HYMN XII. Indra.
1. JOY, Mightiest Indra, known and marked, sprung most from Soma-draughts, wherewith
Thou smitest down the greedy fiend, for that we long.
2. Wherewith thou bolpest Adhrigu, the great Dasagva, and the God
Who stirs the sunlight, and the sea, for that we long.
3. Wherewith thou dravest forth like cars Sindhu and all the mighty floods
To go the way ordained by Law, for that we long.
4. Accept this laud for aid, made pure like oil, thou Caster of the Stone,
Whereby even in a moment thou hast waxen great.
5. Be pleased, Song-lover, with this song it flows abundant like the sea.
Indra, with all thy succours thou hast waxen great.
6. The God who from afar hath sent gifts to maintain our friendship’s bond,
Thou. spreading them like rain from heaven, hast waxen great.
7. The beams that mark him have grown strong, the thunder rests between his arms,
When, like the Sun, he hath increased both Heaven and Earth.
8. When, Mighty Lord of Heroes, thou didst cat a thousand buffaloes,
Then grew and waxed exceeding great thine Indra-power.
9. Indra consumeth with the rays of Surya the malicious man:
Like Agni conquering the woods, he hath grown strong.
10. This newest thought of ours that suits the time approaches unto thee:
Serving, beloved in many a place it metes and marks.
11. The pious germ of sacrifice directly purifies the soul.
By Indra’s lauds it waxes great, it metes and marks.
12. Indra who wins the friend hath spread himself to drink the Soma-draught:
Like worshipper’s dilating praise; it metes and marks.
13. He whom the sages, living men, have gladdened, offering up their hymns,
Hath swelled like oil of sacrifice in Agni’s mouth.
14. Aditi also hath brought forth a hymn for Indra, Sovran Lord:
The work of sacrifice for help is glorified.
15. The ministering priests have sung their songs for aid and eulogy:
God, thy Bays turn not from the rite which Law ordains.
16. If, Indra, thou drink Soma by Visnu’s or Trta Aptya’s side,
Or with the Maruts take delight in flowing drops;
17. Or, Sakra, if thou gladden thee afar or in the sea of air,
Rejoice thee in this juice of ours, in flowing drops.
18. Or, Lord of Heroes if thou aid the worshipper who shed; the, juice,
Or him whose laud delights thee, and his flowing drops.
19. To magnify the God, the God, Indra, yea, Indra for your help,
And promptly end the sacrifice-this have they gained.
20. With worship, him whom men adore, with Soma, him who drinks it most,
Indra with lauds have they increasedthis have they gained.
21. His leadings are with power and might and his instructions manifold:
He gives the worshipper all wealth: this have they gained.
22. For slaying Vrtra have the Gods set Indra in the foremost place.
Indra the choral bands have sung, for vigorous strength.
23. We to the Mighty with our might, with lauds to him who hears our call,
With holy hymns have sung aloud, for vigorous strength.
24. Not earth, nor heaven, nor firmaments contain the Thunder-wielding God:
They shake before his violent rush and vigorous strength.
25. What time the Gods, O Indra, get thee foremost in the furious fight,
Then thy two beautiful Bay Steeds carried thee on.
26. When Vrtra, stayer of the floods, thou si”est, Thundeicr with might,
Then thy two beautiful Bay Steeds carried thee on.
27. When Visnu, through thine energy, strode wide those three great steps of his,
Then thy two beautiful Bay Steeds carried thee on.
28. When thy two beautiful Bay Steeds grew great and greater day by day,
Even then all creatures that had life bowed down to thee.
29. When, Indra, all the Marut folk humbly submitted them to thee,
Even then all creatures that had life bowed down to thee.
30. When yonder Sun, that brilliant light, thou settest in the heaven above,
Even then all creatures that had life bowed down to thee.
31. To thee, O Indra, with this thought the sage lifts up this eulogy,
Akin and leading as on foot to sacrifice.
32. When in thine own dear dwelling all gathered have lifted up the voice
Milk-streams at worship’s central spot, for sacrifice,
33. As Priest, O Indra, give us wealth in brave men and good steeds ana kine
That we may first remember thee for sacrifice.
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HYMN XIII. Indra.
1. INDRA, when Soma juices flow, makes his mind pure and meet for lauds.
He gains the power that brings success, for great is he.
2. In heaven’s first region, in the seat of Gods, is he who brings success,
Most glorious, prompt to save, who wins the water-floods.
3. Him, to win strength, have I invoked, even Indra mighty for the fray.
Be thou most near to us for bliss, a Friend to aid.
4. Indra, Song -lover, here for thee the worshipper’s libation flows.
Rejoicing in this sacred grass thou shinest forth.
5. Even now, O Indra, give us that which, pressing juice, we crave of thee.
Bring us wealth manifold which finds the light of heaven.
6. What time the zealous worshipper hath boldly sung his songs to thee,
Like branches of a tree up-grows what they desire.
7. Generate songs even as of old, give car unto the singer’s call.
Thou for the pious hast grown great at each carouse.
8. Sweet strains that glorify him play like waters speeding down a slope,
Yea, him who in this song is called the Lord of Heaven;
9. Yea, who alone is called the Lord, the single Ruler of the folk,
By worshippers seeking aid: may he joy in the draught.
10. Praise him, the Glorious, skilled in song, Lord of the two victorious Bays:
They seek the worshipper’s abode who bows in prayer.
11. Put forth thy strength: with dappled Steeds come, thou of mighty intellect,
With swift Steeds to the sacrifice, for ’tis thy joy.
12. Grant wealth to those who praise thee, Lord of Heroes, Mightiest Indra: give
Our princes everlasting fame and opulence.
13. I call thee when the Sun is risen, I call thee at the noon of day:
With thy car-horses, Indra, come wellpleased to us.
14. Speed forward hither, come to us, rejoice thee in the milky draught:
Spin out the thread of ancient time, as well is known.
15. If, Sakra, Vrtra-slayer, thou be far away or near to us.
Or in the sea, thou art the guard of Soma juice.
16. Let songs we sing and Soma-drops expressed by us make Indra strong:
The tribes who bring oblations find delight in him.
17. Him sages longing for his aid, with offerings brought in eager haste,
Him. even as branches, all mankind have made to grow.
18. At the Trkadrukas the Gods span sacrifice that stirred the mind:
May our songs strengthen him who still hath strengthened us.
19. When, true to duty, at due times the worshipper offers lauds to thee,
They call him Purifier, Pure, and Wonderful.
20. That mind of Rudra, fresh and strong, moves conscious in the ancient ways,
With reference whereto the wise have ordered this.
21. If thou elect to be my Friend drink of this sacrificial juice,
By help whereof we may subdue all enemies.
22. O Indra, Lover of the song, when shall thy praiser be most blest?
When wilt thou grant us wealth in herds of kine and steeds?
23. And thy two highIy-lauded Bays, strong stallions, draw thy car who art
Untouched by age, most gladdening car for which we pray.
24. With ancient offerings we implore the Young and Strong whom many praise.
He from of old hath sat upon dear sacred grass.
25. Wax miglity, thou whom many laud for aids which Rsis have extolled.
Pour down for us abundant food and guard us well.
26. O Indra, Caster of the Stone, thou helpest him who praises thee:
From sacrifice I send to thee a mindyoked hymn.
27. Here, yoking for the Soma-draught these Horses, sharers of thy feast,
Thy Bay Steeds, Indra, fraught with weal tb, consent to come.
28. Attendants on thy glory, let the Rudras roar assent to thee,
And all the Marut companies come tothe feast.
29. These his victorious followers bold in the heavens the place they love,
Leagued in the heart of sacrifice, as well we know.
30. That we may long behold the light, what time the ordered rite proceeds,
He duly measures, as he views, the sacrifice.
31. O Indra, strong is this thy car, and strong are these Bay Steeds of thine:
O Satakratu, thou art strong, strong is our call.
32. Strong is the press-stone, strong thy joy, strong is the flowing Soma juice:
Strong is the rite thou furtherest, strong is our call.
33. As strong I call on thee the Strong, O Thunderer with thy thousand aids:
For thou hast won the hymn of praise. Strong is our call.
HYMN XIV. Indra.
1. IF I, O Indra, were, like thee, the single Sovran of all wealth,
My worshipper should be rich in kine.
2. I should be fain, O Lord of Power, to strengthen and enrich the sage,
Were I the Lord of herds of kine.
3. To worshippers who press the juice thy goodness, Indra, is a cow
Yielding in plenty kine and steeds.
4. None is there, Indra, God or man, to hinder thy munificence,
The wealth which, lauded, thou wilt give.
5. The sacrifice made Indra strong when he unrolled the earth, and made
Himself a diadem in heaven.
6. Thine aid we claim, O Indra, thine who after thou hast waxen great
Hast won all treasures for thine own.
7. In Soma’s ecstasy Indra spread the firmament and realms of light,
When he cleft Vala limb from limb.
8. Showing the hidden he drave forth the cows for the Angirases,
And Vala he cast headlong down.
9. By Indra were the lumirious realms of heaven established and secured,
Firm and immovable from their place.
10. Indra, thy laud moves quickly like a joyous wave of water-floods:
Bright shine the drops that gladden thee.
11. For thou, O Indra, art the God whom hymns and praises magnify:
Thou blessest those who worship thee.
12. Let the two long-maned Bay Steeds bring Indra to drink the Soma juice,
The Bountiful to our sacrifice.
13. With waters’ foam thou torest off, Indra, the head of Namuci,
Subduing all contending hosts.
14. The Dasyus, when they fain would climb
by magic arts and mount to heaven,
Thou, Indra, castest down to earth.
15. As Soma-drinker conquering all, thou scatteredst to every side
Their settlement who poured no gifts.
HYMN XV. Indra.
1. SING forth to him whom many men invoke, to him whom many laud.
Invite the powerful Indra with your songs of praise.
2. Whose lofty might-for doubly strong is he-supports the heavens and earth,
And hills and plains and floods and light with manly power.
3. Such, Praised by many! thou art King alone thou smitest Vrtras dead,
To gain, O Indra, spoils of war and high renown.
4. We sing this strong and wild delight of thine which conquers in the fray,
Which, Caster of the Stone! gives room and shines like gold.
5. Wherewith thou also foundest lights for Ayu and for Manu’s sake:
Now joying in this sacred grass thou beamest forth.
6. This day too singers of the hymn praise, as of old, this might of thine:
Win thou the waters day by day, thralls of the strong.
7. That lofty Indra-power of thine, thy strength and thine intelligence,
Thy thunderbolt for which we long, the wish makes keen.
8. O Indra, Heaven and Earth augment thy manly power and thy renown;
The waters and thy mountains stir and urge thee on.
9. Visnu the lofty ruling Power, Varuna, Mitra sing thy praise:
In thee the Marut3′ company have great delight.
10. O Indra, thou wast born the Lord of men, most liberal of thy gifts:
Excellent deeds for evermore are all thine own.
11. Ever, alone, O highly-praised, thou sendest Vrtras to their rest:
None else than Indra executes the mighty deed.
12. Though here and there, in varied hymns, Indra, men call on thee for aid,
Still with our heroes fight and win the light of heaven.
13. Already have all forms of him entered our spacious dwelling-place:
For victory stir thou Indra, up, the Lord of Might.
