Rigveda 6.027.06
Rigveda · Mandala 6, Sukta 27 · Verse 6.27.6
Vedic Classification
Sanskrit Original
त्रिं॒शच्छ॑तं व॒र्मिण॑ इन्द्र सा॒कं य॒व्याव॑त्यां पुरुहूत श्रव॒स्या । वृ॒चीव॑न्तः॒ शर॑वे॒ पत्य॑मानाः॒ पात्रा॑ भिन्दा॒ना न्य॒र्थान्या॑यन्
triṃśacchataṃ varmiṇa indra sākaṃ yavyāvatyāṃ puruhūta śravasyā vṛcīvantaḥ śarave patyamānāḥ pātrā bhindānā nyarthānyāyan
Thirty-six-fold was Indra’s armour when the priestly host marched with him in the sacrifice; Vr̥ci’s men, bent on shafts, arrayed like quivers, broke open vessels and laid waste the booty.
Indra, the invoked of many, thirty hundred mailed warriors (were collected) together on the Yavyāvatī, to acquire glory, but the Vṛcīvats advancing in a hostile manner, and breaking the sacrificial vessels, went to (their own) annihilation.
Three thousand, mailed, in quest of fame, together, on the Yavyavati, O much-sought Indra, Vrcivan's sons, falling before the arrow, like bursting vessels went to their destruction.