Hymn to Soma Pavamana (for Indra)

Rigveda IX.60 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. Sing out with the sacred chant to the self-purifying, all-beholding one — to the Soma-drop with a thousand eyes.

2. You, with your thousand eyes and your thousand-fold abundance — they have purified you by passing you through the wool filter.

3. Purifying himself, he has streamed through the filters; he runs toward the vats, entering the very heart of Indra.

4. O Soma, purify yourself well for Indra's bounty, all-beholding one — bring forth seed rich in offspring.

Translator's note: "vāra" (verse 2, 3) is the sheep's-wool strainer used to filter pressed Soma juice, rendered here as "filter." "Prajāvad reta" (verse 4) literally means "seed possessing offspring" — seed that will produce progeny — rendered as "seed rich in offspring."

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Rigveda IX.60 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.60

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.

pra gāyatreṇa gāyata pavamānaṁ vicarṣaṇim |
induṁ sahasracakṣasam || 1 ||

taṁ tvā sahasracakṣasam atho sahasrabharṇasam |
ati vāram apāviṣuḥ || 2 ||

ati vārān pavamāno asiṣyadat kalaśām̐ abhi dhāvati |
indrasya hārdy āviśan || 3 ||

indrasya soma rādhase śam pavasva vicarṣaṇe |
prajāvad reta ā bhara || 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).