Rig Veda 8.98.9 — Mandala 8, Sukta 98, Mantra 9

Sukta 8.98

Rishi: Unknown/uncertain (Anukramaṇī attribution not provided in input)

Devata: Indra

Chandas: Likely Anuṣṭubh or a short meter (verse is compact; confirm by scan)

Samhita Patha (Devanagari)

युञ्जन्ति हरी इषिरस्य गाथयोरौ रथ उरुयुगे । इन्द्रवाहा वचोयुजा ॥

Transliteration

yuñjánti hárī iṣirásya gā́thayor áu rátha urúyuge | indrāvā́hā vacoyújā ||

Translation

इषिरस्येन्द्रस्य गाथयोर्द्वयोः कृते उरुयुगे उरुरथे हरी युञ्जन्ति—इन्द्रवाहौ वचोयुजा।

Word by Word

• युञ्जन्ति: they yoke / harness
• युञ्जन्ति: (क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: युज् (युजँ)

• हरी: the two tawny steeds (of Indra)
• हरी: कर्म (युज्-क्रियायाः)
• Type: Noun
• Root: हरि- (प्रातिपदिक) < हर् (हरति) ‘to be tawny/bright’ (lexical base)

• इषिरस्य: of the swift (one)
• इषिरस्य: सम्बन्ध (षष्ठी) — ‘of the swift one’
• Type: Adjective
• Root: इषिर- (प्रातिपदिक) ‘swift, vigorous’

• गाथयोः: of the two songs / in the two chants
• गाथयोः: सम्बन्ध/अधिकरण (contextual) — ‘of/in the two songs’
• Type: Noun
• Root: गाथा- (प्रातिपदिक)

• औ: and / indeed (particle)
• औ: (निपात)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: औ (निपात/अव्यय; Vedic particle, often emphatic/connecting)

• रथः: the chariot
• रथः: कर्तृ (युज्-क्रियायाः; ‘the chariot [is yoked/gets yoked]’ as subject) अथवा विषय-निर्देश
• Type: Noun
• Root: रथ- (प्रातिपदिक)

• उरुयुगे: at/in the wide yoke (broadly-yoked)
• उरुयुगे: अधिकरण (सप्तमी) — ‘in/at the broad yoke’
• Type: Adjective (compound)
• Root: उरु- + युग- (समास; प्रातिपदिक)

• इन्द्रवाहा: O Indra-bearers (you two who carry Indra)
• इन्द्रवाहा: सम्बोधन
• Type: Adjective (vocative compound)
• Root: इन्द्र- + वाह- (समास; प्रातिपदिक)

• वचोयुजा: yoked by/with (sacred) speech
• वचोयुजा: करण (तृतीया) — ‘by/with speech as yoke’
• Type: Adjective (instrumental compound)
• Root: वचस्- + युज् (समास; प्रातिपदिक)