Mandala 9

"The people deck him like a docile king of elephants."

"Indra is... the “finder of horses” (9.61.3). ..."

"We saw Indra and Soma “winning cows and horses” from their enemies, but Soma occasionally wins chariots too (9.78.4) (besides the Sun and waters ...). Here too, a literalist reading would force us to conclude that the Dasyus and Dåsas, besides horses, possess “chariots”, defeating the dogma that chariots were brought (physically or mentally) by the Aryans."

"Flow on Soma as wealth from four oceans to us, a thousandfold and from every side"

"Flow on Soma as peace for us, draw out for our milk an ambrosial juice, and increase the ocean of the hymn."

"Forming the ray from Heaven, you flow through all forms. Soma, as the ocean you overflow. Soma, beloved enter the ocean."

"To the ocean the Soma drops, like cows to their home, have come to the source of truth."

"Soma stirs the ocean with the winds."

"The king of the river plunges into the sea, lodged in the rivers, he holds to the wave of the waters."

"Soma, as the ecstatic, you were the first to extend the ocean for the Gods."

"As the priest seeks the station rich in cattle, like a true king who goes to great assemblies, Soma hath sought the pitchers while they cleansed him, and like a wild buffalo, in the wood hath settled."