Mantra 1

Sukta 141

Sanskrit (Devanagari)

यातं छर्दिष्पा उत नः परस्पा भूतं जगत्पा उत नस्तनूपा। वर्तिस्तोकाय तनयाय यातम्

IAST Transliteration

yā́taṃ chardíṣ-pā útá naḥ paráḥ-pā bhū́taṃ jagát-pā útá nas tanū́-pā | vartís tókāya tánayāya yātam

English Translation (Griffith/Whitney)

Come, ye guardians of shelter; and be to us warders from the afar; become guardians of the moving world, and guardians of our bodies. Come, in your returning course, for child and for progeny.

Word by Word

• यातम्: (you two) come / go hither
• यातम्: (क्रियापद) —
• Type: Verb
• Root: या (धातु)

• छर्दिष्पा: protectors of shelter/covering
• छर्दिष्पा: Kartā (यातम्-क्रियायाः कर्तृ-विशेषणम्)
• Type: Noun/Adjective
• Root: छर्दिस् (प्रातिपदिक) + पा (प्रातिपदिक/कृदन्त-तत्पुरुष)

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

• नः: of us / our
• नः: सम्बन्ध (genitive: ‘of us/our’)
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: अस्मद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)

• परस्पा: protectors from afar / protectors of the beyond
• परस्पा: Kartā (कर्तृ-विशेषणम्)
• Type: Noun/Adjective
• Root: परस् (प्रातिपदिक) + पा (प्रातिपदिक/कृदन्त)

• भूतम्: having become; being (present)
• भूतम्: Kartā (कर्तृ-विशेषणम्)
• Type: Adjective (participle)
• Root: भू (धातु) → भूत (कृदन्त, क्त)

• जगत्पा: protectors of the world
• जगत्पा: Kartā (कर्तृ-विशेषणम्)
• Type: Noun/Adjective
• Root: जगत् (प्रातिपदिक) + पा (प्रातिपदिक/कृदन्त)

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

• नः: of us / our
• नः: सम्बन्ध
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: अस्मद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)

• तनूपा: protectors of (our) body/person
• तनूपा: Kartā (कर्तृ-विशेषणम्)
• Type: Noun/Adjective
• Root: तनू (प्रातिपदिक) + पा (प्रातिपदिक/कृदन्त)

• वर्तिः: help; protection; remedy (lit. ‘means/turning’)
• वर्तिः: Kartā (अध्याहृत-क्रियायाः/स्तुत्यर्थे: ‘(let there be) protection/aid’)
• Type: Noun
• Root: वर्ति (प्रातिपदिक)

• तोकाय: for the child
• तोकाय: Sampradāna (for the child)
• Type: Noun
• Root: तोक (प्रातिपदिक)

• तनयाय: for the offspring/son
• तनयाय: Sampradāna (for the son/offspring)
• Type: Noun
• Root: तनय (प्रातिपदिक)

• यातम्: (you two) come
• यातम्: (क्रियापद) —
• Type: Verb
• Root: या (धातु)

Attribution

Rishi: Book 20 Aśvin-related borrowing; specific seer not stated in the provided verse.

Devata: Likely Aśvinau as protectors (epithets align with rescuing guardianship); could be generalized divine protectors in Atharvanic framing.

Chandas: Ṛgvedic meter underlying; requires source mapping for exact chandas.

Mantra Rasa

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