Sama Veda

FIRST PART

BOOK II

Chapter II

Decade IV Indra and Others

1

Tossing about, the active ones came nigh to Indra at his birth,
Winning themselves heroic might.

2

Never, O Gods, do we offend, nor are we ever obstinate
We walk as holy texts command.

3

Evening is come: sing loudly thou Atharvan's nobly singing son:
Give praise to Savitar the God!

4

Now Morning with her earliest light shines forth, dear daughter of the Sky:
High, Asvins, I extol your praise.

5

Armed with the bones of dead Dadhyach, Indra, with unresisted might
The nine-and-ninety Vritras slew.

6

Come, Indra, and delight thee with the juice at all our Soma feasts,
Protector, mighty in thy strength

7

O thou who slayest Vritras, come, O Indra, hither to our side,
Mighty one, with thy mighty aids!

8

That might of his shone brightly forth when Indra brought together, like
A skin, the worlds of heaven and earth,

9

This is thine own Thou drawest near, as turns a pigeon to his mate:
Thou carest, too, for this our prayer.

10

May Vata breathe his balm on us, healthful, delightful to our heart:
May he prolong our days of life