Rig Veda · 8.1.13

Rig Veda 8.1.13 — Indra

Verse 13 of 34 from Sukta 8.1 (Indra) in Mandala 8 of the Rig Veda.

Rig Veda 8.1.13

Sanskrit (Devanagari)

मा भूम निष्ट्या इवेन्द्र तवदरणा इव | वनानि न परजहितान्यद्रिवो दुरोषासो अमन्महि

IAST Romanisation

mā bhūma niṣṭyā ivendra tvadaraṇā iva | vanāni na prajahitānyadrivo duroṣāso amanmahi

English Translation (Griffith)

May we be never cast aside, and strangers, as it were, to thee. We, Thunder-wielding Indra, count ourselves as trees rejected and unfit to burn.

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