Rigveda 10.161
Ṛgvedasaṃhitā 10.161
- Language
- Sanskrit
10.161.1
mu̱ñcāmi̍ tvā ha̱viṣā̱ jīva̍nāya̱ kam a̍jñātaya̱kṣmād u̱ta rā̍jaya̱kṣmāt |
grāhi̍r ja̱grāha̱ yadi̍ vai̱tad e̍na̱ṁ tasyā̍ indrāgnī̱ pra mu̍muktam enam ||
FOR life I set thee free by this oblation from the unknown decline and from Consumption; Or, if the grasping demon have possessed him, free him from her, O Indra, thou and Agni.
10.161.2
yadi̍ kṣi̱tāyu̱r yadi̍ vā̱ pare̍to̱ yadi̍ mṛ̱tyor a̍nti̱kaṁ nī̍ta e̱va |
tam ā ha̍rāmi̱ nirṛ̍ter u̱pasthā̱d aspā̍rṣam enaṁ śa̱taśā̍radāya ||
Be his days ended, be he now departed, be he brought very near to death already, Out of Destruction's lap again I bring him, save him for life to last a hundred autumns.
10.161.3
sa̱ha̱srā̱kṣeṇa̍ śa̱taśā̍radena śa̱tāyu̍ṣā ha̱viṣāhā̍rṣam enam |
śa̱taṁ yathe̱maṁ śa̱rado̱ nayā̱tīndro̱ viśva̍sya duri̱tasya̍ pā̱ram ||
With hundred-eyed oblation, hundred-autumned, bringing a hundred lives, have I restored him, That Indra for a hundred years may lead him safe to the farther shore of all misfortune.
10.161.4
śa̱taṁ jī̍va śa̱rado̱ vardha̍mānaḥ śa̱taṁ he̍ma̱ntāñ cha̱tam u̍ vasa̱ntān |
śa̱tam i̍ndrā̱gnī sa̍vi̱tā bṛha̱spati̍ḥ śa̱tāyu̍ṣā ha̱viṣe̱mam puna̍r duḥ ||
Live, waxing in thy strength, a hundred autumns, live through a hundred springs, a hundred winters. Through hundred-lived oblation Indra, Agni, Bṛihaspati, Savitar yield him for a hundred!
10.161.5
āhā̍rṣa̱ṁ tvāvi̍daṁ tvā̱ puna̱r āgā̍ḥ punarnava |
sarvā̍ṅga̱ sarva̍ṁ te̱ cakṣu̱ḥ sarva̱m āyu̍ś ca te 'vidam ||
So have I found and rescued thee thou hast returned with youth renewed. Whole in thy members! I have found thy sight and all thy life for thee.
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, übersetzt und mit kritischen und erläuternden Anmerkungen versehen — Hermann Grassmann 1876, German
- Rig-Veda Sanhitá — Horace Hayman Wilson 1850, English
Commentaries (10)
- Vedārthaprakāśa (Ṛgvedabhāṣya) — Sāyaṇa, Sanskrit
- Ṛgvedapadapāṭha — Śākalya, Sanskrit
- Ṛgvedabhāṣya (Skandasvāmin) — Skandasvāmin, Sanskrit
- Ṛgvedabhāṣya (Udgītha) — Udgītha, Sanskrit
- Ṛgarthadīpikā — Veṅkaṭamādhava, Sanskrit
- Ṛgbhāṣya (Madhva) — Madhva, Sanskrit
- Ṛgvedasaṃhitāvyākhyā — Sanskrit
- Ṛgvedasaṃhitābhāṣya — Udgīthācārya, Sanskrit
- Ṛgvedasūktanirukta — Mādhava, Sanskrit
- Bhāṣya — Sanskrit
Other recensions (1)
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- A History of Ancient Sanskrit Literature, so far as it illustrates the Primitive Religion of the Brahmans — F. Max Müller, English
- Die Hymnen des Rigveda, Bd. I: Metrische und textgeschichtliche Prolegomena — Hermann Oldenberg, German
- The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels — Jean Filliozat, English
- The Arctic Home in the Vedas — Bal Gangadhar Tilak, English
- Pariśiṣṭadīpaka — Nityānandapanta Parvatīya, Sanskrit