Mantra 1

Sukta 141

Sanskrit (Devanagari)

यातं छर्दिष्पा उत नः परस्पा भूतं जगत्पा उत नस्तनूपा। वर्तिस्तोकाय तनयाय यातम्

IAST Transliteration

yā́taṃ chardíṣ-pā útá naḥ paráḥ-pā bhū́taṃ jagát-pā útá nas tanū́-pā | vartís tókāya tánayāya yātam

English Translation (Griffith/Whitney)

Come, ye guardians of shelter; and be to us warders from the afar; become guardians of the moving world, and guardians of our bodies. Come, in your returning course, for child and for progeny.

Translation

Kommt, ihr Hüter der Zuflucht, und seid uns Wächter gegen das Ferne; werdet Hüter der sich bewegenden Welt und Hüter unserer Leiber. Kommt auf eurer wiederkehrenden Bahn—für das Kind und für die Nachkommenschaft.

Word by Word

• यातम्: (you two) come / go hither
• यातम्: (क्रियापद) —
• Type: Verb
• Root: या (धातु)

• छर्दिष्पा: protectors of shelter/covering
• छर्दिष्पा: Kartā (यातम्-क्रियायाः कर्तृ-विशेषणम्)
• Type: Noun/Adjective
• Root: छर्दिस् (प्रातिपदिक) + पा (प्रातिपदिक/कृदन्त-तत्पुरुष)

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

• नः: of us / our
• नः: सम्बन्ध (genitive: ‘of us/our’)
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: अस्मद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)

• परस्पा: protectors from afar / protectors of the beyond
• परस्पा: Kartā (कर्तृ-विशेषणम्)
• Type: Noun/Adjective
• Root: परस् (प्रातिपदिक) + पा (प्रातिपदिक/कृदन्त)

• भूतम्: having become; being (present)
• भूतम्: Kartā (कर्तृ-विशेषणम्)
• Type: Adjective (participle)
• Root: भू (धातु) → भूत (कृदन्त, क्त)

• जगत्पा: protectors of the world
• जगत्पा: Kartā (कर्तृ-विशेषणम्)
• Type: Noun/Adjective
• Root: जगत् (प्रातिपदिक) + पा (प्रातिपदिक/कृदन्त)

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

• नः: of us / our
• नः: सम्बन्ध
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: अस्मद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)

• तनूपा: protectors of (our) body/person
• तनूपा: Kartā (कर्तृ-विशेषणम्)
• Type: Noun/Adjective
• Root: तनू (प्रातिपदिक) + पा (प्रातिपदिक/कृदन्त)

• वर्तिः: help; protection; remedy (lit. ‘means/turning’)
• वर्तिः: Kartā (अध्याहृत-क्रियायाः/स्तुत्यर्थे: ‘(let there be) protection/aid’)
• Type: Noun
• Root: वर्ति (प्रातिपदिक)

• तोकाय: for the child
• तोकाय: Sampradāna (for the child)
• Type: Noun
• Root: तोक (प्रातिपदिक)

• तनयाय: for the offspring/son
• तनयाय: Sampradāna (for the son/offspring)
• Type: Noun
• Root: तनय (प्रातिपदिक)

• यातम्: (you two) come
• यातम्: (क्रियापद) —
• Type: Verb
• Root: या (धातु)

Attribution

Rishi: Book 20 Aśvin-related borrowing; specific seer not stated in the provided verse.

Devata: Likely Aśvinau as protectors (epithets align with rescuing guardianship); could be generalized divine protectors in Atharvanic framing.

Chandas: Ṛgvedic meter underlying; requires source mapping for exact chandas.

Mantra Rasa

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