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Rigveda Samhita — Mandala 1 — Chapter 172

RV 1 172.1

चित्रो वो ऽस्तु यामश् चित्र ऊती सुदानवः । मरुतो अहिभानवः

citro vo 'stu yāmaś citra ūtī sudānavaḥ | maruto ahibhānavaḥ

Bright be your journey, bright with help, O good givers, O Maruts of serpentine radiance.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

WONDERFUL let your coming be, wondrous with help, ye Bounteous Ones, Maruts, who gleam as serpents gleam.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1896)

RV 1 172.2

आरे सा वः सुदानवो मरुत ऋञ्जती शरुः । आरे अश्मा यम् अस्यथ

āre sā vaḥ sudānavo maruta ṛñjatī śaruḥ | āre aśmā yam asyatha

Far off be that arrow of yours that speeds straight, O good givers, O Maruts; far off the stone that you hurl.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

Far be from us, O Maruts, ye free givers, your impetuous shaft; Far from us be the stone ye hurl.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1896)

RV 1 172.3

तृणस्कन्दस्य नु विशः परि वृङ्क्त सुदानवः । ऊर्ध्वान् नः कर्त जीवसे

tṛṇaskandasya nu viśaḥ pari vṛṅkta sudānavaḥ | ūrdhvān naḥ karta jīvase

Spare now the clans of Tṛṇaskanda, O good givers; make us upright, to live.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

O Bounteous Givers, touch ye not, O Maruts, Tr̥iṇaskanda's folk; Lift ye us up that we may live.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1896)