Library·Ṛgveda Saṃhitā·1·1.185·1.185.1

Ṛgveda Saṃhitā 1.185.1

RV 1.185.1

कतरा पूर्वा कतरापरायोः कथा जाते कवयः को वि वेद । विश्वं त्मना बिभृतो यद् ध नाम वि वर्तेते अहनी चक्रियेव ॥

katarā pūrvā katarāparāyoḥ kathā jāte kavayaḥ ko vi veda | viśvaṃ tmanā bibhṛto yad dha nāma vi vartete ahanī cakriyeva ||

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

Whether of these is elder, whether later? How were they born? Who knoweth it, ye sages? These of themselves support all things existing: as on a car the Day and Night roll onward.

Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)

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Cite as: Ṛgveda Saṃhitā 1.185.1, in HREEM (hreem.cc/library/RV/1.185.1), 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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