Rigveda 3.031.16
Rigveda · Mandala 3, Sukta 31 · Verse 3.31.16
Vedic Classification
Sanskrit Original
अ॒पश्चि॑दे॒ष वि॒भ्वो॒३॒॑ दमू॑नाः॒ प्र स॒ध्रीची॑रसृजद्वि॒श्वश्च॑न्द्राः । मध्वः॑ पुना॒नाः क॒विभिः॑ प॒वित्रै॒र्द्युभि॑र्हिन्वन्त्य॒क्तुभि॒र्धनु॑त्रीः
apaścideṣa vibhvo3 damūnāḥ pra sadhrīcīrasṛjadviśvaścandrāḥ madhvaḥ punānāḥ kavibhiḥ pavitrairdyubhirhinvantyaktubhirdhanutrīḥ
From the waters the dams created many streams; the shining ones, the bright moons, produced all. Midnight singers again, pure, with poets invoked, they bent the bows and praised with hymns.
This lowly-minded Indra has created the wide-spread, commingled, all-delighting waters; and they, purifying the sweet (libations) with the sage purifiers, and being benevolent (to all), proceed with (the revolutions) of days and nights.
Vast, the House-Friend, he set the waters flowing, all-lucid, widely spread, that move together. By the wise cleansings of the meath made holy, through days, and nights they speed the swift streams onward.