Rigveda 6.052.03
Rigveda · Mandala 6, Sukta 52 · Verse 6.52.3
Vedic Classification
Sanskrit Original
किम॒ङ्ग त्वा॒ ब्रह्म॑णः सोम गो॒पां किम॒ङ्ग त्वा॑हुरभिशस्ति॒पां नः॑ । किम॒ङ्ग नः॑ पश्यसि नि॒द्यमा॑नान्ब्रह्म॒द्विषे॒ तपु॑षिं हे॒तिम॑स्य
kimaṅga tvā brahmaṇaḥ soma gopāṃ kimaṅga tvāhurabhiśastipāṃ naḥ kimaṅga naḥ paśyasi nidyamānānbrahmadviṣe tapuṣiṃ hetimasya
Why, O Soma, did the Brahman hinder the herds? Why did he assail us? Why do you behold us oppressed, O powerful one, suffering the hostile Brahman's penance and aim?
Why have they called you, Soma, the protector of pious prayer? Why (have they called you) our defender against calumny? Why do you behold us subjected to reproach? Cast your destroying weapon upon the adversary of the brahman.
Why then, O Soma, do they call thee keeper of prayer? Why then our guardian from reproaches? Why then beholdest thou how men revile us? Cast thy hot dart at him who hates devotion.