Rigveda 10.010.13
Rigveda · Mandala 10, Sukta 10 · Verse 10.10.13
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Devatā (Deity)
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Chandas (Meter)
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Sanskrit Original
ब॒तो ब॑तासि यम॒ नैव ते॒ मनो॒ हृद॑यं चाविदाम । अ॒न्या किल॒ त्वां क॒क्ष्ये॑व यु॒क्तं परि॑ ष्वजाते॒ लिबु॑जेव वृ॒क्षम्
bato batāsi yama naiva te mano hṛdayaṃ cāvidāma anyā kila tvāṃ kakṣyeva yuktaṃ pari ṣvajāte libujeva vṛkṣam
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You speak, you speak not—my mind and heart are not alien to you. I will bind you in another way, like lashing a tree firmly to its root.
(Yami speaks). Alas, Yama, you are feeble; we understand not your mind or your heart. Some otherfemale embraces you as a girth a horse, or as a creeper a tree.
Alas! thou art indeed a weakling, Yama we find in thee no trace of heart or spirit. As round the tree the woodbine clings, another will cling albout thee girt as with a girdle.