SV 1.1.2.908 — Sāmaveda Saṃhitā (Kauthuma)

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SV 1.1.2.908

बृहद्वयो हि भानवे ऽर्चा देवायाग्नये । यं मित्रं न प्रशस्तये मर्तासो दधिरे पुरः ॥ ८८

bṛhadvayo hi bhānave 'rcā devāyāgnaye . yaṃ mitraṃ na praśastaye martāso dadhire puraḥ .. 88

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

Great power is in the beam of light, sing praise to, Agni, to the God Whom men have set in foremost place like Mitra with their eulogies.

Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)This is the translator's rendering of the same verse where it occurs at RV 5.16.1; the wording of this text may differ in places.

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GRETIL 1_veda/1_sam/samavedu.htm — Samaveda-Samhita, input by Anshuman Pandey (1998), complete; the file asks to be used for academic and scholarly purposes only. All 1,875 verses; verses are counted in order within each hymn (the file's line labels carry 16 typing slips) and the count is checked against the edition's 585 + 55 + 10 + 1,225; reference = part.prapāṭhaka.ardha.(daśati or hymn × 100 + verse), part 1 pūrvārcika, 2 āraṇyaka, 3 mahānāmnī, 4 uttarārcika.

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