Rig Veda 8.47.6: Mandala 8, Sukta 47, Mantra 6

Sukta 8.47

Rishi: Not determinable from provided excerpt alone (hymn header not included).

Devata: Ādityas (with general address to Devāḥ; horizon of Aditi’s powers)

Chandas: Not determinable with certainty from excerpt; refrain suggests a structured strophic hymn.

Samhita Patha (Devanagari)

परिह्वृतेदना जनो युष्मादत्तस्य वायति । देवा अदभ्रमाश वो यमादित्या अहेतनानेहसो व ऊतयः सुतयो व ऊतयः ॥

Transliteration

pari-hvṛtédanā jano yuṣmā́dattasya vāyati | devā́ adábhram ā́śa vo yám ādityā́ ahetanānehasaḥ vo ūtáyaḥ su-ūtáyaḥ vo ūtáyaḥ ||

Translation

यदा जनः परिह्वृतेदना सर्वतः पीड्यमानो हीयमान इव भवति, तदापि युष्मादत्तं बलं वायति (अन्वेषते)। हे देवाः, वोऽदभ्रमा आशा या अस्मासु निहिता—हे आदित्याः—सा नेहसा मा विचलतु; नेहसः व ऊतयः, सुतयः व ऊतयः, अस्मान् अनु सन्तु।

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Word by Word

• परि: around, about
• परि: —
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: परि

• ह्वृतेदना: crooked-moving, of perverse course
• ह्वृतेदना: Kartā (with जनः) / विशेषण
• Type: Adjective
• Root: ह्वृत-एदन (प्रातिपदिक) < √ह्वर्/√ह्वृ (to go astray, be crooked) + एदन (going/impulse)

• जनः: the people, a man (folk)
• जनः: Kartā
• Type: Noun
• Root: जन (प्रातिपदिक)

• युष्मात्: from you (pl.)
• युष्मात्: Apādāna
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: युष्मद्

• अत्तस्य: of the eaten/consumed (one/thing)
• अत्तस्य: सम्बन्ध (genitive)
• Type: Adjective (participial)
• Root: अत्त (ppp. of √अद् ‘to eat’)

• वायति: blows
• वायति: Kriyā
• Type: Verb
• Root: √वा (to blow)

• देवाः: O gods / the gods
• देवाः: Sambodhana/Kartā (addressed)
• Type: Noun
• Root: देव (प्रातिपदिक)

• अदभ्रमाः: unfailing, not to be deceived
• अदभ्रमाः: विशेषण (देवाः)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: अ-दभ्र (प्रातिपदिक) < दभ्र ‘small/weak; (also) deceivable’ with privative अ-

• वः: for you / of you
• वः: Sampradāna/सम्बन्ध (contextual)
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: युष्मद् (enclitic)

• यमाः: the Yamas (Yama-powers / Yamas)
• यमाः: Kartā (appositional group)
• Type: Noun
• Root: यम (प्रातिपदिक)

• आदित्याः: the Ādityas
• आदित्याः: Kartā (appositional)
• Type: Noun
• Root: आदित्य (प्रातिपदिक)

• अहेतनान: unharming, non-injuring
• अहेतनान: विशेषण (यमाः/आदित्याः)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: अ-हेतन (प्रातिपदिक) < हेतन ‘harm, injury’ with privative अ-

• एहसः: from distress/anguish
• एहसः: Apādāna
• Type: Noun
• Root: एहस् (प्रातिपदिक)

• वः: for you / of you
• वः: Sampradāna/सम्बन्ध (contextual)
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: युष्मद् (enclitic)

• ऊतयः: helps, protections
• ऊतयः: Kartā/फल (as ‘helps’)
• Type: Noun
• Root: ऊति (प्रातिपदिक)

• सुतयः: Soma-pressings, libations
• सुतयः: Kartā/उपपद (apposition to ऊतयः)
• Type: Noun
• Root: सुति (प्रातिपदिक) < √सु (to press Soma)

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

• ऊतयः: helps, protections
• ऊतयः: Kartā/फल
• Type: Noun
• Root: ऊति (प्रातिपदिक)