Rig Veda 9.22.5: Mandala 9, Sukta 22, Mantra 5

Sukta 9.22

Rishi: Uncertain/Traditional: Soma Pavamāna seers

Devata: Soma Pavamāna

Chandas: Not determinable with certainty from provided verse alone

Samhita Patha (Devanagari)

एते पृष्ठानि रोदसोर्विप्रयन्तो व्यानशुः । उतेदमुत्तमं रजः ॥

Transliteration

eté pṛṣṭhā́ni ródasor viprayánto ví ānaśuḥ | utédám uttamáṃ rájaḥ ||

Translation

These, moving as inspired seers, have widely reached the heights of the two worlds; and they have reached this supreme luminous realm—the highest expanse.

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• एते: these (they)
• एते: Kartā
• Type: Pronoun/Determiner
• Root: एतद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक) / एष-प्रातिपदिक

• पृष्ठानि: backs; ridges; surfaces
• पृष्ठानि: Kartā (with एते; apposition)
• Type: Noun
• Root: पृष्ठ (प्रातिपदिक)

• रोदसोः: of the two worlds (heaven and earth)
• रोदसोः: Sambandha (genitive relation)
• Type: Noun (dual compound sense)
• Root: रोदसी (द्विवचन-प्रातिपदिक; ‘heaven-and-earth’)

• विप्रयन्तः: moving forth; advancing; streaming
• विप्रयन्तः: Kartā (qualifying the subject)
• Type: Participle (verbal adjective)
• Root: वि + प्र + √इ (धातु) → विप्रयन्त् (वर्तमान-कृदन्त, शतृ)

• व्यानशुः: they have reached; they attained
• व्यानशुः: Kriyā (finite verb of the clause)
• Type: Verb
• Root: वि + √अश् (अश्नुते/अश्नोति ‘to reach, attain’)

• उत: and; also
• उत: — (connective particle)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: उत

• इदम्: this
• इदम्: Karma (object of an implied/understood verb ‘(they reached) this’)
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: इदम् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)

• उत्तमम्: highest; uppermost
• उत्तमम्: Viśeṣaṇa (qualifier)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: उत्तम (प्रातिपदिक; superlative of उद्/उपरि-भाव)

• रजः: space; region; realm (often the mid/upper expanse)
• रजः: Karma (with इदम्; ‘this highest region/space’)
• Type: Noun
• Root: रजस् (प्रातिपदिक)