Mantra 20
Sukta 3
Sanskrit (Devanagari)
यस्मिन्त्समुद्रो द्यौर्भूमिस्त्रयोऽवरपरं श्रिताः
IAST Transliteration
yásmin samudró dyáur bhū́mis tráyo ’varaparám śritā́ḥ
English Translation (Griffith/Whitney)
In whom the Ocean, Heaven, and Earth, the Three, are set—both lower and upper—resting fast.
Translation
فيه استقرّ المحيطُ والسماءُ والأرضُ—الثلاثة—سُفلاً وعُلواً، راسخةً ثابتة.
Word by Word
यस्मिन्in which (in whom/wherein)
यस्मिन्:
अधिकारण
TypePronoun
Rootयद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक) → यस्-
समुद्रःthe ocean
समुद्रः:
कर्तृ
TypeNoun
Rootसमुद्र (प्रातिपदिक)
द्यौःthe sky (heaven)
द्यौः:
कर्तृ
TypeNoun
Rootद्यौ/दिव् (प्रातिपदिक)
भूमिःthe earth
भूमिः:
कर्तृ
TypeNoun
Rootभूमि (प्रातिपदिक)
त्रयःthree
त्रयः:
कर्तृ
TypeAdjective (Numeral)
Rootत्रि (संख्यावाचक-प्रातिपदिक)
अवरम्lower (down below)
अवरम्:
कर्म
TypeAdjective
Rootअवर (प्रातिपदिक)
अपरम्further/other (beyond)
अपरम्:
कर्म
TypeAdjective
Rootअपर (प्रातिपदिक)
श्रिताःresting/placed; having resorted to
श्रिताः:
कर्तृ
TypeParticiple (Past Passive)
Root√श्रि (श्रयति) → क्त-प्रत्ययान्त कृदन्त: श्रित
Attribution
Rishi: Atharvanic tradition (often anonymous/collective in AV food-cosmology hymns)
Devata: Odana/Anna as a deified cosmic support (food as brahmanic totality)
Chandas: Mixed/irregular; close to Anuṣṭubh cadence but not strictly metrical in this excerpt
Mantra Rasa
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