---
type: Reference
bundle: shakta-darshana
bundle_version: "0.8.0"
id: devi-sukta
title: "Devī Sūkta (Ṛg Veda 10.125) — देवीसूक्त"
iast: "Devī Sūkta"
devanagari: "देवीसूक्त"
description: "The Vedic anchor of Śākta theology: the Ṛg Vedic hymn in which Vāk (the goddess Word, identified by the tradition with Devī) declares herself the power moving through all gods, the bender of Rudra's bow, and the one who pervades heaven and earth."
text_type: "Vedic sūkta (8 verses)"
period: "Ṛg Veda, maṇḍala 10"
tags: [devi-sukta, rigveda, vak, devi, shakti, reference]
related:
  - /concepts/devi.md
  - /concepts/shakti.md
  - /concepts/matrika.md
timestamp: "2026-07-01"
okf_version: "0.2"
license: "CC BY-SA 4.0"
---

# Devī Sūkta (Ṛg Veda 10.125) -- देवीसूक्त

**Attributed within the text to the ṛṣikā Vāk Āmbhṛṇī: one of the Ṛg Veda's female seers, speaking in the first person as the Goddess herself.**

## Why This Text Anchors the Bundle

The Devī Sūkta is the tradition's standing answer to the claim that Goddess-supremacy is late or non-Vedic: a maṇḍala-10 hymn in which Vāk declares (in first person) that she moves with the Rudras, Vasus, and Ādityas; that she is the queen (rāṣṭrī) and gatherer of treasures; that whoever eats, sees, or breathes does so through her; that she bends Rudra's bow against the hater of sacred speech; and that she pervades heaven and earth, birthing the father on the summit of the world. Śākta tradition reads the hymn as Devī's own self-revelation, and it is recited to this day in Devī liturgy (commonly appended to Devī Māhātmya recitation).

## Use in This Bundle

- [devi.md](../concepts/devi.md) and [shakti.md](../concepts/shakti.md): the Vedic ground of the ultimacy claim
- [matrika.md](../concepts/matrika.md) and [mantra-shastra.md](../concepts/mantra-shastra.md): Vāk (the Word) as goddess is the seed of the entire sound-metaphysics lineage
- Cross-bundle: joins v0.7's three Ṛg Vedic reference anchors (Puruṣa, Hiraṇyagarbha, Nāsadīya sūktas) as the fourth Vedic pillar in OKF

## Editions

Standard Ṛg Veda editions and translations (Jamison-Brereton for current scholarship; Griffith public-domain for access). Verse numbering 10.125.1-8 is stable across editions.
