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# Samaveda 151

Sāmavedasaṃhitā 151

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [151](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.sama.151)

4 2 2 16 01a pavitraṃ te vitataṃ brahmaṇaspate prabhurgātrāṇi paryeṣi viśvataḥ .  
4 2 2 16 01c ataptatanūrna tadāmo aśnute śṛtāsa idvahantaḥ saṃ tadāśata .. 875  
4 2 2 16 02a tapoṣpavitraṃ vitataṃ divaspade 'rcanto asya tantavo vyasthiran .  
4 2 2 16 02c avantyasya pavītāramāśavo divaḥ pṛṣṭhamadhi rohanti tejasā .. 876  
4 2 2 16 03a arūrucaduṣasaḥ pṛśniragriya ukṣā mimeti bhuvaneṣu vājayuḥ .  
4 2 2 16 03c māyāvino mamire asya māyayā nṛcakṣasaḥ pitaro garbhamā dadhuḥ .. 877

> SPREAD is thy cleansing filter, Brahmanaspati: as prince thou enterest its limbs from every side.  
> The raw; whose mass bath not been heated. gains not this: they only which are dressed, which bear, attain to it.  
> — Ralph T. H. Griffith 1893, The Hymns of the Samaveda

> High in the seat of heaven is placed the scorcher's sieve: its, threads are standing separate, glittering with light.  
> The swift ones favour him who purifieth this: with brilliancy they mount up to the height of heaven.  
> — Ralph T. H. Griffith 1893, The Hymns of the Samaveda

> The foremost spotted Steer bath made the Mornings shine: he bellows, fain for war, among created things.  
> By his high wisdom have the mighty Sages wrought: the Fathers who behold mankind laid down the germ.  
> — Ralph T. H. Griffith 1893, The Hymns of the Samaveda

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## Translations (1)

- [The Hymns of the Samaveda](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.sama~en-griffith.2.2.2.16.1) — Ralph T. H. Griffith 1893, English

## Commentaries (2)

- [Sāmavedabhāṣya (Bharatasvāmin)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.sama!bharatasvamin) — Bharatasvāmin, Sanskrit
- [Sāmavedārthaprakāśa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.sama!samavedarthaprakasa) — Sāyaṇa, Sanskrit

## Other recensions (1)

- [Sāmavedasaṃhitā (ed. Theodor Benfey)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.sama*benfey1848.151) — Sanskrit

## Discussed in (1)

- [A Vedic Concordance](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.bloomfield-1906.c6.815) — Bloomfield 1906, English

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