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Sukta 172

Complete Rigveda Sukta with 3 mantras in Sanskrit, IAST transliteration, and source-aligned historical English where available.

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Sukta 172

Complete Rigveda Sukta with 3 mantras in Sanskrit, IAST transliteration, and source-aligned historical English where available.

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Rigveda 1.172.1

Rigveda 1.172.1
Source text

चित्रो वोऽस्तु यामश्चित्र ऊती सुदानवः। मरुतो अहिभानवः॥

Transliteration

citro vo'stu yāmaścitra ūtī sudānavaḥ | maruto ahibhānavaḥ ||

Translation

WONDERFUL let your coming be, wondrous with help, ye Bounteous Ones, Maruts, who gleam as serpents gleam.

English translation: Ralph T. H. Griffith, 1896.

Rigveda 1.172.2

Rigveda 1.172.2
Source text

आरे सा वः सुदानवो मरुत ऋञ्जती शरुः। आरे अश्मा यमस्यथ॥

Transliteration

āre sā vaḥ sudānavo maruta ṛñjatī śaruḥ | āre aśmā yamasyatha ||

Translation

Far be from us, O Maruts, ye free givers, your impetuous shaft; Far from us be the stone ye hurl.

English translation: Ralph T. H. Griffith, 1896.

Rigveda 1.172.3

Rigveda 1.172.3
Source text

तृणस्कन्दस्य नु विशः परि वृङ्क्त सुदानवः। ऊर्ध्वान्नः कर्त जीवसे॥

Transliteration

tṛṇaskandasya nu viśaḥ pari vṛṅkta sudānavaḥ | ūrdhvānnaḥ karta jīvase ||

Translation

O Bounteous Givers, touch ye not, O Maruts, Trnskanda's folk; Lift ye us up that we may live.

English translation: Ralph T. H. Griffith, 1896.

Sources and editorial record

  1. Rig Veda, Book 1, Hymn 172, translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896) — RV 1.172Internet Sacred Text Archive
  2. Rigveda Mandala 1, machine-readable Sanskrit and Roman text — Mandala 1Sanskrit Documents
  3. Rigveda Shakala Samhita, Mandala 1, Sukta 172 — RV 1.172Vedic Heritage Portal, Ministry of Culture, Government of India
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