Sukta 61

Mantra 1

तं ते मदं गृणीमसि वृषणं पृत्सु सासहिम्। उ लोककृत्नुमद्रिवो हरिश्रियम्

That rapture of thine we celebrate—the Bull, the battle-overcomer; yea, the world-filling one, O Stone-wielder, splendid with the glory of the tawny steeds.

Mantra 2

येन ज्योतींष्यायवे मनवे च विवेदिथ । मन्दानो अस्य बर्हिषो वि राजसि

Whereby thou hast won the lights for Āyu and for Manu also; exhilarated, over this sacred grass thou shinest forth in sovereign splendour.

Mantra 3

तदद्या चित्त उक्थिनोऽनु ष्टुवन्ति पूर्वथा । वृषपत्नीरपो जया दिवेदिवे

That very thing, even to-day, thy uktha-singers praise in the ancient manner: win thou the Waters, bull-wived, day after day.

Mantra 4

तम्वभि प्र गायत पुरुहूतं पुरुष्टुतम् । इन्द्रं गीर्भिस्तविषमा विवासत

Him verily sing ye forth and unto—Indra, the Much-invoked, the Much-extolled: with hymns make manifest the Mighty One, and bring him hither.

Mantra 5

यस्य द्विबर्हसो बृहत् सहो दाधार रोदसी । गिरींरज्राँ अपः स्वर्वृषत्वना

Whose doubly-exalted, vast might hath propped the Two Worlds—mountains, the thunderbolts, the waters, and the light of heaven—by his bull-like potency.

Mantra 6

स राजसि पुरुष्टुतँ एको वृत्राणि जिघ्नसे । इन्द्र जैत्रा श्रवस्यैऽ च यन्तवे

He, in the bright realm, the Much-extolled, alone thou smitest down the Vṛtras: O Indra, that we may attain to victory and to glorious fame.