Rig Veda 7.94.7: Mandala 7, Sukta 94, Mantra 7

Sukta 7.94

Rishi: Vasiṣṭha (attribution by Maṇḍala 7 lineage; specific verse-level attribution not separately given in input)

Devata: Indrāgnī

Chandas: Triṣṭubh (probable; confirm via metrical scan)

Samhita Patha (Devanagari)

इन्द्राग्नी अवसा गतमस्मभ्यं चर्षणीसहा । मा नो दुःशंस ईशत ॥

Transliteration

indrā́gnī avásā gátam asmábhyaṃ carṣaṇī-sahā | mā no duḥśáṃsa īśata ||

Translation

O Indra and Agni, come to us with your protecting help, you who prevail for the peoples; let not the hostile ill-will gain mastery over us.

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• इन्द्राग्नी: O Indra and Agni
• इन्द्राग्नी: सम्बोधन (आह्वान)
• Type: Noun
• Root: इन्द्र + अग्नि (प्रातिपदिक) (द्वन्द्व-समास)

• अवसा: with help, by aid
• अवसा: करण (means/instrument)
• Type: Noun
• Root: अवस् (प्रातिपदिक)

• गतम्: come (you two), having come
• गतम्: क्रिया (आह्वान/आदेशः: ‘come!’)
• Type: Verb (participle used imperatively) / Adjective
• Root: √गम् (गच्छति) → गत (कृदन्त, क्त)

• अस्मभ्यम्: to us, for us
• अस्मभ्यम्: सम्प्रदान (to/for us)
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: अस्मद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)

• चर्षणीसहा: O you two, helpers/overcomers of the peoples
• चर्षणीसहा: सम्बोधन (विशेषणरूपेण)
• Type: Adjective (epithet)
• Root: चर्षणी-सह (प्रातिपदिक; बहुव्रीहि/कर्मधारय-समासः)

• मा: do not
• मा: —
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: मा (निषेध-अव्यय)

• नः: of us
• नः: सम्बन्ध (genitive relation)
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: अस्मद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)

• दुःशंसः: the ill-speaker, slanderer
• दुःशंसः: कर्तृ (ईशत् इत्यस्य कर्ता)
• Type: Noun/Adjective
• Root: दुः-शंस (प्रातिपदिक; उपसर्गपूर्वक-समासः)

• ईशत: may (he) not rule over / have power (over)
• ईशत: क्रिया
• Type: Verb
• Root: √ईश् (ईष्टे/ईशते ‘to rule, have power’)