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Mandala 7, Sukta 103, Verse 7
Sanskrit: ब्राह्मणासो अतिरात्रे न सोमे सरो न पूर्णमभितो वदन्तः । संवत्सरस्य तदहः परि ष्ठ यन्मण्डूकाः प्रावृषीणं बभूव ॥
Transliteration: brāhmaṇāso atirātre na some saro na pūrṇamabhito vadantaḥ | saṃvatsarasya tadahaḥ pari ṣṭha yanmaṇḍūkāḥ prāvṛṣīṇaṃ babhūva ||
Translation: Like Brāhmaṇas at the Soma libation, at the Atirātra sacrifice, you are now croaking around thereplenished lake (throughout the night), for on that day of the year you frogs are everywhere about, when it is theday of the serving of the rains.
Mandala 7, Sukta 103, Verse 8
Sanskrit: ब्राह्मणासः सोमिनो वाचमक्रत ब्रह्म कृण्वन्तः परिवत्सरीणम् । अध्वर्यवो घर्मिणः सिष्विदाना आविर्भवन्ति गुह्या न के चित् ॥
Transliteration: brāhmaṇāsaḥ somino vācamakrata brahma kṛṇvantaḥ parivatsarīṇam | adhvaryavo gharmiṇaḥ siṣvidānā āvirbhavanti guhyā na ke cit ||
Translation: They utter a loud cry, like brāhmaṇas when bearing the Soma libation, and reciting the perennialprayer; like ministrant priests with the gharma offering, they hid (in the hot weather) person iring (in their holes), butnow some of them appear.
Mandala 7, Sukta 103, Verse 9
Sanskrit: देवहितिं जुगुपुर्द्वादशस्य ऋतुं नरो न प्र मिनन्त्येते । संवत्सरे प्रावृष्यागतायां तप्ता घर्मा अश्नुवते विसर्गम् ॥
Transliteration: devahitiṃ jugupurdvādaśasya ṛtuṃ naro na pra minantyete | saṃvatsare prāvṛṣyāgatāyāṃ taptā gharmā aśnuvate visargam ||
Translation: These leaders of rites observe the instrumental tutes of the gods and disregard not the (appropriate) season ofthe twelve month; as the year revolves, and the rains return then, scorched and heated, they obtain freedom(from their hiding- plural ces).
Mandala 7, Sukta 103, Verse 10
Sanskrit: गोमायुरदादजमायुरदात्पृश्निरदाद्धरितो नो वसूनि । गवां मण्डूका ददतः शतानि सहस्रसावे प्र तिरन्त आयुः ॥
Transliteration: gomāyuradādajamāyuradātpṛśniradāddharito no vasūni | gavāṃ maṇḍūkā dadataḥ śatāni sahasrasāve pra tiranta āyuḥ ||
Translation: May the cow-toned, the goat-toned, the speckled, the green (frog, severally) grant us riches! May thefrogs in the fertilizing (season of the rain), bestowing upon us hundreds of cows, prolong (our) lives!
Mandala 7, Sukta 104, Verse 1
Sanskrit: इन्द्रासोमा तपतं रक्ष उब्जतं न्यर्पयतं वृषणा तमोवृधः । परा शृणीतमचितो न्योषतं हतं नुदेथां नि शिशीतमत्रिणः ॥
Transliteration: indrāsomā tapataṃ rakṣa ubjataṃ nyarpayataṃ vṛṣaṇā tamovṛdhaḥ | parā śṛṇītamacito nyoṣataṃ hataṃ nudethāṃ ni śiśītamatriṇaḥ ||
Translation: Indra and Soma, afflict, destroy the rākṣasas; showerers (of benefits) cast down those who delight indarkness; put to flight the stupid (spirits); consume, slay, drive away, utterly extermiante the cannibals.
Mandala 7, Sukta 104, Verse 2
Sanskrit: इन्द्रासोमा समघशंसमभ्यघं तपुर्ययस्तु चरुरग्निवाँ इव । ब्रह्मद्विषे क्रव्यादे घोरचक्षसे द्वेषो धत्तमनवायं किमीदिने ॥
Transliteration: indrāsomā samaghaśaṃsamabhyaghaṃ tapuryayastu caruragnivā~ iva | brahmadviṣe kravyāde ghoracakṣase dveṣo dhattamanavāyaṃ kimīdine ||
Translation: Indra and Soma, fall upon the destructive (rākṣasa) and the performer of unprofitable acts, so that,consumed (by your wrath), he may perish like the offering cast into the fire; retain implacable hatred to the haterof brāhmaṇas, the cannibal, the hideous, the vile (rākṣasa).
Mandala 7, Sukta 104, Verse 3
Sanskrit: इन्द्रासोमा दुष्कृतो वव्रे अन्तरनारम्भणे तमसि प्र विध्यतम् । यथा नातः पुनरेकश्चनोदयत्तद्वामस्तु सहसे मन्युमच्छवः ॥
Transliteration: indrāsomā duṣkṛto vavre antaranārambhaṇe tamasi pra vidhyatam | yathā nātaḥ punarekaścanodayattadvāmastu sahase manyumacchavaḥ ||
Translation: Indra and Soma, chastise the malignant (rākṣasas), having plural nged them in surrounding andinextricable darkness, so that not one of them may again issue from it; so may your wrathful might be triumphantover them.
Mandala 7, Sukta 104, Verse 4
Sanskrit: इन्द्रासोमा वर्तयतं दिवो वधं सं पृथिव्या अघशंसाय तर्हणम् । उत्तक्षतं स्वर्यं पर्वतेभ्यो येन रक्षो वावृधानं निजूर्वथः ॥
Transliteration: indrāsomā vartayataṃ divo vadhaṃ saṃ pṛthivyā aghaśaṃsāya tarhaṇam | uttakṣataṃ svaryaṃ parvatebhyo yena rakṣo vāvṛdhānaṃ nijūrvathaḥ ||
Translation: Indra and Soma, disperse from heaven your fatal (weapon), the extirpator from earth of the malignant(rākṣasas) put forth from the clouds the consuming, (thunderbolt), wherewith you slay the increasing rākṣasarace.
Mandala 7, Sukta 104, Verse 5
Sanskrit: इन्द्रासोमा वर्तयतं दिवस्पर्यग्नितप्तेभिर्युवमश्महन्मभिः । तपुर्वधेभिरजरेभिरत्रिणो नि पर्शाने विध्यतं यन्तु निस्वरम् ॥
Transliteration: indrāsomā vartayataṃ divasparyagnitaptebhiryuvamaśmahanmabhiḥ | tapurvadhebhirajarebhiratriṇo ni parśāne vidhyataṃ yantu nisvaram ||
Translation: Indra and Soma, scatter around (your weapons) from the sky, pierce their sides with fiery searchingadamantine (weapons), so that they depart without a sound.
Mandala 7, Sukta 104, Verse 6
Sanskrit: इन्द्रासोमा परि वां भूतु विश्वत इयं मतिः कक्ष्याश्वेव वाजिना । यां वां होत्रां परिहिनोमि मेधयेमा ब्रह्माणि नृपतीव जिन्वतम् ॥
Transliteration: indrāsomā pari vāṃ bhūtu viśvata iyaṃ matiḥ kakṣyāśveva vājinā | yāṃ vāṃ hotrāṃ parihinomi medhayemā brahmāṇi nṛpatīva jinvatam ||
Translation: May the praise invest you, Indra and Soma, who are mighty, on every side, as a girth (encompasses) ahorse, that praise which I offer to you both with pure devotion; do you, like two kings, accept this my homage.
Mandala 7, Sukta 104, Verse 7
Sanskrit: प्रति स्मरेथां तुजयद्भिरेवैर्हतं द्रुहो रक्षसो भङ्गुरावतः । इन्द्रासोमा दुष्कृते मा सुगं भूद्यो नः कदा चिदभिदासति द्रुहा ॥
Transliteration: prati smarethāṃ tujayadbhirevairhataṃ druho rakṣaso bhaṅgurāvataḥ | indrāsomā duṣkṛte mā sugaṃ bhūdyo naḥ kadā cidabhidāsati druhā ||
Translation: Come with rapid steeds, slay the oppressive mischievous rākṣasas; let there be no happiness, Indraand Soma, to the malignant, who harasses us with his oppression.
Mandala 7, Sukta 104, Verse 8
Sanskrit: यो मा पाकेन मनसा चरन्तमभिचष्टे अनृतेभिर्वचोभिः । आप इव काशिना संगृभीता असन्नस्त्वासत इन्द्र वक्ता ॥
Transliteration: yo mā pākena manasā carantamabhicaṣṭe anṛtebhirvacobhiḥ | āpa iva kāśinā saṃgṛbhītā asannastvāsata indra vaktā ||
Translation: May he who with false calumnies maligns me behaving with a pure heart, may such a speaker offalsehood Indra, cease to be, like water held in the hand.
Mandala 7, Sukta 104, Verse 9
Sanskrit: ये पाकशंसं विहरन्त एवैर्ये वा भद्रं दूषयन्ति स्वधाभिः । अहये वा तान्प्रददातु सोम आ वा दधातु निॠतेरुपस्थे ॥
Transliteration: ye pākaśaṃsaṃ viharanta evairye vā bhadraṃ dūṣayanti svadhābhiḥ | ahaye vā tānpradadātu soma ā vā dadhātu niṝterupasthe ||
Translation: May Soma give to the serpent, or toss upon the lap of Nirṛti, those who with designing (accusative ations)person cute me, a speaker of sincerely, and those who by spiteful (calumnies) vilify all that is good in me.
Mandala 7, Sukta 104, Verse 10
Sanskrit: यो नो रसं दिप्सति पित्वो अग्ने यो अश्वानां यो गवां यस्तनूनाम् । रिपुः स्तेनः स्तेयकृद्दभ्रमेतु नि ष हीयतां तन्वा तना च ॥
Transliteration: yo no rasaṃ dipsati pitvo agne yo aśvānāṃ yo gavāṃ yastanūnām | ripuḥ stenaḥ steyakṛddabhrametu ni ṣa hīyatāṃ tanvā tanā ca ||
Translation: May he, Agni, who strives to destroy the essence of our food, of our horse, of our cattle, of our bodies--the adversary, the thief, the robber-- go to destruction, and be deprived both of person n and of progeny.
Mandala 7, Sukta 104, Verse 11
Sanskrit: परः सो अस्तु तन्वा तना च तिस्रः पृथिवीरधो अस्तु विश्वाः । प्रति शुष्यतु यशो अस्य देवा यो नो दिवा दिप्सति यश्च नक्तम् ॥
Transliteration: paraḥ so astu tanvā tanā ca tisraḥ pṛthivīradho astu viśvāḥ | prati śuṣyatu yaśo asya devā yo no divā dipsati yaśca naktam ||
Translation: May he be deprived of bodily (existence) and of posterity; may he be cast down below all the threeworlds; may his reputation, Gods, be blighted who seeks our destruction by day or by night.
Mandala 7, Sukta 104, Verse 12
Sanskrit: सुविज्ञानं चिकितुषे जनाय सच्चासच्च वचसी पस्पृधाते । तयोर्यत्सत्यं यतरदृजीयस्तदित्सोमोऽवति हन्त्यासत् ॥
Transliteration: suvijñānaṃ cikituṣe janāya saccāsacca vacasī paspṛdhāte | tayoryatsatyaṃ yataradṛjīyastaditsomo'vati hantyāsat ||
Translation: To the understanding man there is perfect discrimination, the words of truth and falsehood are mutuallyat variance; of these two, Soma verily cherishes that which is true and right; he destroys the false.
Mandala 7, Sukta 104, Verse 13
Sanskrit: न वा उ सोमो वृजिनं हिनोति न क्षत्रियं मिथुया धारयन्तम् । हन्ति रक्षो हन्त्यासद्वदन्तमुभाविन्द्रस्य प्रसितौ शयाते ॥
Transliteration: na vā u somo vṛjinaṃ hinoti na kṣatriyaṃ mithuyā dhārayantam | hanti rakṣo hantyāsadvadantamubhāvindrasya prasitau śayāte ||
Translation: Soma instrumental gates not the wicked; he instrumental gates not the strong man dealing in falsehood; he destroys therākṣasa, he destroys the speaker of untruth; and both remain in the bondage of Indra.
Mandala 7, Sukta 104, Verse 14
Sanskrit: यदि वाहमनृतदेव आस मोघं वा देवाँ अप्यूहे अग्ने । किमस्मभ्यं जातवेदो हृणीषे द्रोघवाचस्ते निॠथं सचन्ताम् ॥
Transliteration: yadi vāhamanṛtadeva āsa moghaṃ vā devā~ apyūhe agne | kimasmabhyaṃ jātavedo hṛṇīṣe droghavācaste niṝthaṃ sacantām ||
Translation: If I am one following false gods, if I approach the gods in vain, then Agni (punishes me). If (we be notsuch, then) why, Jātavedas, are you angry with us? Let the utterers of falsehood incur your chastisement.
Mandala 7, Sukta 104, Verse 15
Sanskrit: अद्या मुरीय यदि यातुधानो अस्मि यदि वायुस्ततप पूरुषस्य । अधा स वीरैर्दशभिर्वि यूया यो मा मोघं यातुधानेत्याह ॥
Transliteration: adyā murīya yadi yātudhāno asmi yadi vāyustatapa pūruṣasya | adhā sa vīrairdaśabhirvi yūyā yo mā moghaṃ yātudhānetyāha ||
Translation: May I this day die if I am a spirit of ill, or if I have ever injured the life of any ma; may you be deprived(rākṣasa) of your ten sons, who have falsely called me by such an appellation.
Mandala 7, Sukta 104, Verse 16
Sanskrit: यो मायातुं यातुधानेत्याह यो वा रक्षाः शुचिरस्मीत्याह । इन्द्रस्तं हन्तु महता वधेन विश्वस्य जन्तोरधमस्पदीष्ट ॥
Transliteration: yo māyātuṃ yātudhānetyāha yo vā rakṣāḥ śucirasmītyāha | indrastaṃ hantu mahatā vadhena viśvasya jantoradhamaspadīṣṭa ||
Translation: May Indra slay with his mighty weapon him who calls me the Yātudhāna, which I am not, therākṣasa, who says (of himself), I am pure; may he, the vilest of all beings, perish.
Mandala 7, Sukta 104, Verse 17
Sanskrit: प्र या जिगाति खर्गलेव नक्तमप द्रुहा तन्वं गूहमाना । वव्राँ अनन्ताँ अव सा पदीष्ट ग्रावाणो घ्नन्तु रक्षस उपब्दैः ॥
Transliteration: pra yā jigāti khargaleva naktamapa druhā tanvaṃ gūhamānā | vavrā~ anantā~ ava sā padīṣṭa grāvāṇo ghnantu rakṣasa upabdaiḥ ||
Translation: May the cruel feminine le fiend who, throwing off the concealment of her person n, wanders about at night likean owl, fall headlong down into the unbounded caverns; may the sones that grind the Soma destroy therākṣasas by their noise.
Mandala 7, Sukta 104, Verse 18
Sanskrit: वि तिष्ठध्वं मरुतो विक्ष्विच्छत गृभायत रक्षसः सं पिनष्टन । वयो ये भूत्वी पतयन्ति नक्तभिर्ये वा रिपो दधिरे देवे अध्वरे ॥
Transliteration: vi tiṣṭhadhvaṃ maruto vikṣvicchata gṛbhāyata rakṣasaḥ saṃ pinaṣṭana | vayo ye bhūtvī patayanti naktabhirye vā ripo dadhire deve adhvare ||
Translation: Stay, Maruts, among the people, desirous (of protecting them); seize the rākṣasas, grind them intopieces; whether you fly about like birds at night, or whether they have offered obstruction to the sacred sacrifice.
Mandala 7, Sukta 104, Verse 19
Sanskrit: प्र वर्तय दिवो अश्मानमिन्द्र सोमशितं मघवन्त्सं शिशाधि । प्राक्तादपाक्तादधरादुदक्तादभि जहि रक्षसः पर्वतेन ॥
Transliteration: pra vartaya divo aśmānamindra somaśitaṃ maghavantsaṃ śiśādhi | prāktādapāktādadharādudaktādabhi jahi rakṣasaḥ parvatena ||
Translation: Hurl, Indra, your thunderbolt from heaven; sanctify, Maghavan, (the worshipper) sharpened by theSoma; slay with the thunderbolt the rākṣasas, on the eas, on the west, on the south, on the north.
Mandala 7, Sukta 104, Verse 20
Sanskrit: एत उ त्ये पतयन्ति श्वयातव इन्द्रं दिप्सन्ति दिप्सवोऽदाभ्यम् । शिशीते शक्रः पिशुनेभ्यो वधं नूनं सृजदशनिं यातुमद्भ्यः ॥
Transliteration: eta u tye patayanti śvayātava indraṃ dipsanti dipsavo'dābhyam | śiśīte śakraḥ piśunebhyo vadhaṃ nūnaṃ sṛjadaśaniṃ yātumadbhyaḥ ||
Translation: They advance, accompanied by dogs; desirous to destroy him, they assail the indomitable Indra;Śakra whets his thunderbolt for the miscreants; quickly let him hurl the bolt upon the fiends.
Mandala 7, Sukta 104, Verse 21
Sanskrit: इन्द्रो यातूनामभवत्पराशरो हविर्मथीनामभ्याविवासताम् । अभीदु शक्रः परशुर्यथा वनं पात्रेव भिन्दन्त्सत एति रक्षसः ॥
Transliteration: indro yātūnāmabhavatparāśaro havirmathīnāmabhyāvivāsatām | abhīdu śakraḥ paraśuryathā vanaṃ pātreva bhindantsata eti rakṣasaḥ ||
Translation: Indra has ever been the discomfiter of the evil spirits coming to obstruct (the rites of) the offerers ofoblations; Śakra advances, crushing the present rākṣasas, as a hatchet cuts down (the trees of) a forest, as (amallet smashes) the earthen vessels.
Mandala 7, Sukta 104, Verse 22
Sanskrit: उलूकयातुं शुशुलूकयातुं जहि श्वयातुमुत कोकयातुम् । सुपर्णयातुमुत गृध्रयातुं दृषदेव प्र मृण रक्ष इन्द्र ॥
Transliteration: ulūkayātuṃ śuśulūkayātuṃ jahi śvayātumuta kokayātum | suparṇayātumuta gṛdhrayātuṃ dṛṣadeva pra mṛṇa rakṣa indra ||
Translation: Destroy the evil spirit, whether in the form of an owl, or of an owlet, of a dog, or of a duck, of a hawk orof a vulture; slay the rākṣasas, Indra, (with the thunderbolt) as with a stone.
Mandala 7, Sukta 104, Verse 23
Sanskrit: मा नो रक्षो अभि नड्यातुमावतामपोच्छतु मिथुना या किमीदिना । पृथिवी नः पार्थिवात्पात्वंहसोऽन्तरिक्षं दिव्यात्पात्वस्मान् ॥
Transliteration: mā no rakṣo abhi naḍyātumāvatāmapocchatu mithunā yā kimīdinā | pṛthivī naḥ pārthivātpātvaṃhaso'ntarikṣaṃ divyātpātvasmān ||
Translation: Let not the rākṣasas do us harm; let the dawn drive away the pairs of evil spirits exclaiming, "Whatnote is this"; may the earth protect us from terrestrial, the firmament protect us from celestial, wickednesṣ
Mandala 7, Sukta 104, Verse 24
Sanskrit: इन्द्र जहि पुमांसं यातुधानमुत स्त्रियं मायया शाशदानाम् । विग्रीवासो मूरदेवा ऋदन्तु मा ते दृशन्त्सूर्यमुच्चरन्तम् ॥
Transliteration: indra jahi pumāṃsaṃ yātudhānamuta striyaṃ māyayā śāśadānām | vigrīvāso mūradevā ṛdantu mā te dṛśantsūryamuccarantam ||
Translation: Slay, Indra, the Yātudhāna, whether in the form of a man, or of a woman doing mischief by herdeceptions; may those who sport in murder perish dissipated; let them not behold the rising sun.
Mandala 7, Sukta 104, Verse 25
Sanskrit: प्रति चक्ष्व वि चक्ष्वेन्द्रश्च सोम जागृतम् । रक्षोभ्यो वधमस्यतमशनिं यातुमद्भ्यः ॥
Transliteration: prati cakṣva vi cakṣvendraśca soma jāgṛtam | rakṣobhyo vadhamasyatamaśaniṃ yātumadbhyaḥ ||
Translation: Soma, do you and Indra severally watch (the rākṣasas), be vary, be vigilant; hurl the thunderbolt atthe malignant rākṣasas.
Mandala 8, Sukta 1, Verse 1
Sanskrit: मा चिदन्यद्वि शंसत सखायो मा रिषण्यत । इन्द्रमित्स्तोता वृषणं सचा सुते मुहुरुक्था च शंसत ॥
Transliteration: mā cidanyadvi śaṃsata sakhāyo mā riṣaṇyata | indramitstotā vṛṣaṇaṃ sacā sute muhurukthā ca śaṃsata ||
Translation: Repeat, friends, no other praise, be not hurtful (to yourselves); praise together Indra, the showerer (ofbenefits) when the Soma is effused; repeately utter praise (to him).
Mandala 8, Sukta 1, Verse 2
Sanskrit: अवक्रक्षिणं वृषभं यथाजुरं गां न चर्षणीसहम् । विद्वेषणं संवननोभयंकरं मंहिष्ठमुभयाविनम् ॥
Transliteration: avakrakṣiṇaṃ vṛṣabhaṃ yathājuraṃ gāṃ na carṣaṇīsaham | vidveṣaṇaṃ saṃvananobhayaṃkaraṃ maṃhiṣṭhamubhayāvinam ||
Translation: A bull rushing (upon his foes), undecaying, like an ox, the overcomer of (hostile) men, the hater (ofadversaries), the venerable, the displayer of both (enmity and favour), the munificent, the distributor of both(celestial and terrestrial riches).
Mandala 8, Sukta 1, Verse 3
Sanskrit: यच्चिद्धि त्वा जना इमे नाना हवन्त ऊतये । अस्माकं ब्रह्मेदमिन्द्र भूतु तेऽहा विश्वा च वर्धनम् ॥
Transliteration: yacciddhi tvā janā ime nānā havanta ūtaye | asmākaṃ brahmedamindra bhūtu te'hā viśvā ca vardhanam ||
Translation: Although these people worship you, Indra, in many ways to (secure) your protection, (yet) may this ourprayer be throughout all days your magnification.
Mandala 8, Sukta 1, Verse 4
Sanskrit: वि तर्तूर्यन्ते मघवन्विपश्चितोऽर्यो विपो जनानाम् । उप क्रमस्व पुरुरूपमा भर वाजं नेदिष्ठमूतये ॥
Transliteration: vi tartūryante maghavanvipaścito'ryo vipo janānām | upa kramasva pururūpamā bhara vājaṃ nediṣṭhamūtaye ||
Translation: The sages (your worshippers), Maghavan, the overcomers (of foes), the terrifiers of (hostile) people,pass over various (calamities by your aid); come near and bring manysorts of food, and available for ourpreservation.
Mandala 8, Sukta 1, Verse 5
Sanskrit: महे चन त्वामद्रिवः परा शुल्काय देयाम् । न सहस्राय नायुताय वज्रिवो न शताय शतामघ ॥
Transliteration: mahe cana tvāmadrivaḥ parā śulkāya deyām | na sahasrāya nāyutāya vajrivo na śatāya śatāmagha ||
Translation: Wielder of the thunderbolt, I would not sell you for a large price, not for a thousand, nor for tenthousand, nor, opulent bearer of the thunderbolt, for a hundred.
Mandala 8, Sukta 1, Verse 6
Sanskrit: वस्याँ इन्द्रासि मे पितुरुत भ्रातुरभुञ्जतः । माता च मे छदयथः समा वसो वसुत्वनाय राधसे ॥
Transliteration: vasyā~ indrāsi me pituruta bhrāturabhuñjataḥ | mātā ca me chadayathaḥ samā vaso vasutvanāya rādhase ||
Translation: You are more precious, Indra, than my father, or than my brother, who is not affectionate; you, giver ofdwellings, are equal to my mother, for you both render me distinguished on account of celebrity and riches.
Mandala 8, Sukta 1, Verse 7
Sanskrit: क्वेयथ क्वेदसि पुरुत्रा चिद्धि ते मनः । अलर्षि युध्म खजकृत्पुरंदर प्र गायत्रा अगासिषुः ॥
Transliteration: kveyatha kvedasi purutrā ciddhi te manaḥ | alarṣi yudhma khajakṛtpuraṃdara pra gāyatrā agāsiṣuḥ ||
Translation: Where have you gone? Where, indeed, are you now? Verily your mind (wanders) among many(worshippers); martial, valorous Purandara, come here; the chanters are singing (your praise).
Mandala 8, Sukta 1, Verse 8
Sanskrit: प्रास्मै गायत्रमर्चत वावातुर्यः पुरंदरः । याभिः काण्वस्योप बर्हिरासदं यासद्वज्री भिनत्पुरः ॥
Transliteration: prāsmai gāyatramarcata vāvāturyaḥ puraṃdaraḥ | yābhiḥ kāṇvasyopa barhirāsadaṃ yāsadvajrī bhinatpuraḥ ||
Translation: Raise the sacred chant to him who is the destroyer of the cities (of the foes) of his worshipper,(induced) by which may the thunderer come to sit down at the sacrifice of the sons of Kaṇva, and destroy thecities (of their enemies).
Mandala 8, Sukta 1, Verse 9
Sanskrit: ये ते सन्ति दशग्विनः शतिनो ये सहस्रिणः । अश्वासो ये ते वृषणो रघुद्रुवस्तेभिर्नस्तूयमा गहि ॥
Transliteration: ye te santi daśagvinaḥ śatino ye sahasriṇaḥ | aśvāso ye te vṛṣaṇo raghudruvastebhirnastūyamā gahi ||
Translation: Come quickly with those your horses which are vigorous and fleet, and which are traversers of tens, orhundreds, or thousands (of leagues).
Mandala 8, Sukta 1, Verse 10
Sanskrit: आ त्वद्य सबर्दुघां हुवे गायत्रवेपसम् । इन्द्रं धेनुं सुदुघामन्यामिषमुरुधारामरंकृतम् ॥
Transliteration: ā tvadya sabardughāṃ huve gāyatravepasam | indraṃ dhenuṃ sudughāmanyāmiṣamurudhārāmaraṃkṛtam ||
Translation: I invoke today the all-sufficient Indra, as the milch cow yielding abundant milk, of excellent motion, andeasy to be milked; or, as another (form), the vast-dropping, desirable (rain).
Mandala 8, Sukta 1, Verse 11
Sanskrit: यत्तुदत्सूर एतशं वङ्कू वातस्य पर्णिना । वहत्कुत्समार्जुनेयं शतक्रतुः त्सरद्गन्धर्वमस्तृतम् ॥
Transliteration: yattudatsūra etaśaṃ vaṅkū vātasya parṇinā | vahatkutsamārjuneyaṃ śatakratuḥ tsaradgandharvamastṛtam ||
Translation: When Sūrya harassed Etaśa, Śatakratu conveyed (to his aid) Kutsa, the son of Arjuni, with his twoprancing horses (swift) as the wind, and stealthily approached the irresistible Gandharva.
Mandala 8, Sukta 1, Verse 12
Sanskrit: य ऋते चिदभिश्रिषः पुरा जत्रुभ्य आतृदः । संधाता संधिं मघवा पुरूवसुरिष्कर्ता विह्रुतं पुनः ॥
Transliteration: ya ṛte cidabhiśriṣaḥ purā jatrubhya ātṛdaḥ | saṃdhātā saṃdhiṃ maghavā purūvasuriṣkartā vihrutaṃ punaḥ ||
Translation: He who without healing materials before the flow of blood from the necks was the effecter of there-union, the opulent Maghavan, again makes whole the dissevered (parts).
Mandala 8, Sukta 1, Verse 13
Sanskrit: मा भूम निष्ट्या इवेन्द्र त्वदरणा इव । वनानि न प्रजहितान्यद्रिवो दुरोषासो अमन्महि ॥
Transliteration: mā bhūma niṣṭyā ivendra tvadaraṇā iva | vanāni na prajahitānyadrivo duroṣāso amanmahi ||
Translation: May we never be like the abject, Indra, through your favour, nor suffer affliction; may we never be likebranchless trees; for, thunderer, unconsumable (by foes) we glorify you.
Mandala 8, Sukta 1, Verse 14
Sanskrit: अमन्महीदनाशवोऽनुग्रासश्च वृत्रहन् । सकृत्सु ते महता शूर राधसा अनु स्तोमं मुदीमहि ॥
Transliteration: amanmahīdanāśavo'nugrāsaśca vṛtrahan | sakṛtsu te mahatā śūra rādhasā anu stomaṃ mudīmahi ||
Translation: Neither rash nor irate, we verily glorify you, slayer of Vṛtra, may we propitiate you, hero, for once (atleast) by our praise with great (sacrificial) wealth.
Mandala 8, Sukta 1, Verse 15
Sanskrit: यदि स्तोमं मम श्रवदस्माकमिन्द्रमिन्दवः । तिरः पवित्रं ससृवांस आशवो मन्दन्तु तुग्र्यावृधः ॥
Transliteration: yadi stomaṃ mama śravadasmākamindramindavaḥ | tiraḥ pavitraṃ sasṛvāṃsa āśavo mandantu tugryāvṛdhaḥ ||
Translation: If he hear our praise, then may our libations, flowing through the filter, dropping quickly, and diluted withconsecrated water, exhilarate Indra.
Mandala 8, Sukta 1, Verse 16
Sanskrit: आ त्वद्य सधस्तुतिं वावातुः सख्युरा गहि । उपस्तुतिर्मघोनां प्र त्वावत्वधा ते वश्मि सुष्टुतिम् ॥
Transliteration: ā tvadya sadhastutiṃ vāvātuḥ sakhyurā gahi | upastutirmaghonāṃ pra tvāvatvadhā te vaśmi suṣṭutim ||
Translation: Come quickly to-day to the collected laudation of your devoted friend; may the subsidiary praise ofwealthy (worshippers) reach you, but now I wish (to offer) your complete eulogy.
Mandala 8, Sukta 1, Verse 17
Sanskrit: सोता हि सोममद्रिभिरेमेनमप्सु धावत । गव्या वस्त्रेव वासयन्त इन्नरो निर्धुक्षन्वक्षणाभ्यः ॥
Transliteration: sotā hi somamadribhiremenamapsu dhāvata | gavyā vastreva vāsayanta innaro nirdhukṣanvakṣaṇābhyaḥ ||
Translation: Extract the Soma with the bruising stones, wash it with the consecrated waters; (for by so doing) theleaders (of the rain, the Maruts) clothing (the sky with clouds) as with vesture of the hide of the cow, milk, forth(the water) for the rivers.
Mandala 8, Sukta 1, Verse 18
Sanskrit: अध ज्मो अध वा दिवो बृहतो रोचनादधि । अया वर्धस्व तन्वा गिरा ममा जाता सुक्रतो पृण ॥
Transliteration: adha jmo adha vā divo bṛhato rocanādadhi | ayā vardhasva tanvā girā mamā jātā sukrato pṛṇa ||
Translation: Whether come from the earth or the firmament, or the vast luminous (heaven), be magnified by this maydiffusive praise; satisfy, Śatakratu, (my) people.
Mandala 8, Sukta 1, Verse 19
Sanskrit: इन्द्राय सु मदिन्तमं सोमं सोता वरेण्यम् । शक्र एणं पीपयद्विश्वया धिया हिन्वानं न वाजयुम् ॥
Transliteration: indrāya su madintamaṃ somaṃ sotā vareṇyam | śakra eṇaṃ pīpayadviśvayā dhiyā hinvānaṃ na vājayum ||
Translation: Pour out to Indra the most exhilarating, the most excellent Soma, for Śakra cherishes him who isdesirous of food, propitiating him by every pious act.
Mandala 8, Sukta 1, Verse 20
Sanskrit: मा त्वा सोमस्य गल्दया सदा याचन्नहं गिरा । भूर्णिं मृगं न सवनेषु चुक्रुधं क ईशानं न याचिषत् ॥
Transliteration: mā tvā somasya galdayā sadā yācannahaṃ girā | bhūrṇiṃ mṛgaṃ na savaneṣu cukrudhaṃ ka īśānaṃ na yāciṣat ||
Translation: May I never, when importuning you in sacrifices with the effusion of the Soma and with praise, exciteyou like a ferocious lion to wrath; who (is there in the world) that does not solicit his lorḍ
Mandala 8, Sukta 1, Verse 21
Sanskrit: मदेनेषितं मदमुग्रमुग्रेण शवसा । विश्वेषां तरुतारं मदच्युतं मदे हि ष्मा ददाति नः ॥
Transliteration: madeneṣitaṃ madamugramugreṇa śavasā | viśveṣāṃ tarutāraṃ madacyutaṃ made hi ṣmā dadāti naḥ ||
Translation: (May Indra drink) with invogorated strength, the strong exhilarating (Soma) offered with animating(laudation); for in his delight he gives us (a son) the overcomer of all (foes), the humbler of their pride.