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Rig Veda 1.154.6: Mandala 1, Sukta 154, Mantra 6

Sukta 1.154

Rishi: Dīrghatamas Aucathya (traditional attribution for RV 1.154)
Devata: Viṣṇu (with the hymn’s wider frame sometimes moving in the Indra–Viṣṇu companionship of world-conquest; this verse centers on Viṣṇu’s supreme step)
Chandas: Triṣṭubh

ता वां वास्तून्युश्मसि गमध्यै यत्र गावो भूरिशृङ्गा अयासः । अत्राह तदुरुगायस्य वृष्णः परमं पदमव भाति भूरि ॥

Recitation with translationRig Veda 1.154.6

tā vāṃ vāstūny uśmasi gamadhyai yatra gāvo bhūriśṛṅgā ayāsaḥ | atrāha tad urugāyasya vṛṣṇaḥ paramaṃ padam ava bhāti bhūri ||

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ताःthose (places/dwellings)
ताः:
कर्म
TypePronoun
Rootतद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
वाम्of you two / for you two
वाम्:
सम्बन्ध (genitive)
TypePronoun
Rootयुष्मद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
वास्तूनिdwellings, abodes
वास्तूनि:
कर्म (ताः … वास्तूनि = object-complex)
TypeNoun
Rootवास्तु- (प्रातिपदिक)
उश्मसिwe desire
उश्मसि:
(क्रिया)
TypeVerb
Rootवश् (धातु; वशँ/उशँ ‘इच्छायाम्’—Vedic: ‘to wish, desire’)
गम्to go
गम्:
प्रयोजन (to go, purpose)
TypeVerb (infinitive base)
Rootगम् (धातु)
अध्यैin order to (go)
अध्यै:
प्रयोजन
TypeInfinitive (purpose)
Rootअधि + इ (धातु) / Vedic infinitive ending -अध्यै
यत्रwhere
यत्र:
अधिकरण
TypeIndeclinable
Rootयत्र (अव्यय)
गावःcows
गावः:
कर्तृ
TypeNoun
Rootगो- (प्रातिपदिक)
भूरि-शृङ्गाःhaving many horns (i.e., richly horned)
भूरि-शृङ्गाः:
कर्तृ (गावः का विशेषणम्)
TypeAdjective (compound)
Rootभूरि (अव्यय/विशेषण) + शृङ्ग- (प्रातिपदिक)
अयासःunwearied, without fatigue
अयासः:
कर्तृ (गावः का विशेषणम्)
TypeAdjective
Rootअयास- (प्रातिपदिक; a- + यास ‘weariness/strain’)
अत्रhere
अत्र:
अधिकरण
TypeIndeclinable
Rootअत्र (अव्यय)
अहindeed, surely
अह:
—
TypeIndeclinable
Rootअह (निपात; Vedic emphatic particle)
तत्that
तत्:
कर्तृ (भाति इति क्रियायाः विषयः)
TypePronoun
Rootतद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
उरुगायस्यof the wide-striding (Viṣṇu)
उरुगायस्य:
सम्बन्ध
TypeNoun/Adjective (epithet)
Rootउरुगाय- (प्रातिपदिक; ‘wide-going/wide-striding’, epithet)
वृष्णःof the mighty one (the Bull)
वृष्णः:
सम्बन्ध
TypeNoun (epithet)
Rootवृषन्- (प्रातिपदिक; ‘bull’, ‘mighty one’)
परमम्highest, supreme
परमम्:
कर्तृ/कर्म (पदम् के साथ; here as predicate-nominal with ‘पदम्’)
TypeAdjective
Rootपरम- (प्रातिपदिक)
पदम्step; place; station
पदम्:
कर्तृ (भाति)
TypeNoun
Rootपद- (प्रातिपदिक)
अवdown/clearly forth (as particle with ‘भाति’)
अव:
—
TypeIndeclinable
Rootअव (उपसर्ग/अव्यय)
भातिshines, appears
भाति:
(क्रिया)
TypeVerb
Rootभा (धातु) ‘दीप्तौ’
भूरिabundantly, greatly
भूरि:
विशेषण (भाति)
TypeIndeclinable (adverbial)
Rootभूरि (अव्यय/विशेषण)

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