Atharva Veda 11.3.96: Kanda 11, Anuvaka 1, Sukta 3, Mantra 96

Sukta 3

Sanskrit (Devanagari)

कृ॒ष्या न रा॑त्स्य॒सीत्ये॑नमाह

Recitation with translationAtharva Veda 11.3.96

IAST Transliteration

kṛṣyā́ ná rā́tsyasi íty enam ā́ha

English Translation (Griffith/Whitney)

‘Thou shalt not yield him up for ploughing’: thus he addressed him.

Translation

उसने कहा कि तुम उसे हल चलाने के लिए मत देना।

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Word by Word

• कृष्याः: of cultivation; of agriculture
• कृष्याः: सम्बन्ध (Genitival relation; of/pertaining to) / अधिकरण-सम्बन्ध (contextual)
• Type: Noun
• Root: कृषि (स्त्री. प्रातिपदिक) / कृष् (धातु) → कृषि

• न: not
• न: —
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: न (निषेध-अव्यय)

• रात्स्यसि: you will give / you will grant
• रात्स्यसि: क्रिया (मुख्य क्रिया); कर्ता = त्वम् (implied ‘you’)
• Type: Verb
• Root: रा (धातु) ‘to give, grant’

• इति: thus; saying
• इति: —
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: इति (उद्धरण/निदर्शन-अव्यय)

• एनम्: him; this one
• एनम्: कर्म (object of ‘आह’)
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: इदम् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक) → एनद्-श्रुति

• आह: said
• आह: क्रिया (speech act); कर्ता = (सः) implied ‘he’
• Type: Verb
• Root: अह्/आह् (धातु) ‘to say’ (परस्मैपद) प्रत्यय-रूप: परोक्ष/परिपूर्ण-प्रयोग ‘आह’

Attribution

Rishi: Not explicit in the fragment.

Devata: Not explicit; operative power is the performative utterance.

Chandas: Prose/ritual formula.

Mantra Rasa

Primary: vira

Secondary: shanta