Rigveda 8.28
Ṛgvedasaṃhitā 8.28
- Language
- Sanskrit
8.28.1
ye tri̱ṁśati̱ traya̍s pa̱ro de̱vāso̍ ba̱rhir āsa̍dan |
vi̱dann aha̍ dvi̱tāsa̍nan ||
THE Thirty Gods and Three besides, whose seat hath been the sacred grass, From time of old have found and gained.
8.28.2
varu̍ṇo mi̱tro a̍rya̱mā smadrā̍tiṣāco a̱gnaya̍ḥ |
patnī̍vanto̱ vaṣa̍ṭkṛtāḥ ||
Varuṇa, Mitra, Aryaman, Agnis, with Consorts, sending boons, To whom our Vashaṭ! is addressed:
8.28.3
te no̍ go̱pā a̍pā̱cyās ta uda̱k ta i̱tthā nya̍k |
pu̱rastā̱t sarva̍yā vi̱śā ||
These are our guardians in the west, and northward here, and in the south, And on the cast, with all the tribe.
8.28.4
yathā̱ vaśa̍nti de̱vās tathed a̍sa̱t tad e̍ṣā̱ṁ naki̱r ā mi̍nat |
arā̍vā ca̱na martya̍ḥ ||
Even as the Gods desire so verily shall it be. None minisheth this power of theirs, No demon, and no mortal
8.28.5
sa̱ptā̱nāṁ sa̱pta ṛ̱ṣṭaya̍ḥ sa̱pta dyu̱mnāny e̍ṣām |
sa̱pto adhi̱ śriyo̍ dhire ||
The Seven carry seven spears; seven are the splendours they possess, And seven the glories they assume.
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
- 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 (9)
- A Vedic Concordance — Bloomfield 1906, English
- La religion védique d'après les hymnes du Rig-Véda — Bergaigne 1878, French
- Original Sanskrit Texts on the Origin and History of the People of India, their Religion and Institutions — Muir 1858, English
- Vedic Metre in its Historical Development — Arnold 1905, English
- Vedic Index of Names and Subjects — Macdonell & Keith 1912, English
- Altindische Grammatik — Wackernagel & Debrunner 1896, German
- Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) — Mookerji 1947, English
- Die Hymnen des Rigveda, Bd. I: Metrische und textgeschichtliche Prolegomena — Oldenberg 1888, German
- Elements of Buddhist Iconography — Coomaraswamy 1935, English