Mantra 5

Sukta 6

Sanskrit (Devanagari)

यः कृष्णः केश्यसुर स्तम्बज उत तुण्डिकः । अरायानस्या मुष्काभ्यां भंससोप हन्मसि

IAST Transliteration

yáḥ kṛṣṇáḥ keśyàsúraḥ stambajá utá tuṇḍíkaḥ | arā́yānasyā muṣkā́bhyāṃ bháṃsasópa hanmasi ||

English Translation (Griffith/Whitney)

Whoso is black, long-haired, an Asura, thicket-born, yea, the snouted goblin—him, of the hostile witch, by the stones from the rump do we smite down.

Word by Word

• यः: who (that one who)
• यः: Kartā (सम्बन्ध-कर्तृ, यः…सः-सम्बन्धे)
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: यद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक) → य

• कृष्णः: black/dark (one)
• कृष्णः: Kartā (यः…कृष्णः—कर्तृ-विशेषणम्)
• Type: Adjective (used substantively)
• Root: कृष्ण (प्रातिपदिक)

• केश्यसुरः: the ‘hairy’ asura/demon (hairy demon)
• केश्यसुरः: Kartā (यः…केश्यसुरः—कर्तृ-विशेषणम्)
• Type: Noun (compound)
• Root: केश्य (प्रातिपदिक) + असुर (प्रातिपदिक) (समासः)

• स्तम्बजः: born from a clump/thicket (reed-/grass-born)
• स्तम्बजः: Kartā (यः…स्तम्बजः—कर्तृ-विशेषणम्)
• Type: Adjective/Noun (kṛdanta compound)
• Root: स्तम्ब (प्रातिपदिक) + ज (√जन् ‘to be born’, कृत्-प्रत्ययः -ज) (समासः)

• उत: and/also
• उत: — (समुच्चयार्थकः)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: उत (निपात/अव्यय)

• तुण्डिकः: Tundika (a named being/demon; ‘snouted/with a beak’)
• तुण्डिकः: Kartā (यः…तुण्डिकः—कर्तृ-विशेषणम्)
• Type: Noun (agent/being name)
• Root: तुण्डिक (प्रातिपदिक)

• अरायानस्य: of the hostile one/foe
• अरायानस्य: सम्बन्ध (genitive relation to the following body-part term)
• Type: Noun
• Root: अरायान (प्रातिपदिक; ‘hostile one/foe’)

• मुष्काभ्याम्: with the two testicles
• मुष्काभ्याम्: Karaṇa (instrument: ‘with/by the testicles’)
• Type: Noun
• Root: मुष्क (प्रातिपदिक)

• भंससः: of the rump/buttocks
• भंससः: सम्बन्ध (genitive with उप ‘towards/at’)
• Type: Noun
• Root: भंसस् (प्रातिपदिक; ‘buttocks/rump’)

• उप: towards/at
• उप: — (दिशा/समीपार्थकः)
• Type: Indeclinable (preverb/adverb)
• Root: उप (उपसर्ग/अव्यय)

• हन्मसि: I strike/smite
• हन्मसि: Kriyā (मुख्यक्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √हन् (हनँ हिंसायाम्)

Attribution

Rishi: Atharvanic tradition (Aṅgiras/Atharvan line; hymn ascribed generically in many indices)

Devata: Rakṣas/piśāca-expulsion; the operative power of the mantra (brahman) as agent

Chandas: Anuṣṭubh (predominant in AV apotropaic verses)

Mantra Rasa

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