Sukta 152

Mantra 1

शास इत्था महाँ अस्यमित्रखादो अद्भुतः । न यस्य हन्यते सखा न जीयते कदा चन ॥

O Ruler-Power, thus you are great—wonderful, a devourer of hostile forces. He whose comrade you are is not struck down, nor is he ever conquered.

Mantra 2

स्वस्तिदा विशस्पतिर्वृत्रहा विमृधो वशी । वृषेन्द्रः पुर एतु नः सोमपा अभयंकरः ॥

The giver of well-being, lord of the peoples—Vṛtra-slayer, masterful remover of assaults—let the Bull Indra go before us. Soma-drinker, maker of fearlessness, lead our advance.

Mantra 3

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

Scatter the dark forces, scatter the assaults; strike them down. Break the jaws of the Obstructor. O Indra the Vṛtra-slayer, disperse the wrath of the hostile one who seeks to overpower us.

Mantra 4

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

O Indra, scatter the assaults against us; thrust down the fighter. Whoever seeks to overpower us—send him downward into the lower darkness.

Mantra 5

अपेन्द्र द्विषतो मनोऽप जिज्यासतो वधम् । वि मन्योः शर्म यच्छ वरीयो यवया वधम् ॥

O Indra, drive away the hostile mind; drive away the blow of him who seeks to conquer. Set wide shelter against wrath; push far away the stroke.