Rigveda 10.089.14
Rigveda · Mandala 10, Sukta 89 · Verse 10.89.14
Vedic Classification
Sanskrit Original
कर्हि॑ स्वि॒त्सा त॑ इन्द्र चे॒त्यास॑द॒घस्य॒ यद्भि॒नदो॒ रक्ष॒ एष॑त् । मि॒त्र॒क्रुवो॒ यच्छस॑ने॒ न गावः॑ पृथि॒व्या आ॒पृग॑मु॒या शय॑न्ते
karhi svitsā ta indra cetyāsadaghasya yadbhinado rakṣa eṣat mitrakruvo yacchasane na gāvaḥ pṛthivyā āpṛgamuyā śayante
Where lies that which Indra called his own? When the breakers defended him, the ravager perished. The deed of Mitra did this: cattle were not lost from earth when waters lay down to rest.
Where was your (shaft) Indra, (which ought) to be hurled (against your enemies) when you did cleavethe rākṣasas hastening to war, and when the Mitrakru lay on the ground there in confusion like cattle at theplace of immolation?
Where was the vengeful dart when thou, O Indra, clavest the demon ever beat on outrage? When fiends lay there upon the ground extended like cattle in the place of immolation?