Rigveda 4.001.11
Rigveda · Mandala 4, Sukta 1 · Verse 4.1.11
Vedic Classification
Sanskrit Original
स जा॑यत प्रथ॒मः प॒स्त्या॑सु म॒हो बु॒ध्ने रज॑सो अ॒स्य योनौ॑ । अ॒पाद॑शी॒र्षा गु॒हमा॑नो॒ अन्ता॒योयु॑वानो वृष॒भस्य॑ नी॒ळे
sa jāyata prathamaḥ pastyāsu maho budhne rajaso asya yonau apādaśīrṣā guhamāno antāyoyuvāno vṛṣabhasya nīḷe
He was born first among cattle, in the pastures, great in wisdom, the source of this flux of rajas. With hooves, head, hidden depths—born within—youthful, like the bull in blue.
He is first engendered in the habitation (of the sacrificers); then upon his station, (the altar), the base of the vast firmament; without feet, without head, concealing his extremities, combining with smoke in the nest of the rain-cloud.
In houses first he sprang into existence, at great heaven's base, and in this region's bosom; Footless and headless, both his ends concealing, in his Bull's lair drawing himself together.