring us thousandfold wealth and heroic strength.
6. Like steeds driven on by their drivers, the swift ones have rushed forth to win the prize, out through the fleece.
7. Lowing, the drops stream like milk-cows toward their calf; they have run between the two pressing hands.
8. Welcome to Indra, exhilarating and roaring as you purify yourself — drive off every hatred.
9. Striking down the niggardly, purifying yourselves, beholding the light of heaven — take your seat in the womb of truth.
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Rigveda IX.13 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.13
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.
somaḥ punāno arṣati sahasradhāro atyaviḥ |
vāyor indrasya niṣkṛtam || 1 ||
pavamānam avasyavo vipram abhi pra gāyata |
suṣvāṇaṁ devavītaye || 2 ||
pavante vājasātaye somāḥ sahasrapājasaḥ |
gṛṇānā devavītaye || 3 ||
uta no vājasātaye pavasva bṛhatīr iṣaḥ |
dyumad indo suvīryam || 4 ||
te naḥ sahasriṇaṁ rayim pavantām ā suvīryam |
suvānā devāsa indavaḥ || 5 ||
atyā hiyānā na hetṛbhir asṛgraṁ vājasātaye |
vi vāram avyam āśavaḥ || 6 ||
vāśrā arṣantīndavo 'bhi vatsaṁ na dhenavaḥ |
dadhanvire gabhastyoḥ || 7 ||
juṣṭa indrāya matsaraḥ pavamāna kanikradat |
viśvā apa dviṣo jahi || 8 ||
apaghnanto arāvṇaḥ pavamānāḥ svardṛśaḥ |
yonāv ṛtasya sīdata || 9 ||
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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).