Rig Veda · 10.124.2

Rig Veda 10.124.2 — Agni, Etc

Verse 2 of 9 from Sukta 10.124 (Agni, Etc) in Mandala 10 of the Rig Veda.

Rig Veda 10.124.2

Sanskrit (Devanagari)

अदेवाद देवः परचता गुहा यन परपश्यमानो अम्र्तत्वमेमि | शिवं यत सन्तमशिवो जहामि सवात सख्यादरणींनाभिमेमि

IAST Romanisation

adevād devaḥ pracatā ghuhā yan prapaśyamāno amṛtatvamemi | śivaṃ yat santamaśivo jahāmi svāt sakhyādaraṇīṃnābhimemi

English Translation (Griffith)

I come a God foreseeing from the godless to immortality by secret pathways, While I, ungracious one, desert the gracious, leave mine own friends and seek the kin of strangers.

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