Sama Veda

SECOND PART

BOOK VIII

Chapter III

HYMN 2 Soma Pavamana

1

O thou with stones for arms, thy powers, rending the fiends, have raised themselves:
Drive off the foes who compass us

2

Hence conquering with might when car meets car, and when the prize is staked,
With fearless heart will I sing praise.

3

None, evil-minded, may assail this Pavamana's holy laws
Crush him who fain would fight with thee!

4

For Indra to the streams they urge the tawny rapture-dropping steed,
Indu, the bringer of delight.