Mantra 20

Sukta 9

Sanskrit (Devanagari)

कथं गायत्री त्रिवृतं व्याऽप कथं त्रिष्टुप् पञ्चदशेन कल्पते । त्रयस्त्रिंशेन जगती कथमनुष्टुप् कथमेकविंशः

IAST Transliteration

katháṃ gāyatrī́ trivṛ́taṃ vyā̀p katháṃ triṣṭúp pañcadaśéna kalpate | trayastríṃśena jágatī kathám anuṣṭúp kathám ekaviṃśáḥ ||

English Translation (Griffith/Whitney)

How did Gāyatrī attain the Trivṛt’s spread? how is Triṣṭubh made ready by the Fifteen? By the Thirty-three how (is) Jagatī? how (is) Anuṣṭubh? how the Twenty-one?

Translation

伽耶特丽（Gāyatrī）如何获得三重颂（Trivṛt）的展开？特里什图布（Triṣṭubh）如何由“十五”而成就、而备具？由“三十三”如何成就阇伽提（Jagatī）？阿努什图布（Anuṣṭubh）又如何？“二十一”又如何？

Word by Word

कथम्how?

गायत्रीthe Gāyatrī (metre)

त्रिवृतम्(as) the threefold/tri-vṛt (arrangement)

विapart, forth (prefix)

आपreached/attained

कथम्how?

त्रिष्टुप्the Triṣṭubh (metre)

पञ्चदशेनby/with fifteen

कल्पतेis arranged/comes to be fitted

त्रयस्त्रिंशेनby/with thirty-three

जगतीthe Jagatī (metre)

कथम्how?

अनुष्टुप्the Anuṣṭubh (metre)

कथम्how?

एकविंशः(the) twenty-one (fold/number)

Attribution

Rishi: Atharvanic tradition (unspecified here)

Devata: Chandas/Stoma (sacralized liturgical forms)

Chandas: Not securely determinable from excerpt alone

Mantra Rasa

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