Rig Veda 10.21.1: Mandala 10, Sukta 21, Mantra 1
Sukta 10.21
Rishi: Unknown from provided excerpt (hymn-level attribution not supplied here)
Devata: Agni (Hotar, Pāvakaśociṣ)
Chandas: Jagatī or Triṣṭubh (uncertain from the excerpt alone; requires full metrical count by pāda)
Samhita Patha (Devanagari)
आग्निं न स्ववृक्तिभिर्होतारं त्वा वृणीमहे । यज्ञाय स्तीर्णबर्हिषे वि वो मदे शीरं पावकशोचिषं विवक्षसे ॥
Transliteration
ā́gniṃ na svavṛ́ktibhir hótāraṃ tvā vṛṇīmahe | yajñā́ya stīrṇábarhiṣe ví vo made śīráṃ pāvakáśociṣaṃ vívakṣase ||
Translation
われら自ら織りなす働きによって、アグニよ、汝をホータル（祭官）として選び取る。敷きひろげたバルヒス（祭草座）を備える祭儀のために。われらの歓喜のうちに、汝は顕れ出でんと欲す――強き者、光焔もて浄める輝ける者として。
Word by Word
अग्निम्Agni (as object of choice/praise)
अग्निम्:
कर्म
TypeNoun
Rootअग्नि- (प्रातिपदिक)
नlike, as
न:
—
TypeIndeclinable
Rootन (निपात)
स्ववृक्तिभिःwith our choices/acts of choosing (i.e., with our own selections/means)
स्ववृक्तिभिः:
करण
TypeNoun
Rootस्व-वृक्ति- (प्रातिपदिक; स्व + वृक्ति < √वृज्/वृञ्ज् ‘to choose/arrange, prepare’ → ‘choice/selection; (ritual) preference/act of choosing’)
होतारम्the Hotṛ-priest; the invoker
होतारम्:
कर्म
TypeNoun
Rootहोतृ- (प्रातिपदिक; कर्तृ-नाम; √हु ‘to sacrifice, offer’)
त्वाyou
त्वा:
कर्म
TypePronoun
Rootयुष्मद्- (सर्वनाम)
वृणीमहेwe choose
वृणीमहे:
—
TypeVerb
Root√वृ (वृणीते) ‘to choose, select’
यज्ञायfor the sacrifice
यज्ञाय:
सम्प्रदान
TypeNoun
Rootयज्ञ- (प्रातिपदिक; √यज् ‘to worship/sacrifice’)
स्तीर्णबर्हिषेfor (him/it) whose sacrificial grass is strewn
स्तीर्णबर्हिषे:
सम्प्रदान
TypeAdjective (compound epithet)
Rootस्तीर्ण-बर्हिस्- (समास; स्तीर्ण < √स्तृ ‘to strew’ (कृदन्त) + बर्हिस् ‘sacrificial grass’)
विapart, forth, widely (intensifier)
वि:
—
TypeIndeclinable
Rootवि (उपसर्ग/अव्यय)
वःof you; your
वः:
सम्बन्ध
TypePronoun
Rootयुष्मद्- (सर्वनाम)
मदेin (your) exhilaration/rapture
मदे:
अधिकरण
TypeNoun
Rootमद- (प्रातिपदिक; √मद् ‘to be exhilarated’)
शीरेम्refreshing drink/sap (milk-like draught)
शीरेम्:
कर्म
TypeNoun
Rootशीरा- / शीर- (प्रातिपदिक; ‘milk/refreshing drink, sap’; RV usage)
पावकशोचिषम्having purifying flame/radiance
पावकशोचिषम्:
कर्म
TypeAdjective (compound epithet)
Rootपावक-शोचिस्- (समास; पावक ‘purifying’ < √पू ‘to purify’ + शोचिस् ‘flame, radiance’)
विवक्षसेyou wish to speak/utter
विवक्षसे:
—
TypeVerb
Root√वच् ‘to speak’ with desiderative stem विवक्ष-
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