Rig Veda 8.2.5: Mandala 8, Sukta 2, Mantra 5

Sukta 8.2

Rishi: Medhyātithi Kāṇva (traditional for RV 8.2)

Devata: Indra

Chandas: Gāyatrī (probable for RV 8.2 opening; requires metrical verification)

Samhita Patha (Devanagari)

न यं शुक्रो न दुराशीर्न तृप्रा उरुव्यचसम् । अपस्पृण्वते सुहार्दम् ॥

Recitation with translationRig Veda 8.2.5

Transliteration

ná yaṃ śukró ná durāśī́r ná tṛprā́ uruvyácasam | apaspṛṇváte suhā́rdam ||

Translation

その光輝の広がる者を、輝ける力も、悪意も、自己満足も、押し退けることはできない。彼は善き心の力、正しき歩みから排されぬもの。

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Word by Word

• न: not
• न: —
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: न

• यम्: whom
• यम्: Karma
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: यद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)

• शुक्रः: the bright/pure one
• शुक्रः: Kartā (implicit predicate/subject in nominal clause)
• Type: Adjective (used substantively)
• Root: शुक्र (प्रातिपदिक)

• न: not
• न: —
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: न

• दुराशीः: ill-wish, evil benediction
• दुराशीः: Kartā (implicit predicate/subject in nominal clause)
• Type: Noun (abstract) / Adjective
• Root: दुराशी (प्रातिपदिक: दुर्- + आशी ‘wish/benediction’)

• न: not
• न: —
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: न

• तृप्राः: the satiating one / the sated one
• तृप्राः: Kartā (implicit predicate/subject in nominal clause)
• Type: Adjective (used substantively)
• Root: तृप्र (प्रातिपदिक; Vedic adj. ‘sated/satisfying’)

• उरुव्यचसम्: wide-reaching, far-extending
• उरुव्यचसम्: Karma (qualifier of यम्)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: उरुव्यचस् (प्रातिपदिक; उरु- ‘wide’ + व्यचस् ‘expanse, reach’)

• अपस्पृण्वते: to/for the one who wards off (keeps away)
• अपस्पृण्वते: Sampradāna (recipient/beneficiary sense: ‘to/for the repelling one’)
• Type: Verb (present participial form used as finite-like in Vedic) / Kṛdanta
• Root: √स्पृ (स्पृणोति/स्पृणुते; ‘to touch, to reach’; with preverb अप-)

• सुहार्दम्: goodwill, friendly-heartedness
• सुहार्दम्: Karma (object: ‘goodwill/friendship’)
• Type: Noun (abstract) / Adjective
• Root: सुहार्द (प्रातिपदिक; सु- ‘good’ + हार्द ‘heart, friendliness’)