Library·Ṛgveda Saṃhitā·4·4.17·4.17.16

Ṛgveda Saṃhitā 4.17.16

RV 4.17.16

गव्यन्त इन्द्रं सख्याय विप्रा अश्वायन्तो वृषणं वाजयन्तः । जनीयन्तो जनिदाम् अक्षितोतिम् आ च्यावयामो ऽवते न कोशम् ॥

gavyanta indraṃ sakhyāya viprā aśvāyanto vṛṣaṇaṃ vājayantaḥ | janīyanto janidām akṣitotim ā cyāvayāmo 'vate na kośam ||

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

Eager for booty, craving strength and horses, we-singers stir Indra, the strong, for friendship, Who gives the wives we seek, whose succour fails not, to hasten, like a pitcher to the fountain.

Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)

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Cite as: Ṛgveda Saṃhitā 4.17.16, in HREEM (hreem.cc/library/RV/4.17.16), 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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