Rigveda 4.001.13
Rigveda · Mandala 4, Sukta 1 · Verse 4.1.13
Vedic Classification
Sanskrit Original
अ॒स्माक॒मत्र॑ पि॒तरो॑ मनु॒ष्या॑ अ॒भि प्र से॑दुरृ॒तमा॑शुषा॒णाः । अश्म॑व्रजाः सु॒दुघा॑ व॒व्रे अ॒न्तरुदु॒स्रा आ॑जन्नु॒षसो॑ हुवा॒नाः
asmākamatra pitaro manuṣyā abhi pra sedurṛtamāśuṣāṇāḥ aśmavrajāḥ sudughā vavre antarudusrā ājannuṣaso huvānāḥ
Our fathers here, men, pressed near to the dharma, fierce in heat and thirst. They drove the stone-born herds, strong in milking, harsh within; they called the people by day.
In this world, our mortal forefathers departed after instrumental tuting the sacred rite, when, calling upon the dawn, they extricated the milk-yielding kine, concealed among the rocks in the darkness (of the cave).
Here did our human fathers take their places, fain to fulfil the sacred Law of worship. Forth drave they, with loud call, Dawn's teeming Milch-kine bid in the mountainstable, in the cavern.