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Rigveda Samhita — Mandala 10 — Chapter 33

RV 10 33.1

प्र मा युयुज्रे प्रयुजो जनानाꣳ वहामि स्म पूषणम् अन्तरेण । विश्वे देवासो अध माम् अरक्षन् दुःशासुर् आगाद् इति घोष आसीत्

pra mā yuyujre prayujo janānāṁ vahāmi sma pūṣaṇam antareṇa | viśve devāso adha mām arakṣan duḥśāsur āgād iti ghoṣa āsīt

The harnessings of men have yoked me forth; I do indeed carry Pūṣan in between. Then all the gods guarded me; there was the cry, "The hard-ruling one has come."

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

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THE urgings of the people have impelled me, and by,the nearest way I bring you Pûshan. The Universal Gods have brought me safely. The cry was heard, Behold, Dubsasu cometh!

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1896)

RV 10 33.2

सम् मा तपन्त्य् अभितः सपत्नीर् इव पर्शवः । नि बाधते अमतिर् नग्नता जसुर् वेर् न वेवीयते मतिः

sam mā tapanty abhitaḥ sapatnīr iva parśavaḥ | ni bādhate amatir nagnatā jasur ver na vevīyate matiḥ

The ribs burn me on all sides like co-wives. Want, nakedness and exhaustion press me down; my mind flutters this way and that like a bird.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

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The ribs that compass me give pain and trouble me like rival wives. Indigence, nakedness, exhaustion press me sore: my mind is fluttering like a bird's.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1896)

RV 10 33.3

मूषो न शिश्ना व्य् अदन्ति माध्यः स्तोतारꣳ ते शतक्रतो । सकृत् सु नो मघवन्न् इन्द्र मृऴयाधा पितेव नो भव

mūṣo na śiśnā vy adanti mādhyaḥ stotāraṁ te śatakrato | sakṛt su no maghavann indra mṛḻayādhā piteva no bhava

Like mice (gnawing) their tails, the cares devour me, your praiser, O you of a hundred powers. Just once show us mercy, bountiful Indra, and then be like a father to us.

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

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As rats eat weavers' threads, cares are consuming me, thy singer, gatakratu, me. Have mercy on us once, O Indra, Bounteous Lord: be thou a Father unto us.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1896)

RV 10 33.4

कुरुश्रवणम् आवृणि राजानꣳ त्रासदस्यवम् । मꣳहिष्ठꣳ वाघताम् ऋषिः

kuruśravaṇam āvṛṇi rājānaṁ trāsadasyavam | maṁhiṣṭhaṁ vāghatām ṛṣiḥ

I have chosen Kuruśravaṇa, the king, Trasadasyu's descendant — I, the seer, (chose) the most generous of those who offer.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

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I the priests' R̥ishi chose as prince most liberal Kuruṣravaṇa, The son of Trasadasyu's son,

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1896)

RV 10 33.5

यस्य मा हरितो रथे तिस्रो वहन्ति साधुया । स्तवै सहस्रदक्षिणे

yasya mā harito rathe tisro vahanti sādhuyā | stavai sahasradakṣiṇe

He on whose chariot three bay mares carry me straight to the goal — him let me praise, at the thousandfold priestly gift.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

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Whose three bays harnessed to the car bear me straight onward: I will laud The giver of a thousand meeds,

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1896)

RV 10 33.6

यस्य प्रस्वादसो गिर उपमश्रवसः पितुः । क्षेत्रꣳ न रण्वम् ऊचुषे

yasya prasvādaso gira upamaśravasaḥ pituḥ | kṣetraṁ na raṇvam ūcuṣe

Whose father Upamaśravas' songs are very sweet, like a delightful field to one who has spoken (them).

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

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The sire of Upamaṣravas, even him whose words were passing sweet, As a fair field is to its lord.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1896)

RV 10 33.7

अधि पुत्रोपमश्रवो नपान् मित्रातिथेर् इहि । पितुष् टे अस्मि वन्दिता

adhi putropamaśravo napān mitrātither ihi | pituṣ ṭe asmi vanditā

Attend, O son, Upamaśravas, grandson of Mitrātithi: I am the praiser of your father.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

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Mark, Upamaṣravas, his son, mark, grandson of Mitrâtithi: I am thy father's eulogist.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1896)

RV 10 33.8

यद् ईशीयामृतानाम् उत वा मर्त्यानाम् । जीवेद् इन् मघवा मम

yad īśīyāmṛtānām uta vā martyānām | jīved in maghavā mama

If I had power over the immortals, or indeed over mortals, my bounteous patron would still be alive.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

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If I controlled Immortal Gods, yea, even were I Lord of men, My liberal prince were living still.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1896)

RV 10 33.9

न देवानाम् अति व्रतꣳ शतात्मा चन जीवति । तथा युजा वि वावृते

na devānām ati vrataṁ śatātmā cana jīvati | tathā yujā vi vāvṛte

Beyond the ordinance of the gods not even one with a hundred lives lives on; so (he) has been parted from his yoke-fellow.

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

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None lives, even had he hundred lives, beyond the statute of the Gods So am I parted from my friend.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1896)