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HYMN XCIV

HYMN XCIV 1. May Sovran Indra come to the carousal, he who by holy Law is    strong and active.   The overcomer of all conquering forces with his great bull-like    power that hath no limit. 2. Firm-seated is thy car, thy steeds are docile: thy hand, O King,    holds, firmly grasped, the thunder.   On thy fair path, O Lord of men, come quickly: we will increase    thy power when thou hast drunken. 3. Let strong and mighty steeds who bear this mighty Indra, the   Lord of men, whose arm wields thunder,   Bring unto us, as shares of our banquet, the Bull of conquering    might, of real vigour. 4. So like a bull thou rushest to the Lord who loves the trough,    the Sage, the prop of vigour, in the vat.   Prepare thine energies, collect them in thyself: be for our profit    as the Master of the wise. 5. May precious treasures come to us,— so will I pray. Come to the    votary's gift offered with beauteous laud.   Thou art the Lord, as such sit on this holy grass: thy vessels    are inviolate as Law commands. 6. Far went our earliest invocations of the Gods, and won us    glories that can never be surpassed.   They who could not ascend the ship of sacrifice sink down in    desolation, trembling with alarm. 7. So be the others, evil-hearted, far away, whose horses difficult to    harness have been yoked.   Here in advance man stand anear to offer gifts, by whom full    many a work that brings reward is done. 8. He firmly fixed the plains and mountains as they shook. Dyaus    thundered forth and made the air's mid-region quake.   He stays apart the two confronting bowls; he sings lauds in the    potent Soma's joy when he hath drunk. 9. I bear this deftly-fashioned goad of thine wherewith thou,   Maghavan, shalt break the strikers with the hoof. p. 342   At the libation mayst thou be well satisfied. Partake the juice,    partake the banquet, Bounteous Lord. 10. O Much-invoked, may we subdue all famine and evil want with    store of grain and cattle.   May we allied, as first in rank, with princes, obtain possessions    by our own exertions. 11. Brihaspati protect us from the rearward, and from above, and    from below, from sinners!   May Indra from the front and from the centre, as friend to    friends, vouchsafe us room and freedom.