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Rigveda 1.168.8

प्रति॑ ष्टोभन्ति॒ सिन्ध॑वः प॒विभ्यो॒ यद॒भ्रियां॒ वाच॑मुदी॒रय॑न्ति ।अव॑ स्मयन्त वि॒द्युत॑: पृथि॒व्यां यदी॑ घृ॒तं म॒रुत॑: प्रुष्णु॒वन्ति॑॥

prati ṣṭobhanti sindhavaḥ pavibhyo yadabhriyāṃ vācamudīrayanti |ava smayanta vidyuta: pṛthivyāṃ yadī ghṛtaṃ maruta: pruṣṇuvanti ||

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Edition: Shakala Samhita, mandala.sukta.rk, with svara marks. Each sukta opens with its rishi, devata and chandas.

Transliteration in IAST, generated from the Devanagari text.

Source: Contains information from DharmicData (github.com/bhavykhatri/DharmicData), made available under the ODbL v1.0; text from the Vedic Heritage Portal. Sanskrit text public domain; dataset ODbL v1.0.