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 3.41.7

Sanskrit text [Accents, Plain, Transliterated]:

व॒यमि॑न्द्र त्वा॒यवो॑ ह॒विष्म॑न्तो जरामहे । उ॒त त्वम॑स्म॒युर्व॑सो ॥
वयमिन्द्र त्वायवो हविष्मन्तो जरामहे । उत त्वमस्मयुर्वसो ॥
vayam indra tvāyavo haviṣmanto jarāmahe | uta tvam asmayur vaso ||

English translation:

“Devoted, Indra, to you and offering oblations, we glorify you giver of dwellings; do you be favourably disposed to us.”

Commentary by Sāyaṇa: Ṛgveda-bhāṣya

Devoted to you: tvāyavaḥ  = from tvam, you with kyac (supa ātmanaḥ kyac), converting it to tvāyu; so, presently, asmayuḥ, devoted or inclined to us

Details:

Ṛṣi (sage/seer): gopavana ātreyaḥ saptavadhrirvā [gopavana ātreya saptavadhrirvā];
Devatā (deity/subject-matter): indra:;
Chandas (meter): nicṛdgāyatrī ;
Svara (tone/note): Swar;

Padapatha [Accents, Plain, Transliterated]:

व॒यम् । इ॒न्द्र॒ । त्वा॒ऽयवः॑ । ह॒विष्म॑न्तः । ज॒रा॒म॒हे॒ । उ॒त । त्वम् । अ॒स्म॒ऽयुः । व॒सो॒ इति॑ ॥
वयम् । इन्द्र । त्वायवः । हविष्मन्तः । जरामहे । उत । त्वम् । अस्मयुः । वसो इति ॥
vayam | indra | tvāyavaḥ | haviṣmantaḥ | jarāmahe | uta | tvam | ama-yuḥ | vaso iti

Multi-layer Annotation of the Ṛgveda

[Rigveda 3.41.7 English analysis of grammar]

vayam < mad

[noun], nominative, plural

“I; mine.”

indra

[noun], vocative, singular, masculine

“Indra; leader; best; king; first; head; self; indra [word]; Indra; sapphire; fourteen; guru.”

tvāyavo < tvāyavaḥ < tvāyu

[noun], nominative, plural, masculine

haviṣmanto < haviṣmantaḥ < haviṣmat

[noun], nominative, plural, masculine

“sacrificing.”

jarāmahe < jṛ

[verb], plural, Present indikative

“jṛ; digest; age; cook; boil down; decay; decay; ripen.”

uta

[adverb]

“and; besides; uta [indecl.]; similarly; alike; even.”

tvam < tvad

[noun], nominative, singular

“you.”

asmayur < asmayuḥ < asmayu

[noun], nominative, singular, masculine

vaso < vasu

[noun], vocative, singular, masculine

“good; good; benign; vasu [word].”

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