Rig Veda 5.73.6 — Mandala 5, Sukta 73, Mantra 6

Sukta 5.73

Rishi: Atri (mentioned within the verse; composer attribution for the sukta may be Atri lineage, but not asserted here)

Devata: Aśvins (Nāsatyā)

Samhita Patha (Devanagari)

युवोरत्रिश्चिकेतति नरा सुम्नेन चेतसा । घर्मं यद्वामरेपसं नासत्यास्ना भुरण्यति ॥

Transliteration

yuvór átriś ciketati nárā sumnéna cétasā | gharmáṃ yád vām arepásaṃ nā́satyā āsnā́ bhuraṇyáti ||

Translation

Atri becomes aware of you, O heroes, by the happy grace and the awakened mind. When he bears in his mouth the flawless gharmá—your warm, luminous offering—O Nāsatyas, he hastens with it as a power of swift fulfilment.

Word by Word

• युवोः: of you two / in you two
• युवोः: सम्बन्ध (genitival relation) / अधिकरण (if loc.)
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: युव (युष्मद्-द्विवचन-षष्ठी/सप्तमी) सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक

• अत्रिः: Atri (the seer)
• अत्रिः: कर्तृ
• Type: Noun (proper)
• Root: अत्रि (ऋषि-नाम) प्रातिपदिक

• चिकेतति: perceives / understands
• चिकेतति: क्रिया
• Type: Verb
• Root: √चित् (चेतति/चिकेतति) ‘to perceive, notice, understand’

• नरा: O two men (i.e., O Aśvins)
• नरा: सम्बोधन
• Type: Noun
• Root: नर प्रातिपदिक

• सुम्नेन: by (your) favor / grace
• सुम्नेन: करण
• Type: Noun
• Root: सुम्न प्रातिपदिक

• चेतसा: with mind / with understanding
• चेतसा: करण
• Type: Noun
• Root: चेतस् प्रातिपदिक

• घर्मम्: the hot drink (gharma)
• घर्मम्: कर्म
• Type: Noun
• Root: घर्म प्रातिपदिक

• यत्: which / that (when)
• यत्: कर्म-सम्बन्ध / सम्बन्ध
• Type: Pronoun (relative)
• Root: यद् (सम्बन्ध-प्रातिपदिक) सर्वनाम

• वाम्: of you two
• वाम्: सम्बन्ध (genitival)
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: युष्मद् (द्विवचन-षष्ठी/द्वितीया) सर्वनाम

• अरेपसम्: spotless / faultless
• अरेपसम्: कर्म (विशेषणम्)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: अ-रेपस् (रेपस् ‘stain, defect’ < √रिप्/√लिप् semantic ‘to smear’; privative a-) प्रातिपदिक

• नासत्या: O Nāsatyas (Aśvins)
• नासत्या: सम्बोधन
• Type: Noun (proper)
• Root: नासत्य (अश्विनौ) प्रातिपदिक

• अस्ना: with a stone/bone (as an implement)
• अस्ना: करण
• Type: Noun (used adverbially)
• Root: अस्ना (Vedic instr. of अस्थि/अस्थन् ‘bone’ or ‘stone’; also used adverbially ‘with a stone/bone’)

• भुरण्यति: moves swiftly / bestirs (itself)
• भुरण्यति: क्रिया
• Type: Verb
• Root: √भुरण्/√भुर् (Vedic) ‘to move swiftly, to bustle, to be eager/active’