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Mandala IX

HYMN XVI. Soma Pavamana.

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The pressers pour out your nectar for rapturous joy, The sweet sap flows like a flood.

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With strength we sift through the sieve him who brings might and wins the kine, Enveloped in water with his juice.

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Pour on the sieve the Soma, never subdued in waters, waterless, And make it pure for Indra’s drink.

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Moved by the purifier’s thought, the Soma flows into the sieve: By wisdom it has found its home.

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Indra, with humble homage, have the Soma drops flowed forth to you, Contending for the glorious prize.

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Purified in his fleecy garb, attaining every beauty, he Stands, hero-like, amid the kine.

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Swelling, as if to heights of heaven, the stream of the creative juice Falls lightly on the cleansing sieve.

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Thus, Soma, purifying him who knows song among the living men, Thou wanderest through the cloth of wool.

Source: Sacred Texts Archive
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