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Rigveda 8.96.21

Ṛgvedasaṃhitā 8.96.21

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Sanskrit

8.96.21

sa vṛ̍tra̱hendra̍ ṛbhu̱kṣāḥ sa̱dyo ja̍jñā̱no havyo̍ babhūva |
kṛ̱ṇvann apā̍ṁsi̱ naryā̍ pu̱rūṇi̱ somo̱ na pī̱to havya̱ḥ sakhi̍bhyaḥ ||

This Indra, Vritra-slayer, this Ribhukshan, even at his birth, was meet for invocation. Doer of many deeds for man’s advantage, like Soma quaffed, for friends we must invoke him.

Ralph T. H. Griffith 1889, The Hymns of the Rigveda

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