Protect us, O Indra, with fair praise; the gods repel evil counsels. Destroyer of evil, guardian, defender of the seer’s voice, may he slay the foe. You were begotten to slay; protect us, you who slay enemies.

Deservedly-lauded Indra, preserve us from suffering; for you are always verily the chastiser of the malevolent; your, being divine, (are the chastiser) of the malevolent; (you are) the slayer of the wicked rakṣas, the preserver of a pious (worshipper), such as I am; for asylum (of all men), the progenitor has begotten (for this purpose); has begotten you, asylum (of all men), the destroyer of the rākṣasas.

Save us from injury, thou who art well extolled: ever the warder-off art thou of wicked ones, even as a God, of wicked ones; Thou slayer of the evil fiend, saviour of singer such as I. Good Lord, the Father made thee slayer of the fiends, made thee, good Lord, to slay the fiends.