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Rigveda Samhita — Mandala 10 — Chapter 56

RV 10 56.1

इदꣳ त एकम् पर ऊ त एकꣳ तृतीयेन ज्योतिषा सꣳ विशस्व । सꣳवेशने तन्व१श् चारुर् एधि प्रियो देवानाम् परमे जनित्रे

idaṁ ta ekam para ū ta ekaṁ tṛtīyena jyotiṣā saṁ viśasva | saṁveśane tanva1ś cārur edhi priyo devānām parame janitre

This one is yours, and one is yours beyond; unite with the third light. At the uniting, be lovely of body, dear to the gods in the highest place of birth.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

HERE is one light for thee, another yonder: enter the third and he therewith united. Uniting with a body be thou welcome, dear to the Gods in their sublimest birthplace.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1896)

RV 10 56.2

तनूष् टे वाजिन् तन्व१ꣳ नयन्ती वामम् अस्मभ्यꣳ धातु शर्म तुभ्यम् । अह्रुतो महो धरुणाय देवान् दिवीव ज्योतिः स्वम् आ मिमीयाः

tanūṣ ṭe vājin tanva1ṁ nayantī vāmam asmabhyaṁ dhātu śarma tubhyam | ahruto maho dharuṇāya devān divīva jyotiḥ svam ā mimīyāḥ

Your body, O prize-winner, leading your body, shall grant what is good to us and shelter to you. Unswerving, for the upholding of the great, may you measure out the gods, (and) your own (light) like the light in heaven.

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

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

Bearing thy body, Vajin, may thy body afford us blessing and thyself protection. Unswerving, stablish as it were in heaven thine own light as the mighty God's supporter.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1896)

RV 10 56.3

वाज्य् असि वाजिनेना सुवेनीः सुवितः स्तोमꣳ सुवितो दिवꣳ गाः । सुवितो धर्म प्रथमानु सत्या सुवितो देवान् सुवितो ऽनु पत्म

vājy asi vājinenā suvenīḥ suvitaḥ stomaṁ suvito divaṁ gāḥ | suvito dharma prathamānu satyā suvito devān suvito 'nu patma

You are a prize-winner; by this prize-winning power, well-braided, well-sped, go to the praise, well-sped go to heaven; well-sped, O ordinance, along the first truths; well-sped to the gods, well-sped along your flight.

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

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

Strong Steed art thou: go to the yearning Maidens with vigour, happily go to heaven and praises: Fly happily to the Gods with easy passage, according to the first and faithful statutes.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1896)

RV 10 56.4

महिम्न एषाम् पितरश् चनेशिरे देवा देवेष्व् अदधुर् अपि क्रतुम् । सम् अविव्यचुर् उत यान्य् अत्विषुर् ऐषाꣳ तनूषु नि विविशुः पुनः

mahimna eṣām pitaraś caneśire devā deveṣv adadhur api kratum | sam avivyacur uta yāny atviṣur aiṣāṁ tanūṣu ni viviśuḥ punaḥ

Not even the Fathers had power over the greatness of these; the gods set resolve (kratu) also among the gods. They encompassed too whatever things they made flash, and they entered again into the bodies of these.

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

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

Part of their grandeur have the Fathers also gained: the Gods have seated mental power in them as Gods. They have embraced within themselves all energies, which, issuing forth, again into their bodies pass.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1896)

RV 10 56.5

सहोभिर् विश्वम् परि चक्रमू रजः पूर्वा धामान्य् अमिता मिमानाः । तनूषु विश्वा भुवना नि येमिरे प्रासारयन्त पुरुध प्रजा अनु

sahobhir viśvam pari cakramū rajaḥ pūrvā dhāmāny amitā mimānāḥ | tanūṣu viśvā bhuvanā ni yemire prāsārayanta purudha prajā anu

With their powers they strode around the whole airy space, measuring out the ancient, unmeasured domains. In their bodies all the worlds were held fast; in many ways they extended (themselves) along their offspring.

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

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

They strode through all the region with victorious might, establishing the old immeasurable laws. They compassed in their bodies all existing things, and streamed forth offspring in many successive forms.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1896)

RV 10 56.6

द्विधा सूनवो ऽसुरꣳ स्वर्विदम् आस्थापयन्त तृतीयेन कर्मणा । स्वाम् प्रजाम् पितरः पित्र्यꣳ सह आवरेष्व् अदधुस् तन्तुम् आततम्

dvidhā sūnavo 'suraṁ svarvidam āsthāpayanta tṛtīyena karmaṇā | svām prajām pitaraḥ pitryaṁ saha āvareṣv adadhus tantum ātatam

In two ways the sons set up the sun-finding lord (asura), by means of a third act. The Fathers placed their own offspring, the fatherly might, among those that come after — a thread stretched out.

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

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

In two ways have the sons established in his place the Asura who finds the light, by the third act, As fathers, they have set their heritage on earth, their offspring, as a thread continuously spun out.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1896)

RV 10 56.7

नावा न क्षोदः प्रदिशः पृथिव्याः स्वस्तिभिर् अति दुर्गाणि विश्वा । स्वाम् प्रजाम् बृहदुक्थो महित्वावरेष्व् अदधाद् आ परेषु

nāvā na kṣodaḥ pradiśaḥ pṛthivyāḥ svastibhir ati durgāṇi viśvā | svām prajām bṛhaduktho mahitvāvareṣv adadhād ā pareṣu

As (one crosses) a flood with a boat, (so across) the regions of the earth, past all hard passages with well-being: Bṛhaduktha by his greatness placed his own offspring among those nearer and among those beyond.

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

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

As in a ship through billows, so through regions of air, with blessings, through toils and troubles Hath Br̥ihaduktha brought his seed with glory, and placed it here and in the realms beyond us.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1896)