Sukta 37

Mantra 1

वार्त्रहत्याय शवसे पृतनाषाह्याय च । इन्द्र त्वा वर्तयामसि ॥

For the slaying of the Coverer and for might, and for victory in the battles, O Indra, we set thee in motion (we turn thee toward us).

Mantra 2

अर्वाचीनं सु ते मन उत चक्षुः शतक्रतो । इन्द्र कृण्वन्तु वाघतः ॥

O Indra of a hundred powers, may the seekers shape for thee an inward-turning mind and a luminous vision—so that thy force may work in us as the awakened sacrificial energy.

Mantra 3

नामानि ते शतक्रतो विश्वाभिर्गीर्भिरीमहे । इन्द्राभिमातिषाह्ये ॥

O hundred-powered Indra, with all our uttered hymns we call upon thy Names—thy manifold presences—so that thou mayest conquer the hostile pressures that assail the soul.

Mantra 4

पुरुष्टुतस्य धामभिः शतेन महयामसि । इन्द्रस्य चर्षणीधृतः ॥

By a hundred luminous stations of power we magnify the much-praised Indra, the supporter of the human clans—he who upholds our field of action and growth.

Mantra 5

इन्द्रं वृत्राय हन्तवे पुरुहूतमुप ब्रुवे । भरेषु वाजसातये ॥

I call near Indra, the much-invoked, to smite Vṛtra—the coverer—so that in the battles of life he may win for us the plenitudes of force.

Mantra 6

वाजेषु सासहिर्भव त्वामीमहे शतक्रतो । इन्द्र वृत्राय हन्तवे ॥

In the gains of force be thou our overcomer; thee we seek, O hundred-powered Indra, to strike down the coverer of our light and movement.

Mantra 7

द्युम्नेषु पृतनाज्ये पृत्सुतूर्षु श्रवस्सु च । इन्द्र साक्ष्वाभिमातिषु ॥

In our luminous achievements, in the battle-impulses, in the conflicts that must be overpassed, and in the fields of inspired fame—O Indra, be present and victorious against the assailing hostile forces.

Mantra 8

शुष्मिन्तमं न ऊतये द्युम्निनं पाहि जागृविम् । इन्द्र सोमं शतक्रतो ॥

Guard for our help the most forceful, the radiant, the wakeful Soma—O Indra of a hundred powers—so that the awakened delight may be preserved for the soul’s journey.

Mantra 9

इन्द्रियाणि शतक्रतो या ते जनेषु पञ्चसु । इन्द्र तानि त आ वृणे ॥

The Indra-powers, O hundred-willed, that are thine among the five peoples—those very powers, O Indra, I choose and draw toward me for the soul’s increase.

Mantra 10

अगन्निन्द्र श्रवो बृहद्द्युम्नं दधिष्व दुष्टरम् । उत्ते शुष्मं तिरामसि ॥

Come, O Indra: set within thee vast inspired fame, a radiant power hard to overcome; and we rise beyond, we overpass, thy force—by that uplift we break through the difficult passage.

Mantra 11

अर्वावतो न आ गह्यथो शक्र परावतः । उ लोको यस्ते अद्रिव इन्द्रेह तत आ गहि ॥

Come to us from the nearer reaches, and also, O mighty one, from the farther; from whatever world is thine, O lord of the thunderstone—O Indra, come here from there into this embodied field.