Mantra 3

Sukta 135

Sanskrit (Devanagari)

अलाबूनि पृषातकान्यश्वत्थपलाशम्। पिपीलिकावटश्वसो विद्युत्स्वापर्णशफो गोशफो जरितरोऽथामो दैव

IAST Transliteration

alā́būni pṛṣā́takāny áśvattha-palā́śam | pipī́likā vaṭa-śvásaḥ vidyút svā́parṇa-śaphó gośaphó jaritaro ’thā́mo daiváḥ

English Translation (Griffith/Whitney)

Gourds, and the speckled things; the leaf of the Aśvattha; the ant; the banyan-breath; lightning; the fair-leafed, hoofed one; the cow-hoofed: O Singer—then, the divine raw might.

Translation

ਅਲਾਬੂ (ਲੌਕੀ/ਤੁੰਬੇ) ਅਤੇ ਪૃષਾਤਕ (ਚਿੱਟੇ-ਚਿੱਟੇ/ਚਿਤਰੇ) ਪਦਾਰਥ; ਅਸ਼ਵਤ्थ ਦਾ ਪਲਾਸ਼ (ਪੱਤਾ); ਪਿਪੀਲਿਕਾ (ਚੀਂਟੀ); ਵਟ-ਸ਼ਵਸ (ਵਟ-ਵ੍ਰਿੱਖ ਦਾ ਸ਼ਵਾਸ/ਵਾਯੂ); ਵਿਦ੍ਯੁਤ (ਬਿਜਲੀ/ਮਿੰਨ੍ਹ); ਸੁ-ਆਪਰਨ (ਸੋਹਣੇ ਪੱਤਿਆਂ ਵਾਲਾ), ਸ਼ਫਵੰਤ (ਖੁਰਾਂ ਵਾਲਾ) ਇਕ; ਗੋ-ਸ਼ਫ (ਗਾਂ ਦੇ ਖੁਰਾਂ ਵਾਲਾ) — ਹੇ ਜਰਿਤਰ (ਸਤੁਤੀਕਾਰ/ਗਾਇਕ), ਫਿਰ ਦੈਵ ਅਮ (ਦਿਵ੍ਯ ਕੱਚੀ ਸ਼ਕਤੀ/ਬਲ)।

Word by Word

• अलाबूनि: gourds (bottle-gourds)
• अलाबूनि: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: अलाबू (प्रातिपदिक)

• पृषातकानि: speckled ones / a kind of plant (pṛṣātaka)
• पृषातकानि: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: पृषातक (प्रातिपदिक)

• अश्वत्थपलाशम्: leaf of the aśvattha (sacred fig)
• अश्वत्थपलाशम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: अश्वत्थ-पलाश (समास; प्रातिपदिक)

• पिपीलिकावटश्वसः: the ‘ant-banyan-breath’ (a named creature/being; lit. ant + banyan + breath)
• पिपीलिकावटश्वसः: Kartā
• Type: Noun
• Root: पिपीलिका-वट-श्वस् (समास; प्रातिपदिक)

• विद्युत्स्वापर्णशफः: the ‘lightning–fair-leaf–hoofed’ one (a named being)
• विद्युत्स्वापर्णशफः: Kartā
• Type: Noun
• Root: विद्युत्-स्वापर्ण-शफ (समास; प्रातिपदिक)

• गोशफः: the cow-hoofed one
• गोशफः: Kartā
• Type: Noun
• Root: गो-शफ (समास; प्रातिपदिक)

• जरितरः: the singer/praiser
• जरितरः: Kartā
• Type: Noun
• Root: जरितृ (प्रातिपदिक; √जॄ/√जर् ‘to sing/praise’)

• अथ: then / and now
• अथ: —
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: अथ

• अमो: Am(a) (a proper/name-like term; exact sense uncertain)
• अमो: Kartā
• Type: Noun
• Root: अम (प्रातिपदिक) अथवा ‘अमः’ (पाठभेद-संभाव्य)

• दैव: divine; a divine (thing/being)
• दैव: —
• Type: Adjective/Noun
• Root: दैव (प्रातिपदिक) < देव

Attribution

Rishi: Tradition aligns AV 20 hymns with Rigvedic attributions; specific r̥ṣi for 20.135 is treated as RV-derived (uncertain here without padānukramaṇī cross-check).

Devata: Deva/Daiva efficacy; broadly sacrificial powers rather than a single deity in this verse.

Chandas: Mixed/irregular (catalogue line); AV 20 often preserves RV meters but this segment is not cleanly anuṣṭubh.

Mantra Rasa

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