Rig Veda 1.22.2

Addressed to: Diverse Gods

Group: Hymns of Medhatithi

Text (Devanagari)

1.22.2

या सु॒रथा॑ र॒थीत॑मो॒भा दे॒वा दि॑वि॒स्पृशा॑

अ॒श्विना॒ ता ह॑वामहे

Text (Roman)

1.22.2

yā́ suráthā rathī́tamā-

-ubhā́ devā́ divispŕ̥śā

aśvínā tā́ havāmahe

Padapāṭha

1.22.2

yā

pronounDUMNOM

from yá-

yā : (ā), f. going; a car

yā : restraining, religious meditation

yā : attaining

yā : pudendum muliebre

yā : N. of Lakṣmī.

yā : (collateral form of √ 5. i) cl. 2. P. ([Dhātup. xxiv, 41]) yā́ti (1. pl. yāmahe, [MBh.]; impf. 3. pl. ayuḥ, [Br.]; ayān, [Pāṇ. iii, 4, 111], Sch.; pf. yayaú, yayā́tha, yayá, yayúḥ, [RV.] &c. &c.; yaye, [Kāv.]; aor. ayāsam or ayāsiṣam; Subj. yā́sat, yeṣam, yāsiṣat, [RV.]; [Br.]; Prec. yāsiṣīṣṭhās, [Br.]; fut. yātā, [MBh.] &c.; yāsyati, [AV.]; °te, [MBh.]; inf. yātum, [MBh.] &c.; Ved. inf. yaí, yā́tave or °vaí; ind.p. yātvā́, [Br.] &c.; -yā́ya, -yāyam, [ib.]), to go, proceed, move, walk, set out, march, advance, travel, journey (often with instr. or acc. of the way, esp. with gatim, mārgam, adhvānam, panthānam, padavīm, yātrām), [RV.] &c. &c.; to go away, withdraw, retire, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; (also with palāyya) to flee, escape, [R.]; [Kathās.] (with kṣemeṇa or svasti, to escape unscathed, [Pañcat.]; [BhP.]); to go towards or against, go or come to, enter, approach, arrive at, reach, [RV.] &c. &c. (with acc. often followed by prati, e.g. with gṛham, to enter a house; with ripum prati, to march against the enemy; with mṛgayām, to go out hunting; with śirasāmahīm, to bow down to the ground with the head; with prakṛtim, to return to one's natural state; with karṇau, to come to the ears, be heard; with utsavād utsavam, to go from one festival to another; with hastam ifc., to fall into the hands of; with patham or gocaram ifc., to come within range of; esp. with the acc. of an abstract noun = to go to any state or condition, become, be, e.g. vināśaṃ yāti, he goes to destruction i.e. he is destroyed; kāṭhinyaṃ yāti, it becomes hard; dveṣyatāṃ yāti, he becomes hated; similarly nidhanaṃ-√ yā, to die; nidrāṃ-√ yā, to fall asleep; udayaṃ-√ yā, to rise, said of stars &c.; sometimes also with loc., e.g. yāhi rājñaḥ sakāśe, go into the presence of the king, [R.]; or even with dat., e.g. yayatuḥ sva-niveśāya, both went home, [Kathās.] ; na cātmane kṛpaṇasya dhanaṃ yāti, nor does the wealth of the miser go to [i.e. benefit] himself, [Hit.]; phalebhyo yāti, he goes to [fetch] fruits, [Pāṇ. ii, 3, 14], Sch.); to go to for any request, implore, solicit (with two acc.), [RV.]; (with striyam) to go to a woman for sexual intercourse, [MBh.]; to go to for any purpose (inf.), [Bhaṭṭ.]; [Vop.]; often with adverbs, e.g. with bahir, to go out, [Kathās.]; with adho, to go down, sink, [BhP.]; with khaṇḍaśo or dalaśo, to fall to pieces, [Kathās.]; with śata-dhā, to fall into a hundred pieces, [ib.]; to extend to (acc.), [VarBṛS.]; to last for (acc.), [Hit.]; to pass away, elapse (said of time), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; to vanish, disappear (as wealth), [Mṛcch.]; to come to pass, prosper, succeed, [BhP.]; to proceed, behave, act, [MBh.]; to find out, discover, [MBh.]; to receive or learn (a science) from (abl.), [BhP.]; to undertake, undergo (acc.), [RV.]; Impv. yātu, be it as it may, [Hit.] : Pass. yāyate, to be gone or moved, [MBh.] : Caus. yāpáyati (aor. ayīyapat), to cause to depart, cause to go or march, dismiss, [Kāv.]; [BhP.]; to cause to go towards (acc.), [Pāṇ. i, 4, 32], Sch. (cf. yāpita); to direct (the gaze) towards (loc.), [Bhartṛ.] (v.l. pātayati); to drive away remove, cure (a disease), [Suśr.]; to cause to pass or elapse, pass or spend (time), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; to live (Pāli yāpeti), [Divyāv.]; to cause to subsist, support, maintain, [Divyāv.]; to induce, [MW.] : Desid. yiyāsati, to intend or be about to go, desire to proceed, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.: Intens. īyāyate (?), to move, [PraśnUp.]; yāyayate, yāyeti, yāyāti Gr.

yā : (ifc.) going, moving (see ṛṇa-, eva-, tura-, deva-yā).

yā : f. of ya, q.v.

ya : the 1st semivowel (corresponding to the vowels i and ī, and having the sound of the English y, in Bengal usually pronounced j).

ya : m. (in prosody) a bacchic (˘ ¯ ¯), [Piṅg.]

ya : the actual base of the relative pronoun in declension [cf. yád and Gk. ὅς, ἥ, ὅ].

ya : m. (in some senses fr. √ 1. yā, only, [L.]) a goer or mover

ya : wind

ya : joining

ya : restraining

ya : fame

ya : a carriage (?)

ya : barley

ya : light

ya : abandoning

🔎 yā́ 🔎 yá-

| surathā | rathitamā | ubhā | devā

nominal stemDUMNOM

from devá-

devā : (ā), f. Hibiscus Mutabilis or Marsilea Quadrifolia

deva : devá mf(I)n. (fr. 3. div) heavenly, divine (also said of terrestrial things of high excellence), [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [ŚBr.] (superl. m. devá-tama, [RV. iv, 22, 3] &c.; f. devi-tamā, [ii, 41, 16])

deva : devá m. (according to [Pāṇ. iii, 3, 120] déva) a deity, god, [RV.] &c. &c.

deva : (rarely applied to) evil demons, [AV. iii, 15, 5]; [TS. iii, 5, 4, 1]

deva : (pl. the gods as the heavenly or shining ones; víśve devā́s, all the gods, [RV. ii, 3, 4] &c., or a partic. class of deities [see under víśva], often reckoned as 33, either 11 for each of the 3 worlds, [RV. i, 139, 11] &c. [cf. tri-daśa], or 8 Vasus, 11 Rudras, and 12 Ādityas [to which the 2 Aśvins must be added] [Br.]; cf. also, [Divyāv. 68]; with Jainas 4 classes, viz. bhavanādhīśa, vyantara, jyotiṣka, and vaimānika; devā́nām pátnyas, the wives of the gods, [RV.]; [VS.]; [Br.] [cf. deva-patnī below])

deva : N. of the number 33 (see above), [Gaṇit.]

deva : N. of Indra as the god of the sky and giver of rain, [MBh.]; [R.] &c.

deva : a cloud, [L.]

deva : (with Jainas) the 22nd Arhat of the future Ut-sarpiṇī

deva : the image of a god, an idol, [Viṣṇ.]

deva : a god on earth or among men, either Brāhman, priest, [RV.]; [AV.] (cf. bhū-d°), or king, prince (as a title of honour, esp. in the voc. ‘your majesty’ or ‘your honour’; also ifc., e.g. śrī-harṣa-d°, vikramāṅka-d°, king Śrī-h° or Vikr°, and in names as puruṣottama-d° [lit. having Viṣṇu as one's deity; cf. atithi-d°, ācārya-d°, pitṛ-d°, mātṛ-d°]; rarely preceding the name, e.g. deva-caṇḍamahāsena, [Kathās. xiii, 48]), [Kāv.]; [Pañc.] &c. (cf. kṣiti-, nara-, &c.)

deva : a husband's brother (cf. devṛ and devara), [W.]

deva : a fool, dolt, [L.]

deva : a child, [L.]

deva : a man following any partic. line or business, [L.]

deva : a spearman, lancer, [L.]

deva : emulation, wish to excel or overcome, [L.]

deva : sport, play, [L.]

deva : a sword, [Gal.]

deva : N. of men, [VP.]

deva : of a disciple of Nāgārjuna, [MWB. 192]

deva : dimin. for devadatta, [Pāṇ. v, 3, 83], Vārtt. 4, Sch.

deva : devá n. ([L.]) an organ of sense, [MuṇḍUp. iii, 1, 8]; [2, 7]

deva : [cf. Lat. dīvus, deus; Lit. dë́vas; Old Pruss. deiwas.]

🔎 devā́ 🔎 devá-

| divispṛśā | aśvinā | tā

pronounDUMACC

from sá- ~ tá-

tā : f. Lakṣmī, [L.]

sa : the last of the three sibilants (it belongs to the dental class and in sound corresponds to s in sin).

sa : (in prosody) an anapest (˘ ˘ ¯)

sa : (in music) an abbreviated term for ṣaḍ-ja (see p. 1109, col. 2).

sa : m. (only [L.]) a snake

sa : air, wind

sa : a bird

sa : N. of Viṣṇu or Śiva

sa : n. knowledge

sa : meditation

sa : a carriage road

sa : a fence.

sa : mfn. (fr. √ san) procuring, bestowing (only ifc.; cf. palu-ṣá and priya-sá).

sa : sá the actual base for the nom. case of the 3rd pers. pron. tád, q.v. (occurring only in the nom. sg. mf. [sá or sás, sā], and in the Ved. loc. [sásmin, [RV. i, 152, 6]; [i, 174, 4]; [x, 95, 11]]; the final s of the nom. m. is dropped before all consonants [except before p in [RV. v, 2, 4], and before t in [RV. viii, 33, 16]] and appears only at the end of a sentence in the form of Visarga; occasionally blends with another vowel [as in saīṣaḥ]; and it is often for emphasis connected with another pron. as with aham, tvam, eṣa, ayam &c. [e.g. so 'ham, sa tvam, ‘I (or thou) that very person’; cf. under tád, p. 434], the verb then following in the 1st and 2nd pers. even if aham or tvam be omitted [e.g. sa tvā pṛcchāmi ‘I that very person ask you’, [BṛĀrUp.]; sa vai no brūhi ‘do thou tell us’, [ŚBr.]]; similarly, to denote emphasis, with bhavān [e.g. sa bhavān vijayāya pratiṣṭhatām, ‘let your Highness set out for victory’, [Śak.]]; it sometimes [and frequently in the Brāhmaṇas] stands as the first word of a sentence preceding a rel. pronoun or adv. such as ya, yad, yadi, yathā, ced; in this position may be used pleonastically or as a kind of ind., even where another gender or number is required [e.g. sa yadi sthāvarā āpo bhananti, ‘if those waters are stagnant’, [ŚBr.]]; in the Sāṃkhya , like eṣa, ka, and ya, is used to denote Puruṣa, ‘the Universal Soul’), [RV.] &c. &c.

sa : [cf. Zd. hō, hā; Gk. ὁ, ἡ.]

sa : ind. (connected with saha, sam, sama, and occasionally in [BhP.] standing for saha with instr.) an inseparable prefix expressing ‘junction’, ‘conjunction’, ‘possession’ (as opp. to a priv.), ‘similarity’, ‘equality’

sa : (and when compounded with nouns to form adjectives and adverbs it may be translated by ‘with’, ‘together or along with’, ‘accompanied by’, ‘added to’, ‘having’, ‘possessing’, ‘containing’, ‘having the same’ [cf. sa-kopa, sāgni, sa-bhāya, sa-droṇa, sa-dharman, sa-varṇa]; or it may = ‘ly’, as in sa-kopam, ‘angrily’, sopadhi, ‘fraudulently’), [RV.]; &c.

sa : [cf. Gk. ἁ in ἁπλοῦς; Lat. sim in simplex; sem in semel, semper Eng. same.]