Rig Veda 6.9.2: Mandala 6, Sukta 9, Mantra 2
Sukta 6.9
Rishi: Bharadvāja Bārhaspatya (traditional for RV 6; hymn-level attribution commonly to Bharadvāja line)
Devata: Agni (especially as Vaiśvānara / inner Fire of illumination in this hymn-context)
Chandas: Triṣṭubh
Samhita Patha (Devanagari)
नाहं तन्तुं न वि जानाम्योतुं न यं वयन्ति समरेऽतमानाः । कस्य स्वित्पुत्र इह वक्त्वानि परो वदात्यवरेण पित्रा ॥
Transliteration
nāháṃ tántuṃ na ví jānā́mi yótuṃ na yáṃ váyanti sam-are átamānāḥ | kásya svít putrá ihá vaktvā́ni paró vadā́ty ávareṇa pitrā́ ||
Translation
われはいまだその糸を知らず、織りの理（ことわり）をも明らかに知らぬ――共なる争いの場にて、たゆまぬ織り手らが織りなすものを。ここにて誰の子がこれらの言葉を語り得ようか。そこでは、遠き真理が、近き父を支えとして宣べられる。
Word by Word
नnot
न:
—
TypeIndeclinable
Rootन
अहम्I
अहम्:
Kartā
TypePronoun
Rootअस्मद्
तन्तुम्the thread
तन्तुम्:
Karma
TypeNoun
Rootतन्तु
नnot
न:
—
TypeIndeclinable
Rootन
विapart, distinctly
वि:
—
TypePreverb
Rootवि
जानामिI know
जानामि:
—
TypeVerb
Rootज्ञा
योतुम्the joining/connection (the ‘weaving’/link)
योतुम्:
Karma
TypeNoun (infinitival/acc. form used as object)
Rootयोतु (यु/युज्-सम्बद्ध प्रातिपदिक; ‘बंधन/संयोजन’ अर्थ) अथवा √यु (यौति) ‘to join, yoke’ से
नnot
न:
—
TypeIndeclinable
Rootन
यम्which (thread)
यम्:
Karma
TypePronoun
Rootयद्
वयन्तिthey weave
वयन्ति:
—
TypeVerb
Root√वे (वयति) ‘to weave’
समरेin the contest/battle
समरे:
Adhikaraṇa
TypeNoun
Rootसमर
अतमानाःstriving, exerting themselves
अतमानाः:
Kartā
TypeParticiple
Root√तन्/तनु (आत्मनेपद) ‘to stretch/strive’ (वेद. ‘अत्/आत्’ उपसर्ग-प्रयोग) अथवा √तम् ‘to be eager/strain’ (वेद.)
कस्यof whom?
कस्य:
—
TypePronoun
Rootकिम्
स्वित्indeed? pray?
स्वित्:
—
TypeIndeclinable
Rootस्वित्
पुत्रःson
पुत्रः:
Kartā
TypeNoun
Rootपुत्र
इहhere
इह:
Adhikaraṇa
TypeIndeclinable
Rootइह
वक्त्वानिutterances, words to be spoken
वक्त्वानि:
Karma
TypeNoun
Rootवक्त्व (√वच् ‘to speak’ से क्त्वन्-प्रत्यय; ‘speaking/utterance’)
परःthe farther/upper one
परः:
Kartā
TypeAdjective (used substantively)
Rootपर
वदातिspeaks
वदाति:
—
TypeVerb
Root√वद् ‘to speak’
अवरेणby/with the lower (one)
अवरेण:
Karaṇa
TypeAdjective
Rootअवर
पित्राby the father
पित्रा:
Karaṇa
TypeNoun
Rootपितृ
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