Rigveda 1.148
Ṛgvedasaṃhitā 1.148
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- Sanskrit
1.148.1
mathī̱d yad ī̍ṁ vi̱ṣṭo mā̍ta̱riśvā̱ hotā̍raṁ vi̱śvāpsu̍ṁ vi̱śvade̍vyam |
ni yaṁ da̱dhur ma̍nu̱ṣyā̍su vi̱kṣu sva1̱̍r ṇa ci̱traṁ vapu̍ṣe vi̱bhāva̍m ||
WHAT Mâtariṣvan, piercing, formed by friction, Herald of all the Gods. in varied figure, Is he whom they have set mid human houses, gay-hued as light and shining forth for beauty.
1.148.2
da̱dā̱nam in na da̍dabhanta̱ manmā̱gnir varū̍tha̱m mama̱ tasya̍ cākan |
ju̱ṣanta̱ viśvā̍ny asya̱ karmopa̍stuti̱m bhara̍māṇasya kā̱roḥ ||
They shall not harm the man who brings thee praises: such as I am, Agni my help approves me. All acts of mine shall they accept with pleasure, laudation from the singer who presents it.
1.148.3
nitye̍ ci̱n nu yaṁ sada̍ne jagṛ̱bhre praśa̍stibhir dadhi̱re ya̱jñiyā̍saḥ |
pra sū na̍yanta gṛ̱bhaya̍nta i̱ṣṭāv aśvā̍so̱ na ra̱thyo̍ rārahā̱ṇāḥ ||
Him in his constant seat men skilled in worship have taken and with praises have established. As, harnessed to a chariot fleet-foot horses, at his command let bearers lead him forward.
1.148.4
pu̱rūṇi̍ da̱smo ni ri̍ṇāti̱ jambhai̱r ād ro̍cate̱ vana̱ ā vi̱bhāvā̍ |
ād a̍sya̱ vāto̱ anu̍ vāti śo̱cir astu̱r na śaryā̍m asa̱nām anu̱ dyūn ||
Wondrous, full many a thing he chews and crunches: he shines amid the wood with spreading brightness. Upon his glowing flames the wind blows daily, driving them like the keen shaft of an archer.
1.148.5
na yaṁ ri̱pavo̱ na ri̍ṣa̱ṇyavo̱ garbhe̱ santa̍ṁ reṣa̱ṇā re̱ṣaya̍nti |
a̱ndhā a̍pa̱śyā na da̍bhann abhi̱khyā nityā̍sa īm pre̱tāro̍ arakṣan ||
Him, whom while yet in embryo the hostile, both skilled and fain to harm, may never injure, Men blind and sightless through his splendour hurt not: his never-failing lovers have preserved him.
Translations (7)
- The Hymns of the Rigveda — Ralph T. H. Griffith 1889, English
- Der Rig-Veda aus dem Sanskrit ins Deutsche übersetzt (HOS 33–35) — Karl Friedrich Geldner 1951, German
- Ригведа — Tatyana Yakovlevna Elizarenkova 1989, Russian
- Études védiques et pāṇinéennes (traductions) — Louis Renou 1955, French
- Rig-Veda Sanhitá — Horace Hayman Wilson 1850, English
- Rig-Veda, übersetzt und mit kritischen und erläuternden Anmerkungen versehen — Hermann Grassmann 1876, German
- Vedic Hymns, Part II: Hymns to Agni (Maṇḍalas I–V) (SBE 46) — Hermann Oldenberg 1897, English
Commentaries (10)
- Vedārthaprakāśa (Ṛgvedabhāṣya) — Sāyaṇa, Sanskrit
- Ṛgvedapadapāṭha — Śākalya, Sanskrit
- Ṛgarthadīpikā — Veṅkaṭamādhava, Sanskrit
- Ṛgvedabhāṣya (Udgītha) — Udgītha, Sanskrit
- Ṛgvedasaṃhitābhāṣya — Udgīthācārya, Sanskrit
- Ṛgvedabhāṣya (Skandasvāmin) — Skandasvāmin, Sanskrit
- Ṛgbhāṣya (Madhva) — Madhva, Sanskrit
- Ṛgvedasaṃhitāvyākhyā — Sanskrit
- Ṛgvedasūktanirukta — Mādhava, Sanskrit
- Bhāṣya — Sanskrit
Other recensions (1)
Linked texts (12)
- A Vedic Concordance — Maurice Bloomfield, English
- Āśvalāyanasaṃhitā — Sanskrit
- La religion védique d'après les hymnes du Rig-Véda — Abel Bergaigne, French
- Vedic Metre in its Historical Development — E. Vernon Arnold, English
- Die Hymnen des Rigveda, Bd. I: Metrische und textgeschichtliche Prolegomena — Hermann Oldenberg, German
- History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) — P. V. Kane, English
- Vedic Index of Names and Subjects — Arthur A. Macdonell & A. Berriedale Keith, English
- Original Sanskrit Texts on the Origin and History of the People of India, their Religion and Institutions — John Muir, English
- Altindische Grammatik — Jacob Wackernagel & Albert Debrunner, German
- History of Indian Medicine, containing Notices, Biographical and Bibliographical, of the Āyurvedic Physicians and their Works on Medicine — Girindranath Mukhopadhyaya, English
- Minerals and Metals in Ancient India — Arun Kumar Biswas & Sulekha Biswas, English
- Saṃhitāpadapāṭha — Sanskrit