indrāsomā tapataṃ rakṣa ubjataṃ ny arpayataṃ vṛṣaṇā tamovṛdhaḥ | parā śṛṇītam acito ny oṣataṃ hataṃ nudethāṃ ni śiśītam attriṇaḥ ||1||
O Indra-and-Soma, burn the demon, oppress (ubj) [him]; put (arpay-) down, ye two bulls, them that thrive in darkness; crush away, scorch down the fools (acít); slay, push, pin (çā) down the devourers.
O Indra-and-Soma, against ⌊ abhí ⌋ the evil-plotter, the evil, let heat boil all up ⌊ sam-yas ⌋ like a fiery pot; assign unavoidable hate unto the brahman-hating, flesh-eating kimīdín of terrible aspect.
O Indra-and-Soma, pierce ye the evil-doers within their hiding-place (vavrá), in untenable darkness, whence there shall not come up again any one soever of them; be that your furious might unto overpowering.
O Indra-and-Soma, cause to roll (vṛt) from the sky the deadly weapon, from the earth also, a shattering for the evil-plotter; shape out from the mountains (párvata) the noisy one, wherewith ye burn down the increasing demon.
indrāsomā vartayataṃ divas pary agnitaptebhir yuvam aśmahanmabhiḥ | tapurvadhebhir ajarebhir attriṇo ni parśāne vidhyataṃ yantu nisvaram ||5||
O Indra-and-Soma, cause [it] to roll forth from the sky; with fireheated, stone-smiting, unaging heat-weapons do ye pierce the devourers in the abyss; let them go to silence.
O Indra-and-Soma, be there about you on all sides this prayer (matí), as a girth [about] two vigorous (vājín) horses, the invocation (hótrā) that I send forth to you with wisdom; these acts of worship (bráhman) quicken ye like two lords of men.
Remember ye with [your] rapid courses; smite the haters, the destructive demoniacs; O Indra-and-Soma, let there not be ease (sugá) for the evil-doer, the hater that at any time vexes me.
Whoever reviles with untrue speeches me walking with simple mind—like waters grasped with the fist, let the speaker of what is not be [himself] non-existent, O Indra.
They who distract (vi-hṛ) with [their] courses him of simple intent, or who spoil at their will (svadhā́bhis) what is excellent—let Soma either deliver them up to the serpent, or let him set them in the lap of perdition.
यो नो रसं दिप्सति पित्वो अग्ने अश्वानां गवां यस् तनूनाम् । रिपु स्तेन स्तेयकृद् दभ्रम् एतु नि ष हीयतां तन्वा तना च ॥१०॥ ९
yo no rasaṃ dipsati pitvo agne aśvānāṃ gavāṃ yas tanūnām | ripu stena steyakṛd dabhram etu ni ṣa hīyatāṃ tanvā tanā ca ||10|| 9
Whoever, O Agni, tries to harm our taste of drink, of horses, of kine, whoever of our bodies—let the enemy, the thief, the theft-committer, go to want (dabhrá); let him be degraded with self and with posterity.
परः सो अस्तु तन्वा तना च तिस्रः पृथिवीर् अधो अस्तु विश्वाः । प्रति शुष्यतु यशो अस्य देवा यो मा दिवा दिप्सति यश् च नक्तम् ॥११॥
paraḥ so astu tanvā tanā ca tisraḥ pṛthivīr adho astu viśvāḥ | prati śuṣyatu yaśo asya devā yo mā divā dipsati yaś ca naktam ||11||
Be he far away, with self and with posterity, be he beneath all the three earths, let his glory dry up, ye gods, who by day and who by night tries to harm me.
suvijñānaṃ cikituṣe janāya sac cāsac ca vacasī paspṛdhāte | tasyor yat satyaṃ yatarad ṛjīyas tad it somo 'vati hanty asat ||12||
It is easy of understanding for a knowing man (jána) [that] true and untrue words (vácas) are at variance; of them what is true, whichever is more right, that Soma verily favors; he smites the untrue.
न वा उ सोमो वृजिनं हिनोति न क्षत्रियम् मिथुया धारयन्तम् । हन्ति रक्षो हन्त्य् आसद् वदन्तम् उभाव् इन्द्रस्य प्रसितौ शयाते ॥१३॥
na vā u somo vṛjinaṃ hinoti na kṣatriyam mithuyā dhārayantam | hanti rakṣo hanty āsad vadantam ubhāv indrasya prasitau śayāte ||13||
Soma by no means furthers the wicked [man], nor the kshatríya who maintains [anything] falsely; he smites the demon; he smites the speaker of untruth; both lie within reach of Indra.
यदि वाहम् अनृतदेवो अस्मि मोघं वा देवां अप्यूहे अग्ने । किम् अस्मभ्यं जातवेदो हृणीषे द्रोघवाचस् ते निरृथं सचन्ताम् ॥१४॥
yadi vāham anṛtadevo asmi moghaṃ vā devāṃ apyūhe agne | kim asmabhyaṃ jātavedo hṛṇīṣe droghavācas te nirṛthaṃ sacantām ||14||
If I am one of false gods, or if I put upon (? api-ūh) the gods what is vain, O Agni—why art thou angry with us, O Jātavedas? let them of hateful speech obtain (sac) misery of thee.
अद्या मुरीय यदि यातुधानो अस्मि यदि वायुस् ततप पुरुषस्य । अधा स वीरैर् दशभिर् वि यूया यो मा मोघं यातुधानेत्य् आह ॥१५॥
adyā murīya yadi yātudhāno asmi yadi vāyus tatapa puruṣasya | adhā sa vīrair daśabhir vi yūyā yo mā moghaṃ yātudhānety āha ||15||
May I die today if I am a sorcerer, or if I have burnt (tap) a man's lifetime; then let him be divided from ten heroes who vainly says to me "thou sorcerer."
Whoever to me that am no sorcerer (áyātu) says "thou sorcerer," or whatever demoniac says "I am pure (çúci)"—let Indra smite him with a great deadly weapon; may he fall lowest of every creature.
pra yā jigāti khargaleva naktam apa druhus tanvaṃ1 gūhamānā | vavram anantam ava sā padīṣṭia grāvāṇo ghnantu rakṣasa upabdaiḥ ||17||
She who goes forth in the night like an owl (?), hateful, hiding herself away—may she fall down into an endless hole (vavrá); let the [pressing-] stones smite the demoniacs with [their] noises.
वि तिष्ठध्वम् मरुतो विक्ष्व् इछत गृभायत रक्षसः सं पिनष्टन् । वयो ये भूत्वा पतयन्ति नक्तभिर् ये वा रिपो दधिरे देवे अध्वरे ॥१८॥
vi tiṣṭhadhvam maruto vikṣv ichata gṛbhāyata rakṣasaḥ saṃ pinaṣṭan | vayo ye bhūtvā patayanti naktabhir ye vā ripo dadhire deve adhvare ||18||
Scatter yourselves, O Maruts, among the people (vikṣú); seek, seize, crush (sam-piṣ) the demoniacs, who, becoming birds, fly in the nights, or who have put defilements (rípas) on the heavenly sacrifice.
Cause the stone to roll forth from the sky, O Indra; [it,] sharpened by Soma, do thou wholly sharpen, O liberal one; from before, from away, from below, from above, do thou smite upon the demoniacs with a mountain.
eta u tye patayanti śvayātava indraṃ dipsanti dipsavo 'dābhyam | śiśīte śakraḥ piśunebhyo vadhaṃ nunaṃ sṛjad aśaniṃ yātumadbhyaḥ ||20|| 10
Here fly these dog-sorcerers (çváyātu); Indra the unharmable they the harm-seeking seek to harm; the mighty one (çakrá) sharpens his deadly weapon for the treacherous ones (píçuna); now may he let fly (sṛj) the thunderbolt at the sorcerers (yātumánt).
indro yātūnām abhavat parāśaro havirmathīnām abhy āvivāsatām | abhīd u śakraḥ paraśur yathā vanaṃ pātreva bhindant sata etu rakṣasaḥ ||21||
Indra was the crusher-away of the familiar demons (yātú), of the oblation-disturbers, of them who strive to win upon [it]; let the mighty one (çakrá) attack them that are demoniacs as an ax the woods, splitting [them] like vessels.
The owl-sorcerer, the owlet-(?)sorcerer smite thou, the dog-sorcerer and the cuckoo-sorcerer, the eagle-(? suparṇá)sorcerer and the vulture-sorcerer—do thou destroy (pra-mṛṇ) the demon, O Indra, as if with a mill-stone.
Let not the sorcerous demon reach us; let the kimīdíns that are paired fade away; let the earth protect us from earthly distress, let the atmosphere protect us from heavenly.
O Indra, smite the man sorcerer, likewise the woman ⌊who is⌋ prevailing with magic (māyā́); let the neckless false-worshipers vanish (? ṛd); let them not see the sun moving upward.