Rigveda Samhita — Mandala 5 — Chapter 48

RV 5 48.1

कद् उ प्रियाय धाम्ने मनामहे स्वक्षत्राय स्वयशसे महे वयम् । आमेन्यस्य रजसो यद् अभ्र आꣳ अपो वृणाना वितनोति मायिनी

kad u priyāya dhāmne manāmahe svakṣatrāya svayaśase mahe vayam | āmenyasya rajaso yad abhra ām̐ apo vṛṇānā vitanoti māyinī

How shall we think of the dear dhāman, self-ruling, self-glorious, great—when in the cloud of the immeasurable space the crafty (female) spreads out, choosing the waters?

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RV 5 48.2

ता अत्नत वयुनꣳ वीरवक्षणꣳ समान्या वृतया विश्वम् आ रजः । अपो अपाचीर् अपरा अपेजते प्र पूर्वाभिस् तिरते देवयुर् जनः

tā atnata vayunaṁ vīravakṣaṇaṁ samānyā vṛtayā viśvam ā rajaḥ | apo apācīr aparā apejate pra pūrvābhis tirate devayur janaḥ

They stretched out the marker that strengthens men, through the whole space with a single course; the westward waters, the later ones, he drives away; with the earlier ones the god-seeking man makes headway.

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RV 5 48.3

आ ग्रावभिर् अहन्येभिर् अक्तुभिर् वरिष्ठꣳ वज्रम् आ जिघर्ति मायिनि । शतꣳ वा यस्य प्रचरन् स्वे दमे सꣳवर्तयन्तो वि च वर्तयन्न् अहा

ā grāvabhir ahanyebhir aktubhir variṣṭhaṁ vajram ā jigharti māyini | śataṁ vā yasya pracaran sve dame saṁvartayanto vi ca vartayann ahā

With the pressing-stones, by day and by night, he flings the mightiest bolt at the crafty one—he whose hundred (helpers?), moving about in his own house, rolling the days together, rolled them apart.

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RV 5 48.4

ताम् अस्य रीतिम् परशोर् इव प्रत्य् अनीकम् अख्यम् भुजे अस्य वर्पसः । सचा यदि पितुमन्तम् इव क्षयꣳ रत्नꣳ दधाति भरहूतये विशे

tām asya rītim paraśor iva praty anīkam akhyam bhuje asya varpasaḥ | sacā yadi pitumantam iva kṣayaṁ ratnaṁ dadhāti bharahūtaye viśe

That flow of his, like an axe's, his face turned toward (us), I have beheld, for the enjoyment of this form of his—if together he sets down a treasure, like a dwelling full of food, for the clan at the battle-call.

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RV 5 48.5

स जिह्वया चतुरनीक ऋञ्जते चारु वसानो वरुणो यतन्न् अरिम् । न तस्य विद्म पुरुषत्वता वयꣳ यतो भगः सविता दाति वार्यम्

sa jihvayā caturanīka ṛñjate cāru vasāno varuṇo yatann arim | na tasya vidma puruṣatvatā vayaṁ yato bhagaḥ savitā dāti vāryam

With his tongue, four-faced, he reaches out, clothed in beauty, Varuṇa, directing the stranger; we, by reason of our human condition, do not know that of him—from whence Bhaga, Savitṛ, bestows what is choice.

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