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Rigveda 6.12.5

Ṛgvedasaṃhitā 6.12.5

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Sanskrit

6.12.5

adha̍ smāsya panayanti̱ bhāso̱ vṛthā̱ yat takṣa̍d anu̱yāti̍ pṛ̱thvīm |
sa̱dyo yaḥ sya̱ndro viṣi̍to̱ dhavī̍yān ṛ̱ṇo na tā̱yur ati̱ dhanvā̍ rāṭ ||

Men wonder at his shining glows when, paring the woods with case, o'er the broad earth he goeth, And, like a rushing flood, loosed quickly, burneth, swift as a guilty thief, o'er desert places.

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

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