HYMN TO SOMA (IX. 15).
QUERY: Is the hymn addressed to the plant as it is pressed out into the pails, or to the moon?
1. This one, by means of prayer (or intelligence), comes through the fine (sieve), the hero, with swift car, going to the meeting with Indra.
2. This one thinks much for the sublime assembly of gods, where sit immortals.
3. This one is despatched and led upon a shining path, when
the active ones urge (him).[20]
4. This one, shaking his horns, sharpens (them), the bull of
the herd, doing heroic deeds forcibly.
5. This one hastens, the strong steed, with bright golden
beams, becoming of streams the lord.
6. This one, pressing surely through the knotty (sieve?) to
good things, comes down into the vessels.
7. This one, fit to be prepared, the active ones prepare in the pails, as he creates great food.
8. Him, this one, who has good weapons, who is most intoxicating, ten fingers and seven (or many) prayers prepare.