Rigveda 10.181.03
Rigveda · Mandala 10, Sukta 181 · Verse 10.181.3
Vedic Classification
Sanskrit Original
ते॑ऽविन्द॒न्मन॑सा॒ दीध्या॑ना॒ यजुः॑ ष्क॒न्नं प्र॑थ॒मं दे॑व॒यान॑म् । धा॒तुर्द्युता॑नात्सवि॒तुश्च॒ विष्णो॒रा सूर्या॑दभरन्घ॒र्ममे॒ते
te'vindanmanasā dīdhyānā yajuḥ ṣkannaṃ prathamaṃ devayānam dhāturdyutānātsavituśca viṣṇorā sūryādabharangharmamete
They attentively kindled with mind that first sacred Yajur for the gods. The giver of offerings, Savitr and Vishnu bore these sunlike heat-breaths.
Those brilliant deities discovered by their intelligence the principal means of sacrifice which has to beeffused, whichleads to the gods; these (priests) have taken the Gharma from Dhātā, the radiant Savitā andViṣṇu.
They found with mental eyes the earliest Yajus, a pathway to the Gods, that had descended. From radiant Dhitar, Savitar, and Visnu, from Surya did these sages bring the Gharma.