[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Vedic Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda) › [Saṃhitās (mantra collections)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita) › [Rigveda](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.rg) › 8.55 # Rigveda 8.55 Ṛgvedasaṃhitā 8.55 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [8.55.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.rg.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! > — Ralph T. H. Griffith 1889, The Hymns of the Rigveda ### [8.55.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.rg.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. > — Ralph T. H. Griffith 1889, The Hymns of the Rigveda ### [8.55.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.rg.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. > — Ralph T. H. Griffith 1889, The Hymns of the Rigveda ### [8.55.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.rg.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. > — Ralph T. H. Griffith 1889, The Hymns of the Rigveda ### [8.55.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.rg.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. > — Ralph T. H. Griffith 1889, The Hymns of the Rigveda ## Translations (5) - [The Hymns of the Rigveda](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.rg~en-griffith.8.55.1) — Ralph T. H. Griffith 1889, English - [Der Rig-Veda aus dem Sanskrit ins Deutsche übersetzt (HOS 33–35)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.rg~de-geldner.8.55.1) — Karl Friedrich Geldner 1951, German - [Ригведа](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.rg~ru-elizarenkova.8.55.1) — Tatyana Yakovlevna Elizarenkova 1989, Russian - [Rig-Veda Sanhitá](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.rg~en-wilson.8.55.1) — Horace Hayman Wilson 1850, English - [Rig-Veda, übersetzt und mit kritischen und erläuternden Anmerkungen versehen](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.rg~de-grassmann.8.55.1) — Hermann Grassmann 1876, German ## Commentaries (10) - [Vedārthaprakāśa (Ṛgvedabhāṣya)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.rg!sayana.8.55.1) — Sāyaṇa, Sanskrit - [Ṛgvedapadapāṭha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.rg!padapatha.8.55.1) — Śākalya, Sanskrit - [Ṛgvedabhāṣya (Skandasvāmin)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.rg!skandasvamin) — Skandasvāmin, Sanskrit - [Ṛgvedabhāṣya (Udgītha)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.rg!udgitha) — Udgītha, Sanskrit - [Ṛgarthadīpikā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.rg!venkatamadhava) — Veṅkaṭamādhava, Sanskrit - [Ṛgbhāṣya (Madhva)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.rg!madhva) — Madhva, Sanskrit - [Ṛgvedasaṃhitāvyākhyā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.rg!rgvedasamhitavyakhya) — Sanskrit - [Ṛgvedasaṃhitābhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.rg!udgithacarya) — Udgīthācārya, Sanskrit - [Ṛgvedasūktanirukta](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.rg!madhava) — Mādhava, Sanskrit - [Bhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.rg!bhasya) — Sanskrit ## Other recensions (1) - [Metrically restored text (van Nooten & Holland)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.rg*vnh.8.55.1) — Sanskrit ## Linked texts (10) - [A Vedic Concordance](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.bloomfield-1906.c6.5411) — Maurice Bloomfield, English - [Altindische Grammatik](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.wackernagel-1896.v2.c7.s2.t13.92) — Jacob Wackernagel & Albert Debrunner, German - [La religion védique d'après les hymnes du Rig-Véda](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.bergaigne-1878.v1.c5.s5.t1.36) — Abel Bergaigne, French - [Vābālakhilyasūkta](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.svadhyaya.vabalakhilyasukta.12.1) — Sanskrit - [Vedic Index of Names and Subjects](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s18.165) — Arthur A. Macdonell & A. Berriedale Keith, English - [Original Sanskrit Texts on the Origin and History of the People of India, their Religion and Institutions](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.muir-1868.v5.c38.34) — John Muir, English - [Vedic Metre in its Historical Development](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.arnold-1905.c13.130) — E. Vernon Arnold, English - [Padapāṭha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.svadhyaya.padapatha.92.26) — Sanskrit - [Ṛgvedasaṃhitāpadapāṭha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.rgvedasamhitapadapatha.92.26) — Sanskrit - [Spiritual Authority and Temporal Power in the Indian Theory of Government](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.coomaraswamy-1942.c2.s1.103) — Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, English --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.rg.8.55](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.rg.8.55) · Pramāṇa