Mantra 61

Sukta 8

Sanskrit (Devanagari)

तस्मादमुं निर्भजामोऽमुमामुष्यायणममुष्याः पुत्रमसौ यः

IAST Transliteration

tasmā́d amúṃ nírbhajāmo ’múm āmuṣyāyaṇám ámuṣyāḥ putrám asáu yáḥ

English Translation (Griffith/Whitney)

Therefore that man we portion off and strip away—yonder, the son of such a one, the descendant of such a line—he there, who…

Translation

অতএব আমরা সেই অমুককে পৃথক করে দিই, তাকে ছিনিয়ে দূরে সরিয়ে দিই—অমুকের বংশধর, অমুকের পুত্র—সেই যে সেখানে, যে…

Word by Word

• तस्मात्: therefore; from that (reason)
• तस्मात्: Apādāna
• Type: Indeclinable (ablatival form used adverbially)
• Root: तद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)

• अमुम्: that man (yonder), him
• अमुम्: Karma
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: अदस् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)

• निर्भजामः: we drive away / expel / banish
• निर्भजामः: Kartā
• Type: Verb
• Root: भज् (धातु) + निर् (उपसर्ग)

• अमुम्: that (same) man, him
• अमुम्: Karma
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: अदस् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)

• आमुष्यायनम्: the descendant of so-and-so (Āmuṣyāyana)
• आमुष्यायनम्: Karma
• Type: Noun (proper/lineage epithet)
• Root: आमुष्यायन (प्रातिपदिक; गोत्र/वंश-नाम, ‘descendant of Amuṣya’)

• अमुष्याः: of that (man)
• अमुष्याः: Sambandha (genitive relation)
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: अमुष्य (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक; genitive stem of अदस्)

• पुत्रम्: son
• पुत्रम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: पुत्र (प्रातिपदिक)

• असौ: that one (yonder), he
• असौ: Kartā (of relative clause) / Viśeṣya
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: अदस् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)

• यः: who
• यः: Kartā (relative clause)
• Type: Pronoun (relative)
• Root: यद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक; relative)

Attribution

Rishi: Atharvanic/Angirasa tradition (not specified in excerpt)

Devata: The operative force of exclusion (nirbhajana) enacted by brahman (spell-speech)

Chandas: Not determinable from truncated excerpt

Mantra Rasa

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