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 1.172.2

Sanskrit text [Accents, Plain, Transliterated]:

आ॒रे सा व॑: सुदानवो॒ मरु॑त ऋञ्ज॒ती शरु॑: । आ॒रे अश्मा॒ यमस्य॑थ ॥
आरे सा वः सुदानवो मरुत ऋञ्जती शरुः । आरे अश्मा यमस्यथ ॥
āre sā vaḥ sudānavo maruta ṛñjatī śaruḥ | āre aśmā yam asyatha ||

English translation:

Maruts, liberal benefactors, may your bright destructive (shaft) be far from us; may the stone which you hurl be far from us.”

Details:

Ṛṣi (sage/seer): agastyo maitrāvaruṇiḥ [agastya maitrāvaruṇi];
Devatā (deity/subject-matter): marūtaḥ;
Chandas (meter): gāyatrī;
Svara (tone/note): Swar;

Padapatha [Accents, Plain, Transliterated]:

आ॒रे । सा । वः॒ । सु॒ऽदा॒न॒वः॒ । मरु॑तः । ऋ॒ञ्ज॒ती । शरुः॑ । आ॒रे । अश्मा॑ । यम् । अस्य॑थ ॥
आरे । सा । वः । सुदानवः । मरुतः । ऋञ्जती । शरुः । आरे । अश्मा । यम् । अस्यथ ॥
āre | sā | vaḥ | su-dānavaḥ | marutaḥ | ṛñjatī | śaruḥ | āre | aśmā | yam | asyatha

Multi-layer Annotation of the Ṛgveda

[Rigveda 1.172.2 English analysis of grammar]

āre

[adverb]

“far.”

< tad

[noun], nominative, singular, feminine

“this; he,she,it (pers. pron.); respective(a); that; nominative; then; particular(a); genitive; instrumental; accusative; there; tad [word]; dative; once; same.”

vaḥ < tvad

[noun], genitive, plural

“you.”

sudānavo < sudānavaḥ < sudānu

[noun], vocative, plural, masculine

“big; lavish.”

maruta < marutaḥ < marut

[noun], vocative, plural, masculine

“Marut; vāta; wind; Vayu.”

ṛñjatī < ṛj

[verb noun], nominative, singular

śaruḥ < śaru

[noun], nominative, singular, feminine

“arrow.”

āre

[adverb]

“far.”

aśmā < aśman

[noun], nominative, singular, masculine

“stone; aśmarī; rock; aśman [word]; adri; mineral; piṇḍatālaka; mountain.”

yam < yad

[noun], accusative, singular, masculine

“who; which; yat [pronoun].”

asyatha < as

[verb], plural, Present indikative

“shoot; remove.”

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