Hymn to Soma Pavamana
Rigveda IX.27 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. This extolled poet gushes forth onto the filter, purifying himself, striking away all failures.
2. This sun-winning one is poured out for Indra and for Vāyu, in the filter perfecting his power.
3. This one is guided forth by men — the head of heaven, the bull, the pressed Soma in the wooden vats, knowing everything.
4. Desiring cows, this purifying one has roared out, desiring gold — the drop, all-conquering, unconquered.
5. This one races along with the sun, purifying himself in heaven; in the filter he is the intoxicating exhilaration.
6. This mighty one, the tawny bull, has streamed through the mid-air — the purifying drop, toward Indra.
Translator's note: "hāsate" (verse 5) is a rare form; rendered here conservatively as "races along," following its sense of swift motion alongside the sun.
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Rigveda IX.27 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.27
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.
eṣa kavir abhiṣṭutaḥ pavitre adhi tośate |
punāno ghnann apa sridhaḥ || 1 ||
eṣa indrāya vāyave svarjit pari ṣicyate |
pavitre dakṣasādhanaḥ || 2 ||
eṣa nṛbhir vi nīyate divo mūrdhā vṛṣā sutaḥ |
somo vaneṣu viśvavit || 3 ||
eṣa gavyur acikradat pavamāno hiraṇyayuḥ |
induḥ satrājid astṛtaḥ || 4 ||
eṣa sūryeṇa hāsate pavamāno adhi dyavi |
pavitre matsaro madaḥ || 5 ||
eṣa śuṣmy asiṣyadad antarikṣe vṛṣā hariḥ |
punāna indur indram ā || 6 ||
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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).