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Rigveda 9.97.40

अक्रा॑न्त्समु॒द्रः प्र॑थ॒मे विध॑र्मञ्ज॒नय॑न्प्र॒जा भुव॑नस्य॒ राजा॑ ।वृषा॑ प॒वित्रे॒ अधि॒ सानो॒ अव्ये॑ बृ॒हत्सोमो॑ वावृधे सुवा॒न इन्दु॑:॥

akrāntsamudraḥ prathame vidharmañjanayanprajā bhuvanasya rājā |vṛṣā pavitre adhi sāno avye bṛhatsomo vāvṛdhe suvāna indu: ||

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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.