{ "apiVersion": "v1", "kind": "Chapter", "metadata": { "generated": "2026-08-22T14:14:13Z", "language": "en", "book": "rig-veda-book-10", "chapter": 89 }, "data": { "n": 89, "bookSlug": "rig-veda-book-10", "bookCode": "RV10", "refId": "", "title": "", "translation": null, "segments": [], "lines": [], "paragraphs": [{ "n": 1, "refId": "RV10-89:1", "text": "translated by" },{ "n": 2, "refId": "RV10-89:2", "text": "1. I WILL extol the most heroic Indra who with his might forced earth and sky asunder;" },{ "n": 3, "refId": "RV10-89:3", "text": "Who hath filled all with width as man's Upholder, surpassing floods and rivers in his greatness." },{ "n": 4, "refId": "RV10-89:4", "text": "2. Surya is he: throughout the wide expanses shall Indra turn him, swift as car-wheels, hither," },{ "n": 5, "refId": "RV10-89:5", "text": "Like a stream resting not but ever active he hath destroyed, with light, the black hued darkness." },{ "n": 6, "refId": "RV10-89:6", "text": "3. To him I sing a holy prayer, incessant new, matchless, common to the earth and heaven," },{ "n": 7, "refId": "RV10-89:7", "text": "Who marks, as they were backs, all living creatures: ne'er doth he fail a friend, the noble Indra." },{ "n": 8, "refId": "RV10-89:8", "text": "4. I will send forth my songs in flow unceasing, like water from the ocean's depth, to Indra." },{ "n": 9, "refId": "RV10-89:9", "text": "Who to his car on both its sides securely hath fixed the earth and heaven as with an axle." },{ "n": 10, "refId": "RV10-89:10", "text": "5. Rousing with draughts, the Shaker, rushing onward, impetuous, very strong, armed as with arrows" },{ "n": 11, "refId": "RV10-89:11", "text": "Is Soma; forest trees and all the bushes deceive not Indra with their offered likeness." },{ "n": 12, "refId": "RV10-89:12", "text": "6. Soma hath flowed to him whom naught can equal, the earth, the heavens, the firmament, the mountains,-" },{ "n": 13, "refId": "RV10-89:13", "text": "When heightened in his ire his indignation shatters the firm and breaks the strong in pieces." },{ "n": 14, "refId": "RV10-89:14", "text": "7. As an axe fells the tree so be slew Vrtra, brake down the strongholds and dug out the rivers." },{ "n": 15, "refId": "RV10-89:15", "text": "He cleft the mountain like a new-made pitcher. Indra brought forth the kine with his Companions." },{ "n": 16, "refId": "RV10-89:16", "text": "8. Wise art thou, Punisher of guilt, O Indra. The sword lops limbs, thou smitest down the sinner," },{ "n": 17, "refId": "RV10-89:17", "text": "The men who injure, as it were a comrade, the lofty Law of Varuna and Mitra." },{ "n": 18, "refId": "RV10-89:18", "text": "9. Men who lead evil lives, who break agreements, and injure Varuna, Aryaman and Mitra,-" },{ "n": 19, "refId": "RV10-89:19", "text": "Against these foes, O Mighty Indra, sharpen, as furious death, thy Bull of fiery colour." },{ "n": 20, "refId": "RV10-89:20", "text": "10. Indra is Sovran Lord of Earth and Heaven, Indra is Lord of waters and of mountains." },{ "n": 21, "refId": "RV10-89:21", "text": "Indra is Lord of prosperers and sages Indra must be invoked in rest and effort." },{ "n": 22, "refId": "RV10-89:22", "text": "11. Vaster than days and nights, Giver of increase, vaster than firmament and flood of ocean," },{ "n": 23, "refId": "RV10-89:23", "text": "Vaster than bounds of earth and wind's extension, vaster than rivers and our lands is Indra." },{ "n": 24, "refId": "RV10-89:24", "text": "12. Forward, as herald of refulgent Morning, let thine insatiate arrow fly, O Indra." },{ "n": 25, "refId": "RV10-89:25", "text": "And pierce, as 'twere a stone launched forth from heaven, with hottest blaze the men who love deception." },{ "n": 26, "refId": "RV10-89:26", "text": "13. Him, verily, the moons, the mountains followed, the tall trees followed and the plants and herbage." },{ "n": 27, "refId": "RV10-89:27", "text": "Yearning with love both Worlds approached, the Waters waited on Indra when he first had being." },{ "n": 28, "refId": "RV10-89:28", "text": "14. Where was the vengeful dart when thou, O Indra, clavest the demon ever beat on outrage?" },{ "n": 29, "refId": "RV10-89:29", "text": "When fiends lay there upon the ground extended like cattle in the place of immolation?" },{ "n": 30, "refId": "RV10-89:30", "text": "15. Those who are set in enmity against us, the Oganas, O Indra, waxen mighty,-" },{ "n": 31, "refId": "RV10-89:31", "text": "Let blinding darkness follow those our foemen, while these shall have bright shining nights to light them." },{ "n": 32, "refId": "RV10-89:32", "text": "16. May plentiful libations of the people, and singing Rsis' holy prayers rejoice thee." },{ "n": 33, "refId": "RV10-89:33", "text": "Hearing with love this common invocation, come unto us, pass by all those who praise thee." },{ "n": 34, "refId": "RV10-89:34", "text": "17. O Indra, thus may we be made partakers of thy new favours that shall bring us profit." },{ "n": 35, "refId": "RV10-89:35", "text": "Singing with love, may we the Visvamitras win daylight even now through thee, O Indra." },{ "n": 36, "refId": "RV10-89:36", "text": "18. Call we on Maghavan, auspicious Indra, best hero in the fight where spoil is gathered," },{ "n": 37, "refId": "RV10-89:37", "text": "The Strong who listens, who gives aid in battles, who slays the Vrtras, wins and gathers riches." } ] }, "links": { "self": "/v1/library/books/rig-veda-book-10/chapters/89", "book": "/v1/library/books/rig-veda-book-10/", "chapters": "/v1/library/books/rig-veda-book-10/chapters/", "library": "/v1/library/", "schema": "/v1/schema/book/" } }