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Rigveda 4.18.12

Ṛgvedasaṃhitā 4.18.12

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Sanskrit

4.18.12

kas te̍ mā̱tara̍ṁ vi̱dhavā̍m acakrac cha̱yuṁ kas tvām a̍jighāṁsa̱c cara̍ntam |
kas te̍ de̱vo adhi̍ mārḍī̱ka ā̍sī̱d yat prākṣi̍ṇāḥ pi̱tara̍m pāda̱gṛhya̍ ||

Who was he then who made thy Mother widow? Who sought to stay thee lying still or moving? What God, when by the foot thy Sire thou tookest and slewest, was at hand to give thee comfort?

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

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