Rigveda 5.48
Ṛgvedasaṃhitā 5.48
- Language
- Sanskrit
5.48.1
kad u̍ pri̱yāya̱ dhāmne̍ manāmahe̱ svakṣa̍trāya̱ svaya̍śase ma̱he va̱yam |
ā̱me̱nyasya̱ raja̍so̱ yad a̱bhra ām̐ a̱po vṛ̍ṇā̱nā vi̍ta̱noti̍ mā̱yinī̍ ||
WHAT may we meditate for the beloved Power, mighty in native strength and glorious in itself, Which as a magic energy seeking waters spreads even to theimmeasurable middle region's cloud?
5.48.2
tā a̍tnata va̱yuna̍ṁ vī̱rava̍kṣaṇaṁ samā̱nyā vṛ̱tayā̱ viśva̱m ā raja̍ḥ |
apo̱ apā̍cī̱r apa̍rā̱ ape̍jate̱ pra pūrvā̍bhis tirate deva̱yur jana̍ḥ ||
O'er all the region with their uniform advance these have spread out the lore that giveth heroes strength. Back, with their course reversed, the others pass away: the pious lengthens life with those that are before.
5.48.3
ā grāva̍bhir aha̱nye̍bhir a̱ktubhi̱r vari̍ṣṭha̱ṁ vajra̱m ā ji̍gharti mā̱yini̍ |
śa̱taṁ vā̱ yasya̍ pra̱cara̱n sve dame̍ saṁva̱rtaya̍nto̱ vi ca̍ vartaya̱nn ahā̍ ||
With pressing-stones and with the bright beams of the day he hurls his broadest bolt against the Guileful One. Even he whose hundred wander in his own abode, driving the days afar and bringing them again.
5.48.4
tām a̍sya rī̱tim pa̍ra̱śor i̍va̱ praty anī̍kam akhyam bhu̱je a̍sya̱ varpa̍saḥ |
sacā̱ yadi̍ pitu̱manta̍m iva̱ kṣaya̱ṁ ratna̱ṁ dadhā̍ti̱ bhara̍hūtaye vi̱śe ||
I, to enjoy the beauty of his form, behold that rapid rush of his as 'twere an axe's edge, What time he gives the man who calls on him in fight wealth like a dwelling-house filled full with store of food.
5.48.5
sa ji̱hvayā̱ catu̍ranīka ṛñjate̱ cāru̱ vasā̍no̱ varu̍ṇo̱ yata̍nn a̱rim |
na tasya̍ vidma puruṣa̱tvatā̍ va̱yaṁ yato̱ bhaga̍ḥ savi̱tā dāti̱ vārya̍m ||
Four-faced and nobly clad, Varuṇa, urging on the pious to his task, stirs himself with the tongue. Naught by our human nature do we know of him, him from whom Bhaga Savitar bestows the boon.
Translations (6)
- 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
- Études védiques et pāṇinéennes (traductions) — Louis Renou 1955, French
- Rig-Veda Sanhitá — Horace Hayman Wilson 1850, English
- Rig-Veda, übersetzt und mit kritischen und erläuternden Anmerkungen versehen — Hermann Grassmann 1876, German
Commentaries (10)
- Vedārthaprakāśa (Ṛgvedabhāṣya) — Sāyaṇa, Sanskrit
- Ṛgvedapadapāṭha — Śākalya, Sanskrit
- Ṛgarthadīpikā — Veṅkaṭamādhava, Sanskrit
- Ṛgvedabhāṣya (Skandasvāmin) — Skandasvāmin, Sanskrit
- Ṛgvedabhāṣya (Udgītha) — Udgītha, Sanskrit
- Ṛgbhāṣya (Madhva) — Madhva, Sanskrit
- Ṛgvedasaṃhitāvyākhyā — Sanskrit
- Ṛgvedasaṃhitābhāṣya — Udgīthācārya, Sanskrit
- Ṛgvedasūktanirukta — Mādhava, Sanskrit
- Bhāṣya — Sanskrit
Other recensions (1)
Linked texts (8)
- A Vedic Concordance — Maurice Bloomfield, English
- Āśvalāyanasaṃhitā — Sanskrit
- La religion védique d'après les hymnes du Rig-Véda — Abel Bergaigne, French
- Altindische Grammatik — Jacob Wackernagel & Albert Debrunner, German
- Saṃhitāpadapāṭha — Sanskrit
- Die Hymnen des Rigveda, Bd. I: Metrische und textgeschichtliche Prolegomena — Hermann Oldenberg, German
- The Arctic Home in the Vedas — Bal Gangadhar Tilak, English
- Spiritual Authority and Temporal Power in the Indian Theory of Government — Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, English