Mantra 4

Sukta 5

Sanskrit (Devanagari)

इयं समित् पृथिवी द्यौर्द्वितीयोतान्तरिक्षं समिधा पृणाति । ब्रह्मचारी समिधा मेखलया श्रमेण लोकांस्तपसा पिपर्ति

IAST Transliteration

iyáṃ samíd pṛthivī́ dyáur dvitī́yo utā́ntárikṣaṃ samídhā pṛṇāti | brahmacārī́ samídhā mékhalayā śraméṇa lokā́ṃs tápasā piparti

English Translation (Griffith/Whitney)

This fuel is Earth; Heaven is the second; yea, with fuel he filleth also the Mid-air. The Brahmacārin, with fuel-stick, with girdle, with toil, with austerity, doth fill and sustain the worlds.

Translation

هذا الحطبُ هو الأرضُ؛ والسماءُ هي الثانيةُ؛ بل وبالحطبِ يملأُ أيضًا الفضاءَ الأوسطَ (أنتاريكشا). والبراهماچارين، بعصا الحطب، وبالحزام (ميخَلا)، وبالكدح، وبالزهدِ الناريّ (تَپَس)، يملأُ العوالمَ ويُقيمُها.

Word by Word

• इयम्: this (she/this one)
• इयम्: Kartā
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: इदम् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)

• समित्: fuel-stick; kindling
• समित्: Kartā (इयम् इत्यस्य विशेषण/अप्पोजिशन) अथवा Kartā-सम्बन्धः
• Type: Noun
• Root: समिध् (प्रातिपदिक; ‘सम्+इध्’ इत्यस्मात्)

• पृथिवी: Earth
• पृथिवी: Kartā (समित्-रूपेण) / Apposition
• Type: Noun
• Root: पृथिवी (प्रातिपदिक)

• द्यौः: Sky, Heaven
• द्यौः: Kartā (समित्-रूपेण) / Apposition
• Type: Noun
• Root: द्यौ (प्रातिपदिक)

• द्वितीयः: second
• द्वितीयः: Kartā-विशेषण
• Type: Adjective
• Root: द्वितीय (प्रातिपदिक)

• उत: and also
• उत: —
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: उत (निपात/अव्यय)

• अन्तरिक्षम्: mid-air; atmosphere
• अन्तरिक्षम्: Kartā (समित्-रूपेण) / Apposition
• Type: Noun
• Root: अन्तरिक्ष (प्रातिपदिक)

• समिधा: with fuel-stick(s); by kindling
• समिधा: Karaṇa
• Type: Noun
• Root: समिध् (प्रातिपदिक)

• पृणाति: fills; makes full
• पृणाति: — (क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: पॄ (पृणाति) धातुः

• ब्रह्मचारी: the brahmacārin (religious student)
• ब्रह्मचारी: Kartā
• Type: Noun
• Root: ब्रह्मचारिन् (प्रातिपदिक)

• समिधा: with fuel-stick(s)
• समिधा: Karaṇa
• Type: Noun
• Root: समिध् (प्रातिपदिक)

• मेखलया: with a girdle
• मेखलया: Karaṇa
• Type: Noun
• Root: मेखला (प्रातिपदिक)

• श्रमॆण: by exertion; with toil
• श्रमॆण: Karaṇa
• Type: Noun
• Root: श्रम (प्रातिपदिक)

• लोकान्: worlds; realms
• लोकान्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: लोक (प्रातिपदिक)

• तपसा: by austerity; by heat/ascetic power
• तपसा: Karaṇa
• Type: Noun
• Root: तपस् (प्रातिपदिक)

• पिपर्ति: fills; sustains; makes full
• पिपर्ति: — (क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: पॄ (पिपर्ति) धातुः

Attribution

Rishi: Atharvanic tradition

Devata: Brahmacārin / Tapas as sustaining power; implicitly Agni via samidh

Chandas: Likely Triṣṭubh tendencies (two hemistichs with extended cadence)

Mantra Rasa

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