Sama Veda

SECOND PART

BOOK I

Chapter I

HYMN 18 Soma Pavamana

1

For first possession of your juice, for the exhilarating drink,
Drive ye away the dog, my friends, drive ye the long-tongued dog away!

2

He who with purifying stream, effused, comes flowing hitherward,
Indu, is like an able steed.

3

With prayer all-reaching let the men tend unassailable Soma: be-
The stones prepared for sacrifice!