Adhyaya 12 Mantra 48 - Shukla Yajurveda | Lao | Vedapath

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Mantra 48

Rishi: Traditional: attributed within the Agni-hymnic stream (ṛṣi not explicitly marked in VS)

Devata: Agni

Chandas: Triṣṭubh (by cadence and pāda-length typical of RV-style Agni-stuti)

Samhita Patha (Devanagari)

अग्ने॒ यत्ते॑ दि॒वि वर्च॑ः पृथि॒व्यां यदोष॑धीष्व॒प्स्वा य॑जत्र । येना॒न्तरि॑क्षमु॒र्वा॑त॒तन्थ॑ त्वे॒षः स भा॒नुर॑र्ण॒वो नृ॒चक्षा॑ः ॥

Transliteration

agné yát te diví várcaḥ pṛthivyā́ṃ yád oṣadhī́ṣv apsv ā́ yajatra | yénāntárikṣam urvā́ tatántha tveṣáḥ sá bhānúr arṇavó nṛcákṣāḥ ||

Translation

O Agni, that splendour of thine which is in heaven, and that which is on earth, and that which is in the plants and in the waters, O adorable one,—wherewith thou hast stretched out the wide mid-air: that fierce beam of thine, the flood-like radiance, is manifest unto men.

Padapatha (Word Analysis)

अग्ने । यत् । ते । दिवि । वर्चः । पृथिव्याम् । यत् । ओषधीषु । अप्सु । आ । यजत्र । येन । अन्तरिक्षम् । उर्वा । ततन्थ । त्वेषः । सः । भानुः । अर्णवः । नृ-चक्षाः ।

Word by Word

अग्नेO Agni

यत्whatever (that which)

तेof you / your

दिविin heaven

वर्चःsplendour, radiance

पृथिव्याम्on earth

यत्whatever

ओषधीषुin the plants

अप्सुin the waters

आunto, into (intensifier/goal)

यजत्रO worshipful one

येनby which

अन्तरिक्षम्the mid-air, atmosphere

उर्वाwith the wide (expanse) / broadly

आततन्थyou stretched out, extended

त्वेषःthe blazing one / fiery (Agni)

सःhe, that (one)

भानुःbeam, light

अर्णवःocean, flood

नlike, as

नृचक्षाःhaving men as beholders / seen by men

Entities Mentioned

Agni

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