Hymn to Soma Pavamana
Rigveda IX.49 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. Maṇḍala 9 is devoted entirely to Soma Pavamana — the sacred Soma juice in the act of being purified as it is pressed and strained through the woolen filter before offering.
1. Purify yourself, and bring us well the rain — the wave of waters, down from around the sky — mighty, disease-free draughts of nourishment.
2. Purify yourself in that stream by which the cattle have come here, the people's own, to our house.
3. Purify yourself as ghee in a stream, most eager to bring the gods to the sacrifices; purify the rain for us.
4. Run for our nourishment through the woolen filter, in a stream — for the gods will surely listen.
5. Being purified, he has streamed forth, driving off the demons, making the lights shine again as in ancient days.
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Rigveda IX.49 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.49
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.
pavasva vṛṣṭim ā su no 'pām ūrmiṁ divas pari |
ayakṣmā bṛhatīr iṣaḥ || 1 ||
tayā pavasva dhārayā yayā gāva ihāgaman |
janyāsa upa no gṛham || 2 ||
ghṛtam pavasva dhārayā yajñeṣu devavītamaḥ |
asmabhyaṁ vṛṣṭim ā pava || 3 ||
sa na ūrje vy a1vyayam pavitraṁ dhāva dhārayā |
devāsaḥ śṛṇavan hi kam || 4 ||
pavamāno asiṣyadad rakṣāṁsy apajaṅghanat |
pratnavad rocayan rucaḥ || 5 ||
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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).