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 10.162.2

Sanskrit text [Accents, Plain, Transliterated]:

यस्ते॒ गर्भ॒ममी॑वा दु॒र्णामा॒ योनि॑मा॒शये॑ । अ॒ग्निष्टं ब्रह्म॑णा स॒ह निष्क्र॒व्याद॑मनीनशत् ॥
यस्ते गर्भममीवा दुर्णामा योनिमाशये । अग्निष्टं ब्रह्मणा सह निष्क्रव्यादमनीनशत् ॥
yas te garbham amīvā durṇāmā yonim āśaye | agniṣ ṭam brahmaṇā saha niṣ kravyādam anīnaśat ||

English translation:

“May Agni, concurring in our prayer, destroy the cannibal who, as sickness, assails your embryo, who,as the disease durṇāman, assails your womb.”

Details:

Ṛṣi (sage/seer): rakṣohā brāhmaḥ [rakṣohā brāhma];
Devatā (deity/subject-matter): garbhasaṃstrāve prāyaścittam ;
Chandas (meter): nicṛdanuṣṭup;
Svara (tone/note): Swar;

Padapatha [Accents, Plain, Transliterated]:

यः । ते॒ । गर्भ॑म् । अमी॑वा । दुः॒ऽनामा॑ । योनि॑म् । आ॒ऽशये॑ । अ॒ग्निः । तम् । ब्रह्म॑णा । स॒ह । निः । क्र॒व्य॒ऽअद॑म् । अ॒नी॒न॒श॒त् ॥
यः । ते । गर्भम् । अमीवा । दुःनामा । योनिम् । आशये । अग्निः । तम् । ब्रह्मणा । सह । निः । क्रव्यअदम् । अनीनशत् ॥
yaḥ | te | garbham | amīvā | duḥ-nāmā | yonim | āśaye | agniḥ | tam | brahmaṇā | saha | niḥ | kravya-adam | anīnaśat

Multi-layer Annotation of the Ṛgveda

[Rigveda 10.162.2 English analysis of grammar]

yas < yaḥ < yad

[noun], nominative, singular, masculine

“who; which; yat [pronoun].”

te < tvad

[noun], genitive, singular

“you.”

garbham < garbha

[noun], accusative, singular, masculine

“fetus; garbha; inside; cavity; embryo; uterus; child; pit; garbhadruti; filling; pregnancy; room; abdomen; fertilization; inside; hole; baby; calyx; midst.”

amīvā

[noun], nominative, singular, feminine

“disease; affliction.”

durṇāmā < durṇāman

[noun], nominative, singular, masculine

yonim < yoni

[noun], accusative, singular, feminine

“vagina; vulva; uterus; beginning; origin; reincarnation; birthplace; family; production; cause; race; grain; raw material; birth; kind; caste; kinship; bed.”

āśaye < āśī < √śī

[verb], singular, Present indikative

“lie; stay.”

agniṣ < agniḥ < agni

[noun], nominative, singular, masculine

“fire; Agni; sacrificial fire; digestion; cautery; Plumbago zeylanica; fire; vahni; agni [word]; agnikarman; gold; three; jāraṇa; pyre; fireplace; heating.”

ṭam < tad

[noun], accusative, singular, masculine

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

brahmaṇā < brahman

[noun], instrumental, singular, neuter

“brahman; mantra; prayer; spell; Veda; Brahmin; sacred text; final emancipation; hymn; brahman [word]; Brāhmaṇa; study.”

saha

[adverb]

“together; together; with; jointly; together; saha [word]; along.”

niṣ < niḥ

[adverb]

“niḥ; away; out; without.”

kravyādam < kravyād

[noun], accusative, singular, masculine

“carnivore.”

anīnaśat < naś

[verb], singular, Redupl. Aorist (Ind.)

“disappear; vanish; gasify; fail; perish; lose; bhasmībhū.”

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