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Rigveda 10.117.7

Ṛgvedasaṃhitā 10.117.7

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10.117.7

kṛ̱ṣann it phāla̱ āśi̍taṁ kṛṇoti̱ yann adhvā̍na̱m apa̍ vṛṅkte ca̱ritrai̍ḥ |
vada̍n bra̱hmāva̍dato̱ vanī̍yān pṛ̱ṇann ā̱pir apṛ̍ṇantam a̱bhi ṣyā̍t ||

The ploughshare ploughing makes the food that feeds us, and with its feet cuts through the path it follows. Better the speaking than the silent Brahman: the liberal friend outyalues him who gives not.

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

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