Rigveda 1.164.4
Ṛgvedasaṃhitā 1.164.4
- Language
- Sanskrit
1.164.4
ko da̍darśa pratha̱maṁ jāya̍mānam astha̱nvanta̱ṁ yad a̍na̱sthā bibha̍rti |
bhūmyā̱ asu̱r asṛ̍g ā̱tmā kva̍ svi̱t ko vi̱dvāṁsa̱m upa̍ gā̱t praṣṭu̍m e̱tat ||
Who hath beheld him as he sprang to being, seen how the boneless One supports the bony? Where is the blood of earth, the life, the spirit? Who may approach the man who knows, to ask it?
Translations (5)
- 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
- Rig-Veda Sanhitá — Horace Hayman Wilson 1850, English
- Rig-Veda, übersetzt und mit kritischen und erläuternden Anmerkungen versehen — Hermann Grassmann 1876, German
Commentaries (10)
- Vedārthaprakāśa (Ṛgvedabhāṣya) — Sāyaṇa, Sanskrit
- Ṛgvedapadapāṭha — Śākalya, Sanskrit
- Ṛgarthadīpikā — Veṅkaṭamādhava, Sanskrit
- Ṛgvedabhāṣya (Skandasvāmin) — Skandasvāmin, Sanskrit
- Ṛgvedabhāṣya (Udgītha) — Udgītha, Sanskrit
- Ṛgbhāṣya (Madhva) — Madhva, Sanskrit
- Ṛgvedasaṃhitāvyākhyā — Sanskrit
- Vedabhāṣya — Mādhava, Sanskrit
- Vedabhāṣyasāra — Bhaṭṭoji Dīkṣita, Sanskrit
- Ṛgvedabhāṣyabhūmikā — Dayānanda Sarasvatī, Sanskrit
Other recensions (1)
Discussed in (9)
- History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) — Kane 1930, English
- The History and Culture of the Indian People — Majumdar et al. 1951, English
- A History of Indian Philosophy — Dasgupta 1922, English
- A Vedic Concordance — Bloomfield 1906, English
- The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads — Keith 1925, English
- La religion védique d'après les hymnes du Rig-Véda — Bergaigne 1878, French
- Early Buddhist Theory of Knowledge — Jayatilleke 1963, English
- Die Hymnen des Rigveda, Bd. I: Metrische und textgeschichtliche Prolegomena — Oldenberg 1888, German
- A Constructive Survey of Upanishadic Philosophy — Ranade 1926, English