Library·Ṛgveda Saṃhitā·8·8.11·8.11.6

Ṛgveda Saṃhitā 8.11.6

RV 8.11.6

विप्रं विप्रासो ऽवसे देवम् मर्तास ऊतये । अग्निं गीर्भिर् हवामहे ॥

vipraṃ viprāso 'vase devam martāsa ūtaye | agniṃ gīrbhir havāmahe ||

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

Sages, we call the Sage to help, mortals, we call the God to aid: We call on Agni with our songs.

Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)

Permanent address: hreem.cc/library/RV/8.11.6

Cite as: Ṛgveda Saṃhitā 8.11.6, in HREEM (hreem.cc/library/RV/8.11.6), after GRETIL, Rgveda Based on the edition by Th.

Edition, numbering and licence

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.

More about this text