Library·Ṛgveda Saṃhitā·1·1.148
मथीद् यद् ईं विष्टो मातरिश्वा होतारं विश्वाप्सुं विश्वदेव्यम् । नि यं दधुर् मनुष्यासु विक्षु स्वर् ण चित्रं वपुषे विभावम् ॥
mathīd yad īṃ viṣṭo mātariśvā hotāraṃ viśvāpsuṃ viśvadevyam | ni yaṃ dadhur manuṣyāsu vikṣu svar ṇa citraṃ vapuṣe vibhāvam ||
What Matarisvan, piercing, formed by friction, Herald of all the Gods. in varied figure, Is he whom they have set mid human houses, gay-hued as light and shining forth for beauty.
Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)
ददानम् इन् न ददभन्त मन्माग्निर् वरूथम् मम तस्य चाकन् । जुषन्त विश्वान्य् अस्य कर्मोपस्तुतिम् भरमाणस्य कारोः ॥
dadānam in na dadabhanta manmāgnir varūtham mama tasya cākan | juṣanta viśvāny asya karmopastutim bharamāṇasya kāroḥ ||
They shall not harm the man who brings thee praises: such as I am, Agni my help approves me. All acts of mine shall they accept with pleasure, laudation from the singer who presents it.
Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)
नित्ये चिन् नु यं सदने जगृभ्रे प्रशस्तिभिर् दधिरे यज्ञियासः । प्र सू नयन्त गृभयन्त इष्टाव् अश्वासो न रथ्यो रारहाणाः ॥
nitye cin nu yaṃ sadane jagṛbhre praśastibhir dadhire yajñiyāsaḥ | pra sū nayanta gṛbhayanta iṣṭāv aśvāso na rathyo rārahāṇāḥ ||
Him in his constant seat men skilled in worship have taken and with praises have established. As, harnessed to a chariot fleet-foot horses, at his command let bearers lead him forward.
Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)
पुरूणि दस्मो नि रिणाति जम्भैर् आद् रोचते वन आ विभावा । आद् अस्य वातो अनु वाति शोचिर् अस्तुर् न शर्याम् असनाम् अनु द्यून् ॥
purūṇi dasmo ni riṇāti jambhair ād rocate vana ā vibhāvā | ād asya vāto anu vāti śocir astur na śaryām asanām anu dyūn ||
Wondrous, full many a thing he chews and crunches: he shines amid the wood with spreading brightness. Upon his glowing flames the wind blows daily, driving them like the keen shaft of an archer.
Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)
न यं रिपवो न रिषण्यवो गर्भे सन्तं रेषणा रेषयन्ति । अन्धा अपश्या न दभन्न् अभिख्या नित्यास ईम् प्रेतारो अरक्षन् ॥
na yaṃ ripavo na riṣaṇyavo garbhe santaṃ reṣaṇā reṣayanti | andhā apaśyā na dabhann abhikhyā nityāsa īm pretāro arakṣan ||
Him, whom while yet in embryo the hostile, both skilled and fain to harm, may never injure, Men blind and sightless through his splendour hurt not: his never-failing lovers have preserved him.
Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)