Indra slays Vritra/Ahi, the dragon who 'with his greatness had encompassed' the torrents; the waters 'stayed like kine held by the robber' until the cave of floods is opened and they descend 'like lowing kine' to the ocean.
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1I will declare the manly deeds of Indra, the first that he achieved, the Thunder-wielder.
2He slew the Dragon, then disclosed the waters, and cleft the channels of the mountain torrents.
3He slew the Dragon lying on the mountain: his heavenly bolt of thunder Tvashtar fashioned.
4Like lowing kine in rapid flow descending the waters glided downward to the ocean.
5There as he lies like a bank-bursting river, the waters taking courage flow above him.
6The Dragon lies beneath the feet of torrents which Vritra with his greatness had encompassed.
7Guarded by Ahi stood the thralls of Dasas, the waters stayed like kine held by the robber.
8But he, when he had smitten Vritra, opened the cave wherein the floods had been imprisoned.
9A horse’s tail wast thou when he, O Indra, smote on thy bolt; thou, God without a second,
10Thou hast won back the kine, hast won the Soma; thou hast let loose to flow the Seven Rivers.
Rigveda 1.32, vv. 1–2, 8, 11 · tr. Ralph T. H. Griffith, 1896Verses 1, 2, 8, 11 and 12, in the hymn’s order. Diacritics of the printed transliteration are simplified.
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