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Rigveda Samhita — Mandala 10 — Chapter 172

RV 10 172.1

आ याहि वनसा सह गावः सचन्त वर्तनिꣳ यद् ऊधभिः

ā yāhi vanasā saha gāvaḥ sacanta vartaniṁ yad ūdhabhiḥ

Come with (your) loveliness; the cows keep to the track when (they come) with their udders.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

WITH all thy beauty come: the kine approaching with full udders follow on thy path.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1896)

RV 10 172.2

आ याहि वस्व्या धिया मꣳहिष्ठो जारयन्मखः सुदानुभिः

ā yāhi vasvyā dhiyā maṁhiṣṭho jārayanmakhaḥ sudānubhiḥ

Come with good intention (as) the most bountiful one, wakeful in liberality, together with the generous givers.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

Come with kind thoughts, most liberal, rousing the warrior's hymn of praise, with bounteous ones,

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1896)

RV 10 172.3

पितुभृतो न तन्तुम् इत् सुदानवः प्रति दध्मो यजामसि

pitubhṛto na tantum it sudānavaḥ prati dadhmo yajāmasi

Like bearers of food we, O bountiful ones, stretch out the thread and sacrifice.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain

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As nourishers we tie the thread, and, liberal with our bounty, offer sacrifice.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1896)

RV 10 172.4

उषा अप स्वसुस् तमः सꣳ वर्तयति वर्तनिꣳ सुजातता

uṣā apa svasus tamaḥ saṁ vartayati vartaniṁ sujātatā

Uṣas drives away the darkness of her sister, and by her fair birth she rolls up the track.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

Dawn drives away her Sister's gloom, and, through her excellence, makes her retrace her path.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1896)