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 6.8.5
Sanskrit text [Accents, Plain, Transliterated]:
यु॒गेयु॑गे विद॒थ्यं॑ गृ॒णद्भ्योऽग्ने॑ र॒यिं य॒शसं॑ धेहि॒ नव्य॑सीम् । प॒व्येव॑ राजन्न॒घशं॑समजर नी॒चा नि वृ॑श्च व॒निनं॒ न तेज॑सा ॥
युगेयुगे विदथ्यं गृणद्भ्योऽग्ने रयिं यशसं धेहि नव्यसीम् । पव्येव राजन्नघशंसमजर नीचा नि वृश्च वनिनं न तेजसा ॥
yuge-yuge vidathyaṃ gṛṇadbhyo 'gne rayiṃ yaśasaṃ dhehi navyasīm | pavyeva rājann aghaśaṃsam ajara nīcā ni vṛśca vaninaṃ na tejasā ||
English translation:
“To those, Agni, who repeat new (praises) to you, the object of their worship from age to age, grant riches and famous (posterity); strike don, undecaying, sovereign, the sinner with your blaze like the thunderbolt, as if he were a tree.”
Details:
Ṛṣi (sage/seer): bharadvājo bārhaspatyaḥ [bharadvāja bārhaspatya];Devatā (deity/subject-matter): vaiśvānaraḥ ;
Chandas (meter): bhuriktriṣṭup ;
Svara (tone/note): Swar;
Padapatha [Accents, Plain, Transliterated]:
यु॒गेऽयु॑गे । वि॒द॒थ्य॑म् । गृ॒णत्ऽभ्यः॑ । अग्ने॑ । र॒यिम् । य॒शस॑म् । धे॒हि॒ । नव्य॑सीम् । प॒व्या॑ऽइव । रा॒ज॒न् । अ॒घऽशं॑सम् । अ॒ज॒र॒ । नी॒चा । नि । वृ॒श्च॒ । व॒निन॑म् । न । तेज॑सा ॥
युगेयुगे । विदथ्यम् । गृणत्भ्यः । अग्ने । रयिम् । यशसम् । धेहि । नव्यसीम् । पव्याइव । राजन् । अघशंसम् । अजर । नीचा । नि । वृश्च । वनिनम् । न । तेजसा ॥
yuge--yuge | vidathyam | gṛṇat-bhyaḥ | agne | rayim | yaśasam | dhehi | navyasīm | pavyāiva | rājan | agha-śaṃsam | ajara | nīcā | ni | vṛśca | vaninam | na | tejasā
Multi-layer Annotation of the Ṛgveda
[Rigveda 6.8.5 English analysis of grammar]
[noun], locative, singular, neuter
“Yuga; yoke; couple; coevals; generation; lustrum; two; pair; yuga [word]; Yuga; race.”
[noun], locative, singular, neuter
“Yuga; yoke; couple; coevals; generation; lustrum; two; pair; yuga [word]; Yuga; race.”
[noun], accusative, singular, masculine
“wise.”
[verb noun], dative, plural
“praise.”
[noun], vocative, singular, masculine
“fire; Agni; sacrificial fire; digestion; cautery; Plumbago zeylanica; fire; vahni; agni [word]; agnikarman; gold; three; jāraṇa; pyre; fireplace; heating.”
[noun], accusative, singular, feminine
“wealth; property.”
[noun], accusative, singular, feminine
“esteemed; celebrated; glorious; honorable.”
[verb], singular, Present imperative
“put; give; cause; get; hold; make; provide; lend; wear; install; have; enter (a state); supply; hold; take; show.”
[noun], accusative, singular, feminine
“new.”
[noun], instrumental, singular, masculine
“vajra; tire; rim.”
[adverb]
“like; as it were; somehow; just so.”
[noun], vocative, singular, masculine
“king; Kshatriya; rājan [word]; best; rājāvarta; Yakṣa.”
[noun]
“bad; dangerous; ill; iniquitous; bad.”
[noun], accusative, singular, masculine
“speaking.”
[noun], vocative, singular, masculine
“undecaying; ageless.”
[adverb]
“down.”
[adverb]
“back; down.”
[verb], singular, Present imperative
“cleave; fell; cut off; hew.”
[noun], accusative, singular, masculine
“tree.”
[adverb]
“not; like; no; na [word].”
[noun], instrumental, singular, neuter
“magnificence; luminosity; glory; fire; semen; fire; heat; light; quintessence; brilliance; glare; dignity; beauty; tejas; potency; ferocity; power; edge; efficacy; ardor; authority.”