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Mandala VIII

HYMN LXXXIX Indra. Vāk.

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I AM PRESENT HERE IN PERSON, AND ALL THE DEITIES FOLLOW BEHIND ME. When, Indra, you secure my portion, we will perform heroic deeds together.

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I GIVE YOU THE MEAT FOOD IN FRONT OF ME, YOUR SOMA WILL BE PRESSED, AND YOUR SHARE WILL BE APPOINTED. You shall stand on my right as my friend and comrade. Then we shall kill many enemies.

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FOR STRENGTH, BRING A LAUD TO INDRA, A TRUTHFUL HYMN IF HE EXISTS TRULY. ONE AND ANOTHER SAY, THERE IS NO INDRA. WHO HAS SEEN HIM? WHOM THEN SHALL WE HONOR?

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HERE I AM, LOOK UPON ME, O SINGER. ALL THAT EXISTETH 1 SURPASSE IN GREATNESS. The HOLY LAW'S COMMANDMENTS MAKE ME MIGHTY. WITH STRENGTH I REND THE WORLDS ASUNDER.

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WHEN THE LAW'S LOVERS MOUNTED AND APPROACHED ME AS I SAT ALONE ON THE DEAR SKY'S SUMMIT, THEN MY SPIRIT TALKED TO THE HEART WITHIN ME. MY FRIENDS CRIED TO ME WITH THEIR CHILDREN.

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ALL THESE THY DEEDS MUST BE DECLARED AT SOMA FEASTS, WORKED, INDRA, BOUNTIOUS LORD, FOR HIM WHO SHEDS THE JUICE, WHEN YOU OPENED WEALTH HEAPED UP BY MANY, Brought FROM FAR AWAY TO SARABLIYA, THE ṚṢI'S KIN.

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NOW RUN YOUR SEVERAL WAYS: HE IS NOT HERE WHO KEPT YOU BACK. FOR HAS NOT INDRA SUNK HIS BOLT DEEP DOWN IN VṚTRA'S VITAL PART?

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ON-RUSHING WITH THE SPEED OF THOUGHT WITHIN THE IRON FORT, HE PRESSED: THE FALCON WENT TO HEAVEN AND BROUGHT THE SOMA TO THE THUNDERER.

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DEEP IN THE OCEAN LIES THE BOLT WITH WATER COMPASSED AROUND IT, AND IN CONTINUOUS ONWARD FLOW THE FLOWS THEIR TITHE TO IT.

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WHEN, UTTERING WORDS WHICH NO ONE COMPREHENDED, VĀK, QUEEN OF GODS, THE GLADDENER, WAS SEATED, THE HE

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