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Rigveda 1.164.48

Ṛgvedasaṃhitā 1.164.48

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1.164.48

dvāda̍śa pra̱dhaya̍ś ca̱kram eka̱ṁ trīṇi̱ nabhyā̍ni̱ ka u̱ tac ci̍keta |
tasmi̍n sā̱kaṁ tri̍śa̱tā na śa̱ṅkavo̍ 'rpi̱tāḥ ṣa̱ṣṭir na ca̍lāca̱lāsa̍ḥ ||

Twelve are the fellies, and the wheel is single; three are the naves. What man hath understood it? Therein are set together spokes three hundred and sixty, which in nowise can be loosened.

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

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