ऋग्वेद ४.१८.१२
Ṛgveda 4.18.12
kaste̍ mā̱tara̍ṃ vi̱dhavā̍macakraccha̱yuṃ kastvāma̍jighāṃsa̱ccara̍ntam |kaste̍ de̱vo adhi̍ mārḍī̱ka ā̍sī̱dyatprākṣi̍ṇāḥ pi̱tara̍ṃ pāda̱gṛhya̍ ||
Transliteration IAST
kaste̍ mā̱tara̍ṃ vi̱dhavā̍macakraccha̱yuṃ kastvāma̍jighāṃsa̱ccara̍ntam | kaste̍ de̱vo adhi̍ mārḍī̱ka ā̍sī̱dyatprākṣi̍ṇāḥ pi̱tara̍ṃ pāda̱gṛhya̍ ||
Padapāṭha word by word, as recited
कः | ते | मातरम् | विधवाम् | अचक्रत् | शयुम् | कः | त्वाम् | अजिघांसत् | चरन्तम् | कः | ते | देवः | अधि | मार्डीके | आसीत् | यत् | प्र | अक्षिणाः | पितरम् | पाद-गृह्य
kaḥ | te | mātaram | vidhavām | acakrat | śayum | kaḥ | tvām | ajighāṃsat | carantam | kaḥ | te | devaḥ | adhi | mārḍīke | āsīt | yat | pra | akṣiṇāḥ | pitaram | pāda-gṛhya
Translations signed
Who was he then who made thy Mother widow? Who sought to stay thee lying still or moving? What God, when by the foot thy Sire thou tookest and slewest, was at hand to give thee comfort?
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- English Who was he then who made thy Mother widow? Who sought to stay thee lying still or moving? What God, when by the foot thy Sire thou tookest and slewest, was at hand to give thee comfort? Ralph T.H. Griffith
Apparatus
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rv.4.18.12- 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