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Rigveda 1.140.2

Ṛgvedasaṃhitā 1.140.2

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Sanskrit

1.140.2

a̱bhi dvi̱janmā̍ tri̱vṛd anna̍m ṛjyate saṁvatsa̱re vā̍vṛdhe ja̱gdham ī̱ puna̍ḥ |
a̱nyasyā̱sā ji̱hvayā̱ jenyo̱ vṛṣā̱ ny a1̱̍nyena̍ va̱nino̍ mṛṣṭa vāra̱ṇaḥ ||

Child of a double birth he grasps at triple food; in the year's course what he hath swallowed grows anew. He, by another's mouth and tongue a noble Bull, with other, as an elephant, consumes the trees.

Ralph T. H. Griffith 1889, The Hymns of the Rigveda

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