Rig Veda 9.61.17: Mandala 9, Sukta 61, Mantra 17

Sukta 9.61

Rishi: Traditionally attributed within the Pavamāna Soma corpus (RV 9) to Soma-pavamāna seers; specific ṛṣi for 9.61 is transmitted in Anukramaṇī traditions (commonly within the Kaśyapa/others pavamāna attributions), but not recoverable from the provided input alone.

Devata: Soma Pavamāna

Chandas: Jagatī (typical for many RV 9 stanzas; exact meter should be verified against pada syllable count)

Samhita Patha (Devanagari)

पवमानस्य ते रसो मदो राजन्नदुच्छुनः । वि वारमव्यमर्षति ॥

Transliteration

pavamā́nasya te ráso mádo rā́jann aducchunáḥ | ví vā́ram ávyam arṣati ||

Translation

O King, the taste and ecstasy of your purifying Soma—unfailing—flows out, breaking open the woolen strainer and passing through it wide.

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Word by Word

• पवमानस्य: of the purifying (Soma)
• पवमानस्य: सम्बन्ध (genitival relation)
• Type: Adjective (used substantively)
• Root: पवमान- (√पू ‘पवते’ > पवमान ‘purifying, flowing’)

• ते: of you / your
• ते: सम्बन्ध
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: युष्मद् (त्वद्)

• रसो: the sap, juice
• रसो: कर्तृ
• Type: Noun
• Root: रस-

• मदो: the exhilaration, intoxication
• मदो: कर्तृ (apposition to रसो)
• Type: Noun
• Root: मद-

• राजन्: O king
• राजन्: सम्बोधन
• Type: Noun (vocative)
• Root: राजन्-

• अदुच्छुनः: O un-inauspicious one / O of no ill-sound (auspicious)
• अदुच्छुनः: सम्बोधन
• Type: Adjective (vocative epithet)
• Root: अदुच्छुन- (a- + दुच्छुन- ‘ill-sounding/inauspicious’; Vedic epithet)

• वि: apart, forth, widely
• वि: —
• Type: Preverb/Indeclinable
• Root: वि

• वारम्: the cover/obstacle; enclosure (lit. ‘screen’)
• वारम्: कर्म
• Type: Noun
• Root: वार-

• अव्यम्: unwoven; not woven
• अव्यम्: कर्म (qualifier of object)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: अव्य- (from a- + √वे/√वय ‘to weave’; ‘unwoven, not to be woven’)

• अर्षति: flows, rushes
• अर्षति: क्रिया
• Type: Verb
• Root: √अर्ष् (अर्षति) ‘to flow, rush’