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1. I WILL
declare, while juices flow, the manly deeds that ye have done:
Your Fathers, enemies of Gods,
were smitten down, and, Indra-Agni, ye survive.
2 Thus,
Indra-Agnip verily your greatness merits loftiest praise,
Sprung from one common Father,
brothers, twins are ye; your Mother is in every place.
3 These who
delight in flowing juice, like fellow horses at their food,
Indra and Agni, Gods armed with
the thunderbolt, we call this day to come with help.
4 Indra and
Agni, Friends of Law, served with rich gifts, your speech is kind
To him who praises you while
these libations flow: that man, O Gods, ye ne'er consume.
5 What mortal
understands, O Gods, Indra and Agni, this your way?
One of you, yoking Steeds that
move to every side, advances in your common car.
6 First,
Indra-Agni, hath this Maid come footless unto those with feet.
Stretching her head and
speaking loudly with her tongue, she hath gone downward thirty steps.
7 E'en now, O
Indra-Agni, men hold in their arms and stretch their bows.
Desert us not in this great
fray, in battles for the sake of kine.
8 The foeman's
sinful enmities, Indra and Agni, vex me sore.
Drive those who hate me far
away, and keep them distant from the Sun.
9 Indra and
Agni, yours are all the treasures of the heavens and earth.
Here give ye us the opulence
that prospers every living man.
10 O
Indra-Agni, who accept the laud, and hear us for our praise,
Come near us, drawn by all our
songs, to drink of this our Soma juice.
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