Sukta 35

Mantra 1

यस्ते साधिष्ठोऽवस इन्द्र क्रतुष्टमा भर । अस्मभ्यं चर्षणीसहं सस्निं वाजेषु दुष्टरम् ॥

Bring to us, O Indra, that most effective will for help which is your surest power—so that for us it becomes a force that overcomes the resisting worlds, a winning mastery, hard to surpass in the plenitudes of strength. Let your right decision act in us as victorious energy.

Mantra 2

यदिन्द्र ते चतस्रो यच्छूर सन्ति तिस्रः । यद्वा पञ्च क्षितीनामवस्तत्सु न आ भर ॥

Whatever your helps are, O Indra—four, or three, O hero; or even five for the worlds—bring that support to us in full. Let every mode of your protecting power enter our journey and uphold our ascent.

Mantra 3

आ तेऽवो वरेण्यं वृषन्तमस्य हूमहे । वृषजूतिर्हि जज्ञिष आभूभिरिन्द्र तुर्वणिः ॥

We call for thy help, O Indra—help that is to be chosen, the most forceful outpouring of thy power. For thou art indeed the impeller of the overflowing energies; with thy mighty becomings, O Indra, thou art the swift overcomer.

Mantra 4

वृषा ह्यसि राधसे जज्ञिषे वृष्णि ते शवः । स्वक्षत्रं ते धृषन्मनः सत्राहमिन्द्र पौंस्यम् ॥

For thou art the Bull of power; for the giving of plenitude thou hast come into manifestation. Thy force is puissant; thy self-kingdom is firm, thy mind is daring. Unbroken and constant, O Indra, is thy manly strength within us.

Mantra 5

त्वं तमिन्द्र मर्त्यममित्रयन्तमद्रिवः । सर्वरथा शतक्रतो नि याहि शवसस्पते ॥

Thou, O Indra, go down upon that mortal who is turning toward hostility; O lord of the thunderstone, O hundred-skilled one—come with all thy chariots of force, O master of energy, and bring the downward pressure that breaks the adverse will.

Mantra 6

त्वामिद्वृत्रहन्तम जनासो वृक्तबर्हिषः । उग्रं पूर्वीषु पूर्व्यं हवन्ते वाजसातये ॥

It is thee indeed, the most Vṛtra-slaying, whom men with the strewn sacred grass call—thy fierce power, ancient among the ancients—for the winning of vāja, the plenitude of victorious force.

Mantra 7

अस्माकमिन्द्र दुष्टरं पुरोयावानमाजिषु । सयावानं धनेधने वाजयन्तमवा रथम् ॥

Make our chariot, O Indra, hard to cross for the opposing powers—going in front in the battles, moving in harmony; in each struggle for the riches may it bring the vāja, the increase of force, and bear us forward.

Mantra 8

अस्माकमिन्द्रेहि नो रथमवा पुरंध्या । वयं शविष्ठ वार्यं दिवि श्रवो दधीमहि दिवि स्तोमं मनामहे ॥

O Indra, come to our chariot and guard it with thy plenitude of right accomplishing. We, O most mighty, would set in the heaven of consciousness the noble fame (the luminous hearing); in that same heaven we shape and hold our hymn of affirmation.