Rig Veda 10.186.3: Mandala 10, Sukta 186, Mantra 3

Sukta 10.186

Devata: Vāta

Samhita Patha (Devanagari)

यददो वात ते गृहेऽमृतस्य निधिर्हितः । ततो नो देहि जीवसे ॥

Transliteration

yád adó vāta te gṛhé ’mṛ́tasya nidhír hitáḥ | tátó no dehi jīváse ||

Translation

If there, O Vāta, in your home a treasure of immortality is laid up, then from that store give to us for living—let the deathless portion enter our breath and sustain our journey.

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Word by Word

• यत्: which/that (thing)
• यत्: Karma (of implied verb ‘asti’/‘vidyate’ in relative clause)
• Type: Pronoun (relative)
• Root: यद् (sarvanāma-prātipadika)

• अदः: that (yonder/that very)
• अदः: Karma (correlative: ‘that’ corresponding to यत्)
• Type: Pronoun (demonstrative)
• Root: अदस् (sarvanāma-prātipadika)

• वात: O Vāta (Wind)
• वात: (Address) — sambodhana (not a kāraka)
• Type: Noun (vocative)
• Root: वात (prātipadika)

• ते: of you/your
• ते: Ṣaṣṭhī-sambandha (genitive relation)
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: युष्मद् (sarvanāma-prātipadika)

• गृहे: in (your) house/dwelling
• गृहे: Adhikaraṇa
• Type: Noun
• Root: गृह (prātipadika)

• अमृतस्य: of immortality / of ambrosia
• अमृतस्य: Ṣaṣṭhī-sambandha (qualifying ‘treasure’)
• Type: Noun
• Root: अमृत (prātipadika)

• निधिः: a treasure, deposit
• निधिः: Kartā (of ‘हितः’ in passive sense: ‘is placed’)
• Type: Noun
• Root: निधि (prātipadika)

• हितः: placed, set, deposited
• हितः: (Predicative to ‘निधिः’) — state/result
• Type: Participle (past passive)
• Root: धा (dhātu) → √धा + क्त (PPP) = हित

• ततः: from there; therefore
• ततः: Apādāna (source, in adverbial sense)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: ततः (tatas, avyaya from tad)

• नः: to us
• नः: Sampradāna
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: अस्मद् (sarvanāma-prātipadika)

• देहि: give (you)
• देहि: (Main verb) — giver’s action toward recipient
• Type: Verb
• Root: दा (dhātu) √दा ‘to give’

• जीवसे: for living; to live
• जीवसे: Prayojana (purpose)
• Type: Verbal noun / infinitive
• Root: जीव् (dhātu) √जीव् ‘to live’ → infinitive जीवसे