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Samaveda — Uttararchika — Chapter 9307

SV 2 9307.1

वि रक्षो वि मृधो जहि वि वृत्रस्य हनू रुज । वि मन्युमिन्द्र वृत्रहन्नमित्रस्याभिदासतः

vi rakṣo vi mṛdho jahi vi vṛtrasya hanū ruja | vi manyumindra vṛtrahannamitrasyābhidāsataḥ

Smite away the demon, smite away the assailants, break apart the jaws of Vṛtra; (smite) away the fury, O Indra Vṛtra-slayer, of the foe who attacks.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

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

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1893)

SV 2 9307.2

वि न इन्द्र मृधो जहि नीचा यच्छ पृतन्यतः । यो अस्मां अभिदासत्यधरं गमया तमः

vi na indra mṛdho jahi nīcā yaccha pṛtanyataḥ | yo asmāṃ abhidāsatyadharaṃ gamayā tamaḥ

Smite away our assailants, O Indra; hold down those who fight against (us); whoever attacks us, make him go to the lower darkness.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

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

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1893)

SV 2 9307.3

इन्द्रस्य बाहू स्थविरौ युवानावनाधृष्यौ सुप्रतीकावसह्यौ । तौ युञ्जीत प्रथमौ योग आगते याभ्यां जितमसुराणां सहो महत्

indrasya bāhū sthavirau yuvānāvanādhṛṣyau supratīkāvasahyau | tau yuñjīta prathamau yoga āgate yābhyāṃ jitamasurāṇāṃ saho mahat

Indra's two arms, sturdy, youthful, unassailable, of fair aspect, not to be endured — let him yoke those two foremost ones when the time of yoking has come, those two by which the great might of the Asuras was conquered.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

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.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1893)