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# Rigveda 1.2.8

Ṛgvedasaṃhitā 1.2.8

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [1.2.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.rg.1.2.8)

ṛ̱tena̍ mitrāvaruṇāv ṛtāvṛdhāv ṛtaspṛśā |  
kratu̍m bṛ̱hanta̍m āśāthe ||

> Mitra and Varuṇa, through Law, lovers and cherishers of Law, Have ye obtained your might power  
> — Ralph T. H. Griffith 1889, The Hymns of the Rigveda

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## Translations (7)

- [The Hymns of the Rigveda](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.rg~en-griffith.1.2.8) — Ralph T. H. Griffith 1889, English
- [Der Rig-Veda aus dem Sanskrit ins Deutsche übersetzt (HOS 33–35)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.rg~de-geldner.1.2.8) — Karl Friedrich Geldner 1951, German
- [Ригведа](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.rg~ru-elizarenkova.1.2.8) — Tatyana Yakovlevna Elizarenkova 1989, Russian
- [Études védiques et pāṇinéennes (traductions)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.rg~fr-renou.1.2.8) — Louis Renou 1955, French
- [Rig-Veda Sanhitá](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.rg~en-wilson.1.2.8) — Horace Hayman Wilson 1850, English
- [Rig-Veda, übersetzt und mit kritischen und erläuternden Anmerkungen versehen](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.rg~de-grassmann.1.2.8) — Hermann Grassmann 1876, German
- [Vedic Hymns, Part I: Hymns to the Maruts, Rudra, Vāyu and Vāta (SBE 32)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.rg~en-muller.1.2.8) — Friedrich Max Müller 1891, English

## Commentaries (2)

- [Ṛgvedapadapāṭha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.rg!padapatha.1.2.8) — Śākalya, Sanskrit
- [Ṛgvedabhāṣya (Skandasvāmin)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.rg!skandasvamin.3.8) — Skandasvāmin, Sanskrit

## Other recensions (1)

- [Metrically restored text (van Nooten & Holland)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.rg*vnh.1.2.8) — Sanskrit

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