Rigveda 10.169
Ṛgvedasaṃhitā 10.169
- Language
- Sanskrit
10.169.1
ma̱yo̱bhūr vāto̍ a̱bhi vā̍tū̱srā ūrja̍svatī̱r oṣa̍dhī̱r ā ri̍śantām |
pīva̍svatīr jī̱vadha̍nyāḥ pibantv ava̱sāya̍ pa̱dvate̍ rudra mṛḻa ||
MAY the wind blow upon our Cows with healing: may they eat herbage full of vigorous juices. May they drink waters rich in life and fatness: to food that moves on feet be gracious, Rudra.
10.169.2
yāḥ sarū̍pā̱ virū̍pā̱ eka̍rūpā̱ yāsā̍m a̱gnir iṣṭyā̱ nāmā̍ni̱ veda̍ |
yā aṅgi̍rasa̱s tapa̍se̱ha ca̱krus tābhya̍ḥ parjanya̱ mahi̱ śarma̍ yaccha ||
Like-coloured, various-hued, or single-coloured, whose names through sacrifice are known to Agni, Whom the Angirases produced by Fervour,vouchsafe to these, Parjanya, great protection.
10.169.3
yā de̱veṣu̍ ta̱nva1̱̍m aira̍yanta̱ yāsā̱ṁ somo̱ viśvā̍ rū̱pāṇi̱ veda̍ |
tā a̱smabhya̱m paya̍sā̱ pinva̍mānāḥ pra̱jāva̍tīr indra go̱ṣṭhe ri̍rīhi ||
Those who have offered to the Gods their bodies, whose varied forms are all well known to Soma,– Those grant us in our cattle-pen, O Indra, with their full streams of milk and plenteous offspring.
10.169.4
pra̱jāpa̍ti̱r mahya̍m e̱tā rarā̍ṇo̱ viśvai̍r de̱vaiḥ pi̱tṛbhi̍ḥ saṁvidā̱naḥ |
śi̱vāḥ sa̱tīr upa̍ no go̱ṣṭham āka̱s tāsā̍ṁ va̱yam pra̱jayā̱ saṁ sa̍dema ||
Prajâpati, bestowing these upon me, one-minded with all Gods and with the Fathers, Hath to our cow-pen brought auspicious cattle: so may we own the offspring they will bear us.
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
- Vedabhāṣya — Mādhava, Sanskrit
- Vedabhāṣyasāra — Bhaṭṭoji Dīkṣita, Sanskrit
- Ṛgvedabhāṣyabhūmikā — Dayānanda Sarasvatī, Sanskrit
Other recensions (1)
Discussed in (11)
- A Vedic Concordance — Bloomfield 1906, English
- Original Sanskrit Texts on the Origin and History of the People of India, their Religion and Institutions — Muir 1858, 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
- Vedic Mythology — Macdonell 1897, English
- History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) — Kane 1930, English
- Altindische Grammatik — Wackernagel & Debrunner 1896, German
- Gorakhnāth and the Kānphaṭa Yogīs — Briggs 1938, English
- Vedic Metre in its Historical Development — Arnold 1905, English
- Die Religion des Veda — Oldenberg 1894, German
- Die Hymnen des Rigveda, Bd. I: Metrische und textgeschichtliche Prolegomena — Oldenberg 1888, German