Mantra 8

Sukta 126

Sanskrit (Devanagari)

किं सुबाहो स्वङ्गुरे पृथुष्टो पृथुजाघने । किं शूरपत्नि नस्त्वमभ्यऽमीषि वृषाकपिं विश्वस्मादिन्द्र उत्तरः

IAST Transliteration

kíṁ subāho svaṅgure pṛ́thuṣṭo pṛ́thujāghane | kíṁ śū́rapatni nas tvám abhý amīṣi vṛṣā́kapiṁ víśvasmād índra úttaraḥ

English Translation (Griffith/Whitney)

Why, O fair-armed, fair-bodied, broad-thighed one? Why, O hero’s wife, dost thou assail us—(assail) Vṛṣākapi? Indra is superior unto all.

Word by Word

• किम्: what?
• किम्: Karma (प्रश्न-वस्तु)
• Type: Pronoun (Interrogative)
• Root: किम् (प्रश्न-सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)

• सु-बाहो: O strong-armed one
• सु-बाहो: (सम्बोधन)
• Type: Noun (Vocative epithet)
• Root: सु + बाहु (प्रातिपदिक)

• स्वङ्गुरे: O fair-limbed / well-formed one
• स्वङ्गुरे: (सम्बोधन)
• Type: Adjective (Vocative epithet)
• Root: स्वङ्गुर (प्रातिपदिक)

• पृथुष्टो: O broad-backed / broad-built one
• पृथुष्टो: (सम्बोधन)
• Type: Adjective (Vocative epithet)
• Root: पृथुष्ट (प्रातिपदिक)

• पृथु-जाघने: O broad-hipped one
• पृथु-जाघने: (सम्बोधन)
• Type: Adjective (Vocative epithet)
• Root: पृथु + जाघन (प्रातिपदिक)

• किम्: what?
• किम्: Karma (प्रश्न-वस्तु)
• Type: Pronoun (Interrogative)
• Root: किम् (प्रश्न-सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)

• शूर-पत्नि: O wife of the hero
• शूर-पत्नि: (सम्बोधन)
• Type: Noun (Vocative)
• Root: शूर + पत्नी (प्रातिपदिक)

• नः: of us / for us
• नः: Sampradāna/Adhikaraṇa (हित-सम्बन्धः: ‘for us/our’)
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: अस्मद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)

• त्वम्: you
• त्वम्: Kartā
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: युष्मद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)

• अभि: towards, upon
• अभि: (क्रियाविशेषणम्)
• Type: Indeclinable (Preverb/Adverb)
• Root: अभि (उपसर्ग/अव्यय)

• अमीषि: do you press/assail?
• अमीषि: Kriyā
• Type: Verb
• Root: मीष् (धातु; ‘to move/urge/attack’—वेदिक-प्रयोगः) + लट्

• वृषा-कपिम्: Vṛṣākapi (a name/epithet of Indra)
• वृषा-कपिम्: Karma
• Type: Noun (Proper/epithet)
• Root: वृषाकपि (प्रातिपदिक; इन्द्रस्य नाम)

• विश्वस्मात्: from everyone/everything
• विश्वस्मात्: Apādāna
• Type: Adjective used substantively
• Root: विश्व (सर्व/समस्त) (प्रातिपदिक)

• इन्द्र: O Indra
• इन्द्र: (सम्बोधन)
• Type: Noun (Vocative)
• Root: इन्द्र (प्रातिपदिक)

• उत्तरः: higher, superior
• उत्तरः: Kartā/Predicative complement (विधेय-विशेषणम्)
• Type: Adjective (Predicative)
• Root: उत्तर (प्रातिपदिक)

Attribution

Rishi: AV 20 RV-derived stratum; specific r̥ṣi requires anukramaṇī.

Devata: Indra (supremacy); pragmatic focus on rival woman / Vṛṣākapi as contested figure

Chandas: RV-like; exact meter requires scan.

Mantra Rasa

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