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Rigveda 2.16.2

यस्मा॒दिन्द्रा॑द् बृह॒तः किं च॒नेमृ॒ते विश्वा॑न्यस्मि॒न् त्संभृ॒ताधि॑ वी॒र्या॑ ।ज॒ठरे॒ सोमं॑ त॒न्वी॒३ सहो॒ महो॒ हस्ते॒ वज्रं॒ भर॑ति शी॒र्षणि॒ क्रतु॑म्॥

yasmādindrād bṛhataḥ kiṃ canemṛte viśvānyasmin tsaṃbhṛtādhi vīryā |jaṭhare somaṃ tanvī3 saho maho haste vajraṃ bharati śīrṣaṇi kratum ||

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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.