Rigveda 1.164.41
Rigveda · Mandala 1, Sukta 164 · Verse 1.164.41
Vedic Classification
Sanskrit Original
गौ॒रीर्मि॑माय सलि॒लानि॒ तक्ष॒त्येक॑पदी द्वि॒पदी॒ सा चतु॑ष्पदी । अ॒ष्टाप॑दी॒ नव॑पदी बभू॒वुषी॑ स॒हस्रा॑क्षरा पर॒मे व्यो॑मन्
gaurīrmimāya salilāni takṣatyekapadī dvipadī sā catuṣpadī aṣṭāpadī navapadī babhūvuṣī sahasrākṣarā parame vyoman
Gauri spread waters in single, double, triple steps; she became four-footed, eight-footed, nine-footed, and a thousand-lettered in the supreme heaven.
The sound (of the clouds) has been uttered, fabricating the waters, and being one-footed, two-footed, four-footed, eight-footed, nine-footed, or infinite in the highest heaven.
Forming the water-floods, the buffalo hath lowed, one-footed or two-footed or four- footed, she, Who hath become eight-footed or hath got nine feet, the thou sand-syllabled in the sublimest heaven.