Rig Veda 7.31.10: Mandala 7, Sukta 31, Mantra 10

Sukta 7.31

Rishi: Vasiṣṭha

Devata: Indra

Chandas: Triṣṭubh

Samhita Patha (Devanagari)

प्र वो महे महिवृधे भरध्वं प्रचेतसे प्र सुमतिं कृणुध्वम् । विशः पूर्वीः प्र चरा चर्षणिप्राः ॥

Sanskrit recitationRig Veda 7.31.10

Transliteration

prá vo mahé mahivṛ́dhe bharadhvaṃ prácetase prá sumatíṃ kṛṇudhvam | víśaḥ pūrvī́ḥ prá carā carṣaṇiprā́ḥ ||

Translation

प्र वो महे महिवृधे भरध्वं प्रचेतसे प्र सुमतिं कृणुध्वम्। विशः पूर्वीः प्र चरा चर्षणिप्राः॥

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Word by Word

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

• वः: of you / for you
• वः: Sampradāna (beneficiary/for you)
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: युष्मद्

• महे: to the great (one)
• महे: Sampradāna
• Type: Adjective (used substantively)
• Root: महत्

• महिवृधे: to the greatly-increasing (one)
• महिवृधे: Sampradāna
• Type: Adjective (epithet)
• Root: महिवृध् (prātipadika: ‘great-growing, greatly increasing’)

• भरध्वम्: bring, bear (you all)
• भरध्वम्: —
• Type: Verb
• Root: भृ

• प्रचेतसे: to the wise/foreknowing (one)
• प्रचेतसे: Sampradāna
• Type: Adjective/Noun (epithet)
• Root: प्रचेतस् (prātipadika)

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

• सुमतिम्: good thought, good counsel, favor
• सुमतिम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: सुमति (सु- + मति)

• कृणुध्वम्: make, produce (you all)
• कृणुध्वम्: —
• Type: Verb
• Root: कृ

• विशः: clans, peoples
• विशः: Kartā
• Type: Noun
• Root: विश्

• पूर्वीः: former, earlier, ancient
• पूर्वीः: Kartā (qualifier of विशः)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: पूर्व

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

• चराः: move, go forth
• चराः: —
• Type: Verb
• Root: चर्

• चर्षणिप्राः: people-filling / people-gladdening
• चर्षणिप्राः: Kartā (epithet; agrees with an implied subject such as देवाः/इन्द्रः depending on interpretation)
• Type: Adjective (epithet)
• Root: चर्षणिप्र (prātipadika: ‘filling/pleasing the peoples’)