Mantra 6

Sukta 129

Sanskrit (Devanagari)

क्वाहतं परास्यः

IAST Transliteration

kvā́hatam parā́syaḥ

English Translation (Griffith/Whitney)

Where is it smitten?—cast it forth away from this one.

Word by Word

• क्व: where?
• क्व: Adhikaraṇa (देश/स्थान-प्रश्नः) / प्रश्न-निर्देशक
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: क्व (प्रश्नाव्यय) / किम्-प्रातिपदिकस्य अव्यय-रूप

• आहतम्: struck, smitten; attacked
• आहतम्: Karma (यत् आहतम्—‘that which is struck/attacked’) / विधेय-विशेष्य
• Type: Verb (participial) / Adjective
• Root: √हन् (हिंसागत्योः) → आ-√हन्; क्त-प्रत्ययान्त कृदन्त

• परास्यः: remote; far away (of him/it)
• परास्यः: Kartā/Viśeṣaṇa (प्रश्नोत्तर-निर्देशे कर्तृ/विशेषण-सम्बन्धः; ‘परास्यः’ = ‘he/it is far away/remote’)
• Type: Adjective / Pronoun-like form
• Root: परास्य (प्रातिपदिक) = परा + अस्य (अस्य ‘of him/this’ इत्यस्य समास/संयोग-रूप) अथवा ‘परास्य’ इति विशेषण-प्रातिपदिक

Attribution

Rishi: Uncertain in AV20 context (RV-derived material; traditionally attributed per RV Anukramaṇī rather than Atharvan lists).

Devata: Apotropaic force of the mantra (no explicit deity in this hemistich).

Chandas: Fragment/hemistich; in RV setting likely part of a larger metrical unit (Anuṣṭubh/Trisṭubh context uncertain from isolated pāda).

Mantra Rasa

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