1.  Real, having a direct impact, may he, the generous one, arrive here,
    may the tawny ones rush towards us!
    Just for him I have extracted well-discerning herb;
    being extolled he [will] stay here for a while.

2.  Unharness [your horses], O agent of change, as if at the end of leading to a goal road ---
    to become inflamed today at this our [Soma] pressing,
    so that an adept would recite, like Uśanas, a verse,
    a manic thought for the sake of watchful guidance.
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3.  Like poet illuminates what is hidden, the bull [is] bringing to realization knowledge-sharing sessions ---
    when drinking up the libation;
    since he illuminates with stanzas, he should have begot the seven singers of the Heaven;
    throughout the day the extolling ones make enticements [for him].

4.  When easy to behold svar should have been found by means of hymns of illumination,
    in the morning, when indeed [the hymns] have shined extensive light,
    the most-manly-in-assissting one made [it possible] for men
    to see clearly blinding turbid mental obscurations.

5.  Indra, has grown immensely; having direct impact, 
    he, exalting, filled both Rodas-es;
    also, from that time his power to increase-in-size, which has become dominating all places of existence,
    was extended beyond [the original domain].

6.  Together with dispassionate companions, he, capable,
    having found all suitable to men [places of existence], set free the waters.
    Even those who pierced the stone with speeches,
    they, who strive earnestly, have uncovered the enclosure rich in cows.
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7.  Thou knocked aside Vṛtra that has hindered the waters;
    assenting Earth helped thy thunderbolt;
    thou impelled flooding, flowing into the sea waters forwards
    by means of the impulse to change becoming the master, O daring agent of change!

8.  When thou, O much invoked one, shall break open the rock of the waters,
    Saramā shall appear before thee.
    Such --- being our guide --- thou make plentiful the rush of vigour [that is] accessible [to us]
    [thou,] shattering cow-pens, [thou,] extolled by aṅgiras-es.

9.  Thou, O having manly mindset one, shall approach with an assistance the poet
    who is asking for help in gaining sva`r, O generous one!
    With [various] aids thou shall cast him into the power to illuminate by an invocation ---
    having-powers-to-configure-cognition [but] lacking-a-formula impulse-to-suffer-want shall subside.

10. Journey home with the mind that is slaying the impulse-to-suffer-want;
    with thee being like-minded, Kutsa shall become dispassionate.
    You two, similar [to each other], shall settle to your own womb ---
    the woman¹, noticing coherences, will seek to distinguish you two [from each other].

11. Seeking to help, thou journey on the same chariot with Kutsa.
    [Thou,] the driver of the [vital] air, [thou,] being in charge of the two tawny ones,
    [thou,] seeking to take hold of the two going-straight ones like the prize to be seized ---
    so that on one day the poet would use efforts to end [the impass].

12. For Kutsa thou have pulled in at the start of the day
    unabating Śuṣṇa who is causing lack of barley [and] thousand [obstacles].
    Do crush at the very moment the impulses to suffer want together with what is blamable
    so that during an adversity the inciter would first tear the wheel.

13. Thou should have caused swelled up savage Pipru 
    to subject to Ṛjiśvan Vaidatʰina ---
    thou shall throw down fifty thousand dark ones,²,
    thou shall lacerate the armor like old age [lacerates] the walls [of a city].
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14. Putting one's self in the presence of svar
    so that a phantom of thee, of the imperishable one, is discerned,
    like a wild elephant, [one is] keeping [his] the power to control [himself];
    carrying weapons [one becomes] terrifying like a lion.

15. Seeking-to-be-beneficial longings set out towards Indra
    [they are] satisfied during Soma pressing [that is] as if a contest for svar.
    [You who are] seeking auditory impression, exerting yourselves with recited verses, 
    are delightful as a refuge, [your existence means future] thriving like [that of] a handsome woman.

16. Such --- listening willingly --- Indra we call upon for you ---
    him who has done many manly [deeds],
    who to a praiser like me quickly brings just the prize to be seized --- the rush of vigour,
    who is eager to satisfy his desire [for Soma].
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17. Since in [these] people the scorching flash of lightning
    might occur at any moment, O agent of change,
    since a clash might turn terrifying,
    thou, O to be conducted upwards one, being a protector, do attend to our bodies now and ever.

18. Thou will become promoter of Vāmadeva's visions,
    in obtaining the rush of vigour thou will be a loyal companion,
    we shall ask thee thereupon for the foreseeing care;
    for [this] praiser thou could be on every occasion the one whose blessings are far-ranging.

19. With these seeking thee men, with generous ones,
    O generous one, we, who are raising it up, surpassing [at it others]
    can exhilarate --- like days with powers to illuminate [can] ---
    thee in every contest and for many days and autumns.
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20. Thus for appearing as a bull, being in charge Indra
    we made a formulation³ like Bʰṛgu-s [make] a chariot,
    in such a way that it will never deprive us of [this] companion;
    he, protector of [our] bodies, shall be our ferocious promoter.

21. Now praised, O Indra, now extolled,
    for [this] praiser thou shall swell a libation like [thou swelled] rivers.
    O accompanied-by-tawny-ones one, by means of visualization a novel formulation was made for thee ---
    may we be charioteers who are always gaining!

1.  Thou [are] mighty, O Indra, to thee indeed the Earth,
    the Heaven shall promptly permit supremacy;
    thou, having slayed with the impulse to change Vṛtra,
    shall let loose the rivers that have been devoured by the snake.

2.  The Heaven shall tremble at the birth of thy agitation
    the Earth shall shudder with fear of own zeal,
    strong knotty ones shall rave ---
    deserts dwindled, waters begin to flow.

3.  He, casting with the power to change a thunderbolt, shall pierce the mountain,
    [he,] by being overpowering, revealing the vigour,
    exalting, shall defeat Vṛtra with the thunderbolt;
    the waters, having their bully killed, shall flow with speed.

4.  The Heaven is thought to be thy very manly progenitor;
    the creator of Indra who produced him
    [to be] roaring, having good thunderbolt,
    like the ground of [this] assembly --- not to be budged, should have been most skillful.

5.  Much invoked Indra, who alone causes countries to fall,
    is the king of tribes.
    All rejoice over real him ---
    the gift of deva, of a generous, extolling [him] [patron].

6.  All drops of Soma were always his
    always exhilarating, abundant, most intoxicating;
    thou always were the overseer the benefit of beneficial things,
    [we hope] thou have envisioned all tribes in a share [of those things].

7.  Therefore, thou, being born initially,
    have put, O Indra, all tribes in the state of impetuosity;
    with the thunderbolt thou hew in pieces the snake
    [that was] lying against directed forwards [waters], O generous one!

8.  [I call upon] Indra, always slaying [Vṛtra], courageous, strong,
    mighty, unbounded, resembling a bull, having good thunderbolt,
    [Indra] who is slaying Vṛtra and procuring the rush of vigour
    a giver of gifts, generous, well-satisfying one.
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9.  This one¹ frightens away combined troops 
    [the one,] who, generous [with his voice], is alone heard in battles,
    this one² maintains the rush of vigour which [Indra] procures ---
    would we be favorite of this one³ in like-mindedness [with him]!

10. This one is now heard --- conquering and slaying;
    and this one makes throughout fighting evocative expressions,⁴; 
    whenever Indra makes the anger to become realized
    everything firm, is afraid, shaking --- because of him.

11. Indra put completely under [his] control evocative⁵, enchanting, rhythmical⁶ [expressions],
    he who is generous [also controls] numerous [streams of inner waters].
    Together with these men⁷, he, most manly, by his powers [is]
    an apportioner of the treasure and a bestower of what is beneficial.

12. How much, do you think, Indra learned from the mother,
    how much from the father, from progenitor who produced [him],
    who raises his fervor instantly?
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    Like the wind impelled by thundering clouds,

13. he --- to gain authority --- makes abiding in peace [man] unsettled;
    he, generous [with promises], raises the dust by bringing together [various enticements],
    shattering [resistance of doubters] with loud [voice] like the sky with [its] flash of lightning;
    also, he should have put the praiser [of him] [and of his suggestions] at an advantage.

14. He caused the wheel of the sun⁸ to move quickly;
    he shall make flowing flickering [inner fire] to come to rest;
    leading it astray into the dark [region]
    he throws [it] from the tongue to the base⁹, from luminous region into its womb ---

15. like invoker sacrificing during the dark one¹⁰.
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16. Desiring cows, desiring horses, inwardly excited ones, [call upon] Indra for a companionship,
    practising-rushes-of-vigour ones [call upon] him who is impregnating;
    [we,] seeking wives, rattle as a pail in a well him
    whose side-effects do not taper off, who gives wives.

17. Having shown thyself as an ally, become our defender,
    look favorably and show compassion for those who are inspired by Soma!
    [Become] a companion, the most fatherly father of fathers,
    giving mental and bodily energy creator of a wide [mental] space for him who desires [it]!

18. Become a promoter, a companion of those who seek companionship,
    being extolled, O Indra, thou shall give mental and bodily energy to him who praises [thee] ---
    because for thy sake we, seeking to magnify [thee],
    have urgently performed these labors, O Indra.
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19. Generous Indra is praised because he, all by himself,
    smashes numerous unapproachable obstacles.
    [This] praiser is dear to him under whose protection
    no one is hindered neither by deva-s nor by mortals.

20. Just for us generous exuberant Indra, who is supporting those that draw to themselves,¹¹,
    who is not to be limited, shall make [it all] real! 
    Thou are the chieftain of creatures ---
    share with us fame that [is] gladsome for [this] praiser.

21. Now praised, O Indra, now extolled,
    for [this] praiser thou shall swell the libation like [thou swelled] rivers.
    O accompanied-by-tawny-ones one, by means of visualization a novel formulation was made for thee ---
    may we be charioteers who are always gaining!

1.  This [is] an already known ancient path
    wherefrom¹ all deva-s did emerge.
    From here he can manifest himself fully developed ---
    [but] throughout this [passage²] do not make the mother to fall [down]!
    [Indra:]

2.  I am not going out from there --- that is impassable;
    I will go out transversely, from the side³ ---
    [because] many not-yet-done tasks [are there] for me ---
    to fight with one⁴, to inquire with another⁵.
    [Narrator:]

3.  He looked at going-away mother,
    ``no, I am not following; now I shall seek [Soma]''.
    In the house of Tvaṣṭṛ Indra drank Soma
    that was worth a hundred [gulps] of [milk] extracted in the two bowls⁶.
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4.  What would he, whom she carried a thousand moons
    and many autumns, accomplish singly --- 
    for surely there is no well-matched opponent for him
    amongst those born and [those] who are yet to be born!

5.  The mother, considering endowed with valor Indra
    as something shameful⁷, hid [him],
    but he stood up on his own, wearing armor;
    being born, he filled the two Rodas-es.
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    [The Earth:]

6.  These flow quickly, becoming scrambled 
    as if full of coherence but crying out together;
    do question them what is that they declare,
    what wall-like rock the waters are breaking?

7.  What bits of knowledge do they shout out to him?
    The waters strived to set up Indra's disgrace.
    My son, having slayed Vṛtra with the mighty weapon,
    let these rivers flow.
    [Inner waters:]

8.  ``Because of me the girl has not abandoned thee.''
    ``Because of me Kuṣavā didn't swallow thee.''
    ``Because of me the waters became favorable to the child.''
    ``Because of me Indra stood up forcefully⁸.''

9.  ``Because of me he who has no shoulder-blades, pinning [thee] down
    didn't ward off thy, O generous one, jaws ---
    therefore, being pinned down, [but] having become superior,
    thou shall shatter with the deadly weapon the head of the demon.''
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    [Narrator:]

10. The young cow has begot enduring, having power over evocative expressions,
    not to be meddled with, resembling a bull, strong Indra;
    the mother [produced] unlicked calf to roam about ---
    [him who is] seeking by himself for himself an unimpeded way.

11. And [his] mother motivated the powerful one [thus],
    ``these deva-s abandon thee, son''. 
    Then Indra, who was about to slay Vṛtra, said,
    ``O companion Viṣṇu, do stride [the step that is] leading farther off!''

12. [That Viṣṇu] who has made thy mother a widow?
    Who wanted to bring thee lying down to being moving?
    That deva who was above compassion towards thee
    when thou weared out father seizing [him] by the foot⁹?
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13. In distress I have roasted entrails of a dog ---
    I have found no compassion among deva-s;
    I saw [my] wife being sad ---
    then a hawk brought here for me the honey¹⁰.

1.  Here at this time it is thee, O bearing thunderbolt Indra,
    whom all deva-s --- listening willingly helpers ---
    [thee,] mighty, fullgrown, helping in dire straights, [whom] both Rodas-es
    choose out [of all deva-s] as the only one to strike Vṛtra.

2.  As if they are decrepit the deva-s abandoned [the fight];
    thou, having originated in what's real, are becoming a joint ruler, O Indra,
    thou slayed the snake lying around the flooding waters,
    thou dug out nurturing-everything channels.

3.  Thou, O Indra, without a delay, shall sever with the thunderbolt
    the insatiable, stretched out, lacking wakefulness,
    sleeping, not-being-aware,
    lying against seven directed forwards [waters] snake.
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4.  With the power to change he agitated the deep base
    like wind [agitates] stagnant water; using powers to control, Indra,
    commanding a frenzy, destroyed strongholds;
    he did pierced open the summits¹ of knotty ones.

5.  One after another they burst like women [burst out] a child,
    like chariots the rocks moved simultaneously.
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    Thou caused the diverging flows² to satiate [all muscles], thou shall subdue the waves³,
    thou, O Indra released pent up rivers.

6.  For Turvīti [and his] companion thou [made]
    a mighty all-nourishing stream [to be] flowing;
    thou reverentially made shaking [them] flood to stop;
    thou, O Indra, made the rivers easy to be crossed.