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Rig Veda 7.46.4: Mandala 7, Sukta 46, Mantra 4

Sukta 7.46

Rishi: Vasiṣṭha
Devata: Rudra (with concluding svasti appeal to collective powers)
Chandas: Triṣṭubh

मा नो वधी रुद्र मा परा दा मा ते भूम प्रसितौ हीळितस्य । आ नो भज बर्हिषि जीवशंसे यूयं पात स्वस्तिभिः सदा नः ॥

mā́ no vadhī rudra mā́ párā dā mā́ te bhūma prásitau hīḷitásya | ā́ no bhaja barhíṣi jīva-śaṃsé yūyáṃ pāta svastí-bhiḥ sádā naḥ ||

Do not slay us, O Rudra; do not cast us away. Let us not fall under the onset of your wrath. Share with us upon the sacred seat the boon of the life that hopes and grows; and may you powers guard us always with well-being.

माdo not
मा:
TypeIndeclinable
Rootमा (निषेध) अव्यय
नःus
नः:
Karma
TypePronoun
Rootअस्मद्
वधीः(you) should strike/kill
वधीः:
TypeVerb
Rootवध्
रुद्रO Rudra
रुद्र:
सम्बोधन
TypeNoun
Rootरुद्र (प्रातिपदिक)
माdo not
मा:
TypeIndeclinable
Rootमा (निषेध) अव्यय
पराaway, forth
परा:
TypeIndeclinable
Rootपरा (उपसर्ग/अव्यय)
दाःgive / grant
दाः:
TypeVerb
Rootदा
माdo not
मा:
TypeIndeclinable
Rootमा (निषेध) अव्यय
तेof you / your
ते:
सम्बन्ध
TypePronoun
Rootयुष्मद्
भूमmay we be
भूम:
TypeVerb
Rootभू
प्रसितौin (your) impulse/dispatch
प्रसितौ:
Adhikaraṇa
TypeNoun
Rootप्र-√सि (प्रसिति) / प्रसित (प्रातिपदिक)
हीळितस्यof the angered/irritated one
हीळितस्य:
सम्बन्ध
TypeAdjective (used substantively)
Rootहीळित (√हीळ्/√हिड् ‘to be angry, to revile’ से क्त) / हीळित (प्रातिपदिक)
hither, to us
:
TypeIndeclinable
Rootआ (उपसर्ग/अव्यय)
नःto us
नः:
Sampradāna
TypePronoun
Rootअस्मद्
भजapportion, bestow
भज:
TypeVerb
Rootभज्
बर्हिषिon the sacred grass (barhis)
बर्हिषि:
Adhikaraṇa
TypeNoun
Rootबर्हिस् (प्रातिपदिक)
जीवशंसेO life-praised / O you whose praise brings life
जीवशंसे:
सम्बोधन
TypeAdjective (epithet)
Rootजीव-शंस (प्रातिपदिक; ‘life-praising/whose praise is for life’)
यूयम्you (all)
यूयम्:
Kartā
TypePronoun
Rootयुष्मद्
पातprotect
पात:
TypeVerb
Rootपा (पालने)
स्वस्तिभिःwith well-being, with blessings
स्वस्तिभिः:
Karaṇa
TypeNoun
Rootस्वस्ति (प्रातिपदिक)
सदाalways
सदा:
TypeIndeclinable
Rootसदा (अव्यय)
नःus
नः:
Karma
TypePronoun
Rootअस्मद्

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