Verse 5

Ekakshara

Sanskrit (Devanagari)

त्वं वज्रभृद्भूतपतिस्त्वमेव । कामः प्रजानां निहितोऽसि सोमे । स्वाहा स्वधा यच्च वषट् करोति रुद्रः पशूनां गुहया निमग्नः ॥५॥

Padapatha (Word Split)

त्वम् । वज्र-भृत् । भूत-पतिः । त्वम्-एव । कामः । प्रजानाम् । निहितः । असि । सोमे । स्वाहा । स्वधा । यत्-च । वषट् । करोति । रुद्रः । पशूनाम् । गुहया । निमग्नः ।

IAST Transliteration

tvaṃ vajrabhṛd bhūtapatis tvam eva | kāmaḥ prajānāṃ nihito 'si some | svāhā svadhā yac ca vaṣaṭ karoti rudraḥ paśūnāṃ guhayā nimagnaḥ ||5||

Translation

သင်သည် ဝဇ္ရကို ကိုင်ဆောင်သူ၊ သင်တစ်ပါးတည်းသည် သတ္တဝါတို့၏ အရှင်ဖြစ်၏။ အို ဆိုမ၊ သင်သည် သတ္တဝါတို့အတွင်း၌ ထားရှိထားသော ကာမ ဖြစ်၏။ သင်သည် စွာဟာ၊ စွဓာ နှင့် ဝသတ်ဟု ဆောင်ရွက်သမျှလည်း ဖြစ်၏။ သင်သည် တိရစ္ဆာန်တို့၏ ရုဒ္ရ ဖြစ်၍ နှလုံး၏ ဂူအတွင်း၌ နစ်မြုပ်နေ၏။

Academic Translation

You are the wielder of the thunderbolt; you alone are the lord of beings. You are Kāma, placed within creatures, O Soma. (You are) svāhā, svadhā, and whatever performs the vaṣaṭ; (you are) Rudra of the beasts, immersed in the cave (of the heart).

Verse Context

• Īśvara as antaryāmin (inner controller) and the unity behind many deities/ritual functions
• Mahavakya: Supports ‘tat tvam asi’ (identity implied through the indwelling presence) when read as the one reality appearing as all divine powers and as the inner Self in the ‘cave’.
• Atharva
• Chandas: Mixed/irregular (stotra-style; not securely fixed to a single classical chandas)