Rig Veda 3.28.6: Mandala 3, Sukta 28, Mantra 6

Sukta 3.28

Rishi: Viśvāmitra Gāthina (family attribution)

Devata: Agni (Jātavedas)

Chandas: Tr̥ṣṭubh (likely)

Samhita Patha (Devanagari)

अग्ने वृधान आहुतिं पुरोळाशं जातवेदः । जुषस्व तिरोअह्न्यम् ॥

Sanskrit recitationRig Veda 3.28.6

Transliteration

ágné vṛdhāná āhútiṃ puroḷā́śaṃ jātavedāḥ | juṣásva tiró-ahnyam ||

Translation

アグニよ、力を増しゆく者よ。ジャータヴェーダス（Jātavedas）よ、捧げられた供物—成形された供餅（puroḍāśa）—を嘉納し、常の昼を越えて聖なる広がりへと我らを運ぶこの供献を享受したまえ。

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Word by Word

• अग्ने: O Agni
• अग्ने: सम्बोधन
• Type: Noun
• Root: अग्नि- (प्रातिपदिक)

• वृधानः: growing, increasing (in might)
• वृधानः: Kartā (of the implied action of accepting/enjoying)
• Type: Participle (Adjectival)
• Root: वृध् (धातु) → वृधान- (कृदन्त, शानच्/शानन्)

• आहुतिम्: the oblation
• आहुतिम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: आ-हु (धातु) → आहुति- (स्त्री)

• पुरोळाशम्: the puroḍāśa (sacrificial cake)
• पुरोळाशम्: Karma (apposition to आहुतिम्)
• Type: Noun
• Root: पुरोळाश- (प्रातिपदिक; ritual cake)

• जातवेदः: O Jātavedas (Agni, ‘knower of births/creatures’)
• जातवेदः: सम्बोधन
• Type: Noun (epithet)
• Root: जात- (√जन्) + वेदस्- (√विद्) → जातवेदस्- (प्रातिपदिक)

• जुषस्व: enjoy/accept (graciously)
• जुषस्व: (मुख्य क्रिया) — Agni as Kartā; object = आहुतिम्/पुरोळाशम्
• Type: Verb
• Root: जुष् (धातु)

• तिरोअह्न्यम्: through the day; day-long
• तिरोअह्न्यम्: Karma (as qualifier of the object/act: ‘throughout the day’)
• Type: Adjective (used substantively) / Indeclinable-compound
• Root: तिरस्-/तिरो- (अव्यय/उपसर्गार्थ ‘across, through’) + अह्न्य- (अहन् ‘day’ से व्युत्पन्न विशेषण) → तिरोऽह्न्य-