Sukta 30

Mantra 1

आ नो देव शवसा याहि शुष्मिन्भवा वृध इन्द्र रायो अस्य । महे नृम्णाय नृपते सुवज्र महि क्षत्राय पौंस्याय शूर ॥

Come to us, O god, with your power; be for us an augmenter, O Indra, of this plenitude. For great manhood-force, O lord of men, O wielder of the good thunderbolt—yes, for a vast sovereignty and heroic potency, O hero.

Mantra 2

हवन्त उ त्वा हव्यं विवाचि तनूषु शूराः सूर्यस्य सातौ । त्वं विश्वेषु सेन्यो जनेषु त्वं वृत्राणि रन्धया सुहन्तु ॥

They call you, the oblation, with the far-sounding word—the heroes within their bodies in the winning of the Sun. You are the battle-worthy in all peoples; you make the obstructing powers submissive, that they may be well-struck and slain.

Mantra 3

अहा यदिन्द्र सुदिना व्युच्छान्दधो यत्केतुमुपमं समत्सु । न्यग्निः सीददसुरो न होता हुवानो अत्र सुभगाय देवान् ॥

O Indra, when the luminous days break open and you set up the supreme banner of Light in the battles, then Agni settles down within us like a lordly priest, invoking here the gods for the soul’s good fortune and felicity.

Mantra 4

वयं ते त इन्द्र ये च देव स्तवन्त शूर ददतो मघानि । यच्छा सूरिभ्य उपमं वरूथं स्वाभुवो जरणामश्नवन्त ॥

We and those who praise you, O Indra, O god, O hero, giving the gifts of plenitude—grant to the seer-lords the supreme protection, so that by their own becoming they may attain the power to endure and ripen in the work.

Mantra 5

वोचेमेदिन्द्रं मघवानमेनं महो रायो राधसो यद्ददन्नः । यो अर्चतो ब्रह्मकृतिमविष्ठो यूयं पात स्वस्तिभिः सदा नः ॥

Let us indeed speak of this Indra, the bountiful, because he gives us the great riches of fullness and the abundance of delight. He who is the most helpful to the one who chants, shaping the brahman—may you protect us always with states of well-being.