Rig Veda 7.104.5: Mandala 7, Sukta 104, Mantra 5

Sukta 7.104

Rishi: Vasiṣṭha (traditional)

Devata: Indra-Soma

Chandas: Triṣṭubh

Samhita Patha (Devanagari)

इन्द्रासोमा वर्तयतं दिवस्पर्यग्नितप्तेभिर्युवमश्महन्मभिः । तपुर्वधेभिरजरेभिरत्रिणो नि पर्शाने विध्यतं यन्तु निस्वरम् ॥

Sanskrit recitationRig Veda 7.104.5

Transliteration

índrāsomā vartáyatam divás pári agnitaptébhir yuvám aśmahanmábhiḥ | tápurvadhebhir ajárebhir atríṇo ní parśā́ne vidhyatam yántu nisvarám ||

Translation

O Indra and Soma, turn your power around from heaven with stones made hot by Fire, with rock-smiting forces. With unaging burning strokes pierce down the devouring ones; let them go into the soundless realm, where no true word can arise.

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• इन्द्रासोमा: O Indra and Soma
• इन्द्रासोमा: सम्बोधन
• Type: Noun (dual vocative compound)
• Root: इन्द्र + सोम

• वर्तयतम्: turn/drive (them) away
• वर्तयतम्: क्रिया
• Type: Verb
• Root: वृत् (वर्तयति, caus.)

• दिवः: from heaven / of heaven
• दिवः: अपादान/सम्बन्ध (with परि)
• Type: Noun
• Root: दिव्/द्यौ (प्रातिपदिक: दिव्/द्यौः)

• परि: around; away from
• परि: उपपद-सम्बन्ध
• Type: Indeclinable (preverb/preposition)
• Root: परि

• अग्नितप्तेभिः: with fire-heated (ones/means)
• अग्नितप्तेभिः: करण
• Type: Adjective (instrumental plural)
• Root: अग्नि + तप् (कृदन्त: तप्त)

• युवम्: you two
• युवम्: कर्तृ
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: युष्मद्

• अश्महन्मभिः: with stone-smiters / with stone-strikers
• अश्महन्मभिः: करण
• Type: Noun/Adjective (instrumental plural)
• Root: अश्मन् + हन् (कृदन्त/बहुव्रीहि: अश्म-हन् ‘stone-smiting’)

• तपुर्वधेभिः: with burning weapons/slayings
• तपुर्वधेभिः: करण
• Type: Noun (instrumental plural compound)
• Root: तपु (तपस्/तपु ‘heat, burning’) + वध (slaying)

• अजरेभिः: with unaging/unyielding (ones)
• अजरेभिः: विशेषण (of the instruments)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: अजर (a-jar ‘not aging, unwearing’)

• अत्रिणः: the devourers/demons (Atrins)
• अत्रिणः: कर्म
• Type: Noun
• Root: अत्रिन्

• नि: down; into
• नि: क्रियाविशेषण
• Type: Indeclinable (preverb)
• Root: नि

• पर्शाने: the Parśānas (hostile beings/people)
• पर्शाने: कर्म (co-object with अत्रिणः)
• Type: Noun (proper/ethnonym-like)
• Root: पर्शान (name/term; ‘Parśāna’ as hostile being/people in RV usage)

• विध्यतम्: pierce; strike
• विध्यतम्: क्रिया
• Type: Verb
• Root: व्यध् (विध्यति)

• यन्तु: let them go
• यन्तु: क्रिया
• Type: Verb
• Root: या (याति)

• निःस्वरम्: soundlessly; without a cry
• निःस्वरम्: क्रियाविशेषण
• Type: Adverbial accusative (compound)
• Root: निः + स्वर