Rig Veda 8.5.18: Mandala 8, Sukta 5, Mantra 18

Sukta 8.5

Rishi: Kāṇva (Kanva lineage)

Devata: Aśvinau

Chandas: Triṣṭubh (likely; verify per edition)

Samhita Patha (Devanagari)

अस्माकमद्य वामयं स्तोमो वाहिष्ठो अन्तमः । युवाभ्यां भूत्वश्विना ॥

Sanskrit recitationRig Veda 8.5.18

Transliteration

asmā́kam adyá vāṃ ayám stómo vā́hiṣṭho ántamaḥ | yuvā́bhyāṃ bhūtv aśvinā ||

Translation

Today this hymn of ours for you is the most carrying, the most intimate; O Aśvins, may it become a living link to you two, drawing your force into us.

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Word by Word

• अस्माकम्: of us / our
• अस्माकम्: सम्बन्ध (Genitive relation)
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: अस्मद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)

• अद्य: today / now
• अद्य: अधिकरण (काल-अधिकरण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: अद्य (अव्यय)

• वाम्: to you two / of you two
• वाम्: सम्प्रदान (to you two) / सम्बन्ध (of you two) — context favors recipient
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: युष्मद् (द्विवचन-प्रातिपदिक; 2nd person pronoun)

• अयम्: this
• अयम्: कर्तृ (of implied ‘is’)
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: इदम् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)

• स्तोमः: praise / hymn
• स्तोमः: कर्तृ (subject: ‘this praise-hymn’)
• Type: Noun
• Root: स्तोम (प्रातिपदिक)

• वाहिष्ठः: most conveying / best bringing (i.e., most effective)
• वाहिष्ठः: विशेषण (qualifier of subject)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: वाहिष्ठ (प्रातिपदिक; superlative of √वह ‘to carry/bring’ used adjectivally)

• अन्तमः: nearest / most intimate / last (superlative nuance)
• अन्तमः: विशेषण (qualifier of subject)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: अन्तम (प्रातिपदिक; superlative of अन्त ‘near/end/last’)

• युवाभ्याम्: by you two / with you two
• युवाभ्याम्: करण (by/with you two)
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: युवाम् (2nd person pronoun, dual stem)

• भूत्वा: having become
• भूत्वा: क्रियाविशेषण (पूर्वकालिक क्रिया)
• Type: Verb (absolutive)
• Root: √भू (भवति) + त्वा (क्त्वा-प्रत्यय)

• अश्विना: O Aśvins (you two)
• अश्विना: सम्बोधन (addressed deities)
• Type: Noun (proper/theonym)
• Root: अश्विन् (प्रातिपदिक; dual deity-name ‘the Aśvins’)