Rig Veda 9.24.7 — Mandala 9, Sukta 24, Mantra 7

Sukta 9.24

Devata: Soma Pavamāna

Samhita Patha (Devanagari)

शुचिः पावक उच्यते सोमः सुतस्य मध्वः । देवावीरघशंसहा ॥

Transliteration

śúciḥ pāvaká ucyate sómaḥ sutásya mádhvaḥ | devāvī́r aghaśaṃsahā́ ||

Translation

Pure and flaming-clear is Soma called, of the pressed sweetness; a hero for the gods, slayer of the ill-speaking darkness—he guards the divine life in us.

Word by Word

• शुचिः: pure, bright
• शुचिः: विशेषणम् (कर्तृपदस्य) / Kartā-qualifier
• Type: Adjective
• Root: शुचि- (प्रातिपदिक; √शुच् ‘to be bright/pure’)

• पावकः: the purifier
• पावकः: कर्तृ / Kartā
• Type: Adjective (used substantively)
• Root: पावक- (प्रातिपदिक; √पू ‘to purify’ > पावक ‘purifier’)

• उच्यते: is called
• उच्यते: क्रिया / verbal predicate
• Type: Verb
• Root: √वच् (passive: उच्यते)

• सोमः: Soma
• सोमः: कर्तृ / Kartā (of ‘उच्यते’)
• Type: Noun
• Root: सोम- (प्रातिपदिक)

• सुतस्य: of the pressed (Soma)
• सुतस्य: सम्बन्ध / genitival relation
• Type: Noun/Adjective
• Root: सुत- (ppp of √सु ‘to press/extract’)

• मध्वः: of sweetness / of honey
• मध्वः: सम्बन्ध / genitival relation
• Type: Noun
• Root: मधु- (प्रातिपदिक)

• देवावीरः: god-heroic, having divine heroes
• देवावीरः: विशेषणम् (सोमस्य) / Kartā-qualifier
• Type: Adjective (epithet)
• Root: देव- + वीर- (समासः: कर्मधारय/तत्पुरुष; ‘divine-heroic’)

• अघशंसहा: slayer of evil-speaking / destroyer of harmful praise (calumny)
• अघशंसहा: विशेषणम् (सोमस्य) / Kartā-qualifier
• Type: Adjective (agent-noun epithet)
• Root: अघ-शंस-हन् (समासः; √हन् ‘to slay’ with kṛt -a: -हा ‘slayer’)