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 8.6.47
Sanskrit text [Accents, Plain, Transliterated]:
त्रीणि॑ श॒तान्यर्व॑तां स॒हस्रा॒ दश॒ गोना॑म् । द॒दुष्प॒ज्राय॒ साम्ने॑ ॥
त्रीणि शतान्यर्वतां सहस्रा दश गोनाम् । ददुष्पज्राय साम्ने ॥
trīṇi śatāny arvatāṃ sahasrā daśa gonām | daduṣ pajrāya sāmne ||
English translation:
“(These princes) have given to the chanter Pajra three hundred horses, ten thousand cattle.”
Commentary by Sāyaṇa: Ṛgveda-bhāṣya
ChanterPajra: pajrāya sāmne: to sāman, the reciter of praises; or to one of the race of Pajra, as the ṛṣi Kakṣīvat,the repeater hymns
Details:
Ṛṣi (sage/seer): vatsaḥ kāṇvaḥ [vatsa kāṇva];Devatā (deity/subject-matter): tirindirasya pāraśavyasya dānastutiḥ ;
Chandas (meter): pādanicṛdgāyatrī ;
Svara (tone/note): Swar;
Padapatha [Accents, Plain, Transliterated]:
त्रीणि॑ । श॒तानि॑ । अर्व॑ताम् । स॒हस्रा॑ । दश॑ । गोना॑म् । द॒दुः । प॒ज्राय॑ । साम्ने॑ ॥
त्रीणि । शतानि । अर्वताम् । सहस्रा । दश । गोनाम् । ददुः । पज्राय । साम्ने ॥
trīṇi | śatāni | arvatām | sahasrā | daśa | gonām | daduḥ | pajrāya | sāmne
Multi-layer Annotation of the Ṛgveda
[Rigveda 8.6.47 English analysis of grammar]
[noun], accusative, plural, neuter
“three; tri/tisṛ [word].”
[noun], accusative, plural, neuter
“hundred; one-hundredth; śata [word].”
[noun], genitive, plural, masculine
“horse.”
[noun], accusative, plural, neuter
“thousand; one-thousandth; sahasra [word].”
[noun], accusative, singular, neuter
“ten; tenth; daśan [word].”
[noun], genitive, plural, masculine
“cow; cattle; go [word]; Earth; bull; floor; milk; beam; sunbeam; leather; hide; horn; language; bowstring; earth; ox; Svarga.”
[verb], plural, Perfect indicative
“give; add; perform; put; administer; fill into; give; ignite; put on; offer; use; fuel; pour; grant; feed; teach; construct; insert; drip; wrap; pay; hand over; lend; inflict; concentrate; sacrifice; splint; poultice; create.”
[noun], dative, singular, masculine
[noun], dative, singular, neuter
“Sāman; Sama-Veda; song; sāman [word]; hymn.”