Hymn to Soma Pavamana

Rigveda IX.51 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. O Adhvaryu, pour the soma pressed with stones into the filter; purify it for Indra to drink.

2. Press out the soma, heaven's finest cream, the sweetest of all, for Indra who wields the mace.

3. O drop, the gods feed on that sweet juice of yours; the Maruts too take their share of you as you flow and purify.

4. For you, Soma, growing strong as you are pressed out toward wild exhilaration — O bull, strengthen the singer, that he may be helped.

5. Flow onward, far-seeing one, poured in a stream toward the filter, pressed out — flow onward toward strength and toward fame.

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Rigveda IX.51 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.51

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.

adhvaryo adribhiḥ sutaṁ somam pavitra ā sṛja |
punīhīndrāya pātave || 1 ||

divaḥ pīyūṣam uttamaṁ somam indrāya vajriṇe |
sunotā madhumattamam || 2 ||

tava tya indo andhaso devā madhor vy aśnate |
pavamānasya marutaḥ || 3 ||

tvaṁ hi soma vardhayan suto madāya bhūrṇaye |
vṛṣan stotāram ūtaye || 4 ||

abhy arṣa vicakṣaṇa pavitraṁ dhārayā sutaḥ |
abhi vājam uta śravaḥ || 5 ||

Source Colophon

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).