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 1.164.14
Sanskrit text [Accents, Plain, Transliterated]:
सने॑मि च॒क्रम॒जरं॒ वि वा॑वृत उत्ता॒नायां॒ दश॑ यु॒क्ता व॑हन्ति । सूर्य॑स्य॒ चक्षू॒ रज॑सै॒त्यावृ॑तं॒ तस्मि॒न्नार्पि॑ता॒ भुव॑नानि॒ विश्वा॑ ॥
सनेमि चक्रमजरं वि वावृत उत्तानायां दश युक्ता वहन्ति । सूर्यस्य चक्षू रजसैत्यावृतं तस्मिन्नार्पिता भुवनानि विश्वा ॥
sanemi cakram ajaraṃ vi vāvṛta uttānāyāṃ daśa yuktā vahanti | sūryasya cakṣū rajasaity āvṛtaṃ tasminn ārpitā bhuvanāni viśvā ||
English translation:
“The even-fellied, undecaying wheel, repeatedly revolves; ten, united on the upper surface, bear (the world); the orb of the sun proceeds, invested with water, and in it are all beings deposited.”
Commentary by Sāyaṇa: Ṛgveda-bhāṣya
Ten: the ten organs of sense, or he five lokapālas, guardians of the world, and five classes of human beings; upper surface: uttānāyām, or the upper part; ūrdhvatanāyām, or the pole, īṣāyām; or the earth spread above, uparī vistṛta bh_myām; the orb of the sun: sūryasya cakṣus. = liṭ, the eye of the sun, either the display of the nature or radiance of the sun, or his orb, being, as it were, the eye of all; sarvasya cakṣuḥ sthānīyam vā maṇḍalam
Details:
Ṛṣi (sage/seer): dīrghatamā aucathyaḥ [dīrghatamas aucathya];Devatā (deity/subject-matter): viśvedevā:;
Chandas (meter): bhuriktriṣṭup ;
Svara (tone/note): Swar;
Padapatha [Accents, Plain, Transliterated]:
सऽने॑मि । च॒क्रम् । अ॒जर॑म् । वि । व॒वृ॒ते॒ । उ॒त्ता॒नाया॑म् । दश॑ । यु॒क्ताः । व॒ह॒न्ति॒ । सूर्य॑स्य । चक्षिः॑ । रज॑सा । ए॒ति॒ । आऽवृ॑तम् । तस्मि॑न् । आर्पि॑ता । भुव॑नानि । विश्वा॑ ॥
सनेमि । चक्रम् । अजरम् । वि । ववृते । उत्तानायाम् । दश । युक्ताः । वहन्ति । सूर्यस्य । चक्षिः । रजसा । एति । आवृतम् । तस्मिन् । आर्पिता । भुवनानि । विश्वा ॥
sa-nemi | cakram | ajaram | vi | vavṛte | uttānāyām | daśa | yuktāḥ | vahanti | sūryasya | cakṣiḥ | rajasā | eti | āvṛtam | tasmin | ārpitā | bhuvanāni | viśvā
Multi-layer Annotation of the Ṛgveda
[Rigveda 1.164.14 English analysis of grammar]
[adverb]
“with; little; together.”
[noun], nominative, singular, neuter
“rim; felloe.”
[noun], nominative, singular, neuter
“wheel; Cakra; discus; army; cakra; oil mill; cakrikā; cakra; group.”
[noun], nominative, singular, neuter
“undecaying; ageless.”
[adverb]
“apart; away; away.”
[verb], singular, Perfect indicative
“behave; happen; exist; return; dwell; die; roll; continue; act; exist; feed on; issue; move; travel; proceed; turn; situate; drive; account for; begin; do; inhere; revolve.”
[noun], locative, singular, feminine
“supine; upward; upright; skin-deep; raised; shallow.”
[noun], nominative, singular, neuter
“ten; tenth; daśan [word].”
[verb noun], nominative, plural
“mix; use; endow; yoke; accompany; to practice Yoga; connect; hire; administer; compound; affect; add; concentrate; unite; join; prosecute; combine; supply; compound; attach to; appoint; fill; process; mobilize; mount; complement; eat; join; treat; coincide; affect; challenge.”
[verb], plural, Present indikative
“transport; bring; marry; run; drive; vāhay; drive; run; pull; nirvāpay; blow; transport; discharge; assume; remove.”
[noun], genitive, singular, masculine
“sun; Surya; sūrya [word]; right nostril; twelve; Calotropis gigantea Beng.; sūryakānta; sunlight; best.”
[noun], nominative, singular, neuter
“eye; look; visual perception; cakṣus [word]; sight.”
[noun], instrumental, singular, neuter
“powder; menorrhea; dust; Rajas; atmosphere; rajas; pollen; passion; rajas [word]; sindūra; rust; tin; impurity; dark; sky.”
[verb], singular, Present indikative
“go; travel; enter (a state); return; walk; continue; reach; ask.”
[verb noun], nominative, singular
“envelop; accompany; surround; obstruct; cover; close; surround; endow; overwhelm; mix; coat.”
[noun], locative, singular, neuter
“this; he,she,it (pers. pron.); respective(a); that; nominative; then; particular(a); genitive; instrumental; accusative; there; tad [word]; dative; once; same.”
[adverb]
“towards; ākāra; until; ā; since; according to; ā [suffix].”
[verb noun], nominative, plural
“shoot; give; direct; hide; put; insert.”
[noun], nominative, plural, neuter
“Earth; being; world; bhuvana [word].”
[noun], nominative, plural, neuter
“all(a); whole; complete; each(a); viśva [word]; completely; wholly.”