Mantra 2

Sukta 135

Sanskrit (Devanagari)

यत् पिबामि सं पिबामि समुद्र इव संपिबः । प्राणानमुष्य संपाय सं पिबामो अमुं वयम्

IAST Transliteration

yát pibā́mi sáṃ pibāmi samudrá iva saṃpibáḥ | prāṇā́n amúṣya saṃpā́ya sáṃ pibāmo amúṃ vayám ||

English Translation (Griffith/Whitney)

What I drink, that drink I wholly, like the Ocean drinking all: having drunk up the breaths of that man, we drink him up entire, even we.

Word by Word

• यत्: which/that (what)
• यत्: Karma
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: यद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)

• पिबामि: I drink
• पिबामि: Kartā
• Type: Verb
• Root: पा (पाने)

• सम्: together, completely
• सम्: —
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: सम् (उपसर्ग)

• पिबामि: I drink
• पिबामि: Kartā
• Type: Verb
• Root: पा (पाने)

• समुद्रः: the ocean
• समुद्रः: Kartā
• Type: Noun
• Root: समुद्र (प्रातिपदिक)

• इव: like, as
• इव: —
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: इव (निपात)

• संपिबः: you drink up / you drink completely
• संपिबः: Kartā
• Type: Verb
• Root: सम् + पा (पाने)

• प्राणान्: breaths, vital powers
• प्राणान्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: प्राण (प्रातिपदिक)

• अमुष्य: of that (person/one yonder)
• अमुष्य: —
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: अमुष् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)

• संपाय: drink up completely!
• संपाय: Kartā
• Type: Verb
• Root: सम् + पा (पाने)

• सम्: together, completely
• सम्: —
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: सम् (उपसर्ग)

• पिबामः: we drink
• पिबामः: Kartā
• Type: Verb
• Root: पा (पाने)

• अमुम्: that (person) yonder
• अमुम्: Karma
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: अमुष् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)

• वयम्: we
• वयम्: Kartā
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: अस्मद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)

Attribution

Rishi: Atharvanic (unspecified in input)

Devata: Prāṇa (vital breath) as operative power; ocean as cosmological analogy

Chandas: Anuṣṭubh (probable)

Mantra Rasa

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