Mantra 10

Sukta 17

Sanskrit (Devanagari)

तस्य व्रात्यस्य । एकं तदेषाममृतत्वमित्याहुतिरेव

IAST Transliteration

tásya vrā́tyasya | ékaṃ tád eṣām amṛtatvám íty āhúr utír evá

English Translation (Griffith/Whitney)

Of that Vratya—this one thing of theirs is immortality, so, men say: it is aid indeed.

Attribution

Rishi: Vratya/Brāhmaṇa-style anonymous tradition (AV 15 Vratya corpus)

Devata: Vratya (as cosmic person/principle); Amṛtatva (deathlessness) as the operative power

Chandas: Mixed/prose-like Atharvanic style (Brāhmaṇa-type cadence rather than strict RV meter)

Mantra Rasa

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