Rig Veda 4.30

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O Indra, Vritra-slayer, none is better, mightier than thou: Verily there is none like thee.

satrā te anu kṛṣṭayo viśvā cakreva vāvṛtuḥ satrā mahāṁ asi śrutaḥ

Like chariot-wheels these people all together follow after thee: Thou ever art renowned as Great.

viśve caned anā tvā devāsa indra yuyudhuḥ yad ahā naktam ātiraḥ

Not even all the gathered Gods conquered thee, Indra, in the war, When thou didst lengthen days by night.

yatrota bādhitebhyaś cakraṃ kutsāya yudhyate muṣāya indra sūryam

When for the sake of those oppressed, and Kutsa as he battled, Thou stolest away the Sun's car-wheel.

yatra devāṁ ṛghāyato viśvāṁ ayudhya eka it tvam indra vanūṃr ahan

When, fighting singly, Indra. thou o'ercamest all the furious Gods, Thou slewest those who strove with thee.

yatrota martyāya kam ariṇā indra sūryam prāvaḥ śacībhir etaśam

When also for a mortal man, Indra, thou speddest forth the Sun, And holpest Etasa with might.

kim ād utāsi vṛtrahan maghavan manyumattamaḥ atrāha dānum ātiraḥ

What? Vritra-slayer, art not thou, Maghavan, fiercest in thy wrath? So hast thou quelled the demon too.

etad ghed uta vīryam indra cakartha pauṃsyam striyaṃ yad durhaṇāyuvaṃ vadhīr duhitaraṃ divaḥ

And this heroic deed of might thou, Indra, also hast achieved, That thou didst smite to death the Dame, Heaven's Daughter, meditating ill.

divaś cid ghā duhitaram mahān mahīyamānām uṣāsam indra sam piṇak

Thou, Indra, Mighty One, didst crush Ushas, though Daughter of the Sky. When lifting up herself in pride.

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Then from her chariot Ushas fled, affrighted, from her ruined car. When the strong God had shattered it.

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So there this car of Ushas lay, broken to pieces, in Vipas, And she herself fled far away.

uta sindhuṃ vibālyaṃ vitasthānām adhi kṣami pari ṣṭhā indra māyayā

Thou, Indra, didst. with magic power resist the overflowing stream Who spread her waters o'er the land.

uta śuṣṇasya dhṛṣṇuyā pra mṛkṣo abhi vedanam puro yad asya saṃpiṇak

Valiantly didst thou seize and take the store which Sushna had amassed, When thou didst crush his fortresses.

uta dāsaṃ kaulitaram bṛhataḥ parvatād adhi avāhann indra śambaram

Thou, Indra, also smotest down Kulitara's son Sambara, The Dasa, from the lofty hill.

uta dāsasya varcinaḥ sahasrāṇi śatāvadhīḥ adhi pañca pradhīṃr iva

Of Dasa Varchin's thou didst slay the hundred thousand and the five, Crushed like the fellies, of a car.

uta tyam putram agruvaḥ parāvṛktaṃ śatakratuḥ uktheṣv indra ābhajat

So Indra, Lord of Heroes, Powers, caused the unwedded damsel's son, The castaway, to share the lauds.

uta tyā turvaśāyadū asnātārā śacīpatiḥ indro vidvāṁ apārayat

So sapient Indra, Lord of Might, brought Turvaga and Yadu, those Who feared the flood, in safely o'er.

uta tyā sadya āryā sarayor indra pārataḥ arṇācitrarathāvadhīḥ

Arpa and Chitraratha, both Aryas, thou, Indra, slewest swift, On yonder side of Sarayu,

anu dvā jahitā nayo 'ndhaṃ śroṇaṃ ca vṛtrahan na tat te sumnam aṣṭave

Thou, Vritra-slayer, didst conduct those two forlorn, the blind, the lame. None may attain this bliss of thine.

śatam aśmanmayīnām purām indro vy āsyat divodāsāya dāśuṣe

For Divodasa, him who brought oblation, 1ndra overthrew A hundred fortresses of stone.

asvāpayad dabhītaye sahasrā triṃśataṃ hathaiḥ dāsānām indro māyayā

The thirty thousand Disas he with magic power and weapons sent To slumber, for Dabhiti's sake.

sa ghed utāsi vṛtrahan samāna indra gopatiḥ yas tā viśvāni cicyuṣe

As such, O Vritra-slayer, thou art general Lord of kine for all, Thou Shaker of all things that be.

uta nūnaṃ yad indriyaṃ kariṣyā indra pauṃsyam adyā nakiṣ ṭad ā minat

Indra, whatever deed of might thou hast this day to execute, None be there now to hinder it.

vāmaṃ vāmaṃ ta ādure devo dadātv aryamā vāmam pūṣā vāmam bhago vāmaṃ devaḥ karūﾱatī

O Watchful One, may Aryaman the God give thee all goodly things. May Risan, Bhaga, and the God Karulati give all things fair.