SV 4.8.3.1401 — Sāmaveda Saṃhitā (Kauthuma)

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SV 4.8.3.1401

इदं श्रेष्ठं ज्योतिषां ज्योतिरागाच्चित्रः प्रकेतो अजनिष्ट विभ्वा । यथा प्रसूता सवितुः सवायैवा रात्र्युषसे योनिमारैक् ॥ १७४९

idaṃ śreṣṭhaṃ jyotiṣāṃ jyotirāgāccitraḥ praketo ajaniṣṭa vibhvā . yathā prasūtā savituḥ savāyaivā rātryuṣase yonimāraik .. 1749

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

This light is come, amid all lights the fairest; born is the brilliant, far-extending brightness. Night, sent away for Savitar's uprising, hath yielded up a birth-place for the Morning.

Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)This is the translator's rendering of the same verse where it occurs at RV 1.113.1; 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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