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Ṛgveda Saṃhitā 5.78.9

RV 5.78.9

दश मासाञ् छशयानः कुमारो अधि मातरि । निरैतु जीवो अक्षतो जीवो जीवन्त्या अधि ॥

daśa māsāñ chaśayānaḥ kumāro adhi mātari | niraitu jīvo akṣato jīvo jīvantyā adhi ||

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

The child who hath for ten months' time been lying in his mother's side,- May he come forth alive, unharmed, yea, living from the living dame.

Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)

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Cite as: Ṛgveda Saṃhitā 5.78.9, in HREEM (hreem.cc/library/RV/5.78.9), 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.

GRETIL (SUB Göttingen), CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 — non-commercial use with attribution; the Companion is kept free while this corpus is held. Devanagari generated mechanically from GRETIL's IAST.

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