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Rigveda 4.19.8

पू॒र्वीरु॒षस॑: श॒रद॑श्च गू॒र्ता वृ॒त्रं ज॑घ॒न्वाँ अ॑सृज॒द् वि सिन्धू॑न् ।परि॑ष्ठिता अतृणद् बद्बधा॒नाः सी॒रा इन्द्र॒: स्रवि॑तवे पृथि॒व्या॥

pūrvīruṣasa: śaradaśca gūrtā vṛtraṃ jaghanvām̐ asṛjad vi sindhūn |pariṣṭhitā atṛṇad badbadhānāḥ sīrā indra: sravitave pṛthivyā ||

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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.