Rigveda 8.066.03
Rigveda · Mandala 8, Sukta 66 · Verse 8.66.3
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Sanskrit Original
यः श॒क्रो मृ॒क्षो अश्व्यो॒ यो वा॒ कीजो॑ हिर॒ण्ययः॑ । स ऊ॒र्वस्य॑ रेजय॒त्यपा॑वृति॒मिन्द्रो॒ गव्य॑स्य वृत्र॒हा
yaḥ śakro mṛkṣo aśvyo yo vā kījo hiraṇyayaḥ sa ūrvasya rejayatyapāvṛtimindro gavyasya vṛtrahā
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Whether he is shaggy‑headed or swift as a horse, whether golden in form—the lord Indra grants the kine's milk and frees the cowherd from the foe.
He Śakra, who is the purifier (of his worshippers), and well-skilled in horses, who is wonderful andgolden-bodied-- he, Indra, the slayer of Vṛtra, shakes the hiding-plural ce of the numerous herd of kine.
The Vrtra-slayer smote them all as spokes are hammered into naves: The Dasyu-killer waxed in might.