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Ṛgveda Saṃhitā 1.164.16

RV 1.164.16

स्त्रियः सतीस् तां उ मे पुंस आहुः पश्यद् अक्षण्वान् न वि चेतद् अन्धः । कविर् यः पुत्रः स ईम् आ चिकेत यस् ता विजानात् स पितुष् पितासत् ॥

striyaḥ satīs tāṃ u me puṃsa āhuḥ paśyad akṣaṇvān na vi cetad andhaḥ | kavir yaḥ putraḥ sa īm ā ciketa yas tā vijānāt sa pituṣ pitāsat ||

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

They told me these were males, though truly females: he who hath eyes sees this, the blind discerns not. The son who is a sage hath comprehended: who knows this rightly is his father's father.

Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)

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Cite as: Ṛgveda Saṃhitā 1.164.16, in HREEM (hreem.cc/library/RV/1.164.16), after GRETIL, Rgveda Based on the edition by Th.

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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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