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Rig Veda 1.103.1: Mandala 1, Sukta 103, Mantra 1

Sukta 1.103

Rishi: Kutsa Āṅgirasa (traditional attribution)
Devata: Indra
Chandas: Triṣṭubh

तत्त इन्द्रियं परमं पराचैरधारयन्त कवयः पुरेदम् । क्षमेदमन्यद्दिव्यन्यदस्य समी पृच्यते समनेव केतुः ॥

Sanskrit recitationRig Veda 1.103.1

tát ta indríyaṃ paramáṃ parācáir ádhārayanta kaváyaḥ purédám | kṣamédám anyád divy ànyád asya sám īm pṛcyate samanéva ketúḥ ||

يا إندرا، إنَّ قُدرتكَ الإندريّةَ العُظمى قد أقامها الكَفَةُ (الكَڤيّون) منذ القِدَم، من الأعالي البعيدة المدى. واحدٌ منها هنا على الأرض، وآخرُ هناك في السماء؛ غير أنّهما يلتئمان معًا كآيةٍ واحدةٍ في موضعِ اجتماعٍ واحد.

तत्that
तत्:
Karma (object; with धारयन्त) / or Anaphoric (correlative)
TypePronoun
Rootतद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
तेof you / your
ते:
सम्बन्ध (genitive relation)
TypePronoun
Rootत्वद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक) → ते
इन्द्रियम्power, might
इन्द्रियम्:
Karma (object; ‘your might/force’)
TypeNoun
Rootइन्द्रिय (प्रातिपदिक)
परमम्highest, supreme
परमम्:
Karma (agreeing with object)
TypeAdjective
Rootपरम (प्रातिपदिक)
पराचैःby those far away / from afar
पराचैः:
Karaṇa (means/with; ‘by/with those afar/remote ones’)
TypeAdjective (used adverbially) / Noun-like
Rootपराच्/पराञ्च् (प्रातिपदिक; ‘turned away/remote’) → पराचैः
अधारयन्तthey upheld, they established
अधारयन्त:
Kriyā (finite verb); governs कर्म ‘तत्…इन्द्रियम्’
TypeVerb
Rootधृ (धातु) with preverb अधि-
कवयःthe seers, poets
कवयः:
Kartā (agent of अधारयन्त)
TypeNoun
Rootकवि (प्रातिपदिक)
पुराformerly, of old
पुरा:
Adhikaraṇa (temporal) / Kriyā-viśeṣaṇa
TypeIndeclinable
Rootपुरा (अव्यय)
इदम्this
इदम्:
Karma (object; resumptive ‘this’) / deictic
TypePronoun
Rootइदम् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
क्षम्indeed / surely
क्षम्:
Kriyā-viśeṣaṇa (particle; emphatic/asseverative)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootक्षम् (अव्यय/निपात; Vedic particle)
इदम्this
इदम्:
Karma / deictic
TypePronoun
Rootइदम् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
अन्यत्another, different
अन्यत्:
Karma / predicate nominal (contrasted item)
TypeAdjective/Pronoun
Rootअन्य (प्रातिपदिक) → अन्यत्
दिविin heaven
दिवि:
Adhikaraṇa (locative: ‘in heaven’)
TypeNoun
Rootदिव् (प्रातिपदिक ‘heaven/sky’) → दिवि
अन्यत्another
अन्यत्:
Karma / predicate nominal (contrasted item)
TypeAdjective/Pronoun
Rootअन्य (प्रातिपदिक) → अन्यत्
अस्यof this / of him
अस्य:
सम्बन्ध (genitive: ‘of it/of him’)
TypePronoun
Rootइदम् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक) → अस्य
समीtogether, jointly
समी:
Kriyā-viśeṣaṇa (adverb with पृच्यते)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootसमि/समी (अव्यय; Vedic adverb ‘together, in union’)
पृच्यतेis mingled / is joined
पृच्यते:
Kriyā (finite verb)
TypeVerb
Rootपृच् (धातु ‘to mix, join’)
समानेवas if in the same (place/assembly)
समानेव:
Adhikaraṇa (locative of comparison) / Kriyā-viśeṣaṇa
TypeAdjective + Indeclinable
Rootसमाना (प्रातिपदिक) + इव (अव्यय)
केतुःbanner, sign, signal
केतुः:
Kartā / subject (of पृच्यते; ‘the banner/sign’)
TypeNoun
Rootकेतु (प्रातिपदिक)

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