Rig Veda

Mandal - 8 (Part - 8)

HYMN 99 Praskanva's Gift

1

GREAT, verily, is Indra's might. I have beheld, and hither comes
Thy bounty, Dasyave-vrka!

2

A hundred oxen white of hue are shining like the stars in heaven,
So tall, they seem to prop the sky.

3

Bamboos a hundred, a hundred dogs, a hundred skins of beasts well-tanned,
A hundred tufts of Balbaja, four hundred red-hued mares are mine.

4

Blest by the Gods, Kinvayanas! be ye who spread through life on life:
Like horses have ye stridden forth.

5

Then men extolled the team of seven not yet full-grown, its fame is great.
The dark mares rushed along the paths, so that no eye could follow them.