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 1.65.7

Sanskrit text [Accents, Plain, Transliterated]:

जा॒मिः सिन्धू॑नां॒ भ्राते॑व॒ स्वस्रा॒मिभ्या॒न्न राजा॒ वना॑न्यत्ति ॥
जामिः सिन्धूनां भ्रातेव स्वस्रामिभ्यान्न राजा वनान्यत्ति ॥
jāmiḥ sindhūnām bhrāteva svasrām ibhyān na rājā vanāny atti ||

English translation:

“[7-8] He is the kind kinsman of the waters, like a brother to his sister; he consumes the forest as a rājā (destroys) his enemies; when excited by the wind, he traverses the woods, and shears the hairs of the earth.”

Commentary by Sāyaṇa: Ṛgveda-bhāṣya

The fruit, flowers, grasses, shrubs and the like are called roma pṛthivyāḥ = hairs of the earth

Details:

Ṛṣi (sage/seer): parāśaraḥ śāktaḥ [parāśara śākta];
Devatā (deity/subject-matter): agniḥ ;
Chandas (meter): Dvipadaa viraat;
Svara (tone/note): Swar;

Padapatha [Accents, Plain, Transliterated]:

जा॒मिः । सिन्धू॑नाम् । भ्राता॑ऽइव । स्वस्रा॑म् । इभ्या॑न् । न । राजा॑ । वना॑नि । अ॒त्ति॒ ॥
जामिः । सिन्धूनाम् । भ्राताइव । स्वस्राम् । इभ्यान् । न । राजा । वनानि । अत्ति ॥
jāmiḥ | sindhūnām | bhrātāiva | svasrām | ibhyān | na | rājā | vanāni | atti

Multi-layer Annotation of the Ṛgveda

[Rigveda 1.65.7 English analysis of grammar]

jāmiḥ < jāmi

[noun], nominative, singular, masculine

“related; ancestral; customary; usual.”

sindhūnām < sindhu

[noun], genitive, plural, masculine

“river; Indus; sindhu [word].”

bhrāteva < bhrātā < bhrātṛ

[noun], nominative, singular, masculine

“brother; bhrātṛ; relative.”

bhrāteva < iva

[adverb]

“like; as it were; somehow; just so.”

svasrām < svasṛ

[noun], genitive, plural, feminine

“sister; svasṛ [word].”

ibhyān < ibhya

[noun], accusative, plural, masculine

na

[adverb]

“not; like; no; na [word].”

rājā < rājan

[noun], nominative, singular, masculine

“king; Kshatriya; rājan [word]; best; rājāvarta; Yakṣa.”

vanāny < vanāni < vana

[noun], accusative, plural, neuter

“forest; wood; tree; grove; vana [word]; forest; brush.”

atti < ad

[verb], singular, Present indikative

“eat; devour.”

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