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1. THAT which
is wealthiest, Wealthy God in splendoursmost illustrious,
Soma is pressed: thy gladdening
draught, Indra! libation's Lord! is this.
2 Effectual,
Most Effectual One! thine, as bestowing wealth of hymns,
Soma is pressed: thy gladdening
draught, Indra! libation's Lord! is this.
3 Wherewith
thou art increased in strength, and conquerest with thy proper aids,
Soma is pressed: thy gladdening
draught, Indra! libation's Lord! is this.
4 Him for your
sake I glorify as Lord of Strength who wrongeth none,
The Hero Indra, conquering all,
Most Bounteous, God of all the tribes.
5 Those
Goddesses, both Heaven and Earth, revere the power and might of him,
Him whom our songs increase in
strength, the Lord of bounty swift to come.
6 To seat your
Indra, I will spread abroad with power this song of praise.
The saving succours that abide
in him, like songs, extend and grow.
7 A recent
Friend, he found the skilful priest: he drank, and showed forth treasure from
the Gods.
He conquered, borne by strong
all-shaking mares, and was with far-spread power his friends' Protector.
8 In course of
Law the sapient juice was quaffed: the Deities to glory turned their mind.
Winning through hymns a lofty
title, he, the Lovely, made his beauteous form apparent.
9 Bestow on us
the most illustrious strength ward off men's manifold malignities.
Give with thy might abundant
vital force, and aid us graciously in gaining riches.
10 We turn to
thee as Giver, liberal Indra. Lord of the Bay Steeds, be not thou ungracious.
No friend among mankind have we
to lookto: why have men called thee him who spurs the niggard?
11 Give us not
up, Strong Hero! to the hungry: unharmed be we whom thou, so rich, befriendest.
Full many a boon hast thou for
men demolish those who present no gifts nor pour oblations.
12 As Indra
thundering impels the rain-clouds, so doth he send us store of kine and horses.
Thou art of old the Cherisher
of singers let not the rich who bring no gifts deceive thee.
13 Adbyaryu,
hero, bring to mighty Indrafor he is King thereof-the pressed-out juices;
To him exalted by the hymns and
praises, ancient and modern, of the singing Rsis.
14 In the wild
joy of this hath Indra, knowing full many a form, struck down resistless
Vrtras.
Proclaim aloud to him the
savoury Soma so that the Hero, strong of jaw, may drink it.
15 May Indra
drink this Soma poured to please him, and cheered therewith slay Vrtra with his
thunder.
Come to our sacrifice even from
a distance, good lover of our songs, the bard's Supporter.
16 The cup
whence Indra drinks the draught is present: the Amrta dear to Indra hath been
drunken,
That it may cheer the God to
gracious favour, and keep far from us hatred and affliction.
17 Therewith
enraptured, Hero, slay our foemen, the unfriendly, Maghavan be they kin or
strangers,
Those who still aim their
hostile darts to smite us, turn them to flight, O Indra, crush and kill them.
18 O Indra
Maghavan, in these our battles win easy paths for us and ample freedom.
That we may gain waters and
seed and offspring, set thou our princes on thy side, O Indra.
19 Let thy Bay
Stallions, harnessed, bring thee hither, Steeds with strong chariot and strong
reins to hold them,
Strong Horses, speeding hither,
bearing thunder, well-harnessed, for the strong exciting potion.
20 Beside the
vat, Strong God! stand thy strong Horses, shining with holy oil, like waves
exulting.
Indra, they bring to thee, the
Strong and Mighty, Soma of juices shed by mighty press-stones.
21 Thou art
the Bull of earth, the Bull of heaven, Bull of the rivers, Bull of standing
waters.
For thee, the Strong, O Bull,
hath Indu swollen. juice pleasant, sweet to drink, for thine election.
22 This God,
with might, when first he had his being, with Indra for ally, held fast the
Pani.
This Indu stole away the
warlike weapons, and foiled the arts of his malignant father.
23 The Dawns
he wedded to a glorious Consort, and set within the Sun the light that lights
him.
He found in heaven, in the
third lucid regions, the threefold Amrta in its close concealment.
24 He stayed
and held the heaven and earth asunder: the chariot with the sevenfold reins he
harnessed.
This Soma Set with power within
the milch-kine a spring whose ripe contents ten fingers empty.
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