Rig Veda

Book 6, Hymn LVII. Indra and Pūṣan

1. INDRA and Pūṣan will we call for friend ship and prosperity
And for the winning of the spoil.

2 One by the Soma sits to drink juice which the mortar hath expressed:
The other longs for curd and meal.

3 Goats are the team that draws the one: the other hath Bay Steeds at hand;
With both of these he slays the fiends.

4 When Indra, wondrous strong, brought down the streams, the mighty waterfloods,
Pūṣan was standing by his side.

5 To this, to Pūṣan's favouring love, and Indra's, may we closely cling,
As to a tree's extended bough.

6 As one who drives a car draws in his reins, may we draw Pūṣan near,
And Indra, for our great success.