Rig Veda 10.136.3 — Mandala 10, Sukta 136, Mantra 3

Sukta 10.136

Rishi: Keśin Dārbhya (traditional attribution for RV 10.136, Keśin hymn)

Devata: Keśin/Muni in relation to Vāta (Wind, Breath) and the yogic-seer state

Chandas: Triṣṭubh (traditional for RV 10.136)

Samhita Patha (Devanagari)

उन्मदिता मौनेयेन वाताँ आ तस्थिमा वयम् । शरीरेदस्माकं यूयं मर्तासो अभि पश्यथ ॥

Transliteration

unḿaditā maúnéyena vātā́m̐ ā́ tasthima vayám | śarīréd asmā́kaṃ yūyám mártāso abhí paśyatha ||

Translation

Made ecstatic by the power of inner silence, we have taken our stand in the currents of the Wind (the Breath of the universal Life). You mortals look only at our body; but our being moves in that vaster movement.

Word by Word

• उन्मदिताः: maddened, inspired (ones)
• उन्मदिताः: कर्तृ
• Type: Adjective (used substantively)
• Root: उन्मदित (उद्-√मद् ‘to be intoxicated/mad’)

• मौनेयेन: by/with the munis’ (state/discipline), by the muni-hood
• मौनेयेन: करण
• Type: Adjective/Noun
• Root: मौनेय (मुनि-सम्बद्ध ‘belonging to the muni’; from मुनि)

• वातान्: winds
• वातान्: कर्म
• Type: Noun
• Root: वात (√वा ‘to blow’)

• आ: to, up to; (preverb with verb)
• आ: —
• Type: Indeclinable (preverb) / particle
• Root: आ

• तस्थिम: we have stood / we have taken our stand
• तस्थिम: कर्तृ
• Type: Verb
• Root: √स्था (with preverb आ) → तस्थिम (perf. 1pl)

• वयम्: we
• वयम्: कर्तृ
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: अस्मद्

• शरीरे: in the body
• शरीरे: अधिकरण
• Type: Noun
• Root: शरीर

• इद्: indeed, just
• इद्: —
• Type: Particle (emphatic) अव्यय
• Root: इद्

• अस्माकम्: of us, our
• अस्माकम्: सम्बन्ध (genitive)
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: अस्मद्

• यूयम्: you
• यूयम्: कर्तृ
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: युष्मद्

• मर्तासः: mortals
• मर्तासः: कर्तृ
• Type: Noun
• Root: मर्त (√मृ ‘to die’)

• अभि: towards, upon; (intensively)
• अभि: —
• Type: Indeclinable (preverb) / particle
• Root: अभि

• पश्यथ: you see / behold
• पश्यथ: कर्तृ
• Type: Verb
• Root: √पश् (दृश्-समर्थ) ‘to see’