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Mandala I

HYMN XXX. Indra.

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We seek strength with Soma drops, fill full your Indra like a well, Most liberal, Lord of Hundred Powers,

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Who lets a hundred of the pure, a thousand of the milk-blent draughts Flow, even as down a depth, to him;

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When for the strong, the rapturous joy he makes room within his belly, Like the sea.

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This is yours. You draw near, as a pigeon to its mate: You care for this our prayer.

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O Hero, Lord of Bounties, praised in hymns, may power and joyfulness Be his who sings the laud to you.

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Lord of a Hundred Powers, stand up to lend us succour in this fight In others too let us agree.

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In every need, in every fray we call as friends to succour us Indra the mightiest of all.

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If he will hear us let him come with succour of a thousand kinds, And all that strengthens, to our call.

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I call him mighty to resist, the Hero of our ancient home, Thee whom my sire invoked of old.

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We pray to thee, O much-invoked, rich in all precious gifts, O Friend, Kind God to those who sing thy praise.

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O Soma-drinker, Thunder-armed, Friend of our lovely-featured dames And of our Soma-drinking friends.

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Thus, Soma-drinker, may it be; thus, Friend, who wieldeth thunder, act To aid each wish as we desire.

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With Indra splendid feasts be ours, rich in all strengthening things wherewith, Wealthy in food, we may rejoice.

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Like thee, thyself, the singers' Friend, thou movest, as it were, besought, Bold One, the axle of the car.

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That, Śatakratu, thou to grace and please thy praisers, as it were, Stirrst the axle with thy strength.

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With champing, neighing loudly-snorting horses Indra hath ever won himself great treasures A car of gold hath he whose deeds are wondrous received from us, and let us too receive it.

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Come, Aśvins, with enduring strength wealthy in horses and in kine, And gold, O ye of wondrous deeds.

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Your chariot yoked for both alike, immortal, ye of mighty acts, Trav

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