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Rigveda 4.18.5

Ṛgvedasaṃhitā 4.18.5

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Sanskrit

4.18.5

a̱va̱dyam i̍va̱ manya̍mānā̱ guhā̍ka̱r indra̍m mā̱tā vī̱rye̍ṇā̱ nyṛ̍ṣṭam |
athod a̍sthāt sva̱yam atka̱ṁ vasā̍na̱ ā roda̍sī apṛṇā̱j jāya̍mānaḥ ||

Deeming him a reproach, his mother hid him, Indra, endowed with all heroic valour. Then up he sprang himself, assumed his vesture, and filled, as soon as born, the earth and heaven.

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

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