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 9.25.5

Sanskrit text [Accents, Plain, Transliterated]:

अ॒रु॒षो ज॒नय॒न्गिर॒: सोम॑: पवत आयु॒षक् । इन्द्रं॒ गच्छ॑न्क॒विक्र॑तुः ॥
अरुषो जनयन्गिरः सोमः पवत आयुषक् । इन्द्रं गच्छन्कविक्रतुः ॥
aruṣo janayan giraḥ somaḥ pavata āyuṣak | indraṃ gacchan kavikratuḥ ||

English translation:

“Endowed with wisdom of the past, the brilliant Soma, genitive rating sounds, flows forth continually proceeding to Indra.”

Details:

Ṛṣi (sage/seer): dṛḷahacyutaḥ āgastyaḥ [dṛḷahacyuta āgastya];
Devatā (deity/subject-matter): pavamānaḥ somaḥ ;
Chandas (meter): gāyatrī;
Svara (tone/note): Swar;

Padapatha [Accents, Plain, Transliterated]:

अ॒रु॒षः । ज॒नय॑न् । गिरः॑ । सोमः॑ । प॒व॒ते॒ । आ॒यु॒षक् । इन्द्र॑म् । गच्छ॑न् । क॒विऽक्र॑तुः ॥
अरुषः । जनयन् । गिरः । सोमः । पवते । आयुषक् । इन्द्रम् । गच्छन् । कविक्रतुः ॥
aruṣaḥ | janayan | giraḥ | somaḥ | pavate | āyuṣak | indram | gacchan | kavi-kratuḥ

Multi-layer Annotation of the Ṛgveda

[Rigveda 9.25.5 English analysis of grammar]

aruṣo < aruṣaḥ < aruṣa

[noun], nominative, singular, masculine

“red; red.”

janayan < janay < √jan

[verb noun], nominative, singular

“cause; give birth; produce; beget; generate; originate; create; create; make.”

giraḥ < gir

[noun], accusative, plural, feminine

“hymn; praise; voice; words; invocation; command; statement; cry; language.”

somaḥ < soma

[noun], nominative, singular, masculine

“Soma; moon; soma [word]; Candra.”

pavata < pavate <

[verb], singular, Present indikative

“purify; filter; blow; purify; purge; sift.”

āyuṣak

[adverb]

indraṃ < indram < indra

[noun], accusative, singular, masculine

“Indra; leader; best; king; first; head; self; indra [word]; Indra; sapphire; fourteen; guru.”

gacchan < gam

[verb], plural, Imperfect

“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.”

kavikratuḥ < kavi

[noun], masculine

“poet; wise man; bard; Venus; Uśanas; kavi [word]; Kavi; prophet; guru; Brahma.”

kavikratuḥ < kratuḥ < kratu

[noun], nominative, singular, masculine

“yajña; decision; plan; deliberation; intelligence; Kratu; will; kratu [word]; desire; resoluteness; ritual.”

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