Mantra 1

Sukta 140

Sanskrit (Devanagari)

सुमङ्गलौ दन्तौ। २ उपरिष्टाज्ज्योतिष्मती त्रिषटुप्, ३ आस्तारपङ्क्तिः। यौ व्याघ्रववरूढौ जिघत्सतः पितरं मातरं च । यौ दन्तौ ब्रह्मणस्पते शिवौ कृणु जातवेदः

IAST Transliteration

sumáṅgalau dantáu | yáu vyā́ghravavarū́ḍhau jíghatsataḥ pitáraṃ mātáraṃ ca | yáu dantáu brahmaṇaspate śiváu kṛṇu jātávedaḥ

English Translation (Griffith/Whitney)

Auspicious be the two teeth: those two, tiger-jaw-mounted, ravening to devour both father and mother—those two teeth, O Lord of Prayer, do thou, O Jātavedas, make them kindly and benign.

Word by Word

• यौ: which two (who/that pair)
• यौ: Kartā
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: यद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)

• व्याघ्रववरूढौ: mounted on/associated with tiger-like (supports)
• व्याघ्रववरूढौ: Kartā
• Type: Adjective (compound)
• Root: व्याघ्रववरूढ (समास-प्रातिपदिक; व्याघ्र + वव + रूढ)

• जिघत्सतः: desiring to devour
• जिघत्सतः: Kartā
• Type: Verb (present participle)
• Root: जिघत्स् (इच्छार्थक-धातु/प्रातिपदिक; √घस् ‘to eat’ से desiderative ‘to want to eat’)

• पितरम्: the father
• पितरम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: पितृ (प्रातिपदिक)

• मातरम्: the mother
• मातरम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: मातृ (प्रातिपदिक)

• च: and
• च: —
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च (निपात)

• यौ: which two
• यौ: Kartā
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: यद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)

• दन्तौ: the two teeth
• दन्तौ: Kartā
• Type: Noun
• Root: दन्त (प्रातिपदिक)

• ब्रह्मणस्पते: O Lord of prayer (Bṛhaspati)
• ब्रह्मणस्पते: Sampradāna (addressed deity)
• Type: Noun (vocative)
• Root: ब्रह्मणस्-पति (समास-प्रातिपदिक)

• शिवौ: auspicious, benign (two)
• शिवौ: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: शिव (प्रातिपदिक)

• कृणु: make!
• कृणु: —
• Type: Verb
• Root: √कृ (करणे)

• जातवेदः: O Jātavedas (Agni)
• जातवेदः: Sampradāna (addressed deity)
• Type: Noun (vocative)
• Root: जातवेदस् (प्रातिपदिक)

Attribution

Rishi: Atharvanic (anukramaṇī-dependent)

Devata: Brahmaṇaspati and Agni (Jātavedas); the ‘two teeth’ as addressed locus

Chandas: Mixed/annotated in the transmitted heading; verse itself is functionally Anuṣṭubh-like, but the supplied metrical notes in the input indicate ancillary metrical classification in the tradition.

Mantra Rasa

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