Rigveda 4.033.04
Rigveda · Mandala 4, Sukta 33 · Verse 4.33.4
Vedic Classification
Sanskrit Original
यत्सं॒वत्स॑मृ॒भवो॒ गामर॑क्ष॒न्यत्सं॒वत्स॑मृ॒भवो॒ मा अपिं॑शन् । यत्सं॒वत्स॒मभ॑र॒न्भासो॑ अस्या॒स्ताभिः॒ शमी॑भिरमृत॒त्वमा॑शुः
yatsaṃvatsamṛbhavo gāmarakṣanyatsaṃvatsamṛbhavo mā apiṃśan yatsaṃvatsamabharanbhāso asyāstābhiḥ śamībhiramṛtatvamāśuḥ
What yearly preserved the kine and what yearly kept them from harm, what yearly upheld the brightness of this realm with sacred twigs, swiftly made them immortal.
Inasmuch as for a year the Ṛbhus preserved the (dead) cow, inasmuch as for a year they invested it with flesh, inasmuch as for a year they continued its beauty they obtained by their acts of immortality.
As for a year the Rbhus kept the Milch-cow, throughout a year fashioned and formed her body, And through a year's space still sustained her brightness, through these their labours they were made immortal.