{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/rigveda/rv01063.htm","path":"hin/rigveda/rv01063.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda/rv01063.htm","text":"Rig Veda, tr. by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1896]\n1. THOU art the Mighty One; when born, O Indra, with power thou terrifiedst earth and heaven;\n When, in their fear of thee, all firm-set mountains and monstrous creatures shook like dust before thee.\n 2 When thy two wandering Bays thou drawest hither, thy praiser laid within thine arms the thunder,\n Wherewith, O Much-invoked, in will resistless, thou smitest foemen down and many a castle.\n 3 Faithful art thou, these thou defiest, Indra; thou art the \u1e5abhus' Lord, heroic, victor.\n Thou, by his side, for young and glorious Kutsa, with steed and car in battle slewest \u015au\u1e63\u1e47a,\n 4 That, as a friend, thou furtheredst, O Indra, when, Thunderer, strong in act, thou crushedst V\u1e5btra;\n When, Hero, thou, great-souled, with easy conquest didst rend the Dasyus in their\n distant dwelling.\n 5 This doest thou, and art not harmed, O Indra, e\u2019en in the anger of the strongest mortal.\n Lay thou the race-course open for our horses: as with a club, slay, Thunder-armed! our foemen.\n 6 Hence men invoke thee, Indra, in the tumult of battle, in the light-bestowing conflict.\n This aid of thine, O Godlike One, was ever to be implored in deeds of might in combat.\n 7 Warring for Purukutsa thou, O Indra, Thunder-armed! breakest down the seven castles;\n Easily, for Sud\u0101s, like grass didst rend them, and out of need, King, broughtest gain to P\u016bru.\n 8 O Indra, God who movest round about us, feed us with varied food plenteous as water\u2014\n Food wherewithal, O Hero, thou bestowest vigour itself to flow to us for ever.\n 9 Prayers have been made by Gotamas, O Indra, addressed to thee, with laud for thy Bay Horses.\n Bring us in noble shape abundant riches. May he, enriched with prayer, come soon and early.","title":"Rig Veda: Rig-Veda Book 1: HYMN LXIII. Indra.","type":"page"}