Adhyaya 11 Mantra 17 - Shukla Yajurveda | German | Vedapath

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Mantra 17

Rishi: Not specified in the excerpt; treated as Śukla-Yajurvedic liturgical unit.

Devata: Agni (Jātavedas), with implicit solar and cosmic associations.

Chandas: Triṣṭubh-like cadence (ṛgvedic-style verse), though used here as a yajus citation.

Samhita Patha (Devanagari)

अन्व॒ग्निरु॒षसा॒मग्र॑मख्य॒दन्वहा॑नि प्रथ॒मो जा॒तवे॑दाः । अनु॒ सूर्य॑स्य पुरु॒त्रा च॑ र॒श्मीननु॒ द्यावा॑पृथि॒वी आ त॑तन्थ

Transliteration

anv agnír uṣásām ágram akhyad ánv áhāni prathamó jātávedāḥ | ánu sū́ryasya purutrā́ ca raśmī́n ánu dyā́vā-pṛthivī́ ā́ tatantha

Translation

Agni folgte den Morgenröten und erblickte ihre vorderste Spitze; Jātavedas, der Erste, folgte den Tagen. Er folgte den Strahlen der Sonne, die weithin an vielen Orten sich ausbreiten; er spannte Himmel und Erde aus.

Padapatha (Word Analysis)

अनु । अ॒ग्निः । उ॒षसा॑म् । अग्र॑म् । अ॒ख्य॒त् । अनु । अहा॑नि । प्र॒थ॒मः । जा॒तवे॑दाः । अनु । सूर्य॑स्य । पु॒रु॒त्रा । च॒ । र॒श्मीन् । अनु । द्यावा॑पृथि॒वी इति॑ । आ । त॒त॒न्थ॒ ।

Word by Word

अनुafter, along

अग्निःAgni (fire)

उषसाम्of the dawns

अग्रम्the forefront, the first place

अख्यत्made known, proclaimed

अनुafter, along

अहानिdays

प्रथमःfirst

जातवेदाःJātavedas (Agni, knower of births)

अनुafter, along

सूर्यस्यof the Sun

पुरुत्राin many places, widely

चand

रश्मीन्rays

अनुafter, along

द्यावापृथिवीHeaven-and-Earth

आunto, forth

ततन्थhas stretched, extended

Entities Mentioned

Agni (Jātavedas)

Uṣas (Dawns)

Sūrya

Dyāvā-Pṛthivī (Heaven and Earth)

Ritual Context

Viniyoga (Ritual Application)

Commentary Summary

Philosophical Concepts

Vedic Cosmology

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Yogic Application

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