Rig Veda

Mandal - 4 (Part - 4)

HYMN 27 The Falcon

1

I, As I lay within the womb, considered all generations of these Gods in order.
A hundred iron fortresses confined me but forth I flew with rapid speed a Falcon.

2

Not at his own free pleasure did he bear me: he conquered with his strength and manly courage.
Straightway the Bold One left the fiends behind him and passed the winds as he grew yet more
mighty.

3

When with loud cry from heaven down sped the Falcon, thence hasting like the wind he bore the
Bold One.
Then, wildly raging in his mind, the archer Krsanu aimed and loosed the string to strike him.

4

The Falcon bore him from heaven's lofty summit as the swift car of Indra's Friend bore Bhujyu.
Then downward bither fell a flying feather of the Bird hasting forward in his journey.

5

And now let Maghavan accept the beaker, white, filled with milk, filled with the shining liquid;
The best of sweet meath which the priests have offered: that Indra to his joy may drink, the Hero,
that he may take and drink it to his rapture.