Plain text of Rig Veda - Book The Ninth · Hymn CX. In Praise of God the Purifier
1 Overpowering the wicked, forward run to win great strength: thou speedest to subdue like one exacting debts.
2 In thee, poured out, we rejoice ourselves for great supremacy in fight.
Thou, Purifier, enterest into mighty deeds.
3 O Purifier, thou didst generate the sun, and spread the moisture out with power,
Hasting to us with plenty vivified with milk.
4 Thou didst produce him for maintenance of Law and lovely immortality:
Thou evermore hast moved making strength flow to us.
5 All round about hast thou with glory pierced for us as 'twere a never-failing well for men to drink,
Borne on thy way in fragments from the presser's arms.
6 Then, beautifully radiant, certain heavenly ones have sung to him their kinship as they looked thereon,
And the Giver of light opens as 'twere a stall.
7 The men of old whose grass was trimmed addressed the hymn to thee for mighty strength and for renown:
So, Hero, urge us onward to heroic power.
8 They have drained forth from out the great depth of the sky the old primeval milk of heaven that claims the laud:
They lifted up their voice to the Mighty at his birth.
9 As long as thou, O Purifier, art above this earth and heaven and all existence in thy might,
Thou standest like a Bull the chief amid the herd.
10 In the sheep's wool hath the Purifier flowed, while they cleanse him, like a playful infant,
With hundred powers and hundred currents.
11 Holy and sweet, while purified, this pure drop flows on, a wave of pleasant taste, to the Mighty,
Strength-winner, treasure-finder, life-bestower.
12 So flow thou on, subduing our assailants, chasing the demons hard to be encountered,
Well-armed and conquering our foes.