RV 4.18.12 — Ṛgveda Saṃhitā

RV 4.18.12

कस् ते मातरं विधवाम् अचक्रच् छयुं कस् त्वाम् अजिघांसच् चरन्तम् । कस् ते देवो अधि मार्डीक आसीद् यत् प्राक्षिणाः पितरम् पादगृह्य ॥

kas te mātaraṃ vidhavām acakrac chayuṃ kas tvām ajighāṃsac carantam | kas te devo adhi mārḍīka āsīd yat prākṣiṇāḥ pitaram pādagṛhya ||

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

Who was he then who made thy Mother widow? Who sought to stay thee lying still or moving? What God, when by the foot thy Sire thou tookest and slewest, was at hand to give thee comfort?

Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)

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Cite as: Ṛgveda Saṃhitā 4.18.12, in HREEM (hreem.cc/library/RV/4.18.12), 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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