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Rig Veda 10.177: THE sapient with their spirit and their mind behold the Bird adorned with all an Asura's magic…
Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896) · From The Hymns of the Rigveda (1896)
THE sapient with their spirit and their mind behold the Bird adorned with all an Asura's magic might.
Sages observe him in the ocean's inmost depth: the wise disposers seek the station of his rays.
The flying Bird bears Speech within his spirit: erst the Gandharva in the womb pronounced it:
And at the seat of sacrifice the sages cherish this radiant, heavenly-bright invention.
I saw the Herdsman, him who never resteth, approaching and departing on his pathways.
He, clothed in gathered and diffusive splendour, within the worlds continually travels.
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Veda, The Rishis of the Rig. “Rig Veda 10.177: THE sapient with their spirit and their mind behold the Bird adorned with all an Asura's magic….” Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/rigveda-rishis/1012/.
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Veda, The Rishis of the Rig. “Rig Veda 10.177: THE sapient with their spirit and their mind behold the Bird adorned with all an Asura's magic….” Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/rigveda-rishis/1012/.
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