Mantra 4

Sukta 5

Sanskrit (Devanagari)

इयं समित् पृथिवी द्यौर्द्वितीयोतान्तरिक्षं समिधा पृणाति । ब्रह्मचारी समिधा मेखलया श्रमेण लोकांस्तपसा पिपर्ति

IAST Transliteration

iyáṃ samíd pṛthivī́ dyáur dvitī́yo utā́ntárikṣaṃ samídhā pṛṇāti | brahmacārī́ samídhā mékhalayā śraméṇa lokā́ṃs tápasā piparti

English Translation (Griffith/Whitney)

This fuel is Earth; Heaven is the second; yea, with fuel he filleth also the Mid-air. The Brahmacārin, with fuel-stick, with girdle, with toil, with austerity, doth fill and sustain the worlds.

Word by Word

• इयम्: this (she/this one)
• इयम्: Kartā
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: इदम् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)

• समित्: fuel-stick; kindling
• समित्: Kartā (इयम् इत्यस्य विशेषण/अप्पोजिशन) अथवा Kartā-सम्बन्धः
• Type: Noun
• Root: समिध् (प्रातिपदिक; ‘सम्+इध्’ इत्यस्मात्)

• पृथिवी: Earth
• पृथिवी: Kartā (समित्-रूपेण) / Apposition
• Type: Noun
• Root: पृथिवी (प्रातिपदिक)

• द्यौः: Sky, Heaven
• द्यौः: Kartā (समित्-रूपेण) / Apposition
• Type: Noun
• Root: द्यौ (प्रातिपदिक)

• द्वितीयः: second
• द्वितीयः: Kartā-विशेषण
• Type: Adjective
• Root: द्वितीय (प्रातिपदिक)

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

• अन्तरिक्षम्: mid-air; atmosphere
• अन्तरिक्षम्: Kartā (समित्-रूपेण) / Apposition
• Type: Noun
• Root: अन्तरिक्ष (प्रातिपदिक)

• समिधा: with fuel-stick(s); by kindling
• समिधा: Karaṇa
• Type: Noun
• Root: समिध् (प्रातिपदिक)

• पृणाति: fills; makes full
• पृणाति: — (क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: पॄ (पृणाति) धातुः

• ब्रह्मचारी: the brahmacārin (religious student)
• ब्रह्मचारी: Kartā
• Type: Noun
• Root: ब्रह्मचारिन् (प्रातिपदिक)

• समिधा: with fuel-stick(s)
• समिधा: Karaṇa
• Type: Noun
• Root: समिध् (प्रातिपदिक)

• मेखलया: with a girdle
• मेखलया: Karaṇa
• Type: Noun
• Root: मेखला (प्रातिपदिक)

• श्रमॆण: by exertion; with toil
• श्रमॆण: Karaṇa
• Type: Noun
• Root: श्रम (प्रातिपदिक)

• लोकान्: worlds; realms
• लोकान्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: लोक (प्रातिपदिक)

• तपसा: by austerity; by heat/ascetic power
• तपसा: Karaṇa
• Type: Noun
• Root: तपस् (प्रातिपदिक)

• पिपर्ति: fills; sustains; makes full
• पिपर्ति: — (क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: पॄ (पिपर्ति) धातुः

Attribution

Rishi: Atharvanic tradition

Devata: Brahmacārin / Tapas as sustaining power; implicitly Agni via samidh

Chandas: Likely Triṣṭubh tendencies (two hemistichs with extended cadence)

Mantra Rasa

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