Sama Veda

SECOND PART

BOOK IX

Chapter III

HYMN 7 Soma Varuna

1

Drive Rakshasas and foes away, break thou in pieces Vritra's jaws:
O Vritra-slaying Indra, quell the foeman's wrath who threatens us!

2

O Indra, beat our foes away, humble the men who challenge us:
Send down to nether darkness him who seeks to do us injury!

3

Strong, ever-youthful are the arms of Indra, fair unassailable, never to be vanquished:
These first let him employ when need hath come on us, wherewith the Asuras' great might was overthrown.