Translation of the Sanhitá of the Sáma Veda / By J. Stevenson.

Date:
1842
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Credit: Translation of the Sanhitá of the Sáma Veda / By J. Stevenson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    4. O possessor of riches, render sharp our wea¬ pons, rejoice the minds of our foot-soldiers. O slayer of Vritra, let the triumphant shout of our fleet horsemen and triumphant chariots rise aloft. (Be with) our people, O Indra, when they come up to the standards of the enemy, and let our arrows gain the victory : let our heroes be superior, and let the gods be our preservers in the battle. O Maruts, envelope that hostile army of enemies, contending against us, in such activity-paralyzing darkness that one man shall not know another. I 5. O Sin-maintaining goddess,^ do thou remove ^far (from us), and, infatuating their minds, seize the limbs (of our foes) ; and, coming up to them, utterly consume their hearts with grief, and let murky darkness gather around our foes. O heroes, go forward and conquer, and may Indra confer on you felicity; let your arm be firm and invincible, as you yourselves are; having prepared your in¬ cantation-whetted, foe-destroying (arrows), cast them on the enemy; advance with a quick pace upon the foe, and leave not a whit of them. 6. Let the swift-flying herons, O Indra, come to them; let their army become a feast to the kite. Save none of them, (not even the pious;) as to the sinner, he cannot be saved: let the birds gather ^ This is a kind of personification of Sin.