Rig Veda 1.187.8: Mandala 1, Sukta 187, Mantra 8

Sukta 1.187

Devata: Soma (in preparation/mixture with waters and herbs)

Chandas: Gayatri/Anuṣṭubh uncertain (meter requires syllable verification; short verse suggests non-Trishtubh)

Samhita Patha (Devanagari)

यदपामोषधीनां परिंशमारिशामहे । वातापे पीव इद्भव ॥

Recitation with translationRig Veda 1.187.8

Transliteration

yád apā́m óṣadhīnām pariṁśám āriśā́mahe | vātāpe pī́va íd bhava ||

Translation

जब हम पानी और पौधों को मिलाते हैं, तब एक नई चीज़ बनती है। हवा तुम्हे गरम करती है। तुम अंदर जाके हमें ताकत दो। तुम हमें खुश रखो।

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• यत्: when/that which
• यत्: सम्बन्ध/हेतु (यद्-तद् सम्बन्धः; ‘when/that’)
• Type: Indeclinable (relative pronoun used as conjunction)
• Root: यद् (sarvanāma-prātipadika)

• अपाम्: of the waters
• अपाम्: सम्बन्ध (genitive: ‘of the waters’)
• Type: Noun
• Root: अप् (प्रातिपदिक)

• ओषधीनाम्: of the herbs/plants
• ओषधीनाम्: सम्बन्ध (genitive: ‘of the plants/herbs’)
• Type: Noun
• Root: ओषधि (प्रातिपदिक)

• परिंशम्: the enclosure/boundary (circuit)
• परिंशम्: कर्म (object of the verb)
• Type: Noun
• Root: परिंश (प्रातिपदिक; ‘enclosure/hedge, boundary; also ‘circuit’)

• आरिशामहे: we have harmed / we have injured
• आरिशामहे: क्रिया (with implicit कर्ता ‘वयम्’)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √रिश्/√रिष् (Vedic; ‘to injure, harm, damage’)

• वातापे: in wind-heat / under scorching wind
• वातापे: अधिकरण (locative: ‘in/under wind-heat’)
• Type: Noun (locative of condition) / Adverbial locative
• Root: वाताप (प्रातिपदिक; ‘wind-heat, scorching by wind/heat’)

• पीवः: fatness/abundance
• पीवः: कर्ता (predicate-nominative subject)
• Type: Noun
• Root: पीवस् (प्रातिपदिक; ‘fatness, richness, abundance’)

• इत्: indeed/just
• इत्: — (particle)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: इद् (निपात; emphatic particle)

• भव: become / be
• भव: क्रिया (आशीः/आज्ञा)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √भू (to be, become)