Rig Veda 1.164.41

Sanskrit text [Accents, Plain, Transliterated]:

गौ॒रीर्मि॑माय सलि॒लानि॒ तक्ष॒त्येक॑पदी द्वि॒पदी॒ सा चतु॑ष्पदी । अ॒ष्टाप॑दी॒ नव॑पदी बभू॒वुषी॑ स॒हस्रा॑क्षरा पर॒मे व्यो॑मन् ॥
गौरीर्मिमाय सलिलानि तक्षत्येकपदी द्विपदी सा चतुष्पदी । अष्टापदी नवपदी बभूवुषी सहस्राक्षरा परमे व्योमन् ॥
gaurīr mimāya salilāni takṣaty ekapadī dvipadī sā catuṣpadī | aṣṭāpadī navapadī babhūvuṣī sahasrākṣarā parame vyoman ||

English translation:

“The sound (of the clouds) has been uttered, fabricating the waters, and being one-footed, two-footed, four-footed, eight-footed, nine-footed, or infinite in the highest heaven.”

Commentary by Sāyaṇa: Ṛgveda-bhāṣya

In the highest heaven: the sound gaurī: clouds or sky, as differently originated; in one station, ekapadī, from the clouds; in two, dvipadī, from the clouds and sky; in four, the four quarters of space; in eight, the four points and four intermediate points of the horizon; or from them and the zenith, navapadī, nine-stationed; articulate speech, gaurī: single as the crude form only, double as declension and conjugation, fourfold as nouns, verbs, prepositions and particles; eightfold as the eight cases, including the vocative; and ninefold as the same, with the addition of indeclinable; articulate sound, gaurī: diversified according to the nine parts of the body whence it may be supposed to proceed, navel, chest, throat; the highest heaven is hṛdaya ākāśa, ethereal element of the heart, as the basis of speech, mūlādhāre

Details:

Ṛṣi (sage/seer): dīrghatamā aucathyaḥ [dīrghatamas aucathya];
Devatā (deity/subject-matter): viśvedevā:;
Chandas (meter): bhuriktriṣṭup ;
Svara (tone/note): Swar;

Padapatha [Accents, Plain, Transliterated]:

गौ॒रीः । मि॒मा॒य॒ । स॒लि॒लानि॑ । तक्ष॑ती । एक॑ऽपदी । द्वि॒ऽपदी॑ । सा । चतुः॑ऽपदी । अ॒ष्टाऽप॑दी । नव॑ऽपदी । ब॒भू॒वुषी॑ । स॒हस्र॑ऽअक्षरा । प॒र॒मे । विऽओ॑मन् ॥
गौरीः । मिमाय । सलिलानि । तक्षती । एकपदी । द्विपदी । सा । चतुःपदी । अष्टापदी । नवपदी । बभूवुषी । सहस्रअक्षरा । परमे । विओमन् ॥
gaurīḥ | mimāya | salilāni | takṣatī | eka-padī | dvi-padī | sā | catuḥ-padī | aṣṭāpadī | nava-padī | babhūvuṣī | sahasra-akṣarā | parame | vi-oman

Multi-layer Annotation of the Ṛgveda

[Rigveda 1.164.41 English analysis of grammar]