Mantra 40

Sukta 5

Sanskrit (Devanagari)

अस्वगता परिह्णुता

IAST Transliteration

asva-gátā́ párí-hṇutā

English Translation (Griffith/Whitney)

Wandering from the horse’s course, turned aside and foiled.

Translation

Kẻ lang thang lạc khỏi lộ trình của ngựa, bị bẻ hướng và bị ngăn trở đến thất bại.

Word by Word

• अस्वगता: gone to/associated with a horse; horse-going (f.)
• अस्वगता: Kartā (विशेष्यस्य विशेषणम्; कर्तृवाचक-सम्बन्धः) अथवा Adhikaraṇa (गमन-लक्षणे) प्रसङ्गतः
• Type: Adjective (compound)
• Root: अस्व-गता (प्रातिपदिक: अस्व ‘अश्व/घोड़ा’ + गत ‘गया हुआ’, √गम्)

• परिह्णुता: carried off/robbed/deceived; taken away (f.)
• परिह्णुता: Karma (यस्य परिहरणं/अपहरणं कृतम्—‘अपहृता/वञ्चिता’) as adjectival predicate of the subject
• Type: Participle (past passive participle) used adjectivally
• Root: परि-√ह्नु (धातु: √ह्नु ‘छलने/वञ्चने/अपहरणे’), क्त-प्रत्ययान्त ‘परिह्णुत’

Attribution

Rishi: Atharvanic tradition (Anukramaṇī attribution for this unit not supplied in input).

Devata: Impersonal curse-force tied to brahmanical sanctity (brahma-tejas); contextually Agni appears in the following verse.

Chandas: Prose/elliptic (not a full metrical pāda as transmitted here).

Mantra Rasa

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