Rig Veda 5.53.14: Mandala 5, Sukta 53, Mantra 14

Sukta 5.53

Rishi: Śyāvāśva Ātreya

Devata: Maruts (with an invoked presence of Āpaḥ ‘Waters’ within the verse)

Chandas: Tr̥ṣṭubh

Samhita Patha (Devanagari)

अतीयाम निदस्तिरः स्वस्तिभिर्हित्वावद्यमरातीः । वृष्ट्वी शं योराप उस्रि भेषजं स्याम मरुतः सह ॥

Sanskrit recitationRig Veda 5.53.14

Transliteration

atī́yāma nidás tiraḥ svastí-bhir hitvā́ avadyám arātī́ḥ | vṛṣṭvī́ śáṁ yór ā́paḥ usrí bheṣajáṁ syā́ma marutaḥ sahá ||

Translation

Mögen wir durch eure Schutzkräfte über feindliche Rede und Tadel hinausgelangen, den Makel und die krumme Feindschaft abwerfend. Nachdem ihr Frieden und weite Wonne geregnet habt, o Wasser, bringt das Heilmittel; mögen wir mit den Maruts in jener Eintracht sein.

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Word by Word

• अती॑याम: may we pass beyond / may we go over
• अती॑याम: Kartā (implicit ‘we’)
• Type: Verb
• Root: अति-इ (√इ ‘to go’) / ati + √i

• नि॒दः: reproaches / censures
• नि॒दः: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: निद् (prātipadika ‘reproach, blame’)

• ति॒रः: across, beyond
• ति॒रः: Adhikaraṇa (directional/locative sense) / Upasarga-like adverbial
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तिरस् (avyaya/prātipadika ‘across, beyond’)

• स्व॒स्तिभिः: with blessings / with well-being
• स्व॒स्तिभिः: Karaṇa
• Type: Noun
• Root: स्वस्ति (prātipadika ‘well-being, welfare, blessing’)

• हि॒त्वा: having abandoned
• हि॒त्वा: (Kriyā-viśeṣaṇa) prior action to main verb
• Type: Verb
• Root: √हा (jahāti ‘to leave, abandon’)

• अव॒द्यम्: the blameworthy (fault)
• अव॒द्यम्: Karma (object of ‘having abandoned’)
• Type: Noun/Adjective
• Root: अवद्य (prātipadika ‘fault, blameworthy thing’; a- + vadya)

• अरा॑तीः: hostilities / hostile powers
• अरा॑तीः: Karma (object to be passed beyond/removed)
• Type: Noun
• Root: अराति (prātipadika ‘harm, hostility; hostile power/person’)

• वृ॒ष्ट्वी: having rained / having showered
• वृ॒ष्ट्वी: (Kriyā-viśeṣaṇa) prior action
• Type: Verb
• Root: √वृष् (to rain, to shower) / vṛṣṭvī (Vedic absolutive in -tvī)

• शम्: well-being, peace
• शम्: Karma/Goal (as desired state)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: शम् (avyaya ‘well, auspiciously, peace’)

• योः: welfare / prosperity
• योः: (Idiomatic complement with शम्)
• Type: Noun
• Root: योस्/योः (prātipadika ‘welfare, prosperity’; often dual with śam)

• आपः: the waters
• आपः: Kartā (of ‘having rained/showered’ / agent of bestowal)
• Type: Noun
• Root: अप् (prātipadika ‘water’)

• उ॒स्रि: bright, shining (healing)
• उ॒स्रि: Karma (qualifier of the remedy) / Viśeṣaṇa
• Type: Adjective
• Root: उ॒स्रि (prātipadika ‘bright; cow-like; shining’; used of healing/bright remedy)

• भे॑ष॒जम्: remedy, medicine
• भे॑ष॒जम्: Karma (that which is to be obtained/realized)
• Type: Noun
• Root: भेषज (prātipadika ‘remedy, medicine’)

• स्याम॑: may we be / may we become
• स्याम॑: Kartā (implicit ‘we’)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √अस् (to be) → syām (optative)

• मरुतः: O Maruts
• मरुतः: Sambodhana (address)
• Type: Noun
• Root: मरुत् (prātipadika ‘Marut’, storm-god)

• स॒ह: together / in companionship
• स॒ह: Sahārtha (associative adverbial) / Karaṇa-like accompaniment
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: सह (avyaya ‘together, with’)