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Ṛgveda Saṃhitā 10.117.1

RV 10.117.1

न वा उ देवाः क्षुधम् इद् वधं ददुर् उताशितम् उप गच्छन्ति मृत्यवः । उतो रयिः पृणतो नोप दस्यत्य् उतापृणन् मर्डितारं न विन्दते ॥

na vā u devāḥ kṣudham id vadhaṃ dadur utāśitam upa gacchanti mṛtyavaḥ | uto rayiḥ pṛṇato nopa dasyaty utāpṛṇan marḍitāraṃ na vindate ||

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

The Gods have not ordained hunger to be our death: even to the well-fed man comes death in varied shape. The riches of the liberal never waste away, while he who will not give finds none to comfort him.

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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