That one struck down the honeyed wave, the hostile seat; he made the mighty wound evident. With strong slaughter he closed off the floods and covered the fierce utterance.

The fierce Indra seized upon him, that vast moving (Vṛtra), when slumbering, (after) having drunk the Soma, subduing (his foes), and enveloping (the world), and then slew him with his great weapons in battle, footless, measureless, speechless.

The fierce God seized that huge and restless coiler, insatiate, drinker of the sweets, recumbent, And with his mighty weapon in his dwelling smote down the footless evil-speaking ogre.