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 6.47.18
Sanskrit text [Accents, Plain, Transliterated]:
रू॒पंरू॑पं॒ प्रति॑रूपो बभूव॒ तद॑स्य रू॒पं प्र॑ति॒चक्ष॑णाय । इन्द्रो॑ मा॒याभि॑: पुरु॒रूप॑ ईयते यु॒क्ता ह्य॑स्य॒ हर॑यः श॒ता दश॑ ॥
रूपंरूपं प्रतिरूपो बभूव तदस्य रूपं प्रतिचक्षणाय । इन्द्रो मायाभिः पुरुरूप ईयते युक्ता ह्यस्य हरयः शता दश ॥
rūpaṃ-rūpam pratirūpo babhūva tad asya rūpam praticakṣaṇāya | indro māyābhiḥ pururūpa īyate yuktā hy asya harayaḥ śatā daśa ||
English translation:
“Indra, the prototype, has assumed various forms, and such is his form as that which (he adopts) for his manifestation; Indra, multiform by his illusion, proceeds (to his many worshippers), for the horses, yoked to his car are a thousand.”
Commentary by Sāyaṇa: Ṛgveda-bhāṣya
Indra has assumed: Indra presents himself as Agni, Viṣṇu, or Rudra, or any other deity who is the actual object of worship, and is really the deity tobe adored; he is identifiable with each; Horses yoked: Indra's chariots and horses are multiplied according to the forms in which he manifests himself; Indra is here identified with Parameśvara, the supreme first cause, identical with creation
Details:
Ṛṣi (sage/seer): gargaḥ [garga];Devatā (deity/subject-matter): indra:;
Chandas (meter): triṣṭup ;
Svara (tone/note): Swar;
Padapatha [Accents, Plain, Transliterated]:
रू॒पम्ऽरू॑पम् । प्रति॑ऽरूपः । ब॒भू॒व॒ । तत् । अ॒स्य॒ । रू॒पम् । प्र॒ति॒ऽचक्ष॑णाय । इन्द्रः॑ । मा॒याभिः॑ । पु॒रु॒ऽरूपः॑ । ई॒य॒ते॒ । यु॒क्ताः । हि । अ॒स्य॒ । हर॑यः । श॒ता । दश॑ ॥
रूपम्रूपम् । प्रतिरूपः । बभूव । तत् । अस्य । रूपम् । प्रतिचक्षणाय । इन्द्रः । मायाभिः । पुरुरूपः । ईयते । युक्ताः । हि । अस्य । हरयः । शता । दश ॥
rūpam-rūpam | prati-rūpaḥ | babhūva | tat | asya | rūpam | prati-cakṣaṇāya | indraḥ | māyābhiḥ | puru-rūpaḥ | īyate | yuktāḥ | hi | asya | harayaḥ | śatā | daśa
Multi-layer Annotation of the Ṛgveda
[Rigveda 6.47.18 English analysis of grammar]
[noun], accusative, singular, neuter
“form; appearance; beauty; look; shape; shape; symptom; feature; nature; guise; rūpa [word]; one; appearance; likeness; color; kind; vowel; type; disguise; aspect; form; derivative; omen; vision.”
[noun], accusative, singular, neuter
“form; appearance; beauty; look; shape; shape; symptom; feature; nature; guise; rūpa [word]; one; appearance; likeness; color; kind; vowel; type; disguise; aspect; form; derivative; omen; vision.”
[noun], nominative, singular, masculine
“like; pratirūpa [word]; suitable.”
[verb], singular, Perfect indicative
“become; be; originate; transform; happen; result; exist; be born; be; be; come to life; grow; elapse; come to mind; thrive; become; impend; show; conceive; understand; stand; constitute; serve; apply; behave.”
[noun], nominative, singular, neuter
“this; he,she,it (pers. pron.); respective(a); that; nominative; then; particular(a); genitive; instrumental; accusative; there; tad [word]; dative; once; same.”
[noun], genitive, singular, masculine
“this; he,she,it (pers. pron.); here.”
[noun], nominative, singular, neuter
“form; appearance; beauty; look; shape; shape; symptom; feature; nature; guise; rūpa [word]; one; appearance; likeness; color; kind; vowel; type; disguise; aspect; form; derivative; omen; vision.”
[noun], dative, singular, neuter
[noun], nominative, singular, masculine
“Indra; leader; best; king; first; head; self; indra [word]; Indra; sapphire; fourteen; guru.”
[noun], instrumental, plural, feminine
“magic trick; Māyā; deception; illusion; māyā [word]; disguise; trick.”
[noun]
“many; much(a); very.”
[noun], nominative, singular, masculine
“form; appearance; beauty; look; shape; shape; symptom; feature; nature; guise; rūpa [word]; one; appearance; likeness; color; kind; vowel; type; disguise; aspect; form; derivative; omen; vision.”
[verb], singular, Indikativ Pr￤s. Passiv
“go; travel; enter (a state); return; walk; continue; reach; ask.”
[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.”
[adverb]
“because; indeed; for; therefore; hi [word].”
[noun], genitive, singular, masculine
“this; he,she,it (pers. pron.); here.”
[noun], nominative, plural, masculine
“Vishnu; monkey; Krishna; horse; lion; Indra; Hari; Surya; Hari; haritāla; Hari; snake; frog.”
[noun], nominative, plural, neuter
“hundred; one-hundredth; śata [word].”
[noun], nominative, singular, neuter
“ten; tenth; daśan [word].”