Rig Veda 10.162.2: Mandala 10, Sukta 162, Mantra 2

Sukta 10.162

Rishi: As above (uncertain attribution).

Devata: Agni (acting with brahman).

Chandas: Likely Tr̥ṣṭubh; confirm by scansion.

Samhita Patha (Devanagari)

यस्ते गर्भममीवा दुर्णामा योनिमाशये । अग्निष्टं ब्रह्मणा सह निष्क्रव्यादमनीनशत् ॥

Recitation with translationRig Veda 10.162.2

Transliteration

yás te gárbham amī́vā durṇā́mā yónim āśáye | agníṣ ṭáṃ bráhmaṇā sahá níṣ krav yā́dam anīnaśat ||

Translation

وہ کمزور کرنے والی طاقت جو آپ کے رحم میں پڑی ہے، برے نام والی، مادہ میں ٹھہری ہوئی، اگنی نے منتر کی طاقت کے ساتھ اسے نکال پھینکا ہے، اسے کچلتے ہوئے، کچے پن اور خرابی کھانے والے کی طرح۔

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• यः: who
• यः: सम्बन्धि-कर्ता (यः = ‘who/which’ introducing relative clause) / कर्ता (of implied action ‘lies/afflicts’)
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: यद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)

• ते: your
• ते: सम्बन्ध (genitive possessor)
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: युष्मद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)

• गर्भम्: embryo, fetus
• गर्भम्: कर्म (object affected)
• Type: Noun
• Root: गर्भ (प्रातिपदिक)

• अमीवा: disease, sickness
• अमीवा: कर्ता (subject: the disease)
• Type: Noun
• Root: अमीवा (प्रातिपदिक)

• दुर्नामा: of evil name, malignant
• दुर्नामा: विशेषण (qualifier of the agent ‘disease’)
• Type: Adjective (used substantively) / Noun-like epithet
• Root: दुर्नामन् (प्रातिपदिक; ‘ill-named, malignant’)

• यः: who/which
• यः: सम्बन्धि-कर्ता (relative pronoun introducing second relative clause) / कर्ता (of implied action ‘lies’)
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: यद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)

• योनिम्: womb, place of generation
• योनिम्: कर्म (object/location construed as object of ‘lies in/occupies’)
• Type: Noun
• Root: योनि (प्रातिपदिक)

• आशये: lies (in), abides
• आशये: क्रिया (predicate of the relative clause: ‘lies/abides’)
• Type: Verb
• Root: आ-शी (धातु; ‘to lie, rest’; Vedic also ‘to lie upon/inhabit’)

• अग्निः: Agni (fire-god)
• अग्निः: कर्ता (main clause agent)
• Type: Noun
• Root: अग्नि (प्रातिपदिक)

• तम्: that (one)
• तम्: कर्म (object: that [disease/demon])
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)

• ब्रह्मणा: by sacred prayer/formula
• ब्रह्मणा: करण (instrument: by sacred formula)
• Type: Noun
• Root: ब्रह्मन् (प्रातिपदिक; here ‘sacred formula/prayer, holy power’)

• सह: together with
• सह: सहकारक/सह-सम्बन्ध (with, together with)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: सह (अव्यय)

• निः: out, away
• निः: क्रियाविशेषण (direction/intensifier: ‘out, away’)
• Type: Preverb / Indeclinable
• Root: निः/निस् (उपसर्ग/अव्यय)

• क्रव्यादम्: the flesh-eater (demon)
• क्रव्यादम्: कर्म (object expelled/destroyed)
• Type: Noun
• Root: क्रव्याद (प्रातिपदिक; ‘flesh-eater’, epithet of a demon/evil being)

• अनीनशत्: drove away, destroyed
• अनीनशत्: क्रिया (main clause: ‘drove away/destroyed’)
• Type: Verb
• Root: नश् (धातु; ‘to perish, be destroyed’; caus./intensive-like Vedic perfect/aorist formations occur)