Rig Veda 4.32.24: Mandala 4, Sukta 32, Mantra 24

Sukta 4.32

Rishi: Vāmadeva Gautama

Devata: Indra’s Harīs/Babhrū (and by extension Indra)

Chandas: Anuṣṭubh

Samhita Patha (Devanagari)

अरं म उस्रयाम्णेऽरमनुस्रयाम्णे । बभ्रू यामेष्वस्रिधा ॥

Transliteration

áraṃ ma usrāyāmṇé’ram ánusrayāmṇe | babhrū́ yā́meṣv asrídhā ||

Translation

Sufficient for me is their leading toward the dawn-light, sufficient their following of that leading; the tawny pair in their journeys are unfailing—energies that do not slip from the true movement.

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Word by Word

• अरम्: duly, sufficiently, properly
• अरम्: —
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: अरम् (अव्यय-प्रातिपदिक; PIE *h₂er- ‘fit, proper’)

• मे: for me / to me / my
• मे: Sampradāna (हित/लाभ-सम्बन्ध) / Possessor
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: अहम् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)

• उस्रयाम्णे: to the one connected with the ruddy cows (epithet)
• उस्रयाम्णे: Sampradāna
• Type: Noun/Adjective (epithet)
• Root: उस्रयामन्- (प्रातिपदिक; ‘having/going with the ruddy cows/with dawn-cows’; Vedic compound)

• अरम्: duly, sufficiently
• अरम्: —
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: अरम् (अव्यय)

• अनुस्रयाम्णे: to the follower/one going along with the ruddy cows
• अनुस्रयाम्णे: Sampradāna
• Type: Noun/Adjective (epithet)
• Root: अनु- + स्रयामन्- (प्रातिपदिक; ‘following/along with the ruddy cows’; Vedic compound)

• बभ्रू: the brown/reddish one (epithet)
• बभ्रू: Kartā (as subject-epithet)
• Type: Adjective/Noun
• Root: बभ्रु- (प्रातिपदिक)

• यामेषु: in the courses/ways; in the journeys
• यामेषु: Adhikaraṇa
• Type: Noun
• Root: याम- (प्रातिपदिक)

• अस्रिधा: unfailing(ly), without error
• अस्रिधा: —
• Type: Adjective (indeclinable-like usage in Vedic)
• Root: अस्रिध्- (प्रातिपदिक; a- + स्रिध् ‘fail, go wrong’)