Rişhi: Madhuchhandas (RV 1.4.8)
asya pītvā shatakrato ghano vŗtrāņām abhavaĥ,
prāvo vājeşhu vājinam.
When thou
hast drunk of this, O thou of hundred activities, thou becomest a
slayer of the coverers and protectest the rich mind in its riches.
Indra is the Lord of the divine Mind, master of
illumined mentality, effectuating and fulfilling the varied
energies active in the mind. When he is offered the sap of the
delight of existence by man and he accepts it, he grows strong in
man and destroys the enemies of his progress obstructing the free
workings of thought, the foes who cover and withhold the
felicities that rightfully belong to him, the Vritra and his host.
Indra also showers the riches of illumined mind on man and guards
for him these riches and those that have been recovered from the
cursed besiegers.
[In (1.4.8) and (1.4.9), the word Vaja occurs
thrice and Vaji occurs twice; Sri Aurobindo translates all of them
as riches or plenitude where as others like Sayana give three
widely different meanings of 'battle', 'strength', and 'food']
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