Sukta 17

तदस्मै नव्यमङ्गिरस्वदर्चत शुष्मा यदस्य प्रत्नथोदीरते। विश्वा यद्गोत्रा सहसा परीवृता मदे सोमस्य दृंहितान्यैरयत्॥

tadasmai navyamaṅgirasvadarcata śuṣmā yadasya pratnathodīrate | viśvā yadgotrā sahasā parīvṛtā made somasya dṛṁhitānyairayat ||

LIKE the Angirases, sing this new song forth to him, for, as in ancient days, his mighty powers are shown, When in the rapture of the Soma he unclosed with strength the solid firm-shut stables of the kine.

स भूतु यो ह प्रथमाय धायस ओजो मिमानो महिमानमातिरत्। शूरो यो युत्सु तन्वं परिव्यत शीर्षणि द्यां महिना प्रत्यमुञ्चत॥

sa bhūtu yo ha prathamāya dhāyasa ojo mimāno mahimānamātirat | śūro yo yutsu tanvaṁ parivyata śīrṣaṇi dyāṁ mahinā pratyamuñcata ||

Let him be even that God who, for the earliest draught measuring out his power, increased his majesty; Hero who fortified his body in the wars, and through his greatness set the heaven upon his head.

अधाकृणोः प्रथमं वीर्यं महद्यदस्याग्रे ब्रह्मणा शुष्ममैरयः। रथेष्ठेन हर्यश्वेन विच्युताः प्र जीरयः सिस्रते सध्र्यक्पृथक्॥

adhākṛṇoḥ prathamaṁ vīryaṁ mahadyadasyāgre brahmaṇā śuṣmamairayaḥ | ratheṣṭhena haryaśvena vicyutāḥ pra jīrayaḥ sisrate sadhryakpṛthak ||

Thou didst perform thy first great deed of hero might what time thou showedst power, through prayer, before this folk. Hurled down by thee the car-borne Lord of Tawny Steeds, the congregated swift ones fled in sundry ways.

अधा यो विश्वा भुवनाभि मज्मनेशानकृत्प्रवया अभ्यवर्धत। आद्रोदसी ज्योतिषा वह्निरातनोत्सीव्यन्तमांसि दुधिता समव्ययत्॥

adhā yo viśvā bhuvanābhi majmaneśānakṛtpravayā abhyavardhata | ādrodasī jyotiṣā vahnirātanotsīvyantamāṁsi dudhitā samavyayat ||

He made himself by might Lord of all living things, and strong in vital power waxed great above them all. He, borne on high, o'erspread with light the heaven and earth, and, sewing up the turbid darkness, closed it in.

स प्राचीनान्पर्वतान्दृंहदोजसाधराचीनमकृणोदपामपः। अधारयत्पृथिवीं विश्वधायसमस्तभ्नान्मायया द्यामवस्रसः॥

sa prācīnānparvatāndṛṁhadojasādharācīnamakṛṇodapāmapaḥ | adhārayatpṛthivīṁ viśvadhāyasamastabhnānmāyayā dyāmavasrasaḥ ||

He with his might made firm the forward-bending hills, the downward rushing of the waters he ordained. Fast he upheld the earth that nourisheth all life, and stayed the heaven from falling by his wondrous skill.

सास्मा अरं बाहुभ्यां यं पिताकृणोद्विश्वस्मादा जनुषो वेदसस्परि। येना पृथिव्यां नि क्रिविं शयध्यै वज्रेण हत्व्यवृणक्तुविष्वणिः॥

sāsmā araṁ bāhubhyāṁ yaṁ pitākṛṇodviśvasmādā januṣo vedasaspari | yenā pṛthivyāṁ ni kriviṁ śayadhyai vajreṇa hatvyavṛṇaktuviṣvaṇiḥ ||

Fit for the grasping of his arms is what the Sire hath fabricated from all kind of precious wealth. The thunderbolt, wherewith, loud-roaring, he smote down, and striking him to death laid Krivi on the earth.

अमाजूरिव पित्रोः सचा सती समानादा सदसस्त्वामिये भगम्। कृधि प्रकेतमुप मास्या भर दद्धि भागं तन्वो येन मामहः॥

amājūriva pitroḥ sacā satī samānādā sadasastvāmiye bhagam | kṛdhi praketamupa māsyā bhara daddhi bhāgaṁ tanvo yena māmahaḥ ||

As she who in her parents' house is growing old, I pray to thee as Bhaga from the seat of all. Grant knowledge, mete it out and bring it to us here: give us the share wherewith thou makest people glad.

भोजं त्वामिन्द्र वयं हुवेम ददिष्ट्वमिन्द्रापांसि वाजान्। अविड्ढीन्द्र चित्रया न ऊती कृधि वृषन्निन्द्र वस्यसो नः॥

bhojaṁ tvāmindra vayaṁ huvema dadiṣṭvamindrāpāṁsi vājān | aviḍḍhīndra citrayā na ūtī kṛdhi vṛṣannindra vasyaso naḥ ||

May we invoke thee as a liberal giver thou givest us, O Indra, strength and labours. Help us with manifold assistance, Indra: Migthy One, Indra, make us yet more wealthy.

नूनं सा ते प्रति वरं जरित्रे दुहीयदिन्द्र दक्षिणा मघोनी। शिक्षा स्तोतृभ्यो माति धग्भगो नो बृहद्वदेम विदथे सुवीराः॥

nūnaṁ sā te prati varaṁ jaritre duhīyadindra dakṣiṇā maghonī | śikṣā stotṛbhyo māti dhagbhago no bṛhadvadema vidathe suvīrāḥ ||

Now may that weaithy Cow of thine, O Indra, give in return a boon to him who lauds thee. Give to thy praisers: let not fortune fail us. Loud may we speak, with heroes, in assembly.