Dasyus and Dasas · Atlas

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subduing the dāsa color for the Ārya, yoking the two arms and the vajra, O much-invoked one.

Sāmaveda (Sanskrit)

Indra and Agni shook ninety strongholds whose lord was the Dāsa, with a single act.

Rigveda (Sanskrit)

For Dabhīti, Indra put to sleep thirty thousand of the Dāsas with his might and his power of māyā.

Recurring hostile non-Aryan group(s) whom Indra defeats, dispossesses, and drives out across several hymns.

Indra who hurled the Dasyus downward — him, accompanied by the Maruts, we call for friendship.

Having slain the Dasyus and the Śimyus by his paths, O much-invoked one, Śarva has crushed them into the earth.

when the Vajrin advanced to slay the Dasyus and the son established a name for glory.

The dasyu and dāsa, enemy peoples targeted for defeat in a martial hymn contrasting them with the Ārya.

subduing the dāsa color for the Ārya, yoking the two arms and the vajra, O much-invoked one.

Come swiftly for the slaying of the dasyu;

Hostile, demonic peoples defeated by Indra and Agni or targeted for cattle-raids.

Indra and Agni shook ninety strongholds whose lord was the Dāsa, with a single act.

Indra and Agni shook down ninety strongholds whose lord was a slave — together by a single act.

May the slayer of the Dasyu go forth to the cattle-pen of one seeking goods — may he turn it away from us with his powers.