Rig Veda 9.7.4: Mandala 9, Sukta 7, Mantra 4

Sukta 9.7

Rishi: unknown (not supplied in input)

Devata: Soma Pavamāna

Chandas: unknown (not supplied in input)

Samhita Patha (Devanagari)

परि यत्काव्या कविर्नृम्णा वसानो अर्षति । स्वर्वाजी सिषासति ॥

Sanskrit recitationRig Veda 9.7.4

Transliteration

pári yát kā́vyā kavír nṛ́mṇā vásāno árṣati | svàr-vājī sisāsati ||

Translation

When the seer, clothed in might, moves all around with the poet’s inspiration, he, winner of the Sun-world and of plenitude, seeks to master and perfect the energies.

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Word by Word

• परि: around; forth
• परि: —
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: परि (upasarga) / pari (indecl.)

• यत्: which (that)
• यत्: Kartā (of अर्षति)
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: यद् (sarvanāma-stem) / relative pronoun

• काव्याः: the poetic (powers/insights); the inspired (ones)
• काव्याः: Kartā (of सिषासति) (collective subject)
• Type: Adjective (used substantively) / Noun
• Root: काव्य (adj./n. from कवि)

• कविः: the seer; poet
• कविः: Kartā (apposition to यत्) (of अर्षति)
• Type: Noun
• Root: कवि (prātipadika)

• नृम्णा: with manly power; with heroic might
• नृम्णा: Karaṇa (means) (with वसानः)
• Type: Noun
• Root: नृम्ण (prātipadika)

• वसानः: wearing; clothed (in)
• वसानः: Kartā (descriptive of subject) / Karaṇa-sambandha
• Type: Participle
• Root: √वस् (वस्—‘to clothe, wear’)

• अर्षति: streams; rushes; flows
• अर्षति: Kriyā (main verb); subject = यत्/कविः
• Type: Verb
• Root: √ऋष्/अर्ष् (Vedic: ‘to flow, rush, stream’)

• स्वर्वाजी: heaven-winning; possessing radiant strength/prize
• स्वर्वाजी: Kartā (descriptive epithet of subject)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: स्वर् + वाजिन् (compound: ‘having light/heaven’ + ‘having prize/strength’)

• सिषासति: desires to impel/command; seeks to set in motion
• सिषासति: Kriyā (secondary verb); subject = काव्याः (or the same subject in poetic apposition)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √शास् (to instruct/impel/command) with desiderative formation (siṣās-)