Rigveda 3.001.06
Rigveda · Mandala 3, Sukta 1 · Verse 3.1.6
Vedic Classification
Sanskrit Original
व॒व्राजा॑ सी॒मन॑दती॒रद॑ब्धा दि॒वो य॒ह्वीरव॑साना॒ अन॑ग्नाः । सना॒ अत्र॑ युव॒तयः॒ सयो॑नी॒रेकं॒ गर्भं॑ दधिरे स॒प्त वाणीः॑
vavrājā sīmanadatīradabdhā divo yahvīravasānā anagnāḥ sanā atra yuvatayaḥ sayonīrekaṃ garbhaṃ dadhire sapta vāṇīḥ
The wide-stepping kings yoked the flooded rivers; the priests of heaven resumed their rites, unextinguished. Maidens here put one womb together; seven voices upheld it.
Agni everywhere repairs to the undevouring, undevoured (waters); the vast (offspring) of the firmament, not clothed, yet not naked, seven eternal ever youthfful rivers, sprung from the same source, received Agni as their common embryo.
He sought heaven's Mighty Ones, the unconsuming, the unimpaired, not clothed and yet not naked. Then they, ancient and young, who dwell together, Seven sounding Rivers, as one germ received him.