Rigveda Samhita — Mandala 1 — Chapter 32

RV 1 32.1

इन्द्रस्य नु वीर्याणि प्र वोचꣳ यानि चकार प्रथमानि वज्री । अहन्न् अहिम् अन्व् अपस् ततर्द प्र वक्षणा अभिनत् पर्वतानाम्

indrasya nu vīryāṇi pra vocaṁ yāni cakāra prathamāni vajrī | ahann ahim anv apas tatarda pra vakṣaṇā abhinat parvatānām

Now I will proclaim the heroic deeds of Indra, the first ones that the club-bearer did. He slew the serpent, he bored through to the waters, he split the bellies of the mountains.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

RV 1 32.2

अहन्न् अहिम् पर्वते शिश्रियाणꣳ त्वष्टास्मै वज्रꣳ स्वर्यꣳ ततक्ष । वाश्रा इव धेनवः स्यन्दमाना अञ्जः समुद्रम् अव जग्मुर् आपः

ahann ahim parvate śiśriyāṇaṁ tvaṣṭāsmai vajraṁ svaryaṁ tatakṣa | vāśrā iva dhenavaḥ syandamānā añjaḥ samudram ava jagmur āpaḥ

He slew the serpent that lay upon the mountain; Tvaṣṭar had fashioned for him the resounding mace. Like lowing milch-cows, streaming, the waters went straight down to the sea.

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RV 1 32.3

वृषायमाणो ऽवृणीत सोमꣳ त्रिकद्रुकेष्व् अपिबत् सुतस्य । आ सायकम् मघवादत्त वज्रम् अहन्न् एनम् प्रथमजाम् अहीनाम्

vṛṣāyamāṇo 'vṛṇīta somaṁ trikadrukeṣv apibat sutasya | ā sāyakam maghavādatta vajram ahann enam prathamajām ahīnām

Acting the bull, he chose the soma; at the Trikadrukas he drank of the pressed (juice). The bounteous one took up the missile, the mace; he slew him, the first-born of serpents.

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RV 1 32.4

यद् इन्द्राहन् प्रथमजाम् अहीनाम् आन् मायिनाम् अमिनाः प्रोत मायाः । आत् सूर्यꣳ जनयन् द्याम् उषासꣳ तादीत्ना शत्रुꣳ न किला विवित्से

yad indrāhan prathamajām ahīnām ān māyinām amināḥ prota māyāḥ | āt sūryaṁ janayan dyām uṣāsaṁ tādītnā śatruṁ na kilā vivitse

When, Indra, you slew the first-born of serpents, and then foiled the wiles of the wily ones, then, bringing to birth the sun, the heaven, the dawn — from that time on you have found no rival at all.

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RV 1 32.5

अहन् वृत्रꣳ वृत्रतरꣳ व्यꣳसम् इन्द्रो वज्रेण महता वधेन । स्कन्धाꣳसीव कुलिशेना विवृक्णाहिः शयत उपपृक् पृथिव्याः

ahan vṛtraṁ vṛtrataraṁ vyaṁsam indro vajreṇa mahatā vadhena | skandhāṁsīva kuliśenā vivṛkṇāhiḥ śayata upapṛk pṛthivyāḥ

Indra slew Vṛtra, the greater blocker, the shoulderless one, with his mace, with the great deadly weapon. Like tree-trunks cut apart with an axe, the serpent lies pressed close to the earth.

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RV 1 32.6

अयोद्धेव दुर्मद आ हि जुह्वे महावीरꣳ तुविबाधम् ऋजीषम् । नातारीद् अस्य समृतिꣳ वधानाꣳ सꣳ रुजानाः पिपिष इन्द्रशत्रुः

ayoddheva durmada ā hi juhve mahāvīraṁ tuvibādham ṛjīṣam | nātārīd asya samṛtiṁ vadhānāṁ saṁ rujānāḥ pipiṣa indraśatruḥ

Like a no-fighter drunk with arrogance he challenged the great hero, the hard-pressing, the ṛjīṣin. He did not survive the impact of his weapons; crushed in, he whose enemy is Indra was smashed to bits.

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RV 1 32.7

अपाद् अहस्तो अपृतन्यद् इन्द्रम् आस्य वज्रम् अधि सानौ जघान । वृष्णो वध्रिः प्रतिमानम् बुभूषन् पुरुत्रा वृत्रो अशयद् व्यस्तः

apād ahasto apṛtanyad indram āsya vajram adhi sānau jaghāna | vṛṣṇo vadhriḥ pratimānam bubhūṣan purutrā vṛtro aśayad vyastaḥ

Footless, handless, he did battle against Indra, who struck his mace down upon his nape. A gelding wanting to be the match of a bull, Vṛtra lay strewn about in many pieces.

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RV 1 32.8

नदꣳ न भिन्नम् अमुया शयानम् मनो रुहाणा अति यन्त्य् आपः । याश् चिद् वृत्रो महिना पर्यतिष्ठत् तासाम् अहिः पत्सुतःशीर् बभूव

nadaṁ na bhinnam amuyā śayānam mano ruhāṇā ati yanty āpaḥ | yāś cid vṛtro mahinā paryatiṣṭhat tāsām ahiḥ patsutaḥśīr babhūva

Over him, lying there like a split reed, the waters of Manu go, mounting up. Those very waters which Vṛtra with his greatness had enclosed — at their feet the serpent came to lie.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain

RV 1 32.9

नीचावया अभवद् वृत्रपुत्रेन्द्रो अस्या अव वधर् जभार । उत्तरा सूर् अधरः पुत्र आसीद् दानुः शये सहवत्सा न धेनुः

nīcāvayā abhavad vṛtraputrendro asyā ava vadhar jabhāra | uttarā sūr adharaḥ putra āsīd dānuḥ śaye sahavatsā na dhenuḥ

Sunk low became she whose son was Vṛtra; Indra brought his weapon down upon her. The mother was above, the son below; Dānu lies like a cow with her calf.

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RV 1 32.10

अतिष्ठन्तीनाम् अनिवेशनानाꣳ काष्ठानाम् मध्ये निहितꣳ शरीरम् । वृत्रस्य निण्यꣳ वि चरन्त्य् आपो दीर्घꣳ तम आशयद् इन्द्रशत्रुः

atiṣṭhantīnām aniveśanānāṁ kāṣṭhānām madhye nihitaṁ śarīram | vṛtrasya niṇyaṁ vi caranty āpo dīrghaṁ tama āśayad indraśatruḥ

In the middle of the never-standing, never-resting channels his body is laid down. The waters roam over Vṛtra's hiding-place; in long darkness lay he whose enemy is Indra.

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RV 1 32.11

दासपत्नीर् अहिगोपा अतिष्ठन् निरुद्धा आपः पणिनेव गावः । अपाम् बिलम् अपिहितꣳ यद् आसीद् वृत्रꣳ जघन्वाꣳ अप तद् ववार

dāsapatnīr ahigopā atiṣṭhan niruddhā āpaḥ paṇineva gāvaḥ | apām bilam apihitaṁ yad āsīd vṛtraṁ jaghanvām̐ apa tad vavāra

With the Dāsa for their master, with the serpent for their herdsman, the waters stood shut in, like cows (held) by Paṇi. The opening of the waters that had been closed up — that he uncovered when he had slain Vṛtra.

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RV 1 32.12

अश्व्यो वारो अभवस् तद् इन्द्र सृके यत् त्वा प्रत्यहन् देव एकः । अजयो गा अजयः शूर सोमम् अवासृजः सर्तवे सप्त सिन्धून्

aśvyo vāro abhavas tad indra sṛke yat tvā pratyahan deva ekaḥ | ajayo gā ajayaḥ śūra somam avāsṛjaḥ sartave sapta sindhūn

You became a horse's tail-hair, Indra, at that moment, when he struck back at you upon the spear, you a single god. You won the cows, you won the soma, hero; you let loose the seven rivers to run.

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RV 1 32.13

नास्मै विद्युन् न तन्यतुः सिषेध न याम् मिहम् अकिरद् ध्रादुनिꣳ च । इन्द्रश् च यद् युयुधाते अहिश् चोतापरीभ्यो मघवा वि जिग्ये

nāsmai vidyun na tanyatuḥ siṣedha na yām miham akirad dhrāduniṁ ca | indraś ca yad yuyudhāte ahiś cotāparībhyo maghavā vi jigye

Neither lightning nor thunder helped him, nor the mist and hail he scattered; and when Indra and the serpent fought, the bounteous one won out also for the times to come.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

RV 1 32.14

अहेर् यातारꣳ कम् अपश्य इन्द्र हृदि यत् ते जघ्नुषो भीर् अगच्छत् । नव च यन् नवतिꣳ च स्रवन्तीः श्येनो न भीतो अतरो रजाꣳसि

aher yātāraṁ kam apaśya indra hṛdi yat te jaghnuṣo bhīr agacchat | nava ca yan navatiṁ ca sravantīḥ śyeno na bhīto ataro rajāṁsi

What avenger of the serpent did you see, Indra, that fear came into your heart when you had slain him, and, frightened like a falcon, you crossed the nine and ninety streams and the (airy) spaces?

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RV 1 32.15

इन्द्रो यातो ऽवसितस्य राजा शमस्य च शृङ्गिणो वज्रबाहुः । सेद् उ राजा क्षयति चर्षणीनाम् अरान् न नेमिः परि ता बभूव

indro yāto 'vasitasya rājā śamasya ca śṛṅgiṇo vajrabāhuḥ | sed u rājā kṣayati carṣaṇīnām arān na nemiḥ pari tā babhūva

Indra is king of what moves and what is come to rest, of the tame and of the horned, with the mace in his arm. He indeed as king rules over the peoples; as the felly (surrounds) the spokes, so he has encompassed them.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition