Rig Veda 7.59.12

Sanskrit text [Accents, Plain, Transliterated]:

त्र्य॑म्बकं यजामहे सु॒गन्धिं॑ पुष्टि॒वर्ध॑नम् । उ॒र्वा॒रु॒कमि॑व॒ बन्ध॑नान्मृ॒त्योर्मु॑क्षीय॒ मामृता॑त् ॥
त्र्यम्बकं यजामहे सुगन्धिं पुष्टिवर्धनम् । उर्वारुकमिव बन्धनान्मृत्योर्मुक्षीय मामृतात् ॥
tryambakaṃ yajāmahe sugandhim puṣṭivardhanam | urvārukam iva bandhanān mṛtyor mukṣīya māmṛtāt ||

English translation:

“We worship Tryambaka, whose fame is fragrant, the augmenter of increase; may I be liberated fromdeath, and, like the urvāruka from its stalk, but not to immortality; let us worship Trayambaka, whose fame isfragrant, the augmenter of increase; may I be liberated from death like the urvāruka from its stalk, but not untoimmortality.”

Commentary by Sāyaṇa: Ṛgveda-bhāṣya

Tryambaka: the father, ambuka of the three deities, Brahma, Viṣṇu and Rudra; also identified withmahatva (Ṛgvidhāna); whose fame is fragrant: sugandhim = prasāritapuṇya kīrtim, whose fame of virtue isspread; in like manner as the fragrance of a tree full in flower sheds sweetness, so spreads the fragrance of holyactions; the augmenter of increase: puṣṭi vardhanam, the augmenter of nutrition, jagad-vījam, the seed of theworld; or, the multiplier of good things subservient to objects of bodily enjoyment, wealh,śarīradhanādiviṣayān vardhayati yaḥ; may I be liberated: mṛtyor makṣiya = may I be liberated from theworld, or the revolutions of life and death; may I attain mokṣa;

Urvāruka = karkaṭi, a species of cucumber; or,karkandhu, which, when ripe falls of itself from its stalk; but not to immortality: māmṛtāt mā ā amṛta, not toor until the immortal or immortality; either the long life of the gods or svarga paradise;

Tryambaka =nātratrayopetām rudram, the triocular rudra;

Sugandhim = divya gandhopetam, of celestial fragrance (yathāvṛkṣasya sampuṣpitasya dūrādgandho vātyevam puṇyasya kṛrmaṇo dūrādgandho vāti: TaittirīyaĀraṇyaka)

Details:

Ṛṣi (sage/seer): vasiṣṭhaḥ [vasiṣṭha];
Devatā (deity/subject-matter): rudraḥ ;
Chandas (meter): anuṣṭup ;
Svara (tone/note): Swar;

Padapatha [Accents, Plain, Transliterated]:

त्र्य॑म्बकम् । य॒जा॒म॒हे॒ । सु॒गन्धि॑म् । पु॒ष्टि॒ऽवर्ध॑नम् । उ॒र्वा॒रु॒कम्ऽइ॑व । बन्ध॑नात् । मृ॒त्योः । मु॒क्षी॒य॒ । मा । अ॒मृता॑त् ॥
त्र्यम्बकम् । यजामहे । सुगन्धिम् । पुष्टिवर्धनम् । उर्वारुकम्इव । बन्धनात् । मृत्योः । मुक्षीय । मा । अमृतात् ॥
tryambakam | yajāmahe | sugandhim | puṣṭi-vardhanam | urvārukam-iva | bandhanāt | mṛtyoḥ | mukṣīya | mā | amṛtāt

Multi-layer Annotation of the Ṛgveda

[Rigveda 7.59.12 English analysis of grammar]