ऋग्वेद १.१६४.४
Ṛgveda 1.164.4
ko da̍darśa pratha̱maṃ jāya̍mānamastha̱nvanta̱ṃ yada̍na̱sthā bibha̍rti |bhūmyā̱ asu̱rasṛ̍gā̱tmā kva̍ svi̱tko vi̱dvāṃsa̱mupa̍ gā̱tpraṣṭu̍me̱tat ||
Transliteration IAST
ko da̍darśa pratha̱maṃ jāya̍mānamastha̱nvanta̱ṃ yada̍na̱sthā bibha̍rti | bhūmyā̱ asu̱rasṛ̍gā̱tmā kva̍ svi̱tko vi̱dvāṃsa̱mupa̍ gā̱tpraṣṭu̍me̱tat ||
Padapāṭha word by word, as recited
कः | ददर्श | प्रथमम् | जायमानम् | अस्थन्-वन्तम् | यत् | अनस्था | बिभर्ति | भूम्याः | असुः | असृक् | आत्मा | क्व | स्वित् | कः | विद्वांसम् | उप | गात् | प्रष्टुम् | एतत्
kaḥ | dadarśa | prathamam | jāyamānam | asthan-vantam | yat | anasthā | bibharti | bhūmyāḥ | asuḥ | asṛk | ātmā | kva | svit | kaḥ | vidvāṃsam | upa | gāt | praṣṭum | etat
Translations signed
Who hath beheld him as he sprang to being, seen how the boneless One supports the bony? Where is the blood of earth, the life, the spirit? Who may approach the man who knows, to ask it?
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- English Who hath beheld him as he sprang to being, seen how the boneless One supports the bony? Where is the blood of earth, the life, the spirit? Who may approach the man who knows, to ask it? Ralph T.H. Griffith
Apparatus
- Address
rv.1.164.4- Agreement
- Two independent digital editions agree on this reading.
- text.deva
- ऋग्वेदः, संहिता, सस्वरपाठः. Digital edition: Sanskrit Wikisource contributors. CC BY-SA 4.0
- text.iast
- ऋग्वेदः, संहिता, सस्वरपाठः. Digital edition: Sanskrit Wikisource contributors. CC BY-SA 4.0
- text.pada_deva
- ऋग्वेद-पदपाठः. Digital edition: Sanskrit Wikisource contributors. CC BY-SA 4.0
- text.pada_iast
- ऋग्वेद-पदपाठः. Digital edition: Sanskrit Wikisource contributors. CC BY-SA 4.0
- meta
- ऋग्वेदः सूक्तानि, per-sukta headers. Digital edition: Sanskrit Wikisource contributors. CC BY-SA 4.0