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 1.91.13

Sanskrit text [Accents, Plain, Transliterated]:

सोम॑ रार॒न्धि नो॑ हृ॒दि गावो॒ न यव॑से॒ष्वा । मर्य॑ इव॒ स्व ओ॒क्ये॑ ॥
सोम रारन्धि नो हृदि गावो न यवसेष्वा । मर्य इव स्व ओक्ये ॥
soma rārandhi no hṛdi gāvo na yavaseṣv ā | marya iva sva okye ||

English translation:

Soma, dwell happy in our hearts, like cattle in fresh pastures, like men in their own abodes.”

Details:

Ṛṣi (sage/seer): gotamo rāhūgaṇaḥ [gotama rāhūgaṇa];
Devatā (deity/subject-matter): somaḥ ;
Chandas (meter): virāḍgāyatrī ;
Svara (tone/note): Swar;

Padapatha [Accents, Plain, Transliterated]:

सोम॑ । र॒र॒न्धि । नः॒ । हृ॒दि । गावः॑ । न । यव॑सेषु । आ । मर्यः॑ऽइव स्वे । ओ॒क्ये॑ ॥
सोम । ररन्धि । नः । हृदि । गावः । न । यवसेषु । आ । मर्यःइव स्वे । ओक्ये ॥
soma | rarandhi | naḥ | hṛdi | gāvaḥ | na | yavaseṣu | ā | maryaḥ-iva sve | okye

Multi-layer Annotation of the Ṛgveda

[Rigveda 1.91.13 English analysis of grammar]

soma

[noun], vocative, singular, masculine

“Soma; moon; soma [word]; Candra.”

rārandhi < ran

[verb], singular, Perfect imperative

“rejoice.”

no < naḥ < mad

[noun], genitive, plural

“I; mine.”

hṛdi < hṛd

[noun], locative, singular, neuter

“heart; heart; mind; breast; hṛd [word].”

gāvo < gāvaḥ < go

[noun], nominative, plural, masculine

“cow; cattle; go [word]; Earth; bull; floor; milk; beam; sunbeam; leather; hide; horn; language; bowstring; earth; ox; Svarga.”

na

[adverb]

“not; like; no; na [word].”

yavaseṣv < yavaseṣu < yavasa

[noun], locative, plural, masculine

“eatage; pasture; fodder.”

ā

[adverb]

“towards; ākāra; until; ā; since; according to; ā [suffix].”

marya < maryaḥ < marya

[noun], nominative, singular, masculine

“young buck; boyfriend.”

iva

[adverb]

“like; as it were; somehow; just so.”

sva < sve < sva

[noun], locative, singular, neuter

“own(a); respective(a); akin(p); sva [word]; individual; present(a); independent.”

okye < okya

[noun], locative, singular, neuter

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