Rigveda 4.027.03
Rigveda · Mandala 4, Sukta 27 · Verse 4.27.3
Vedic Classification
Sanskrit Original
अव॒ यच्छ्ये॒नो अस्व॑नी॒दध॒ द्योर्वि यद्यदि॒ वात॑ ऊ॒हुः पुरं॑धिम् । सृ॒जद्यद॑स्मा॒ अव॑ ह क्षि॒पज्ज्यां कृ॒शानु॒रस्ता॒ मन॑सा भुर॒ण्यन्
ava yacchyeno asvanīdadha dyorvi yadyadi vāta ūhuḥ puraṃdhim sṛjadyadasmā ava ha kṣipajjyāṃ kṛśānurastā manasā bhuraṇyan
What the falcon composed he placed in the sky; when winds and hosts upheld the city he cast forth the lean and wasted with mind striving and bearing away.
When the hawk screamed (with exultation) on his descent from heaven, and (the guardians of the Soma) perceived that the Soma was (carried away) by it then, the archer of Kṛśānu, pursuing with the speed of thought, and stringing his bow, let fly an arrow against it.
When with loud cry from heaven down sped the Falcon, thence hasting like the wind he bore the Bold One. Then, wildly raging in his mind, the archer Krsanu aimed and loosed the string to strike him.