Mantra 2
Sukta 34
Sanskrit (Devanagari)
या गृत्स्यस्त्रिपञ्चाशीः शतं कृत्याकृतश्च ये। सर्वान् विनक्तु तेजसोऽरसां जङ्गिडस्करत्
IAST Transliteration
yā́ gṛ́tsyaḥ tripañcāśī́ḥ śatáṁ kṛtyā́kṛtaś ca yé | sárvān vinaktu téjaso ’rasā́ṁ jaṅgiḍáḥ karat ||
English Translation (Griffith/Whitney)
What greedy ones there be—fifty and three—and a hundred, and those who make the kṛtyā: let Jaṅgiḍa, by its fiery might, pick them all apart, and make them sapless, void of power.
Word by Word
याःwhich (fem. pl.)
याः:
Kartā
TypePronoun
Rootयद् (sarvanāma-prātipadika)
गृत्स्यःthe rapacious (female) [forces]
गृत्स्यः:
Kartā
TypeNoun/Adjective
Rootगृत्स्य (prātipadika; ‘greedy/rapacious’, used of harmful beings/forces)
त्रिपञ्चाशीःfifty-three
त्रिपञ्चाशीः:
Kartā
TypeNumeral (Adjective)
Rootत्रिपञ्चाशत् (numeral prātipadika = 53)
शतम्a hundred
शतम्:
(apposition/measure to Kartā-group)
TypeNumeral (Noun/Adjective)
Rootशत (numeral prātipadika = 100)
कृत्याकृतः(those) made as witchcraft/evil spell
कृत्याकृतः:
Kartā
TypeCompound (Noun + Kṛdanta adjective)
Rootकृत्या (f.) + कृत (PPP of √कृ ‘to do/make’)
चand
च:
—
TypeIndeclinable
Rootच
येwho (masc. pl.)
ये:
Kartā
TypePronoun
Rootयद् (sarvanāma-prātipadika)
सर्वान्all (of them)
सर्वान्:
Karma
TypePronoun/Adjective
Rootसर्व (prātipadika)
विनक्तुlet (it) remove/separate
विनक्तु:
(main verb)
TypeVerb
Root√विज्/√विच् (here: ‘to separate, remove, drive away’; Vedic injunctive/imperative-like)
तेजसःfrom (their) fiery power/energy
तेजसः:
Apādāna (source: ‘from the power/heat’)
TypeNoun
Rootतेजस् (prātipadika)
अरासाम्(them) sapless, powerless
अरासाम्:
Karma (as predicate/object: ‘(make them) sapless’)
TypeAdjective (used substantively)
Rootअरास (prātipadika; ‘sapless/essence-less, powerless’)
जङ्गिडःthe jaṅgiḍa (plant/charm)
जङ्गिडः:
Kartā
TypeNoun
Rootजङ्गिड (prātipadika; a medicinal plant/charm ‘jaṅgiḍa’ in AV)
करत्may it do/make (so)
करत्:
(aux/main verb with subject जङ्गिडः)
TypeVerb
Root√कृ (to do, make)
Attribution
Rishi: Atharvanic (maṇi/counter-kṛtyā tradition).
Devata: Jaṅgiḍa (as counter-sorcery agent).
Chandas: Anuṣṭubh.
Mantra Rasa
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