Rigveda 10.055.03
Rigveda · Mandala 10, Sukta 55 · Verse 10.55.3
Vedic Classification
Sanskrit Original
आ रोद॑सी अपृणा॒दोत मध्यं॒ पञ्च॑ दे॒वाँ ऋ॑तु॒शः स॒प्तस॑प्त । चतु॑स्त्रिंशता पुरु॒धा वि च॑ष्टे॒ सरू॑पेण॒ ज्योति॑षा॒ विव्र॑तेन
ā rodasī apṛṇādota madhyaṃ pañca devām̐ ṛtuśaḥ saptasapta catustriṃśatā purudhā vi caṣṭe sarūpeṇa jyotiṣā vivratena
Dawn shone, pouring forth; amid them five seasons, seven and seven. Thirty-four were the forms of men in the bright shapes, with shining radiance.
He has filled heaven and earth (with his ethereal form) as well as the mid-heaven; he contemplates invarious aspects the five orders of beings, the classes of seven in their seasons, with the thirty-four (deities),(endowed) with light of like nature, and with various functions.
He filled the heaven and earth and all between them, Gods five times sevenfold in their proper seasons. With four-and-thirty lights he looks around him, lights of one colour though their ways are divers.