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Rig Veda 8.56

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Thy bounty, Dasyave-vrika, exhaustless hath displayed itself: Its fulness is as broad as heaven.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Ten thousand Dasyave-vrika, the son of Putakrata, hath From his own wealth bestowed on me.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

A hundred asses hath he given, a hundred head of fleecy sheep, A hundred slaves, and wreaths besides.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

There also was a mare led forth, picked out for Putakrata's sake, Not of the horses of the herd.

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English · Ralph T. H. Griffith

Observant Agni hath appeared, oblation-bearer with his car. Agni with his resplendent flame hath shone on high as shines the Sun, hath shone like Surya in the heavens.

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Sanskrit text: Oliver Hellwig, The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit (DCS), 2010–2024. CC BY 4.0. · Source ↗

Sanskrit text from The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit (DCS) by Oliver Hellwig, 2010–2024, https://github.com/OliverHellwig/sanskrit, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Changes: sentence parts joined per verse; only verses the DCS numbers are included (8483 of the Ṛgveda's 10,552).

Ralph T. H. Griffith's translation (1896–97). It is dated, and scholars now read many verses differently. A few verses Griffith left untranslated or moved to an appendix are not included.

Ralph T. H. Griffith, The Hymns of the Rigveda, 2nd edition (Benares: E. J. Lazarus, 1896–97). Public domain. Text from English Wikisource, checked against Internet Archive scans of the 1896–97 printing. · Source ↗

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