Rig Veda (translation and commentary)
by H. H. Wilson | 1866 | 1,999,864 words | ISBN-10: 8171101380 | ISBN-13: 9788171101382
The Rig-Veda, English translation, including the commentary of Sayana and grammatical analysis. The hyms of the Rigveda Samhita represents some of the oldest and complex of Hindu Sanskrit literature. In ten books, these mantras form the core essence of rituals and ceremonies once widely performed throughout ancient India. This edition contains the...
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Rig Veda 1.23.10
Sanskrit text [Accents, Plain, Transliterated]:
विश्वा॑न्दे॒वान्ह॑वामहे म॒रुत॒: सोम॑पीतये । उ॒ग्रा हि पृश्नि॑मातरः ॥
विश्वान्देवान्हवामहे मरुतः सोमपीतये । उग्रा हि पृश्निमातरः ॥
viśvān devān havāmahe marutaḥ somapītaye | ugrā hi pṛśnimātaraḥ ||
English translation:
“We invoke all the divine Maruts, who are fierce, and have the (many- coloured) earth for their mother, to drink the Soma juice.”
Commentary by Sāyaṇa: Ṛgveda-bhāṣya
Pṛṣṇī = many-coloured earth, nānāvarṇayuktā bhūḥ;
Pṛṣṇi = sky, or heaven in genitive ral
Details:
Ṛṣi (sage/seer): medhātithiḥ kāṇvaḥ [medhātithi kāṇva];Devatā (deity/subject-matter): viśvedevā:;
Chandas (meter): gāyatrī;
Svara (tone/note): Swar;
Padapatha [Accents, Plain, Transliterated]:
व्विश्वा॑न् । दे॒वान् । ह॒वा॒म॒हे॒ । म॒रुतः॑ । सोम॑ऽपीतये । उ॒ग्राः । हि । पृश्नि॑ऽमातरः ॥
व्विश्वान् । देवान् । हवामहे । मरुतः । सोमपीतये । उग्राः । हि । पृश्निमातरः ॥
vviśvān | devān | havāmahe | marutaḥ | soma-pītaye | ugrāḥ | hi | pṛśni-mātaraḥ
Multi-layer Annotation of the Ṛgveda
[Rigveda 1.23.10 English analysis of grammar]
[noun], accusative, plural, masculine
“all(a); whole; complete; each(a); viśva [word]; completely; wholly.”
[noun], accusative, plural, masculine
“Deva; Hindu deity; king; deity; Indra; deva [word]; God; Jina; Viśvedevās; mercury; natural phenomenon; gambling.”
[verb], plural, Present indikative
“raise; call on; call; summon.”
[noun], accusative, plural, masculine
“Marut; vāta; wind; Vayu.”
[noun], masculine
“Soma; moon; soma [word]; Candra.”
[noun], dative, singular, feminine
“drinking; haritāla.”
[noun], nominative, plural, masculine
“powerful; awful; dangerous; intense; mighty; potent; colicky; atrocious.”
[adverb]
“because; indeed; for; therefore; hi [word].”
[noun], feminine
“Pṛśni; beam.”
[noun], nominative, plural, masculine
“mother; mātṛkā; mātṛ [word]; parent; Salvinia cucullata Roxb.; Citrullus colocynthis Schrad.; cow.”