Rig Veda 9.7.4: Mandala 9, Sukta 7, Mantra 4

Sukta 9.7

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Devata: Soma Pavamāna

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Samhita Patha (Devanagari)

परि यत्काव्या कविर्नृम्णा वसानो अर्षति । स्वर्वाजी सिषासति ॥

Recitation with translationRig Veda 9.7.4

Transliteration

pári yát kā́vyā kavír nṛ́mṇā vásāno árṣati | svàr-vājī sisāsati ||

Translation

Jab rishi taakat pehen ke ghoomta hai, to uske paas kavita ki taakat hoti hai. Woh chaaron taraf failta hai. Woh suraj ki duniya jeetna chahta hai. Woh sab taakat ko apne control mein lana chahta hai.

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Word by Word

• परि: around; forth
• परि: —
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: परि (upasarga) / pari (indecl.)

• यत्: which (that)
• यत्: Kartā (of अर्षति)
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: यद् (sarvanāma-stem) / relative pronoun

• काव्याः: the poetic (powers/insights); the inspired (ones)
• काव्याः: Kartā (of सिषासति) (collective subject)
• Type: Adjective (used substantively) / Noun
• Root: काव्य (adj./n. from कवि)

• कविः: the seer; poet
• कविः: Kartā (apposition to यत्) (of अर्षति)
• Type: Noun
• Root: कवि (prātipadika)

• नृम्णा: with manly power; with heroic might
• नृम्णा: Karaṇa (means) (with वसानः)
• Type: Noun
• Root: नृम्ण (prātipadika)

• वसानः: wearing; clothed (in)
• वसानः: Kartā (descriptive of subject) / Karaṇa-sambandha
• Type: Participle
• Root: √वस् (वस्—‘to clothe, wear’)

• अर्षति: streams; rushes; flows
• अर्षति: Kriyā (main verb); subject = यत्/कविः
• Type: Verb
• Root: √ऋष्/अर्ष् (Vedic: ‘to flow, rush, stream’)

• स्वर्वाजी: heaven-winning; possessing radiant strength/prize
• स्वर्वाजी: Kartā (descriptive epithet of subject)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: स्वर् + वाजिन् (compound: ‘having light/heaven’ + ‘having prize/strength’)

• सिषासति: desires to impel/command; seeks to set in motion
• सिषासति: Kriyā (secondary verb); subject = काव्याः (or the same subject in poetic apposition)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √शास् (to instruct/impel/command) with desiderative formation (siṣās-)