Rig Veda 6.24.3: Mandala 6, Sukta 24, Mantra 3

Sukta 6.24

Rishi: Bharadvāja

Devata: Indra

Chandas: Triṣṭubh (probable)

Samhita Patha (Devanagari)

अक्षो न चक्र्योः शूर बृहन्प्र ते मह्ना रिरिचे रोदस्योः । वृक्षस्य नु ते पुरुहूत वया व्यूतयो रुरुहुरिन्द्र पूर्वीः ॥

Recitation with translationRig Veda 6.24.3

Transliteration

ákṣo na cakryóḥ śūra bṛhán prá te mahnā́ ririce ródasyoḥ | vṛkṣásya nú te puruhūta vayā́ vy ù̄táyo ruruhur indra pūrvī́ḥ ||

Translation

Wie die Achse der beiden Räder, o Held, weit und groß im Sein, hast du durch deine Größe die beiden Welten erfüllt. Wie die Äste eines Baumes, o Vielangerufener, sind deine Kräfte und deine Hilfen weithin ausgewachsen, o Indra, von alters her.

Ask anything about this verse...Ask

Word by Word

• अक्षः: axle (as subject/standard of comparison)
• अक्षः: Kartā
• Type: Noun
• Root: अक्ष (प्रातिपदिक)

• न: like, as
• न: —
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: न

• चक्र्यः: wheel-bearing / belonging to the wheel (i.e., of a chariot)
• चक्र्यः: Kartā
• Type: Adjective
• Root: चक्र्य (प्रातिपदिक; चक्र-सम्बद्ध)

• शूर: O hero
• शूर: —
• Type: Noun (vocative)
• Root: शूर (प्रातिपदिक)

• बृहन्: O great one
• बृहन्: —
• Type: Adjective (vocative)
• Root: बृहन्त् (प्रातिपदिक)

• प्र: forth, forward
• प्र: —
• Type: Indeclinable (preverb)
• Root: प्र

• ते: of you, your
• ते: सम्बन्ध (genitive)
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: त्वद् (सर्वनाम)

• मह्ना: by (your) greatness, through might
• मह्ना: Karaṇa
• Type: Noun
• Root: मघन्/महन् → मह्ना (प्रातिपदिक; ‘महन्’ का तृतीया एक.)

• रिरिचे: has extended/spread forth; has poured out
• रिरिचे: Kriyā
• Type: Verb
• Root: √रिच् (रिच्/रिञ्च् ‘to empty, to pour out; to extend’)

• रोदस्योः: of the two worlds (heaven and earth)
• रोदस्योः: Adhikaraṇa/सम्बन्ध (genitive-locative sense: ‘of/within the two worlds’)
• Type: Noun
• Root: रोदसी (द्विवचन-प्रातिपदिक; ‘heaven-and-earth’)

• वृक्षस्य: of a tree
• वृक्षस्य: सम्बन्ध (genitive)
• Type: Noun
• Root: वृक्ष (प्रातिपदिक)

• नु: now, indeed
• नु: —
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: नु

• ते: of you, your
• ते: सम्बन्ध (genitive)
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: त्वद् (सर्वनाम)

• पुरुहूत: O much-invoked one
• पुरुहूत: —
• Type: Noun/Adjective (vocative epithet)
• Root: पुरुहूत (प्रातिपदिक)

• वयाः: branches, shoots (lit. ‘growths/strengthenings’)
• वयाः: Kartā
• Type: Noun
• Root: वयस् (प्रातिपदिक)

• व्यूतयः: spreadings, expansions, outgrowths
• व्यूतयः: Kartā
• Type: Noun
• Root: व्यूति (प्रातिपदिक; ‘spreading/expansion; outgrowth’)

• रुरुहुः: have grown up, have arisen
• रुरुहुः: Kriyā
• Type: Verb
• Root: √रुह् (to grow, rise)

• इन्द्र: O Indra
• इन्द्र: —
• Type: Noun (vocative)
• Root: इन्द्र (प्रातिपदिक)

• पूर्वीः: many/former, earlier; numerous
• पूर्वीः: Kartā (विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: पूर्व (प्रातिपदिक)