Rigveda 8.55
Ṛgvedasaṃhitā 8.55
- Language
- Sanskrit
8.55.1
bhūrīd indra̍sya vī̱rya1̱̍ṁ vy akhya̍m a̱bhy āya̍ti |
rādha̍s te dasyave vṛka ||
GREAT, verily, is Indra's might. I have beheld, and hither comes Thy bounty, Dasyave-vṛika!
8.55.2
śa̱taṁ śve̱tāsa̍ u̱kṣaṇo̍ di̱vi tāro̱ na ro̍cante |
ma̱hnā diva̱ṁ na ta̍stabhuḥ ||
A hundred oxen white of hue are shining like the stars in heaven, So tall, they seem to prop the sky.
8.55.3
śa̱taṁ ve̱ṇūñ cha̱taṁ śuna̍ḥ śa̱taṁ carmā̍ṇi mlā̱tāni̍ |
śa̱tam me̍ balbajastu̱kā aru̍ṣīṇā̱ṁ catu̍ḥśatam ||
Bamboos a hundred, a hundred dogs, a hundred skins of beasts well-tanned, A hundred tufts of Balbaja, four hundred red-hued mares are mine.
8.55.4
su̱de̱vāḥ stha̍ kāṇvāyanā̱ vayo̍-vayo vica̱ranta̍ḥ |
aśvā̍so̱ na ca̍ṅkramata ||
Blest by the Gods, Kinvayanas! be ye who spread through life on life: Like horses have ye stridden forth.
8.55.5
ād it sā̱ptasya̍ carkira̱nn ānū̍nasya̱ mahi̱ śrava̍ḥ |
śyāvī̍r atidhva̱san pa̱thaś cakṣu̍ṣā ca̱na sa̱ṁnaśe̍ ||
Then men extolled the team of seven not yet full-grown, its fame is great. The dark mares rushed along the paths, so that no eye could follow them.
Translations (5)
- 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
- 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
- Ṛgvedasaṃhitābhāṣya — Udgīthācārya, Sanskrit
- Ṛgvedasūktanirukta — Mādhava, Sanskrit
- Bhāṣya — Sanskrit
Other recensions (1)
Linked texts (10)
- A Vedic Concordance — Maurice Bloomfield, English
- Altindische Grammatik — Jacob Wackernagel & Albert Debrunner, German
- La religion védique d'après les hymnes du Rig-Véda — Abel Bergaigne, French
- Vābālakhilyasūkta — Sanskrit
- Vedic Index of Names and Subjects — Arthur A. Macdonell & A. Berriedale Keith, English
- Original Sanskrit Texts on the Origin and History of the People of India, their Religion and Institutions — John Muir, English
- Vedic Metre in its Historical Development — E. Vernon Arnold, English
- Padapāṭha — Sanskrit
- Ṛgvedasaṃhitāpadapāṭha — Sanskrit
- Spiritual Authority and Temporal Power in the Indian Theory of Government — Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, English