Mantra 40

Sukta 5

Sanskrit (Devanagari)

अस्वगता परिह्णुता

IAST Transliteration

asva-gátā́ párí-hṇutā

English Translation (Griffith/Whitney)

Wandering from the horse’s course, turned aside and foiled.

Word by Word

• अस्वगता: gone to/associated with a horse; horse-going (f.)
• अस्वगता: Kartā (विशेष्यस्य विशेषणम्; कर्तृवाचक-सम्बन्धः) अथवा Adhikaraṇa (गमन-लक्षणे) प्रसङ्गतः
• Type: Adjective (compound)
• Root: अस्व-गता (प्रातिपदिक: अस्व ‘अश्व/घोड़ा’ + गत ‘गया हुआ’, √गम्)

• परिह्णुता: carried off/robbed/deceived; taken away (f.)
• परिह्णुता: Karma (यस्य परिहरणं/अपहरणं कृतम्—‘अपहृता/वञ्चिता’) as adjectival predicate of the subject
• Type: Participle (past passive participle) used adjectivally
• Root: परि-√ह्नु (धातु: √ह्नु ‘छलने/वञ्चने/अपहरणे’), क्त-प्रत्ययान्त ‘परिह्णुत’

Attribution

Rishi: Atharvanic tradition (Anukramaṇī attribution for this unit not supplied in input).

Devata: Impersonal curse-force tied to brahmanical sanctity (brahma-tejas); contextually Agni appears in the following verse.

Chandas: Prose/elliptic (not a full metrical pāda as transmitted here).

Mantra Rasa

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