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Rig Veda Book 9 Hymn 53 उत ते शुष्मासो अस्थू रक्षो भिन्दन्तो अद्रिवः | नुदस्व याः परिस्प्र्धः || अया निजघ्निरोजसा रथसंगे धने हिते | सतवा अबिभ्युषा हर्दा || अस्य वरतानि नाध्र्षे पवमानस्य दूढ्या | रुज यस्त्वाप्र्तन्यति || तं हिन्वन्ति मदच्युतं हरिं नदीषु वाजिनम | इन्दुमिन्द्राय मत्सरम ||

ut te śuṣmāso asthū rakṣo bhindanto adrivaḥ | nudasva yāḥ parispṛdhaḥ || ayā nijaghnirojasā rathasaṃghe dhane hite | stavā abibhyuṣā hṛdā || asya vratāni nādhṛṣe pavamānasya dūḍhyā | ruja yastvāpṛtanyati || taṃ hinvanti madacyutaṃ hariṃ nadīṣu vājinam | indumindrāya matsaram ||

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Rig Veda

  1. O THOU with stones for arms, thy powers, crushing the fiends, have raised themselves: Chase thou the foes who compass us. 2 Thou conquerest thus with might when car meets car, and when the prize is staked: With fearless heart will I sing praise. 3 No one with evil thought assails this Pavamana’s holy laws: Crush him who fain would fight with thee. 4 For Indra to the streams they drive the tawny rapture-dropping Steed, Indu the bringer of delight.