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Rigveda Samhita — Mandala 4 — Chapter 30

RV 4 30.1

नकिर् इन्द्र त्वद् उत्तरो न ज्यायाꣳ अस्ति वृत्रहन् । नकिर् एवा यथा त्वम्

nakir indra tvad uttaro na jyāyām̐ asti vṛtrahan | nakir evā yathā tvam

None is higher than you, Indra, none greater, O slayer of Vṛtra; none indeed is such as you.

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O INDRA, Vr̥itra-slayer, none is better, mightier than thou: Verily there is none like thee.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1896)

RV 4 30.2

सत्रा ते अनु कृष्टयो विश्वा चक्रेव वावृतुः । सत्रा महाꣳ असि श्रुतः

satrā te anu kṛṣṭayo viśvā cakreva vāvṛtuḥ | satrā mahām̐ asi śrutaḥ

Wholly do all the peoples turn after you, as wheels (turn); wholly are you great and renowned.

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Like chariot-wheels these people all together follow after thee: Thou ever art renowned as Great.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1896)

RV 4 30.3

विश्वे चनेद् अना त्वा देवास इन्द्र युयुधुः । यद् अहा नक्तम् आतिरः

viśve caned anā tvā devāsa indra yuyudhuḥ | yad ahā naktam ātiraḥ

Not even all the gods together fought against you, Indra, when you stretched the night into days.

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

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Not even all the gathered Gods conquered thee, Indra, in the war, When thou didst lengthen days by night.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1896)

RV 4 30.4

यत्रोत बाधितेभ्यश् चक्रꣳ कुत्साय युध्यते । मुषाय इन्द्र सूर्यम्

yatrota bādhitebhyaś cakraṁ kutsāya yudhyate | muṣāya indra sūryam

And where, for Kutsa fighting on behalf of the oppressed, you stole the wheel, Indra — the sun.

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

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When for the sake of those oppressed, and Kutsa as he battled, Thou stolest away the Sun's car-wheel.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1896)

RV 4 30.5

यत्र देवाꣳ ऋघायतो विश्वाꣳ अयुध्य एक इत् । त्वम् इन्द्र वनूꣳर् अहन्

yatra devām̐ ṛghāyato viśvām̐ ayudhya eka it | tvam indra vanūm̐r ahan

And where you alone fought all the menacing gods — you, Indra, slew the grudging ones.

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When, fighting singly, Indra. thou o'ercamest all the furious Gods, thou slewest those who strove with thee.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1896)

RV 4 30.6

यत्रोत मर्त्याय कम् अरिणा इन्द्र सूर्यम् । प्रावः शचीभिर् एतशम्

yatrota martyāya kam ariṇā indra sūryam | prāvaḥ śacībhir etaśam

And where you made the sun flow onward for the mortal's sake, Indra — you helped Etaśa with your powers.

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When also for a mortal man, Indra, thou speddest forth the Sun, And holpest Etaṣa with might.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1896)

RV 4 30.7

किम् आद् उतासि वृत्रहन् मघवन् मन्युमत्तमः । अत्राह दानुम् आतिरः

kim ād utāsi vṛtrahan maghavan manyumattamaḥ | atrāha dānum ātiraḥ

What then? You are, O slayer of Vṛtra, bounteous one, the most full of wrath; there indeed you overcame Dānu.

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

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What? Vr̥itra-slayer, art not thou, Maghavan, fiercest in thy wrath? So hast thou quelled the demon too.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1896)

RV 4 30.8

एतद् घेद् उत वीर्य१म् इन्द्र चकर्थ पौꣳस्यम् । स्त्रियꣳ यद् दुर्हणायुवꣳ वधीर् दुहितरꣳ दिवः

etad ghed uta vīrya1m indra cakartha pauṁsyam | striyaṁ yad durhaṇāyuvaṁ vadhīr duhitaraṁ divaḥ

And this too, Indra, you did as a heroic, manly deed: that you struck down the woman bent on harm, the daughter of heaven.

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And this heroic deed of might thou, Indra, also hast achieved, That thou didst smite to death the Dame, Heaven's Daughter, meditating ill.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1896)

RV 4 30.9

दिवश् चिद् घा दुहितरम् महान् महीयमानाम् । उषासम् इन्द्र सम् पिणक्

divaś cid ghā duhitaram mahān mahīyamānām | uṣāsam indra sam piṇak

Even the daughter of Heaven, the great one who was magnifying herself — Uṣas, O Indra, you crushed to pieces.

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Thou, Indra, Mighty One, didst crush Ushas, though Daughter of the Sky. When lifting up herself in pride.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1896)

RV 4 30.10

अपोषा अनसः सरत् सम्पिष्टाद् अह बिभ्युषी । नि यत् सीꣳ शिश्नथद् वृषा

apoṣā anasaḥ sarat sampiṣṭād aha bibhyuṣī | ni yat sīṁ śiśnathad vṛṣā

Uṣas ran away from her cart, frightened indeed away from the shattered (wagon), when the bull smashed it down.

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Then from her chariot Ushas fled, affrighted, from her ruined car. When the strong God had shattered it.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1896)

RV 4 30.11

एतद् अस्या अनः शये सुसम्पिष्टꣳ विपाश्य् आ । ससार सीम् परावतः

etad asyā anaḥ śaye susampiṣṭaṁ vipāśy ā | sasāra sīm parāvataḥ

This cart of hers lies there, well shattered, at the Vipāś; and she herself ran off into the far distances.

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So there this car of Ushas lay, broken to pieces, in Vipâṣ, And she herself fled far away.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1896)

RV 4 30.12

उत सिन्धुꣳ विबाल्यꣳ वितस्थानाम् अधि क्षमि । परि ष्ठा इन्द्र मायया

uta sindhuṁ vibālyaṁ vitasthānām adhi kṣami | pari ṣṭhā indra māyayā

And the Sindhu, (flowing) wide(?), spread out over the earth — you held it back, Indra, by your magic power.

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

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Thou, Indra, didst with magic power resist the overflowing stream Who spread her waters o'er the land.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1896)

RV 4 30.13

उत शुष्णस्य धृष्णुया प्र मृक्षो अभि वेदनम् । पुरो यद् अस्य सम्पिणक्

uta śuṣṇasya dhṛṣṇuyā pra mṛkṣo abhi vedanam | puro yad asya sampiṇak

And daringly you swept away Śuṣṇa's store, when you crushed his strongholds together.

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Valiantly didst thou seize and take the store which Ṣushṇa had amassed, When thou didst crush his fortresses.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1896)

RV 4 30.14

उत दासꣳ कौलितरम् बृहतः पर्वताद् अधि । अवाहन्न् इन्द्र शम्बरम्

uta dāsaṁ kaulitaram bṛhataḥ parvatād adhi | avāhann indra śambaram

And the Dāsa, the son of Kulitara — Śambara — you struck down, Indra, from the lofty mountain.

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Thou, Indra, also smotest down Kulitara's son Ṣambara, The Dâsa, from the lofty hill.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1896)

RV 4 30.15

उत दासस्य वर्चिनः सहस्राणि शतावधीः । अधि पञ्च प्रधीꣳर् इव

uta dāsasya varcinaḥ sahasrāṇi śatāvadhīḥ | adhi pañca pradhīm̐r iva

And of the Dāsa Varcin you slew the thousands, the hundreds — beyond five, as if (fixed) on the felly-rims.

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

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Of Dâsa Varcin's thou didst slay the hundred thousand and the five, Crushed like the fellies, of a car.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1896)

RV 4 30.16

उत त्यम् पुत्रम् अग्रुवः परावृक्तꣳ शतक्रतुः । उक्थेष्व् इन्द्र आभजत्

uta tyam putram agruvaḥ parāvṛktaṁ śatakratuḥ | uktheṣv indra ābhajat

And that son of the unmarried girl, the outcast one — Indra of a hundred powers gave him a share in the recited hymns.

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So Indra, Lord of Heroes, Powers, caused the unwedded damsel's son, The castaway, to share the lauds.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1896)

RV 4 30.17

उत त्या तुर्वशायदू अस्नातारा शचीपतिः । इन्द्रो विद्वाꣳ अपारयत्

uta tyā turvaśāyadū asnātārā śacīpatiḥ | indro vidvām̐ apārayat

And those two, Turvaśa and Yadu, who were no swimmers, the lord of might, Indra who knows, brought across.

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So sapient Indra, Lord of Might, brought Turvaga and Yadu, those Who feared the flood, in safel o'er.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1896)

RV 4 30.18

उत त्या सद्य आर्या सरयोर् इन्द्र पारतः । अर्णाचित्ररथावधीः

uta tyā sadya āryā sarayor indra pārataḥ | arṇācitrarathāvadhīḥ

And those two Āryas, Arṇa and Citraratha, you slew on the same day, Indra, on the far side of the Sarayu.

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Arṇa and Chitraratha, both Aryas, thou, Indra, slewest swift, On yonder side of Sarayu,

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1896)

RV 4 30.19

अनु द्वा जहिता नयो ऽन्धꣳ श्रोणꣳ च वृत्रहन् । न तत् ते सुम्नम् अष्टवे

anu dvā jahitā nayo 'ndhaṁ śroṇaṁ ca vṛtrahan | na tat te sumnam aṣṭave

You led forward the two who had been left behind, the blind and the lame, O Vṛtra-slayer; that favour of yours is not to be reached.

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Thou, Vr̥itra-slayer, didst conduct those two forlorn, the blind, the lame. None may attain this bliss of thine.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1896)

RV 4 30.20

शतम् अश्मन्मयीनाम् पुराम् इन्द्रो व्य् आस्यत् । दिवोदासाय दाशुषे

śatam aśmanmayīnām purām indro vy āsyat | divodāsāya dāśuṣe

A hundred fortresses made of stone Indra cast apart for Divodāsa, the worshipper.

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For Divodâsa, him who brought oblationt, Indra overthrew A hundred fortresses of stone.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1896)

RV 4 30.21

अस्वापयद् दभीतये सहस्रा त्रिꣳशतꣳ हथैः । दासानाम् इन्द्रो मायया

asvāpayad dabhītaye sahasrā triṁśataṁ hathaiḥ | dāsānām indro māyayā

For Dabhīti he put thirty thousand Dāsas to sleep with his blows, Indra, by his magic power.

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The thirty thousand Disas he with magic power and weapons sent To slumber, for Dabhîti's sake.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1896)

RV 4 30.22

स घेद् उतासि वृत्रहन् समान इन्द्र गोपतिः । यस् ता विश्वानि चिच्युषे

sa ghed utāsi vṛtrahan samāna indra gopatiḥ | yas tā viśvāni cicyuṣe

And you are indeed that one, O Vṛtra-slayer, the common lord of cattle, Indra, who have piled up all these (deeds).

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As such, O Vr̥itra-slayer, thou art general Lord of kine for all, Thou Shaker of all things that be.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1896)

RV 4 30.23

उत नूनꣳ यद् इन्द्रियꣳ करिष्या इन्द्र पौꣳस्यम् । अद्या नकिष् टद् आ मिनत्

uta nūnaṁ yad indriyaṁ kariṣyā indra pauṁsyam | adyā nakiṣ ṭad ā minat

And now, whatever Indra-like manly deed you will do, Indra — today no one thwarts it.

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Indra, whatever deed of might thou hast this day to execute, None be there now to hinder it.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1896)

RV 4 30.24

वामꣳ-वामꣳ त आदुरे देवो ददात्व् अर्यमा । वामम् पूषा वामम् भगो वामꣳ देवः करूऴती

vāmaṁ-vāmaṁ ta ādure devo dadātv aryamā | vāmam pūṣā vāmam bhago vāmaṁ devaḥ karūḻatī

Every good thing may the god Aryaman give you, O (you) in distress; a good thing Pūṣan, a good thing Bhaga, a good thing the god Karūḷatī.

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

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O Watchful One, may Aryaman the God give thee all goodly things. May Pûshan, Bhaga, and the God Karûlatî give all things fair.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1896)