{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/rigveda/rv07031.htm","path":"hin/rigveda/rv07031.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda/rv07031.htm","text":"Rig Veda, tr. by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1896]\n1. SING ye a song, to make him glad, to Indra, Lord of Tawny Steeds,\n The Soma-drinker, O my friends.\n 2 To him the Bounteous say the laud, and let us glorify, as men May do, the Giver of true gifts.\n 3 O Indra, Lord of boundless might, for us thou winnest strength and kine,\n Thou winnest gold for us, Good Lord.\n 4 Faithful to thee we loudly sing, heroic Indra, songs to thee: Mark, O Good Lord, this act of ours.\n 5 Give us not up to man's reproach, to foeman's hateful calumny: In thee alone is all my strength.\n 6 Thou art mine ample coat of mail, my Champion, V\u1e5btra-Slayer, thou:\n With thee for Friend I brave the foe.\n 7 Yea, great art thou whose conquering might two independent Powers confess.\n The Heaven, O India, and the Earth.\n 8 So let the voice surround thee, which attends the Maruts on their way,\n Reaching thee with the rays of light.\n 9 Let the ascending drops attain to thee, the Wondrous God, in heaven:\n Let all the folk bow down to thee.\n 10 Bring to the Wise, the Great, who waxeth mighty, your offerings, and make ready your devotion;\n To many clans he goeth, man's controller.\n 11 For Indra, the sublime, the far-pervading, have singers generated prayer and praises:\n The sages never violate his statutes.\n 12 The choirs have stablished Indra King for ever, for victory, him whose anger is resistless:\n And, for the Bays' Lord, strengthened those he loveth.","title":"Rig Veda: Rig-Veda, Book 7: HYMN XXXI. Indra.","type":"page"}