Rig Veda 10.107.4: Mandala 10, Sukta 107, Mantra 4

Sukta 10.107

Devata: Dakṣiṇā (with Vāyu/Arka as associated powers)

Samhita Patha (Devanagari)

शतधारं वायुमर्कं स्वर्विदं नृचक्षसस्ते अभि चक्षते हविः । ये पृणन्ति प्र च यच्छन्ति संगमे ते दक्षिणां दुहते सप्तमातरम् ॥

Transliteration

śatá-dhāraṃ vāyúm arkáṃ svar-vídaṃ nṛ-cákṣasas té abhí cakṣate havíḥ | yé pṛṇánti prá ca yáchchanti saṃgamé té dakṣiṇā́ṃ duhate saptá-mātaram ||

Translation

They behold the offering with human sight: Vāyu of a hundred streams, the Sun-hymn that finds the luminous world. Those who fulfil and also give forth in the meeting, they milk Dakṣiṇā, the seven-mothered—drawing from her inexhaustible abundance of right reward.

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Word by Word

• शतधारम्: hundred-streamed
• शतधारम्: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: शत-धार (प्रातिपदिक; शत ‘hundred’ + धार ‘stream’)

• वायुम्: Vāyu (Wind-god)
• वायुम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: वायु (प्रातिपदिक)

• अर्कम्: hymn/chant (arká)
• अर्कम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: अर्क (प्रातिपदिक)

• स्वर्विदम्: finder/knower of heaven (light)
• स्वर्विदम्: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: स्वर्-विद् (प्रातिपदिक; स्वर् ‘heaven/light’ + √विद् ‘to know/find’)

• नृचक्षसः: men of vision; seers
• नृचक्षसः: Kartā
• Type: Noun
• Root: नृ-चक्षस् (प्रातिपदिक; नृ ‘men’ + चक्षस् ‘sight/eye’)

• ते: they
• ते: Kartā
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद् (सर्वनाम)

• अभि: towards, unto
• अभि: —
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: अभि (उपसर्ग/अव्यय)

• चक्षते: they behold/see
• चक्षते: —
• Type: Verb
• Root: √चक्ष् (आत्मनेपदी; ‘to see, behold’)

• हविः: oblation
• हविः: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: हविस् (प्रातिपदिक)

• ये: who
• ये: Kartā
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: यद् (सर्वनाम)

• पृणन्ति: they fill/satisfy
• पृणन्ति: —
• Type: Verb
• Root: √पॄ/पृ (परस्मैपदी; ‘to fill, satisfy’)

• प्र: forth
• प्र: —
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: प्र (उपसर्ग/अव्यय)

• च: and
• च: —
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च (अव्यय)

• यच्छन्ति: they give/bestow
• यच्छन्ति: —
• Type: Verb
• Root: √यम् (परस्मैपदी; ‘to give/offer, extend’)

• संगमे: in the meeting/assembly
• संगमे: Adhikaraṇa
• Type: Noun
• Root: संगम (प्रातिपदिक; सम्+√गम् ‘coming together’)

• ते: they
• ते: Kartā
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद् (सर्वनाम)

• दक्षिणाम्: the priestly gift (dakṣiṇā)
• दक्षिणाम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: दक्षिणा (प्रातिपदिक)

• दुहते: they milk/draw
• दुहते: —
• Type: Verb
• Root: √दुह् (आत्मनेपदी; ‘to milk, draw out’)

• सप्तमातरम्: the seven-mothered (one)
• सप्तमातरम्: Karma
• Type: Noun/Adjective (बहुव्रीहि-समास)
• Root: सप्त-मातर् (प्रातिपदिक; ‘having seven mothers’)