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Rigveda Samhita — Mandala 10 — Chapter 189

RV 10 189.1

आयꣳ गौः पृश्निर् अक्रमीद् असदन् मातरम् पुरः । पितरꣳ च प्रयन् स्वः

āyaṁ gauḥ pṛśnir akramīd asadan mātaram puraḥ | pitaraṁ ca prayan svaḥ

This dappled bull has come striding; he has sat down before the mother, and going on to the father, to heaven.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

THIS spotted Bull hath come, and sat before the Mother in the east, Advancing to his Father heaven.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1896)

RV 10 189.2

अन्तश् चरति रोचनास्य प्राणाद् अपानती । व्य् अख्यन् महिषो दिवम्

antaś carati rocanāsya prāṇād apānatī | vy akhyan mahiṣo divam

He moves within; his bright spaces (are seen); out of his in-breath he breathes out. The buffalo has looked out over heaven.

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

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

Expiring when he draws his breath, she moves along the lucid spheres: The Bull shines out through all the sky.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1896)

RV 10 189.3

त्रिꣳशद् धाम वि राजति वाक् पतꣳगाय धीयते । प्रति वस्तोर् अह द्युभिः

triṁśad dhāma vi rājati vāk pataṁgāya dhīyate | prati vastor aha dyubhiḥ

He rules over thirty abodes; speech is set upon the flier at the daybreak, day by day.

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

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

Song is bestowed upon the Bird: it rules supreme through thirty realms Throughout the days at break of morn.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1896)