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Sukta 42

Complete Rigveda Sukta with 4 mantras in Sanskrit, IAST transliteration, and source-aligned historical English where available.

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Sukta 42

Complete Rigveda Sukta with 4 mantras in Sanskrit, IAST transliteration, and source-aligned historical English where available.

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Rigveda 6.42.1

Rigveda 6.42.1
Source text

प्रत्यस्मै पिपीषते विश्वानि विदुषे भर। अरंगमाय जग्मयेऽपश्चाद्दघ्वने नरे॥

Transliteration

pratyasmai pipīṣate viśvāni viduṣe bhara | araṁgamāya jagmaye'paścāddaghvane nare ||

Translation

BRING sacrificial gifts to him, Omniscient, for he longs to drink, The Wanderer who comes with speed, the Hero ever in the van.

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

Rigveda 6.42.2

Rigveda 6.42.2
Source text

एमेनं प्रत्येतन सोमेभिः सोमपातमम्। अमत्रेभिरृजीषिणमिन्द्रं सुतेभिरिन्दुभिः॥

Transliteration

emenaṁ pratyetana somebhiḥ somapātamam | amatrebhirṛjīṣiṇamindraṁ sutebhirindubhiḥ ||

Translation

With Soma go ye nigh to him chief drinker of the Soma's juice: With beakers to the Impetuous God, to Indra with the drops effused.

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

Rigveda 6.42.3

Rigveda 6.42.3
Source text

यदी सुतेभिरिन्दुभिः सोमेभिः प्रतिभूषथ। वेदा विश्वस्य मेधिरो धृषत्तंतमिदेषते॥

Transliteration

yadī sutebhirindubhiḥ somebhiḥ pratibhūṣatha | vedā viśvasya medhiro dhṛṣattaṁtamideṣate ||

Translation

What time, with Soma, with the juice effused, ye come before the God, Full wise he knows the hope of each, and, Bold One, strikes this foe and that.

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

Rigveda 6.42.4

Rigveda 6.42.4
Source text

अस्माअस्मा इदन्धसोऽध्वर्यो प्र भरा सुतम्। कुवित्समस्य जेन्यस्य शर्धतोऽभिशस्तेरवस्परत्॥

Transliteration

asmāasmā idandhaso'dhvaryo pra bharā sutam | kuvitsamasya jenyasya śardhato'bhiśasteravasparat ||

Translation

To him, Adhvaryu! yea, to him give offerings of the juice expressed. Will he not keep us safely from the spiteful curse of each presumptuous high-born foe?

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

Sources and editorial record

  1. Rig Veda, Book 6, Hymn 42, translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)RV 6.42Internet Sacred Text Archive
  2. Rigveda Mandala 6, machine-readable Sanskrit and Roman textMandala 6Sanskrit Documents
  3. Rigveda Shakala Samhita, Mandala 6, Sukta 42RV 6.42Vedic Heritage Portal, Ministry of Culture, Government of India
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