Sukta 41

Mantra 1

इन्द्रा को वां वरुणा सुम्नमाप स्तोमो हविष्माँ अमृतो न होता । यो वां हृदि क्रतुमाँ अस्मदुक्तः पस्पर्शदिन्द्रावरुणा नमस्वान् ॥

O Indra and Varuṇa, what hymn-offering has reached your grace, like an immortal priest with oblation? The word from us, endowed with will in the heart, has touched you—O Indra-Varuṇa—bowing in reverence.

Mantra 2

इन्द्रा ह यो वरुणा चक्र आपी देवौ मर्तः सख्याय प्रयस्वान् । स हन्ति वृत्रा समिथेषु शत्रूनवोभिर्वा महद्भिः स प्र शृण्वे ॥

He who has made Indra and Varuṇa his close companions for the sake of an intimate alliance—the mortal who is rich in the offering-energy—he strikes down the Vṛtras, the obstructing powers, and in the battles he overthrows the hostile forces; by their helps, or by their vast might, he becomes one who breaks through and is heard in the forefront.

Mantra 3

इन्द्रा ह रत्नं वरुणा धेष्ठेत्था नृभ्यः शशमानेभ्यस्ता । यदी सखाया सख्याय सोमैः सुतेभिः सुप्रयसा मादयैते ॥

Indra and Varuṇa indeed place the treasure in this way for men who strive and labour; when the two friends, for the sake of friendship, take delight with the pressed Soma-waves, rich in a beautiful offering-energy.

Mantra 4

इन्द्रा युवं वरुणा दिद्युमस्मिन्नोजिष्ठमुग्रा नि वधिष्टं वज्रम् । यो नो दुरेवो वृकतिर्दभीतिस्तस्मिन्मिमाथामभिभूत्योजः ॥

Indra and Varuṇa, you two mighty ones, set down in this being the most forceful, flashing thunderbolt; whatever is our ill-will, the wolfing tear, the deceiving fear—upon that crush it, with a conquering strength.

Mantra 5

इन्द्रा युवं वरुणा भूतमस्या धियः प्रेतारा वृषभेव धेनोः । सा नो दुहीयद्यवसेव गत्वी सहस्रधारा पयसा मही गौः ॥

Indra and Varuṇa, become the leaders of this inspired thought, as two bulls leading the milch-cow; may she yield to us her milk, moving like one going to pasture—this great Cow with a thousand streams of her luminous plenitude.

Mantra 8

ता वां धियोऽवसे वाजयन्तीराजिं न जग्मुर्युवयूः सुदानू । श्रिये न गाव उप सोममस्थुरिन्द्रं गिरो वरुणं मे मनीषाः ॥

These inspirations, bringing the plenitude of force, have gone to you for help as to a race; like cows to their glory they have stood near the Soma. My utterances go to Indra; my thought-formations to Varuṇa.

Mantra 10

अश्व्यस्य त्मना रथ्यस्य पुष्टेर्नित्यस्य रायः पतयः स्याम । ता चक्राणा ऊतिभिर्नव्यसीभिरस्मत्रा रायो नियुतः सचन्ताम् ॥

May we be masters of the perennial wealth—of the horse-force in its own power, of the chariot-force, of the nourishing increase. And may those two (Indra and Varuṇa), fashioning ever-new helps, yoke to us here the ordered harnessings of riches.