Rig Veda · Mandala 6 · Sukta 33
Rig Veda 6.33 — Indra
Deity: Indra. Rishi family (Mandala 6): Bharadvaja and his descendants. This Sukta contains 5 verses presented below in Devanagari Sanskrit, IAST romanisation, and Ralph T. H. Griffith's English translation. Click any verse to read a fuller explanation.
Verses
Rig Veda 6.33.1
य ओजिष्ठ इन्द्र तं सु नो दा मदो वर्षन सवभिष्टिर्दास्वान | सौवश्व्यं यो वनवत सवश्वो वर्त्रा समत्सु सासहदमित्रान
ya ojiṣṭha indra taṃ su no dā mado vṛṣan svabhiṣṭirdāsvān | sauvaśvyaṃ yo vanavat svaśvo vṛtrā samatsu sāsahadamitrān
Rig Veda 6.33.2
तवां हीन्द्रावसे विवाचो हवन्ते चर्षणयः शूरसातौ | तवं विप्रेभिर्वि पणीन्रशायस्त्वोत इत सनिता वाजमर्वा
tvāṃ hīndrāvase vivāco havante carṣaṇayaḥ śūrasātau | tvaṃ viprebhirvi paṇīnraśāyastvota it sanitā vājamarvā
For with loud voice the tribes invoke thee, Indra, to aid them in the battlefield of heroes. Thou, with the singers, hast pierced through the Paṇis: the charger whom thou aidest wins the booty.
Rig Veda 6.33.3
तवं तानिन्द्रोभयानमित्रान दासा वर्त्राण्यार्या च शूर | वधीर्वनेव सुधितेभिरत्कैरा पर्त्सु दर्षि नर्णां नर्तम
tvaṃ tānindrobhayānamitrān dāsā vṛtrāṇyāryā ca śūra | vadhīrvaneva sudhitebhiratkairā pṛtsu darṣi nṛṇāṃ nṛtama
Both races, Indra, of opposing foemen, O Hero, both the Ārya and the Dāsa, Hast thou struck down like woods with well-shot lightnings: thou rentest them in fight, most manly Chieftain!
Rig Veda 6.33.4
स तवं न इन्द्राकवाभिरूती सखा विश्वायुरविता वर्धे भूः | सवर्षाता यद धवयामसि तवा युध्यन्तो नेमधिताप्र्त्सु शूर
sa tvaṃ na indrākavābhirūtī sakhā viśvāyuravitā vṛdhe bhūḥ | svarṣātā yad dhvayāmasi tvā yudhyanto nemadhitāpṛtsu śūra
Indra, befriend us with no scanty succour, prosper and aid us, Loved of all that liveth, When, fighting for the sunlight, we invoke thee, O Hero, in the fray, in war's division.
Rig Veda 6.33.5
नूनं न इन्द्रापराय च सया भवा मर्ळीक उत नो अभिष्टौ | इत्था गर्णन्तो महिनस्य शर्मन दिवि षयाम पार्ये गोषतमाः
nūnaṃ na indrāparāya ca syā bhavā mṛḷīka uta no abhiṣṭau | itthā ghṛṇanto mahinasya śarman divi ṣyāma pārye ghoṣatamāḥ
Be ours, O Indra, now and for the future, be graciously inclined and near to help us. Thus may we, singing, sheltered by the Mighty, win many cattle on the day of trial.
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