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Rigveda Samhita — Mandala 5 — Chapter 84

RV 5 84.1

बऴ् इत्था पर्वतानाꣳ खिद्रम् बिभर्षि पृथिवि । प्र या भूमिम् प्रवत्वति मह्ना जिनोषि महिनि

baḻ itthā parvatānāṁ khidram bibharṣi pṛthivi | pra yā bhūmim pravatvati mahnā jinoṣi mahini

Truly so: you bear the pressure of the mountains, O Earth — you who with your greatness quicken the ground, rich in slopes, O mighty one.

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

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

THOU, of a truth,O Pr̥ithivî, bearest the tool that rends the hills: Thou rich in torrents, who with might quickenest earth, O Mighty One.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1896)

RV 5 84.2

स्तोमासस् त्वा विचारिणि प्रति ष्टोभन्त्य् अक्तुभिः । प्र या वाजꣳ न हेषन्तम् पेरुम् अस्यस्य् अर्जुनि

stomāsas tvā vicāriṇi prati ṣṭobhanty aktubhiḥ | pra yā vājaṁ na heṣantam perum asyasy arjuni

The praises hail you back with the nights, O you who move to and fro — you who shoot forth the swelling (flood) like a neighing steed, O bright one.

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

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

To thee, O wanderer at will, ring out the lauds with beams of day, Who drivest, like a neighing steed, the swelling cloud, O bright of hue.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1896)

RV 5 84.3

दृऴ्हा चिद् या वनस्पतीन् क्ष्मया दर्धर्ष्य् ओजसा । यत् ते अभ्रस्य विद्युतो दिवो वर्षन्ति वृष्टयः

dṛḻhā cid yā vanaspatīn kṣmayā dardharṣy ojasā | yat te abhrasya vidyuto divo varṣanti vṛṣṭayaḥ

You who with your force hold even the firm forest trees down to the ground, when the lightnings of your cloud, the rains of heaven, pour down.

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

Compare with Ralph T.H. Griffith

Who graspest with thy might on earth. e'en the strong sovrans of the wood, When from the lightning of thy cloud the rain-floods of the heaven descend.

— tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith (1896)