Sama Veda

FIRST PART

BOOK III

Chapter I

Decade III Indra

1

We seeking strength, with Soma drops fill full your Indra like a well,
Most liberal, Lord of boundless might.

2

O Indra, even from that place come unto us with food that gives
A hundred, yea, a thousand powers!

3

The new-born Vritra-slayer asked his mother, as he seized his shaft,
Who are the, fierce and famous ones?

4

Let us call him to aid whose hands stretch far, the highly-lauded, who
Fulfils the work to favour us

5

Mitra who knoweth leadeth us, and Varuna who guideth straight,
And Aryaman in accord with Gods.

6

When, even as she were present here, red Dawn hath shone from far away,
She spreadeth light on every side.

7

Varuna, Mitra, sapient pair, pour fatness on our pastures, pour
Meath on the regions of the air!

8

And, at our sacrifices, these, sons, singers, have enlarged their bounds,
So that the cows must walk knee-deep.

9

Through all this world strode Vishnu: thrice his foot he planted, and the whole
Was gathered in his footstep's dust.