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 9.109.3

Sanskrit text [Accents, Plain, Transliterated]:

ए॒वामृता॑य म॒हे क्षया॑य॒ स शु॒क्रो अ॑र्ष दि॒व्यः पी॒यूष॑: ॥
एवामृताय महे क्षयाय स शुक्रो अर्ष दिव्यः पीयूषः ॥
evāmṛtāya mahe kṣayāya sa śukro arṣa divyaḥ pīyūṣaḥ ||

English translation:

“So do you who are pure, divine, the beverage of all the gods, flow for immortality and a spacious abode.”

Details:

Ṛṣi (sage/seer): agnayo dhiṣṇyā aiśvarāḥ [agnaya dhiṣṇyā aiśvarāḥ];
Devatā (deity/subject-matter): pavamānaḥ somaḥ ;
Chandas (meter): svarāḍārcīgāyatrī ;
Svara (tone/note): Swar;

Padapatha [Accents, Plain, Transliterated]:

ए॒व । अ॒मृता॑य । म॒हे । क्षया॑य । सः । शु॒क्रः । अ॒र्ष॒ । दि॒व्यः । पी॒यूषः॑ ॥
एव । अमृताय । महे । क्षयाय । सः । शुक्रः । अर्ष । दिव्यः । पीयूषः ॥
eva | amṛtāya | mahe | kṣayāya | saḥ | śukraḥ | arṣa | divyaḥ | pīyūṣaḥ

Multi-layer Annotation of the Ṛgveda

[Rigveda 9.109.3 English analysis of grammar]

evāmṛtāya < eva

[adverb]

“indeed; merely; thus; even; surely; same; eva [word]; successively; immediately; in truth.”

evāmṛtāya < amṛtāya < amṛta

[noun], dative, singular, masculine

“immortal; amṛta; imperishable.”

mahe < mah

[noun], dative, singular, masculine

“great; great; distinguished; much(a); adult; long; high.”

kṣayāya < kṣaya

[noun], dative, singular, masculine

“dwelling; house; kṣaya [word]; home; family.”

sa < tad

[noun], nominative, singular, masculine

“this; he,she,it (pers. pron.); respective(a); that; nominative; then; particular(a); genitive; instrumental; accusative; there; tad [word]; dative; once; same.”

śukro < śukraḥ < śukra

[noun], nominative, singular, masculine

“bright; clear; white; light; pure.”

arṣa < ṛṣ

[verb], singular, Present imperative

“run.”

divyaḥ < divya

[noun], nominative, singular, masculine

“divine; celestial; divine; heavenly; divine; beautiful; rain; agreeable.”

pīyūṣaḥ < pīyūṣa

[noun], nominative, singular, masculine

“amṛta; pīyūṣa; ambrosia.”

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