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 9.66.10

Sanskrit text [Accents, Plain, Transliterated]:

पव॑मानस्य ते कवे॒ वाजि॒न्त्सर्गा॑ असृक्षत । अर्व॑न्तो॒ न श्र॑व॒स्यव॑: ॥
पवमानस्य ते कवे वाजिन्त्सर्गा असृक्षत । अर्वन्तो न श्रवस्यवः ॥
pavamānasya te kave vājin sargā asṛkṣata | arvanto na śravasyavaḥ ||

English translation:

“Sage Soma, possessor of food, your food-desiring streams when you are filtered are let loose like horses.”

Details:

Ṛṣi (sage/seer): śataṃ vaikhānasāḥ;
Devatā (deity/subject-matter): pavamānaḥ somaḥ ;
Chandas (meter): gāyatrī;
Svara (tone/note): Swar;

Padapatha [Accents, Plain, Transliterated]:

पव॑मानस्य । ते॒ । क॒वे॒ । वाजि॑न् । सर्गाः॑ । अ॒सृ॒क्ष॒त॒ । अर्व॑न्तः । न । श्र॒व॒स्यवः॑ ॥
पवमानस्य । ते । कवे । वाजिन् । सर्गाः । असृक्षत । अर्वन्तः । न । श्रवस्यवः ॥
pavamānasya | te | kave | vājin | sargāḥ | asṛkṣata | arvantaḥ | na | śravasyavaḥ

Multi-layer Annotation of the Ṛgveda

[Rigveda 9.66.10 English analysis of grammar]

pavamānasya <

[verb noun], genitive, singular

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

te < tvad

[noun], genitive, singular

“you.”

kave < kavi

[noun], vocative, singular, masculine

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

vājin

[noun], vocative, singular, masculine

“victorious; triumphant; strong; gainful.”

sargā < sargāḥ < sarga

[noun], nominative, plural, masculine

“Creation; metempsychosis; discharge; torrent; birth; undertaking.”

asṛkṣata < sṛj

[verb], plural, Athematic s aor. (Ind.)

“create; shoot; discharge; free; cause; throw; emit; send; produce; use; be born; make.”

arvanto < arvantaḥ < arvant

[noun], nominative, plural, masculine

“horse.”

na

[adverb]

“not; like; no; na [word].”

śravasyavaḥ < śravasyu

[noun], nominative, plural, masculine

“celebrated.”

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