Mantra 16

Sukta 129

Sanskrit (Devanagari)

बद्ध वो अघा इति

IAST Transliteration

baddhá vo aghā́ íti

English Translation (Griffith/Whitney)

‘Bound for you are the Evils’—so (runs the formula).

Word by Word

• बद्धाः: bound, fettered
• बद्धाः: Kartā (वाक्ये कर्तृपदवत्/विधेयविशेषणरूपेण) अथवा विशेष्यस्य विशेषणम्
• Type: Adjective (past passive participle used adjectivally)
• Root: √बन्ध् (बन्धने) → क्त-प्रत्ययान्त कृदन्त ‘बद्ध’

• वः: of you / your
• वः: सम्बन्ध (genitive relation; कर्तृ/कर्मादि-कारकनिर्देशः न)
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: युष्मद्-प्रातिपदिक (सर्वनाम)

• अघाः: evils, sins, misfortunes
• अघाः: Kartā (वाक्ये कर्तृपदवत्) अथवा ‘बद्धाः’ इत्यस्य विशेष्यरूपेण
• Type: Noun (also usable adjectivally)
• Root: अघ-प्रातिपदिक

• इति: thus, ‘so’
• इति: न (कारकातीतः; वाक्य-समाप्ति/उद्धरणचिह्नम्)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: इति (निपात)

Attribution

Rishi: Traditionally associated with the RV Khila/late-appendix strata; specific r̥ṣi for this fragment is uncertain without the full anukramaṇī entry for AVŚ 20.129.

Devata: Agha (personified Evil) / apotropaic force of the utterance

Chandas: Non-metrical / formula-fragment (late, ancillary material in Book 20)

Mantra Rasa

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