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 3.54.14
Sanskrit text [Accents, Plain, Transliterated]:
विष्णुं॒ स्तोमा॑सः पुरुद॒स्मम॒र्का भग॑स्येव का॒रिणो॒ याम॑नि ग्मन् । उ॒रु॒क्र॒मः क॑कु॒हो यस्य॑ पू॒र्वीर्न म॑र्धन्ति युव॒तयो॒ जनि॑त्रीः ॥
विष्णुं स्तोमासः पुरुदस्ममर्का भगस्येव कारिणो यामनि ग्मन् । उरुक्रमः ककुहो यस्य पूर्वीर्न मर्धन्ति युवतयो जनित्रीः ॥
viṣṇuṃ stomāsaḥ purudasmam arkā bhagasyeva kāriṇo yāmani gman | urukramaḥ kakuho yasya pūrvīr na mardhanti yuvatayo janitrīḥ ||
English translation:
“May (our) praises and prayers, the causes of good fortune, attain at this sacrifice Viṣṇu, the object of many rites; he, the wide-stepping; whose commands the many-blending regions of space, the genitive rators (of all beings), do not disobey.”
Details:
Ṛṣi (sage/seer): prajāpatirvaiśvāmitro vācyo vā [prajāpatirvaiśvāmitra vācya vā];Devatā (deity/subject-matter): viśvedevā:;
Chandas (meter): triṣṭup ;
Svara (tone/note): Swar;
Padapatha [Accents, Plain, Transliterated]:
विष्णु॑म् । स्तोमा॑सः । पु॒रु॒ऽद॒स्मम् । अ॒र्काः । भग॑स्यऽइव । का॒रिणः॑ । याम॑नि । ग्म॒न् । उ॒रु॒ऽक्र॒मः । क॒कु॒हः । यस्य॑ । पू॒र्वीः । न । म॒र्ध॒न्ति॒ । यु॒व॒तयः॑ । जनि॑त्रीः ॥
विष्णुम् । स्तोमासः । पुरुदस्मम् । अर्काः । भगस्यइव । कारिणः । यामनि । ग्मन् । उरुक्रमः । ककुहः । यस्य । पूर्वीः । न । मर्धन्ति । युवतयः । जनित्रीः ॥
viṣṇum | stomāsaḥ | puru-dasmam | arkāḥ | bhagasya-iva | kāriṇaḥ | yāmani | gman | uru-kramaḥ | kakuhaḥ | yasya | pūrvīḥ | na | mardhanti | yuvatayaḥ | janitrīḥ
Multi-layer Annotation of the Ṛgveda
[Rigveda 3.54.14 English analysis of grammar]
[noun], accusative, singular, masculine
“Vishnu; Krishna; Viṣṇu; Om; Shiva.”
[noun], nominative, plural, masculine
“hymn; Stoma; stoma [word].”
[noun]
“many; much(a); very.”
[noun], accusative, singular, masculine
“overlord.”
[noun], nominative, plural, masculine
“Calotropis gigantea Beng.; sun; copper; Surya; hymn; twelve; fire; beam.”
[noun], genitive, singular, masculine
“Bhaga; vulva; good fortune; vagina; bhaga [word]; sun; well-being; happiness; overlord.”
[adverb]
“like; as it were; somehow; just so.”
[noun], genitive, singular, masculine
“causing; making; acting; performing; producing; doing.”
[noun], locative, singular, neuter
“expedition; path; expedition; arrival.”
[verb], plural, Aorist inj. (proh.)
“go; situate; enter (a state); travel; disappear; [in]; elapse; leave; reach; vanish; love; walk; approach; issue; hop on; gasify; get; come; die; drain; spread; transform; happen; discharge; ride; to be located; run; detect; refer; go; shall; drive.”
[noun]
“wide; broad; great; uru [word]; much(a); excellent.”
[noun], nominative, singular, masculine
“sequence; ordering; method; series; arrangement; treatment; arrangement; course; kram; krama [word]; saṃskāra; footstep; foot; step; measure.”
[noun], nominative, singular, masculine
“huge; eminent; distinguished.”
[noun], genitive, singular, masculine
“who; which; yat [pronoun].”
[noun], nominative, plural, feminine
“many; much(a); very.”
[adverb]
“not; like; no; na [word].”
[verb], plural, Present indikative
“neglect.”
[noun], nominative, plural, feminine
“girl; woman.”
[noun], nominative, plural, feminine
“mother.”