Rigveda Samhita — Mandala 6 — Chapter 72

RV 6 72.1

इन्द्रासोमा महि तद् वाम् महित्वꣳ युवम् महानि प्रथमानि चक्रथुः । युवꣳ सूर्यꣳ विविदथुर् युवꣳ स्व१र् विश्वा तमाꣳस्य् अहतꣳ निदश् च

indrāsomā mahi tad vām mahitvaṁ yuvam mahāni prathamāni cakrathuḥ | yuvaṁ sūryaṁ vividathur yuvaṁ sva1r viśvā tamāṁsy ahataṁ nidaś ca

Indra and Soma, great is that greatness of yours: you two performed the great, first deeds; you found the sun, you (found) the light, you smote down all darknesses and the revilers.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

RV 6 72.2

इन्द्रासोमा वासयथ उषासम् उत् सूर्यꣳ नयथो ज्योतिषा सह । उप द्याꣳ स्कम्भथुः स्कम्भनेनाप्रथतम् पृथिवीम् मातरꣳ वि

indrāsomā vāsayatha uṣāsam ut sūryaṁ nayatho jyotiṣā saha | upa dyāṁ skambhathuḥ skambhanenāprathatam pṛthivīm mātaraṁ vi

Indra and Soma, you make the dawn shine out, you lead the sun up together with its light; you propped up heaven with a prop, you spread out Earth the mother wide.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

RV 6 72.3

इन्द्रासोमाव् अहिम् अपः परिष्ठाꣳ हथो वृत्रम् अनु वाꣳ द्यौर् अमन्यत । प्रार्णाꣳस्य् ऐरयतꣳ नदीनाम् आ समुद्राणि पप्रथुः पुरूणि

indrāsomāv ahim apaḥ pariṣṭhāṁ hatho vṛtram anu vāṁ dyaur amanyata | prārṇāṁsy airayataṁ nadīnām ā samudrāṇi paprathuḥ purūṇi

Indra and Soma, you two smite the serpent Vṛtra who penned in the waters; Heaven assented to you. You stirred forth the floods of the rivers; you spread out the many seas.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

RV 6 72.4

इन्द्रासोमा पक्वम् आमास्व् अन्तर् नि गवाम् इद् दधथुर् वक्षणासु । जगृभथुर् अनपिनद्धम् आसु रुशच् चित्रासु जगतीष्व् अन्तः

indrāsomā pakvam āmāsv antar ni gavām id dadhathur vakṣaṇāsu | jagṛbhathur anapinaddham āsu ruśac citrāsu jagatīṣv antaḥ

Indra and Soma, you placed the cooked (milk) within the raw ones, within the bellies of the cows; you seized fast the unenclosed white (milk) within these bright moving creatures.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

RV 6 72.5

इन्द्रासोमा युवम् अङ्ग तरुत्रम् अपत्यसाचꣳ श्रुत्यꣳ रराथे । युवꣳ शुष्मꣳ नर्यꣳ चर्षणिभ्यः सꣳ विव्यथुः पृतनाषाहम् उग्रा

indrāsomā yuvam aṅga tarutram apatyasācaṁ śrutyaṁ rarāthe | yuvaṁ śuṣmaṁ naryaṁ carṣaṇibhyaḥ saṁ vivyathuḥ pṛtanāṣāham ugrā

Indra and Soma, you two indeed have granted the overcoming, offspring-attended, famed (power); you two, O mighty ones, have wrapped together for the peoples the manly force that conquers in battles.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition