Rig Veda 9.19.4: Mandala 9, Sukta 19, Mantra 4

Sukta 9.19

Rishi: Pavamāna Soma seer tradition (RV 9).

Devata: Soma Pavamāna (with attendant nurturing powers implied as ‘Mothers’)

Chandas: Gāyatrī

Samhita Patha (Devanagari)

अवावशन्त धीतयो वृषभस्याधि रेतसि । सूनोर्वत्सस्य मातरः ॥

Sanskrit recitationRig Veda 9.19.4

Transliteration

avā́vaśanta dhītáyo vṛṣabhásyādhi rétasi | sūnór vatsásya mātáraḥ ||

Translation

The inspired thoughts have lowed in response over the Bull’s seed; the Mothers of the young calf (the nurturers of the new-born light) attend and foster it.

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• अवा॑वशन्त: they desired / they longed for
• अवा॑वशन्त: Kartā (with subject = धी॒तयः)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √वश् (वशँ) / अव-√वश्

• धी॒तयः: the thoughts, inspirations
• धी॒तयः: Kartā
• Type: Noun
• Root: धीति- (from √धी ‘to think/meditate’)

• वृष॒भस्य: of the bull (i.e., the potent one)
• वृष॒भस्य: Ṣaṣṭhī-sambandha (genitival relation)
• Type: Noun
• Root: वृषभ-

• अधि॒: upon, in
• अधि॒: Adhikaraṇa (marks locus with locative)
• Type: Indeclinable (preverb/preposition)
• Root: अधि

• रेत॑सि: in the seed, in the semen
• रेत॑सि: Adhikaraṇa
• Type: Noun
• Root: रेतस्-

• सू॒नोः: of the son
• सू॒नोः: Ṣaṣṭhī-sambandha
• Type: Noun
• Root: सूनु-

• वत्सस्य॑: of the calf
• वत्सस्य॑: Ṣaṣṭhī-sambandha
• Type: Noun
• Root: वत्स-

• मा॒तरः: mothers
• मा॒तरः: Kartā (understood; appositional/parallel nominative)
• Type: Noun
• Root: मातृ-