Atharva Veda 20.128.5: Kanda 20, Anuvaka 13, Sukta 128, Mantra 5

Sukta 128

Sanskrit (Devanagari)

ये च॑ दे॒वा अय॑ज॒न्ताथो॒ ये च॑ पराद॒दिः । सूर्यो॒ दिव॑मिव ग॒त्वाय॑ म॒घवा॑ नो॒ वि र॑प्शते

Recitation with translationAtharva Veda 20.128.5

IAST Transliteration

yé ca devā́ áyajan ā́tho yé ca parādadíḥ | sū́ryo dívam iva gatvā́ya maghávā no ví rapśate ||

English Translation (Griffith/Whitney)

Both they who sacrificed not—yea, they who cast the rite away—(as) the Sun, as though to heaven he had departed: the Bounteous One doth rend us asunder.

Translation

Zarówno ci, którzy nie składali ofiar - tak, ci, którzy porzucili obrzęd - jak Słońce, jakby do nieba odszedł: Szczodry rozdziera nas na dwoje.

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Word by Word

• ये: who (those who)
• ये: Kartā
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: यद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)

• च: and
• च: —
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च (निपात)

• देवाः: the gods
• देवाः: Kartā
• Type: Noun
• Root: देव (प्रातिपदिक)

• अयजन्त: they worshipped / they sacrificed
• अयजन्त: Kriyā
• Type: Verb
• Root: यज् (धातु)

• अथो: and also / moreover
• अथो: —
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: अथ + उ (निपात-समुच्चय)

• ये: who (those who)
• ये: Kartā
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: यद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)

• च: and
• च: —
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च (निपात)

• पराददिः: they gave away / bestowed forth
• पराददिः: Kriyā
• Type: Verb
• Root: दा (धातु) + परा (उपसर्ग)

• सूर्यः: the Sun
• सूर्यः: Kartā
• Type: Noun
• Root: सूर्य (प्रातिपदिक)

• दिवम्: heaven / the sky
• दिवम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: दिव्/द्यौ (प्रातिपदिक: दिव् ‘sky, heaven’)

• इव: like, as
• इव: —
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: इव (निपात)

• गत्वाय: for going / to go
• गत्वाय: Prayojana (purpose)
• Type: Verbal derivative
• Root: गम् (धातु) → गत (कृदन्त) + -वाय (दातिव/अर्थे)

• मघवा: Maghavan (Indra, the bountiful)
• मघवा: Kartā
• Type: Noun (epithet)
• Root: मघवन् (प्रातिपदिक; इन्द्र-विशेषण)

• नः: to us / for us
• नः: Sampradāna
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: अस्मद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)

• वि: apart, forth, widely
• वि: —
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: वि (उपसर्ग/निपात)

• रप्शते: he strikes/harms (spreads injury)
• रप्शते: Kriyā
• Type: Verb
• Root: रप्श् (धातु; ‘to injure/strike/tear’, वैदिक) + वि

Attribution

Rishi: Ṛgvedic provenance (AV 20 supplement); specific ṛṣi uncertain.

Devata: Sūrya (explicit) and Maghavān/Indra (by epithet).

Chandas: Anuṣṭubh (approx.)

Mantra Rasa

Primary: bhayankara

Secondary: raudra