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8 Ye Sovrans of the Forest, both swift, with swift pressers press to-day |
Sweet Soma juice for Indra's drink. |
9 Take up in beakers what remains: the Soma on the filter pour, |
and on the ox-hide set the dregs. |
1.1.29 Mantra 29 – Indra (Authors: Sunahsepa Ajigarti; later Devarata Vaisvamitra) |
1 O SOMA DRINKER, ever true, utterly hopeless though we be, |
Do thou, O Indra, give us hope of beauteous horses and of kine, |
In thousands, O most wealthy One. |
2 O Lord of Strength, whose jaws are strong, great deeds are thine, the powerful: |
Do thou, O Indra, give us hope of beauteous horses and of kine, |
In thousands, O most wealthy One. |
3 Lull thou asleep, to wake no more, the pair who on each other look |
Do thou, O Indra, give us, help of beauteous horses and of kine, |
In thousands, O most wealthy One. |
4 Hero, let hostile spirits sleep, and every gentler genius wake: |
Do thou, O Indra,. give us hope of beauteous horses and of kine, |
In thousands, O most wealthy One. |
5 Destroy this ass, O Indra, who in tones discordant brays to thee: |
Do thou, O Indra, give us hope of beauteous horses and of kine, |
In thousands, O most wealthy One. |
6 Far distant on the forest fall the tempest in a circling course! |
Do thou, O Indra, give us hope of beauteous horses and of kine, |
In thousands, O most wealthy One. |
7 Slay each reviler, and destroy him who in secret injures us: |
Do thou, O Indra, give us hope of beauteous horses and of kine |
In thousands, O most wealthy One. |
1.1.30 Mantra 30 – Indra (Authors: Sunahsepa Ajigarti; later Devarata Vaisvamitra) |
1 WE seeking strength with Soma-drops fill full your Indra like a well, |
Most liberal, Lord of Hundred Powers, |
2 Who lets a hundred of the pure, a thousand of the milk-blent draughts |
Flow, even as down a depth, to him; |
3 When for the strong, the rapturous joy he in this manner hath made room |
Within his belly, like the sea. |
4 This is thine own. Thou drawest near, as turns a pigeon to his mate: |
Thou carest too for this our prayer. |
5 O Hero, Lord of Bounties, praised in hymns, may power and joyfulness |
Be his who sings the laud to thee. |
6 Lord of a Hundred Powers, stand up to lend us succour in this fight |
In others too let us agree. |
7 In every need, in every fray we call as friends to succour us |
Indra the mightiest of all. |
8 If he will hear us let him come with succour of a thousand kinds, |
And all that strengthens, to our call. |
9 I call him mighty to resist, the Hero of our ancient home, |
Thee whom my sire invoked of old. |
10 We pray to thee, O much-invoked, rich in all prccious gifts, O Friend, |
Kind God to those who sing thy praise. |
11 O Soma-drinker, Thunder-armed, Friend of our lovely-featured dames |
Ano Bhadraha Kritavayo Yantu Vishwataha (Let noble thoughts come from every side) – Rg Veda |
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Vishva Dharma ki Jay! (Victory to Universal Dharma!) |
And of our Soma-drinking friends. |
12 Thus, Soma-drinker, may it be; thus, Friend, who wieldest thunder, act |
To aid each wish as we desire. |
13 With Indra splendid feasts be ours, rich in all strengthening things wherewith, |
Wealthy in food, we may rejoice. |
14 Like thee, thyself, the singers' Friend, thou movest, as it were, besought, |
Bold One, the axle of the car. |
15 That, Satakratu, thou to grace and please thy praisers, as it were, |
Stirrest the axle with thy strength. |
16 With champing, neighing loudly-snorting horses Indra hath ever won himself great treasures |
A car of gold hath he whose deeds are wondrous received from us, and let us too receive it. |
17 Come, Asvins, with enduring strength wealthy in horses and in kine, |
And gold, O ye of wondrous deeds. |
18 Your chariot yoked for both alike, immortal, ye of mighty acts, |
Travels, O Aivins, in the sea. |
19 High on the forehead of the Bull one chariot wheel ye ever keep, |
The other round the sky revolves. |
20 What mortal, O immortal Dawn, enjoyeth thee? Where lovest thou? |
To whom, O radiant, dost thou go? |
21 For we have had thee in our thoughts whether anear or far away, |
Red-hued and like a dappled mare. |
22 Hither, O Daughter of the Sky, come thou with these thy strengthenings, |
And send thou riches down to us. |
1.1.31 Mantra 31 – Agni (Author: Hiranyastupa Angiras) |
1 Thou, Agni, wast the earliest Angiras, a Seer; thou wast, a God thyself, the Gods' auspicious Friend. |
After thy holy ordinance the Maruts, sage, active through wisdom, -with their glittering spears, were |
born. |
2 O Agni, thou, the best and earliest Angiras, fulfillest as a Sage the holy law of Gods. |
Sprung from two mothers, wise, through all existence spread, resting in many a place for sake of living |
man. |
3 To Matarisvan first thou, Agni, wast disclosed, and to Vivasvan through thy noble inward power. |
Heaven and Earth, Vasu! shook at the choosing of the Priest: the burthen thou didst bear, didst worship |
mighty Gods. |
4 Agni thou madest heaven to thunder for mankind; thou, yet more pious, for pious Pururavas. |
When thou art rapidly freed from thy parents, first eastward they bear thee round, and, after, to the |
west. |
5 Thou, Agni, art a Bull who makes our store increase, to be invoked by him who lifts the ladle up. |
Well knowing the oblation with the hallowing word, uniting all who live, thou lightenest first our folk |
6 Agni, thou savest in the synod when pursued e'en him, farseeing One! who walks in evil ways. |
Thou, when the heroes fight for spoil which men rush, round, slayest in war the many by the hands of |
few. |
7 For glory, Agni, day by day, thou liftest up the mortal man to highest immortality, |
Even thou who yearning for both races givest them great bliss, and to the prince grantest abundant |