Skip to content

Rigveda 2.23.12

अदे॑वेन॒ मन॑सा॒ यो रि॑ष॒ण्यति॑ शा॒सामु॒ग्रो मन्य॑मानो॒ जिघां॑सति ।बृह॑स्पते॒ मा प्रण॒क् तस्य॑ नो व॒धो नि क॑र्म म॒न्युं दु॒रेव॑स्य॒ शर्ध॑तः॥

adevena manasā yo riṣaṇyati śāsāmugro manyamāno jighāṃsati |bṛhaspate mā praṇak tasya no vadho ni karma manyuṃ durevasya śardhataḥ ||

Our plain-language meaning of this verse is waiting for scholar review.

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.