I WILL extol the most heroic Indra who with his might forced earth and sky apart; Who hath filled all with width as man's Upholder, surpassing floods and rivers in his greatness.
Sūrya is he: throughout the wide expanses shall Indra turn him, swift as car-wheels, hither, Like a stream resting not but ever active he hath destroyed, with light, the black-hued darkness.
To him I sing a holy prayer, incessant new, matchless, common to the earth and heaven, Who marks, as they were backs, all living creatures: ne’er doth he fail a friend, the noble Indra.
I will send forth my songs in flow unceasing, like water from the ocean's depth, to Indra. Who to his car on both its sides securely hath fixed the earth and heaven as with an axle.
Rousing with draughts, the Shaker, rushing onward, impetuous, very strong, armed as with arrows Is Soma; forest trees and all the bushes deceive not Indra with their offered likeness.
Soma hath flowed to him whom naught can equal, the earth, the heavens, the firmament, the mountains— When heightened in his ire his indignation shatters the firm and breaks the strong in pieces.
As an axe fells the tree so be slew Vṛtra, brake down the strongholds and dug out the rivers. He cleft the mountain like a new-made pitcher. Indra brought forth the kine with his Companions.
Wise art thou, Punisher of guilt, O Indra. The sword lops limbs, thou smitest down the sinner, The men who injure, as it were a comrade, the lofty Law of Varuṇa and Mitra.
Men who lead evil lives, who break agreements, and injure Varuṇa, Aryaman and Mitra— Against these foes, O Mighty Indra, sharpen, as furious death, thy Bull of fiery colour.
Indra is Sovran Lord of Earth and Heaven, Indra is Lord of waters and of mountains. Indra is Lord of prosperers and sages Indra must be invoked in rest and effort.
Vaster than days and nights, Giver of increase, vaster than firmament and flood of ocean, Vaster than bounds of earth and