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Ṛgveda Saṃhitā 1.148.1

RV 1.148.1

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 ||

Devanagari rendered by HREEM from the edition's roman (IAST) text; the IAST is the edition's own.

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)

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GRETIL 1_veda/1_sam/1_rv/rvh1-10u.htm — Rgveda Based on the edition by Th. Aufrecht: Die Hymnen des Rig Veda, 2nd ed., Bonn 1877, digitized by Barend A. Van Nooten and Gary B. Holland. Revised and converted by Detlef Eichler. (http://www.detlef108.de/Rigveda.htm) THIS GRETIL TEXT FILE IS FOR REFEREN | English: Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896), attached per hymn where the verse count and the names agree.

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