सोऽश्वं रूपं च तद्धित्वा तस्मा अन्तर्हित: स्वराट् । वीर: स्वपशुमादाय पितुर्यज्ञमुपेयिवान् ॥ १७ ॥
so ’svam rupam ca tad dhitva tasma antarhitah svarat virah sva-pasum adaya pitur yajnam upeyivan
- sah
- King Indra
- asvam
- the horse
- rupam
- the false dress of a saintly person
- ca
- also
- tat
- that
- hitva
- giving up
- tasmai
- for him
- antarhitah
- disappeared
- sva-rat
- Indra
- virah
- the great hero
- sva-pasum
- his animal
- adaya
- having taken
- pituh
- of his father
- yajnam
- to the sacrifice
- upeyivan
- he came back.
When Indra saw that the son of Prthu was chasing him, he immediately abandoned his false dress and left the horse. Indeed, he disappeared from that very spot, and the great hero, the son of Maharaja Prthu, returned the horse to his father’s sacrificial arena.