Rig Veda 8.12.8: Mandala 8, Sukta 12, Mantra 8

Sukta 8.12

Devata: Indra

Chandas: Gayatri (likely; needs confirmation)

Samhita Patha (Devanagari)

यदि प्रवृद्ध सत्पते सहस्रं महिषाँ अघः । आदित्त इन्द्रियं महि प्र वावृधे ॥

Sanskrit recitationRig Veda 8.12.8

Transliteration

yádi pravṛddha satpate sahásraṃ mahiṣā́m̐ ághaḥ | ā́d ít te indriyáṃ máhi prá vāvṛdhe ||

Translation

Если ты, о возросший в силе владыка истины, поразил тысячу яростных нападающих, — тогда воистину твоё индрия, твоя царственная мощь, разрослась — великая и могучая.

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Word by Word

• यदि: if
• यदि: —
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: यदि (avyaya)

• प्रवृद्ध: grown great, increased
• प्रवृद्ध: —
• Type: Adjective (past passive participle)
• Root: वृध् (dhātu) → प्रवृद्ध (PPP)

• सत्पते: O lord of the good/true (O good lord)
• सत्पते: Sambodhana
• Type: Noun (compound)
• Root: सत् + पति (prātipadika: सत्पति)

• सहस्रम्: a thousand
• सहस्रम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: सहस्र (prātipadika)

• महिषान्: buffaloes (mighty bulls)
• महिषान्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: महिष (prātipadika)

• अघः: evil, harm
• अघः: Kartā
• Type: Noun
• Root: अघ (prātipadika)

• आ: to, forth; indeed
• आ: —
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: आ (upasarga/particle)

• दित्: just, indeed
• दित्: —
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: दित् (particle, Vedic emphatic)

• ते: of you, your
• ते: Ṣaṣṭhī-sambandha
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: त्वद् (pronoun)

• इन्द्रियम्: power, vigor, Indra-might
• इन्द्रियम्: Kartā
• Type: Noun
• Root: इन्द्रिय (prātipadika)

• महि: greatly, mightily
• महि: —
• Type: Indeclinable (adverb)
• Root: महि (avyaya; also old instr. of मह्/महत् used adverbially)

• प्र: forth, forward
• प्र: —
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: प्र (upasarga)

• वावृधे: has grown, has increased
• वावृधे: —
• Type: Verb
• Root: वृध् (dhātu)