Rig Veda 9.28.6: Mandala 9, Sukta 28, Mantra 6

Sukta 9.28

Devata: Soma Pavamāna

Samhita Patha (Devanagari)

एष शुष्म्यदाभ्यः सोमः पुनानो अर्षति । देवावीरघशंसहा ॥

Transliteration

eṣá śuṣmy ádābhyaḥ sómaḥ punānó arṣati | devā́-vīr aghaśaṃsa-hā́ ||

Translation

This Soma, mighty and invincible, flows while purifying; he brings the heroic powers of the gods, and slays the hostile speech of falsehood and sin within us.

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Word by Word

• एषः: this (one)
• एषः: Kartā (with सोमः)
• Type: Pronoun (demonstrative)
• Root: एतद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक) → एष-

• शुष्मी: mighty, vigorous
• शुष्मी: Kartā (qualifier of सोमः)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: शुष्मिन् (प्रातिपदिक; from शुष्म ‘might, vigor’)

• अदाभ्यः: unharming, invincible, not to be deceived
• अदाभ्यः: Kartā (qualifier of सोमः)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: दभ् (धातु ‘to harm, deceive’) + नञ्/अ- (neg.) → अदाभ्य-

• सोमः: Soma
• सोमः: Kartā
• Type: Noun
• Root: सोम (प्रातिपदिक)

• पुनानः: purifying himself / being purified
• पुनानः: Kartā (qualifier of सोमः)
• Type: Participle (present middle)
• Root: पू (धातु ‘to purify’) → पुनान- (शानच्/आनच्-प्रत्यय, आत्मनेपदी वर्तमान कृदन्त)

• अर्षति: flows, streams
• अर्षति: Kriyā (of Kartā सोमः)
• Type: Verb
• Root: ऋष् (धातु ‘to flow, move swiftly’)

• देवावीः: protector/helper of the gods
• देवावीः: Kartā (apposition/epithet of सोमः)
• Type: Noun/Adjective (epithet)
• Root: देवावी (प्रातिपदिक; देव + अवि/अवी ‘protector, helper’)

• अघशंसहा: slayer of evil-speaking / destroyer of malignant praise
• अघशंसहा: Kartā (qualifier of सोमः)
• Type: Adjective (bahuvrīhi/tatpuruṣa-type epithet)
• Root: अघशंसह (प्रातिपदिक; अघ- ‘evil’ + शंस- ‘praise/utterance’ + हन्/ह (√हन् ‘to slay’) → -हा ‘slayer’)