May we be never cast aside, and strangers, as it were, to thee. We, Thunder-wielding Indra, count ourselves as trees rejected and unfit to burn.
Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)This is the translator's rendering of the same verse where it occurs at RV 8.1.13; the wording of this text may differ in places.
अमन्महीद् अनाशवो ऽनुग्रासश् च वृत्रहन् । सुकृत् सु ते महता शूर राधसानु स्तोमं मुदीमहि ॥२॥
amanmahīd anāśavo 'nugrāsaś ca vṛtrahan | sukṛt su te mahatā śūra rādhasānu stomaṃ mudīmahi ||2||
O Vrtra-slayer, we were thought slow and unready for the fray. Yet once in thy great bounty may we have delight, O Hero, after praising thee.
Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)This is the translator's rendering of the same verse where it occurs at RV 8.1.14; the wording of this text may differ in places.