ऋग्वेद २.१६.८
Ṛgveda 2.16.8
pu̱rā sa̍mbā̱dhāda̱bhyā va̍vṛtsva no dhe̱nurna va̱tsaṃ yava̍sasya pi̱pyuṣī̍ |sa̱kṛtsu te̍ suma̱tibhi̍ḥ śatakrato̱ saṃ patnī̍bhi̱rna vṛṣa̍ṇo nasīmahi ||
Transliteration IAST
pu̱rā sa̍mbā̱dhāda̱bhyā va̍vṛtsva no dhe̱nurna va̱tsaṃ yava̍sasya pi̱pyuṣī̍ | sa̱kṛtsu te̍ suma̱tibhi̍ḥ śatakrato̱ saṃ patnī̍bhi̱rna vṛṣa̍ṇo nasīmahi ||
Padapāṭha word by word, as recited
पुरा | सम्-बाधात् | अभि | आ | ववृत्स्व | नः | धेनुः | न | वत्सम् | यवसस्य | पिप्युषी | सकृत् | सु | ते | सुमति-भिः | शतक्रतो इतिशत-क्रतो | सम् | पत्नीभिः | न | वृषणः | नसीमहि
purā | sam-bādhāt | abhi | ā | vavṛtsva | naḥ | dhenuḥ | na | vatsam | yavasasya | pipyuṣī | sakṛt | su | te | sumati-bhiḥ | śatakrato itiśata-krato | sam | patnībhiḥ | na | vṛṣaṇaḥ | nasīmahi
Translations signed
Turn thee unto us ere calamity come nigh, as a cow full of pasture turns her to her calf. Lord of a Hundred Powers, may we once firmly cling to thy fair favours even as husbands to their wives.
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- English Turn thee unto us ere calamity come nigh, as a cow full of pasture turns her to her calf. Lord of a Hundred Powers, may we once firmly cling to thy fair favours even as husbands to their wives. Ralph T.H. Griffith
Apparatus
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rv.2.16.8- 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