Rigveda 1.164.06
Rigveda · Mandala 1, Sukta 164 · Verse 1.164.6
Vedic Classification
Sanskrit Original
अचि॑कित्वाञ्चिकि॒तुष॑श्चि॒दत्र॑ क॒वीन्पृ॑च्छामि वि॒द्मने॒ न वि॒द्वान् । वि यस्त॒स्तम्भ॒ षळि॒मा रजां॑स्य॒जस्य॑ रू॒पे किमपि॑ स्वि॒देक॑म्
acikitvāñcikituṣaścidatra kavīnpṛcchāmi vidmane na vidvān vi yastastambha ṣaḷimā rajāṃsyajasya rūpe kimapi svidekam
I ask the skilled and the knowing poet here: who is not a knower? Who is that pillar, the sixfold, whose dust in its form is any one’s own?
Ignorant, I inquire of the sages who know (the truth); not as one knowing (do I inquire), for the sake of (gaining) knowledge; what is that one alone, who has upheld these six spheres in the form of the unborn?
I ask, unknowing, those who know, the sages, as one all ignorant for sake of knowledge, What was that ONE who in the Unborn's image hath stablished and fixed firm these worlds' six regions.
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