Mantra 33

Sukta 3

Sanskrit (Devanagari)

वनस्पते स्तीर्णमा सीद बर्हिरग्निष्टोभैः संमितो देवताभिः । त्वष्ट्रेव रूपं सुकृतं स्वधित्यैना एहाः परि पात्रे ददृश्राम्

IAST Transliteration

vánaspate stīrṇám ā́ sīdá barhír agniṣṭóbhaiḥ sáṃmito devátābhiḥ | tváṣṭrevá rūpáṃ sukṛtáṃ svádhityai enā́ ehā́ḥ pári pā́tre dadṛśrām

English Translation (Griffith/Whitney)

O Lord of the Wood, sit down upon the strewn Barhis, duly measured with Agniṣṭobha-chants, with the Gods. Like Tvaṣṭṛ, a form well-fashioned for the axe’s right working—these here have we set in order about the vessel, made manifest to sight.

Translation

वनस्पते स्तीर्णमासीद बर्हिरग्निष्टोभैः संमितो देवताभिः। त्वष्ट्रेव रूपं सुकृतं स्वधित्यै—एना एहाः परि पात्रे ददृश्राम्।

Word by Word

वनस्पतेO lord of the forest (tree/wood)

स्तीर्णम्spread out, strewn

आhither; unto

सीदsit down

बर्हिःthe sacrificial grass (barhis)

अग्निष्टोभैःwith Agniṣṭoma(-chants/rites)

संमितःmeasured/regulated; duly arranged

देवताभिःwith the deities

त्वष्ट्राby Tvaṣṭṛ (the divine artisan)

इवlike, as

रूपम्form, shape

सुकृतम्well-made, well-fashioned

स्वधित्यैfor the axe/adze (as instrument/purpose)

एनाःthese (f.)

एहाःthese comings/approaches; these here

परिaround

पात्रेin/at the vessel, bowl

ददृश्राम्we have seen; we beheld

Attribution

Rishi: Traditionally Atharvanic/Aṅgirasa transmission (book-level attribution; verse-level r̥ṣi not securely fixed in common indices)

Devata: Vanaspati (wood/forest lord) with implicit Tvaṣṭṛ as archetype of formation

Chandas: Mixed/triṣṭubh-like cadence (as transmitted in AV 12.3; metrical exactness depends on pada-counting of the recension)

Mantra Rasa

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