Library·Ṛgveda Saṃhitā·7·7.55·7.55.8

Ṛgveda Saṃhitā 7.55.8

RV 7.55.8

प्रोष्ठेशया वह्येशया नारीर् यास् तल्पशीवरीः । स्त्रियो याः पुण्यगन्धास् ताः सर्वाः स्वापयामसि ॥

proṣṭheśayā vahyeśayā nārīr yās talpaśīvarīḥ | striyo yāḥ puṇyagandhās tāḥ sarvāḥ svāpayāmasi ||

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

The women sleeping in the court, lying without, or stretched on beds, The matrons with their odorous sweets these, one and all, we lull to sleep.

Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)

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Cite as: Ṛgveda Saṃhitā 7.55.8, in HREEM (hreem.cc/library/RV/7.55.8), 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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