Sukta 51

Mantra 1

यथा मनौ सांवरणौ सोममिन्द्रापिबः सुतम् । नीपातिथौ मघवन्मेध्यातिथौ पुष्टिगौ श्रुष्टिगौ सचा ॥

As once with Manu Sāṃvaraṇa you drank the pressed Soma, O Indra—so too, O bounteous one, with Nīpātithi, with Medhyātithi, companioning the powers of increase and of obedient hearing.

Mantra 2

पार्षद्वाणः प्रस्कण्वं समसादयच्छयानं जिव्रिमुद्धितम् । सहस्राण्यसिषासद्गवामृषिस्त्वोतो दस्यवे वृकः ॥

Pārṣadvāṇa brought Praskaṇva fully to the goal, raising up Jivri who lay cast down. He won thousands of rays (cows); the seer, helped by you, became a wolf to the Dasyu—devouring the hostile darkness.

Mantra 3

य उक्थेभिर्न विन्धते चिकिद्य ऋषिचोदनः । इन्द्रं तमच्छा वद नव्यस्या मत्यरिष्यन्तं न भोजसे ॥

He who does not find (the goal) by mere recitations, but knows—he whom the seer-force impels: speak to that Indra straight; let a fresh thought go to him, not perishing, seeking the true enjoyment (participation) of his power.

Mantra 4

यस्मा अर्कं सप्तशीर्षाणमानृचुस्त्रिधातुमुत्तमे पदे । स त्विमा विश्वा भुवनानि चिक्रददादिज्जनिष्ट पौंस्यम् ॥

To him they have sung the chant of seven heads, founded in the threefold order, in the highest step. And he indeed has made all these worlds cry out into manifestation; from that very beginning the heroic power was born.

Mantra 5

यो नो दाता वसूनामिन्द्रं तं हूमहे वयम् । विद्मा ह्यस्य सुमतिं नवीयसीं गमेम गोमति व्रजे ॥

Indra—he who is our giver of the riches—we call him to us. For we know his ever-new right-mindedness; may we arrive at the luminous pen of plenitude where the rays of knowledge are gathered.

Mantra 6

यस्मै त्वं वसो दानाय शिक्षसि स रायस्पोषमश्नुते । तं त्वा वयं मघवन्निन्द्र गिर्वणः सुतावन्तो हवामहे ॥

Whomsoever thou, O Wealth-Lord, trainest for the giving, he attains the increase of plenitude. Thee, O bounteous Indra, delighting in the chant, we—pressers of Soma—call to our offering.

Mantra 7

कदा चन स्तरीरसि नेन्द्र सश्चसि दाशुषे । उपोपेन्नु मघवन्भूय इन्नु ते दानं देवस्य पृच्यते ॥

At no time art thou held back, O Indra; thou dost not fail the giver. Again and again, O bounteous one, more and yet more thy divine giving is asked for and joined to us.

Mantra 8

प्र यो ननक्षे अभ्योजसा क्रिविं वधैः शुष्णं निघोषयन् । यदेदस्तम्भीत्प्रथयन्नमूं दिवमादिज्जनिष्ट पार्थिवः ॥

Forward goes he who, with driving force, smites Krivi; with his blows he makes Śuṣṇa roar down into defeat. When he set firm and widened yonder heaven, from that act the earthly foundation came to birth.

Mantra 9

यस्यायं विश्व आर्यो दासः शेवधिपा अरिः । तिरश्चिदर्ये रुशमे परीरवि तुभ्येत्सो अज्यते रयिः ॥

He whose treasure-guarding enemy this entire Arya and Dasa becomes— even across the divide, for the Arya, O shining one, the stream of abundance is poured to thee alone.

Mantra 10

तुरण्यवो मधुमन्तं घृतश्चुतं विप्रासो अर्कमानृचुः । अस्मे रयिः पप्रथे वृष्ण्यं शवोऽस्मे सुवानास इन्दवः ॥

The swift-striving seers have chanted the hymn, honey-full and dripping with clarified light. In us the abundance spreads wide; in us the bull-force grows— in us, as they are pressed out, the Soma-drops flow.