Mantra 87

Sukta 8

Sanskrit (Devanagari)

तस्मादमुं निर्भजामोऽमुमामुष्यायणममुष्याः पुत्रमसौ यः

IAST Transliteration

tasmā́d amúṁ nír-bhajāmo ’múm āmuṣyāyaṇám amúṣyāḥ putrám asáu yáḥ

English Translation (Griffith/Whitney)

Therefore that man do we sever off—him, the son of such an one, the descendant of such an one—yon very person who…

Translation

অতএব আমরা সেই পুরুষকে বিচ্ছিন্ন করি—তাকে, অমুকের পুত্র, অমুকের বংশধর—সেই-ই যে…

Word by Word

• तस्मात्: therefore; from that (cause)
• तस्मात्: Apādāna
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)

• अमुम्: that (yonder) person
• अमुम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: अदस् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)

• निर्भजामः: we drive away / we expel / we banish
• निर्भजामः: Kartā
• Type: Verb
• Root: भज् (धातु) उपसर्गः ‘निर्-’

• अमुम्: that (yonder) one
• अमुम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: अदस् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)

• आमुष्यायणम्: the descendant/kinsman of that man (of yonder one)
• आमुष्यायणम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: आमुष्यायण (प्रातिपदिक; ‘अमुष्य’ + अयन/आयन-प्रत्ययः; गोत्र/सम्बन्धवाचक)

• अमुष्याः: of that (yonder)
• अमुष्याः: Sambandha (Genitive relation)
• Type: Noun
• Root: अमुष्य (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक; ‘अदस्’ का षष्ठी-रूप)

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

• असौ: that (yonder) one
• असौ: Kartā
• Type: Noun
• Root: अदस् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)

• यः: who
• यः: Kartā (relative clause)
• Type: Noun
• Root: यद् (संबन्धवाचक सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)

Attribution

Rishi: Atharvanic/Angirasa (Anukramaṇī-dependent)

Devata: Nirbhajana (Severance) as act-power; implicitly social order and inheritance norms

Chandas: Formulaic prose-anuṣṭubh hybrid; incomplete relative clause suggests continuation in the surrounding sequence

Mantra Rasa

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