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1 GIVE us the rapture that is mightiest, Indra, prompt to bestow and swift to aid, O Hero, That wins with brave steeds where brave steeds encounter, and quells the Vṛtras and the foes in battle.

tuvā́ṃ hí indra ávase vívāco hávante carṣaṇáyaḥ śū́rasātau |
tuváṃ víprebhir ví paṇī́m̐r aśāyas tuvóta ít sánitā vā́jam árvā ||

2 For with loud voice the tribes invoke thee, Indra, to aid them in the battlefield of heroes. Thou, with the singers, hast pierced through the Paṇis: the charger whom thou aidest wins the booty.

tuváṃ tā́m̐ indra ubháyām̐ amítrān dā́sā vr̥trā́ṇi ā́riyā ca śūra |
vádhīr váneva súdhitebhir átkair ā́ pr̥tsú darṣi nr̥̄ṇã́ṃ+ nr̥tama ||

3 Both races, Indra, of opposing foemen, O Hero, both the Ārya and the Dāsa, Hast thou struck down like woods with well-shot lightnings: thou rentest them in fight, most manly Chieftain!

sá tváṃ na indra ákavābhir ūtī́ sákhā viśvā́yur avitā́ vr̥dhé bhūḥ |
súvarṣātā · yád dhváyāmasi tvā yúdhyanto nemádhitā pr̥tsú śūra ||

4 Indra, befriend us with no scanty succour, prosper and aid us, Loved of all that liveth, When, fighting for the sunlight, we invoke thee, O Hero, in the fray, in war's division.

nūnáṃ na indra aparā́ya ca syā bhávā mr̥̄ḷīká+ utá no abhíṣṭau |
itthā́ gr̥ṇánto mahínasya śárman diví ṣyāma pā́riye goṣátamāḥ ||

5 Be ours, O Indra, now and for the future, be graciously inclined and near to help us. Thus may we, singing, sheltered by the Mighty, win many cattle on the day of trial.

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