Mantra 1

Sukta 117

Sanskrit (Devanagari)

आनृण्यम्। अपमित्यमप्रतीत्तं यदस्मि यमस्य येन बलिना चरामि । इदं तदग्ने अनृणो भवामि त्वं पाशान् विचृतं वेत्थ सर्वान्

IAST Transliteration

ā́nṛṇyam | apamítyam ápratīttaṃ yád ásmi yamásya yéna balínā cárāmi | idáṃ tád agne anṛṇó bhavāmi tváṃ pā́śān vicṛ́taṃ véttha sárvān

English Translation (Griffith/Whitney)

Freedom from debt. The ill-lot, the unpaid due—whereby I stand within Yama’s sphere and, constrained by force, go my way: even that, O Agni, from this day I make mine own discharge; do thou—who knowest every noose, in all its spread—set me unbound.

Translation

ಋಣಮುಕ್ತಿ. ದುರ್ಭಾಗ್ಯ, ಪಾವತಿಸದ ಬಾಕಿ—ಅದರಿಂದ ನಾನು ಯಮನ ವಲಯದಲ್ಲಿ ನಿಂತು, ಬಲದಿಂದ ಕಟ್ಟಲ್ಪಟ್ಟು ನನ್ನ ದಾರಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ನಡೆಯುತ್ತೇನೆ—ಅದೇ, ಓ ಅಗ್ನಿ, ಇಂದಿನಿಂದ ನಾನು ಋಣರಹಿತನಾಗುತ್ತೇನೆ. ನೀನು, ಎಲ್ಲ ಪಾಶಗಳನ್ನು ಅವುಗಳ ಸಮಸ್ತ ವ್ಯಾಪ್ತಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ತಿಳಿದವನು, ನನ್ನನ್ನು ಬಂಧನರಹಿತನಾಗಿ ಮಾಡು.

Word by Word

• आनृण्यम्: freedom from debt (debtlessness)
• आनृण्यम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: आनृण्य (प्रातिपदिक; a-नृण ‘ऋण’ से) अथवा नृण (ऋण)

• अपमित्यम्: harm, wasting disease/affliction
• अपमित्यम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: अपमित्य (प्रातिपदिक; अप + मित्य/मित्या ‘हानि/क्षय/दोष’)

• अप्रतीत्तम्: not gone away, not removed
• अप्रतीत्तम्: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: प्र-इ (धातु √इ ‘गमन’/‘प्राप्ति’) → प्रतीत (कृदन्त), नञ्-पूर्वक

• यत्: which/that
• यत्: Karma
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: यद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)

• अस्मि: I am
• अस्मि: —
• Type: Verb
• Root: √अस् (भू-आदि; ‘to be’)

• यमस्य: of Yama (lord of death)
• यमस्य: Adhikaraṇa
• Type: Noun
• Root: यम (प्रातिपदिक)

• येन: by which
• येन: Karaṇa
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: यद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)

• बलिना: by/with the mighty one (strong power)
• बलिना: Karaṇa
• Type: Adjective
• Root: बलिन् (प्रातिपदिक; ‘possessing strength’, ‘mighty’)

• चरामि: I move about / I live
• चरामि: Kartā
• Type: Verb
• Root: √चर् (भ्वादि; ‘to move, to go about, to live’)

• इदम्: this
• इदम्: Karma
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: इदम् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)

• तत्: that
• तत्: Karma
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)

• अग्ने: O Agni
• अग्ने: Sampradāna
• Type: Noun
• Root: अग्नि (प्रातिपदिक)

• अनृणः: debtless
• अनृणः: Kartā
• Type: Adjective
• Root: अनृण (प्रातिपदिक; a-ऋण)

• भवामि: I become / may I be
• भवामि: —
• Type: Verb
• Root: √भू (भ्वादि; ‘to be, become’)

• त्वम्: you
• त्वम्: Kartā
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: युष्मद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)

• पाशान्: nooses, bonds
• पाशान्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: पाश (प्रातिपदिक)

• विचृतम्: loosened, spread out, undone
• विचृतम्: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: वि-√चृ (धातु √चृ/चर् ‘to move, to go’; ‘to loosen/disperse’ in context) → विचृत (कृदन्त)

• वेत्थ: you know
• वेत्थ: —
• Type: Verb
• Root: √विद् (धातु √विद् ‘to know’; परस्मैपद)

• सर्वान्: all
• सर्वान्: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सर्व (प्रातिपदिक)

Attribution

Rishi: Atharvanic tradition (Anṛṇya-sūkta; specific ṛṣi attribution varies in ancillary lists)

Devata: Agni (as bond-loosener) with implicit reference to Yama’s pāśas

Chandas: Anuṣṭubh (predominant for this cluster)

Mantra Rasa

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