RV 1.173.6 — Ṛgveda Saṃhitā

RV 1.173.6

प्र यद् इत्था महिना नृभ्यो अस्त्य् अरं रोदसी कक्ष्ये नास्मै । सं विव्य इन्द्रो वृजनं न भूमा भर्ति स्वधावां ओपशम् इव द्याम् ॥

pra yad itthā mahinā nṛbhyo asty araṃ rodasī kakṣye nāsmai | saṃ vivya indro vṛjanaṃ na bhūmā bharti svadhāvāṃ opaśam iva dyām ||

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

Him who surpasses heroes in his greatness: the earth and heavens suffice not for his girdles. Indra endues the earth to be his garment, and, God-like, wears the heaven as 'twere a frontlet,

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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