Rigveda 9.17
Ṛgvedasaṃhitā 9.17
- Language
- Sanskrit
9.17.1
pra ni̱mnene̍va̱ sindha̍vo̱ ghnanto̍ vṛ̱trāṇi̱ bhūrṇa̍yaḥ |
somā̍ asṛgram ā̱śava̍ḥ ||
LIKE rivers down a steep descent, slaying the Vṛitras, full of zeal, The rapid Soma-streams have flowed.
9.17.2
a̱bhi su̍vā̱nāsa̱ inda̍vo vṛ̱ṣṭaya̍ḥ pṛthi̱vīm i̍va |
indra̱ṁ somā̍so akṣaran ||
The drops of Soma juice effused fall like the rain upon the earth: To Indra flow the Soma-streams.
9.17.3
atyū̍rmir matsa̱ro mada̱ḥ soma̍ḥ pa̱vitre̍ arṣati |
vi̱ghnan rakṣā̍ṁsi deva̱yuḥ ||
With swelling wave the gladdening drink, the Soma, flows into.the sieve, Loving the Gods and slaying fiends.
9.17.4
ā ka̱laśe̍ṣu dhāvati pa̱vitre̱ pari̍ ṣicyate |
u̱kthair ya̱jñeṣu̍ vardhate ||
It hastens to the pitchers, poured upon the sieve it waxes strong At sacrifices through the lauds.
9.17.5
ati̱ trī so̍ma roca̱nā roha̱n na bhrā̍jase̱ diva̍m |
i̱ṣṇan sūrya̱ṁ na co̍dayaḥ ||
Soma, thou shinest mounting heaven as 'twere above light's triple realm, And moving secm'st to speed the Sun.
9.17.6
a̱bhi viprā̍ anūṣata mū̱rdhan ya̱jñasya̍ kā̱rava̍ḥ |
dadhā̍nā̱ś cakṣa̍si pri̱yam ||
To him, the head of sacnfice, singers and bards have sung their songs, Offering what he loves to see.
9.17.7
tam u̍ tvā vā̱jina̱ṁ naro̍ dhī̱bhir viprā̍ ava̱syava̍ḥ |
mṛ̱janti̍ de̱vatā̍taye ||
The men, the sages with their hymns, eager for help, deck thee strong steed, Deck thee for service of the Gods.
9.17.8
madho̱r dhārā̱m anu̍ kṣara tī̱vraḥ sa̱dhastha̱m āsa̍daḥ |
cāru̍r ṛ̱tāya̍ pī̱taye̍ ||
Flow onward to the stream of meath rest efficacious in thy home, Fair, to be drunk at sacrifice.
Translations (6)
- The Hymns of the Rigveda — Ralph T. H. Griffith 1889, English
- Der Rig-Veda aus dem Sanskrit ins Deutsche übersetzt (HOS 33–35) — Karl Friedrich Geldner 1951, German
- Ригведа — Tatyana Yakovlevna Elizarenkova 1989, Russian
- Études védiques et pāṇinéennes (traductions) — Louis Renou 1955, French
- Rig-Veda Sanhitá — Horace Hayman Wilson 1850, English
- Rig-Veda, übersetzt und mit kritischen und erläuternden Anmerkungen versehen — Hermann Grassmann 1876, German
Commentaries (10)
- Vedārthaprakāśa (Ṛgvedabhāṣya) — Sāyaṇa, Sanskrit
- Ṛgvedapadapāṭha — Śākalya, Sanskrit
- Ṛgvedabhāṣya (Skandasvāmin) — Skandasvāmin, Sanskrit
- Ṛgvedabhāṣya (Udgītha) — Udgītha, Sanskrit
- Ṛgarthadīpikā — Veṅkaṭamādhava, Sanskrit
- Ṛgbhāṣya (Madhva) — Madhva, Sanskrit
- Ṛgvedasaṃhitāvyākhyā — Sanskrit
- Vedabhāṣya — Mādhava, Sanskrit
- Vedabhāṣyasāra — Bhaṭṭoji Dīkṣita, Sanskrit
- Ṛgvedabhāṣyabhūmikā — Dayānanda Sarasvatī, Sanskrit
Other recensions (1)
Linked texts (3)
- Saṃhitāpadapāṭha — Sanskrit
- Padapāṭha — Sanskrit
- Ṛgvedasaṃhitāpadapāṭha — Sanskrit
Discussed in (7)
- A Vedic Concordance — Bloomfield 1906, English
- La religion védique d'après les hymnes du Rig-Véda — Bergaigne 1878, French
- Vedic Metre in its Historical Development — Arnold 1905, English
- History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) — Kane 1930, English
- History of Indian Medicine, containing Notices, Biographical and Bibliographical, of the Āyurvedic Physicians and their Works on Medicine — Mukhopadhyaya 1923, English
- Die Hymnen des Rigveda, Bd. I: Metrische und textgeschichtliche Prolegomena — Oldenberg 1888, German
- Vedic Mythology — Macdonell 1897, English