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Mandala IV

HYMN XXVIII. Indra-Soma.

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ALLIED with you, in this your friendship, Soma, Indra made the rivers flow together, Slain Ahi, and sent forth the Seven Rivers, and opened as it were obstructed fountains.

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Indu, with you as your confederate, Indra swiftly with might pressed down the wheel of Surya. What rolled, all life’s support, on heaven’s high summit was separated from the great oppressor.

3

Indra smote down, Agni consumed, O Indu, the Dasyus ere the noontide in the conflict. Of those who gladly sought a hard-won dwelling he cast down many a thousand with his arrow.

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Lower than all besides hast thou, O Indra, cast down the Dasyus, abject tribes of Dāsas. Ye drove away, ye put to death the foemen, and took great vengeance with your murderous weapons.

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So, of a truth, Indra and Soma, Heroes, ye burst the stable of the kine and horses, The stable which the bar or stone obstructed; and piercing through set free the habitations.

Source: Sacred Texts Archive
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