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Rigveda 4.22.9

अ॒स्मे वर्षि॑ष्ठा कृणुहि॒ ज्येष्ठा॑ नृ॒म्णानि॑ स॒त्रा स॑हुरे॒ सहां॑सि ।अ॒स्मभ्यं॑ वृ॒त्रा सु॒हना॑नि रन्धि ज॒हि वध॑र्व॒नुषो॒ मर्त्य॑स्य॥

asme varṣiṣṭhā kṛṇuhi jyeṣṭhā nṛmṇāni satrā sahure sahāṃsi |asmabhyaṃ vṛtrā suhanāni randhi jahi vadharvanuṣo martyasya ||

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.