Library·Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka)·6·6.98

Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka) 6.98

इन्द्रो जयाति न परा जयाता अधिराजो राजसु राजयातै । चर्कृत्य ईड्यो वन्द्यश् चोपसद्यो नमस्य्श् भवेह ॥१॥

indro jayāti na parā jayātā adhirājo rājasu rājayātai | carkṛtya īḍyo vandyaś copasadyo namasyś bhaveha ||1||

May Indra conquer, may he not be conquered; may he king it as over-king among kings; be thou here one to be famed, to be praised, to be greeted, to be waited on, and to be reverenced.

Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)

त्वम् इन्द्राधिराजः श्रवस्युस् त्वं भूर् अभिभूतिर् जनानाम् । त्वं दैवीर् विश इमा वि राजायुष्मत् क्षत्रम् अजरं ते अस्तु ॥२॥

tvam indrādhirājaḥ śravasyus tvaṃ bhūr abhibhūtir janānām | tvaṃ daivīr viśa imā vi rājāyuṣmat kṣatram ajaraṃ te astu ||2||

Thou, O Indra, art over-king, ambitious (çravasyú), thou art the overcomer of people; do thou rule over these folk (viçás) of the gods; long-lived, unfading (ajára) dominion be thine.

Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)

प्राच्या दिशस् त्वम् इन्द्रासि राजोतोदीच्या दिशो वृत्रहन् छत्रुहो ऽसि । यत्र यन्ति स्रोत्यास् तज् जितं ते दक्षिणतो वृषभ एषि हव्यः ॥३॥

prācyā diśas tvam indrāsi rājotodīcyā diśo vṛtrahan chatruho 'si | yatra yanti srotyās taj jitaṃ te dakṣiṇato vṛṣabha eṣi havyaḥ ||3||

Of the eastern quarter thou, O Indra, art king; also of the northern quarter art thou, O Vritra-slayer, slayer of foes; where the streams go, that is thy conquest; in the south, as bull, thou goest worthy of invocation.

Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)