Rig Veda 3.55.8: Mandala 3, Sukta 55, Mantra 8

Sukta 3.55

Rishi: Viśvāmitra Gāthina (traditional)

Devata: The One sovereign divine power manifesting as inner vision and thought

Chandas: Triṣṭubh (likely)

Samhita Patha (Devanagari)

शूरस्येव युध्यतो अन्तमस्य प्रतीचीनं ददृशे विश्वमायत् । अन्तर्मतिश्चरति निष्षिधं गोर्महद्देवानामसुरत्वमेकम् ॥

Transliteration

śū́rasya-iva yúdhyato antamásya pratīcī́naṁ dadṛśe víśvam āyát | antár-matíś cárati niḥ-sídhaṁ gór mahád devānām asura-tvám ékam ||

Translation

As of a hero battling, the inmost turns back and beholds the whole that has come toward him. The inward thought moves to the hidden seat of the Ray (go): one is the vast lordship of the gods.

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Word by Word

• शूरस्य: of the hero
• शूरस्य: सम्बन्ध (genitive relation)
• Type: Noun
• Root: शूर (प्रातिपदिक)

• इव: like, as
• इव: —
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: इव

• युध्यतः: of (one) fighting
• युध्यतः: विशेषण-सम्बन्ध (qualifying the genitive)
• Type: Verb (participle)
• Root: युध् (धातु)

• अन्तमस्य: of the nearest/last
• अन्तमस्य: सम्बन्ध (genitive relation)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: अन्तम (प्रातिपदिक; superlative of अन्त ‘near/end’)

• प्रतीचीनम्: the facing-towards (westward/turned-back)
• प्रतीचीनम्: कर्म (object of ‘saw’)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: प्रतीचीन (प्रातिपदिक)

• ददृशे: he/it saw, appeared
• ददृशे: कर्तृ (the seer/subject implied)
• Type: Verb
• Root: दृश् (धातु)

• विश्वम्: all, the whole
• विश्वम्: कर्म (object with ‘saw’)
• Type: Adjective (used substantively)
• Root: विश्व (प्रातिपदिक)

• आयत्: came, approached
• आयत्: कर्तृ (subject = ‘all’/‘everything’ as moving/coming)
• Type: Verb
• Root: इ/या (धातु; ‘to go, come’)

• अन्तर्मतिः: the inner thought/insight
• अन्तर्मतिः: कर्तृ (subject of ‘चरति’)
• Type: Noun
• Root: अन्तर्-मति (प्रातिपदिक; अन्तर् + मति)

• च: and
• च: —
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च

• चरति: moves, wanders
• चरति: क्रिया (with subject ‘अन्तर्मतिः’)
• Type: Verb
• Root: चर् (धातु)

• निःसिधम्: into the barred/closed (place), the forbidden
• निःसिधम्: अधिकारण (goal/region by sense: ‘into/within the closed (place)’)
• Type: Adjective (used adverbially/locatively by sense)
• Root: निःसिध (प्रातिपदिक; ‘shut off/forbidden/closed’)

• गोः: of the cow
• गोः: सम्बन्ध (genitive: ‘of the cow’)
• Type: Noun
• Root: गो (प्रातिपदिक)

• महत्: great
• महत्: विधेय/विशेषण (predicative: ‘(is) great’)
• Type: Adjective (used substantively)
• Root: महत् (प्रातिपदिक)

• देवानाम्: of the gods
• देवानाम्: सम्बन्ध (genitive: ‘of the gods’)
• Type: Noun
• Root: देव (प्रातिपदिक)

• असुरत्वम्: asura-hood; lordly power
• असुरत्वम्: विधेय/कर्म (contextually ‘the asura-might/sovereignty’)
• Type: Noun (abstract)
• Root: असुरत्व (प्रातिपदिक; असुर + त्व)

• एकम्: one, single
• एकम्: विशेषण (qualifies ‘असुरत्वम्’)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: एक (प्रातिपदिक)