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# Samaveda 85

Sāmavedasaṃhitā 85

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [85](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.sama.85)

4 1 1 13 01a taṃ vo dasmamṛtīṣahaṃ vasormandānamandhasaḥ .  
4 1 1 13 01c abhi vatsaṃ na svasareṣu dhenava indraṃ gīrbhirnavāmahe .. 685  
4 1 1 13 02a dyukṣaṃ sudānuṃ taviṣībhirāvṛtaṃ giriṃ na purubhojasam .  
4 1 1 13 02c kṣumantaṃ vājaṃ śatinaṃ sahasriṇaṃ makṣū gomantamīmahe .. 686

> As cows low to their calves in stalls, so with our songs we glorify  
> This Indra, even your wondrous God who checks attack, who takes delight in precious juice.  
> — Ralph T. H. Griffith 1893, The Hymns of the Samaveda

> Celestial, bounteous giver, girt about with might, rich, mountain-like, in pleasant things,--  
> Him swift we seek for foodful booty rich in kine, brought hundredfold and thousandfold.  
> — Ralph T. H. Griffith 1893, The Hymns of the Samaveda

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## Translations (1)

- [The Hymns of the Samaveda](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.sama~en-griffith.2.1.1.13.1) — Ralph T. H. Griffith 1893, English

## Commentaries (2)

- [Sāmavedabhāṣya (Bharatasvāmin)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.sama!bharatasvamin) — Bharatasvāmin, Sanskrit
- [Sāmavedārthaprakāśa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.sama!samavedarthaprakasa) — Sāyaṇa, Sanskrit

## Other recensions (1)

- [Sāmavedasaṃhitā (ed. Theodor Benfey)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.sama*benfey1848.85) — Sanskrit

## Discussed in (1)

- [A Vedic Concordance](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.bloomfield-1906.c6.1717) — Bloomfield 1906, English

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