Rig Veda 1.50.2

Addressed to: Surya

Group: Hymns of Praskanva

Text (Devanagari)

1.50.2

अप॒ त्ये ता॒यवो॑ यथा॒ नक्ष॑त्रा यन्त्य॒क्तुभिः॑

सूरा॑य वि॒श्वच॑क्षसे

Text (Roman)

1.50.2

ápa tyé tāyávo yathā

nákṣatrā yanty aktúbhiḥ

sū́rāya viśvácakṣase

Padapāṭha

1.50.2

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from √i- 1

yanti : f., [Pāṇ. vi, 4, 39], Sch.

i : the third vowel of the alphabet, corresponding to i short, and pronounced as that letter in kill &c.

i : ind. an interjection of anger, calling, sorrow, distress, compassion, &c., (g. cādi, [Pāṇ. i, 4, 57], &c.)

i : base of Nominative case and Acc. sg. du. and pl. of the demonstrative pronoun idam, ‘this’ or ‘that’

i : [cf. ítara, itas, iti, íd, idā́, iyat, iva, iha: cf. also Lat. id; Goth. ita; Eng. it; Old Germ. iz; Mod. Germ. es.]

i : m. N. of Kāmadeva, [L.]

i : cl. 2. P. éti (Impv. 2. sg. ihí) and 1. P. Ā. áyati, ayate [cf. √ ay], (pf. iyāya [2. sg. iyátha, [AV. viii, 1, 10], and iyétha, [RV.]] fut. eṣyati; aor. aiṣīt; inf. etum, étave, [RV.] & [AV.], étavaí, [RV.] étos, [RV.] ityaí, [RV. i, 113, 6]; [124, 1]) to go, walk; to flow; to blow; to advance, spread, get about; to go to or towards (with acc.), come, [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; [MBh.]; [R.]; [Hit.]; [Ragh.] &c.; to go away, escape, pass, retire, [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; [R.]; to arise from, come from, [RV.]; [ChUp.]; to return (in this sense only fut.), [MBh.]; [R.]; (with punar) to come back again, return, [MBh.]; [R.]; [Pañcat.] &c.; to succeed, [Mn. iii, 127]; to arrive at, reach, obtain, [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; [Śak.]; [Hit.] &c.; to fall into, come to; to approach with prayers, gain by asking (cf. ita); to undertake anything (with acc.); to be employed in, go on with, continue in any condition or relation (with a part. or instr., e.g. asura-rakṣasāni mṛdyamānāni yanti, ‘the Asuras and Rakshases are being continually crushed’, [ŚBr. i, 1, 4, 14]; gavāmayaneneyuḥ, ‘they, were engaged in the [festival called] Gavāmayana’, [KātyŚr. xxv, 5, 2]); to appear, be, [KaṭhUp.] : Intens. Ā. ī́yate ([RV. i, 30, 18]; p. iyāná, [RV.]; inf. iyádhyai, [RV. vi, 20, 8]) to go quickly or repeatedly; to come, wander, run, spread, get about, [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; to appear, make one's appearance, [RV.]; [AV.]; [BṛĀrUp.]; to approach any one with requests (with two acc.), ask, request, [RV.]; [AV.]: Pass. ī́yate, to be asked or requested, [RV.]: Caus. āyayati, to cause to go or escape, [Vop.];

i : [cf. Gk. εἶ-μι, ἴ-μεν; Lat. e-o, ī-mus, i-ter, &c.; Lith. ei-mì, ‘I go’; Slav. i-dû, ‘I go’, i-ti, ‘to go’; Goth. i-ddja, ‘I went’.]

🔎 yanti 🔎 √i- 1

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Monier-Williams dictionary from Cologne Sanskrit Lexicon

English Translation by Griffith

1.50.2

The constellations pass away, like thieves, together with their beams, Before the all-beholding Sun'

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Grammatical analysis

Source index	Surface	Lemma	Information
1.50.2	ápa apa : ápa ind. (as a prefix to nouns and verbs, expresses) away, off, back (opposed to úpa, ánu, sam, pra) apa : down (opposed to ud). apa : When prefixed to nouns, it may sometimes = the neg. particle a, e.g. apa-bhī, fearless; or may express deterioration, inferiority, &c. (cf. apa-pāṭha). apa : (As a separable particle or adverb in Ved., with abl.) away from, on the outside of, without, with the exception of apa : [cf. Gk. ἀπό; Lat. ab; Goth. af; Eng. of]. 🔎 ápa	ápa apa : ápa ind. (as a prefix to nouns and verbs, expresses) away, off, back (opposed to úpa, ánu, sam, pra) apa : down (opposed to ud). apa : When prefixed to nouns, it may sometimes = the neg. particle a, e.g. apa-bhī, fearless; or may express deterioration, inferiority, &c. (cf. apa-pāṭha). apa : (As a separable particle or adverb in Ved., with abl.) away from, on the outside of, without, with the exception of apa : [cf. Gk. ἀπό; Lat. ab; Goth. af; Eng. of]. 🔎 ápa	invariablelocal particle:LP
1.50.2	tyé 🔎 tyé	syá- ~ tyá- sya : syá mfn. pron. base of 3rd person (= sá; only in nom. m. syás, syá f. syá; cf. tyá, tyád), [RV.] sya : n. a winnowing basket (= śūrpa), [ŚāṅkhGṛ.] 🔎 syá- ~ tyá-	pronounPLMNOM
1.50.2	tāyávaḥ 🔎 tāyávaḥ	tāyú- tāyu : tāyú m. = st°, a thief, [RV. i], [iv]-[vii.] 🔎 tāyú-	nominal stemPLMNOM
1.50.2	yathā yathā : yáthā ind. (in Veda also unaccented; fr. 3. ya, correlative of táthā) in which manner or way, according as, as, like (also with cid, ha, ha vai, iva, ivāṅga, iva ha, eva, and followed by correl. tathā, tathā tathā, tadvat, evam, Ved. also evá), [RV.] &c. &c. (yathaitat or yathaivaitat, ‘as for that’ ; yathā-tathā or — tena satyena, ‘as surely as’ — ‘so truly’) yathā : as, for instance, namely (also tad yathā, ‘as here follows’), [Up.]; [GṛŚrS.]; [Nir.] yathā : as it is or was (elliptically), [BhP.] yathā : that, so that, in order that (with Pot. or Subj., later also with fut. pres., impf. and aor.; in earlier language is often placed after the first word of a sentence; sometimes with ellipsis of syāt and bhavet), [RV.] &c. &c. yathā : that (esp. after verbs of ‘knowing’, ‘believing’, ‘hearing’, ‘doubting’ &c.; either with or without iti at the end of the sentence), [Up.]; [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c. yathā : as soon as, [Megh.] yathā : as, because, since ( — tathā, ‘as’ — ‘therefore’), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c. yathā : as if (with Pot.), [Daś.]; [Śak.]; how (= quam, expressing ‘admiration’), [Pāṇ. viii, 1, 37], Sch. yathā : according to what is right, properly, correctly (= yathāvat), [BhP.] (yáthā yathā — táthā tathā or evaíva, ‘in whatever manner’, — ‘in that manner’, ‘according as’ or ‘in proportion as’, — ‘so’, ‘by how much the more’ — ‘by so much’, ‘the more’ — ‘the more’; yathā tathā, ‘in whatever manner’, ‘in every way’, ‘anyhow’; with na, ‘in no way’, ‘really not’; yathā kathaṃcit, ‘in any way’, ‘somehow or other’; yathaiva, ‘just as’; tad yathāpināma, ‘just as if’). yathā : yathāṃśa-tas &c. See p. 841, cols. 2 and 3 &c. 🔎 yathā	yathā yathā : yáthā ind. (in Veda also unaccented; fr. 3. ya, correlative of táthā) in which manner or way, according as, as, like (also with cid, ha, ha vai, iva, ivāṅga, iva ha, eva, and followed by correl. tathā, tathā tathā, tadvat, evam, Ved. also evá), [RV.] &c. &c. (yathaitat or yathaivaitat, ‘as for that’ ; yathā-tathā or — tena satyena, ‘as surely as’ — ‘so truly’) yathā : as, for instance, namely (also tad yathā, ‘as here follows’), [Up.]; [GṛŚrS.]; [Nir.] yathā : as it is or was (elliptically), [BhP.] yathā : that, so that, in order that (with Pot. or Subj., later also with fut. pres., impf. and aor.; in earlier language is often placed after the first word of a sentence; sometimes with ellipsis of syāt and bhavet), [RV.] &c. &c. yathā : that (esp. after verbs of ‘knowing’, ‘believing’, ‘hearing’, ‘doubting’ &c.; either with or without iti at the end of the sentence), [Up.]; [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c. yathā : as soon as, [Megh.] yathā : as, because, since ( — tathā, ‘as’ — ‘therefore’), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c. yathā : as if (with Pot.), [Daś.]; [Śak.]; how (= quam, expressing ‘admiration’), [Pāṇ. viii, 1, 37], Sch. yathā : according to what is right, properly, correctly (= yathāvat), [BhP.] (yáthā yathā — táthā tathā or evaíva, ‘in whatever manner’, — ‘in that manner’, ‘according as’ or ‘in proportion as’, — ‘so’, ‘by how much the more’ — ‘by so much’, ‘the more’ — ‘the more’; yathā tathā, ‘in whatever manner’, ‘in every way’, ‘anyhow’; with na, ‘in no way’, ‘really not’; yathā kathaṃcit, ‘in any way’, ‘somehow or other’; yathaiva, ‘just as’; tad yathāpināma, ‘just as if’). yathā : yathāṃśa-tas &c. See p. 841, cols. 2 and 3 &c. 🔎 yathā	invariable
1.50.2	nákṣatrā 🔎 nákṣatrā	nákṣatra- nakṣatra : nákṣatra n. (m. only, [RV. vi, 67, 6]; prob. fr. √ nakṣ cf. nakṣ dyām, [i, 33, 14] &c.) a star or any heavenly body nakṣatra : also applied to the sun nakṣatra : nákṣatra n. sg. sometimes collectively ‘the stars’ e.g. [vii, 86, 1]; [RV.] &c. &c. nakṣatra : an asterism or constellation through which the moon passes, a lunar mansion, [AV.] &c. &c. (27, later 28, viz. Śraviṣṭhā or Dhaniṣṭhā, Śata-bhiṣaj, Pūrva-bhadrapadā, Uttara-bh°, Revatī, Aśvinī, Bharaṇī, Kṛttikā, Rohiṇī or Brāhmī, Mṛga-śiras or Āgrahāyaṇī, Ārdrā, Punarvasū or Yāmakau, Puṣya or Sidhya, Āśleṣā, Maghā, Pūrva-phalgunī, Uttara-ph°, Hasta, Citrā, Svātī, Viśākhā or Rādhā, Anurādhā, Jyeṣṭha, Mūla, Pūrvāṣāḍhā, Uttarāṣ°, Abhijit, Śravaṇa; according to [VarBṛS.] Revatī, Uttara-phalgunī, Uttara-bhādrapadā and Uttarāṣāḍhā are called dhruvāṇi, fixed; in the Vedas the Nakṣatras are considered as abodes of the gods or of pious persons after death, [Sāy.] on [RV. i, 50, 2]; later as wives of the moon and daughters of Dakṣa, [MBh.]; [Hariv.] &c.; according to Jainas the sun, moon, Grahas, Nakṣatras and Tārās form the Jyotiṣkas) nakṣatra : a pearl, [L.] 🔎 nákṣatra-	nominal stemPLNNOM
1.50.2	yanti yanti : f., [Pāṇ. vi, 4, 39], Sch. 🔎 yanti	√i- 1 i : the third vowel of the alphabet, corresponding to i short, and pronounced as that letter in kill &c. i : ind. an interjection of anger, calling, sorrow, distress, compassion, &c., (g. cādi, [Pāṇ. i, 4, 57], &c.) i : base of Nominative case and Acc. sg. du. and pl. of the demonstrative pronoun idam, ‘this’ or ‘that’ i : [cf. ítara, itas, iti, íd, idā́, iyat, iva, iha: cf. also Lat. id; Goth. ita; Eng. it; Old Germ. iz; Mod. Germ. es.] i : m. N. of Kāmadeva, [L.] i : cl. 2. P. éti (Impv. 2. sg. ihí) and 1. P. Ā. áyati, ayate [cf. √ ay], (pf. iyāya [2. sg. iyátha, [AV. viii, 1, 10], and iyétha, [RV.]] fut. eṣyati; aor. aiṣīt; inf. etum, étave, [RV.] & [AV.], étavaí, [RV.] étos, [RV.] ityaí, [RV. i, 113, 6]; [124, 1]) to go, walk; to flow; to blow; to advance, spread, get about; to go to or towards (with acc.), come, [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; [MBh.]; [R.]; [Hit.]; [Ragh.] &c.; to go away, escape, pass, retire, [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; [R.]; to arise from, come from, [RV.]; [ChUp.]; to return (in this sense only fut.), [MBh.]; [R.]; (with punar) to come back again, return, [MBh.]; [R.]; [Pañcat.] &c.; to succeed, [Mn. iii, 127]; to arrive at, reach, obtain, [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; [Śak.]; [Hit.] &c.; to fall into, come to; to approach with prayers, gain by asking (cf. ita); to undertake anything (with acc.); to be employed in, go on with, continue in any condition or relation (with a part. or instr., e.g. asura-rakṣasāni mṛdyamānāni yanti, ‘the Asuras and Rakshases are being continually crushed’, [ŚBr. i, 1, 4, 14]; gavāmayaneneyuḥ, ‘they, were engaged in the [festival called] Gavāmayana’, [KātyŚr. xxv, 5, 2]); to appear, be, [KaṭhUp.] : Intens. Ā. ī́yate ([RV. i, 30, 18]; p. iyāná, [RV.]; inf. iyádhyai, [RV. vi, 20, 8]) to go quickly or repeatedly; to come, wander, run, spread, get about, [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; to appear, make one's appearance, [RV.]; [AV.]; [BṛĀrUp.]; to approach any one with requests (with two acc.), ask, request, [RV.]; [AV.]: Pass. ī́yate, to be asked or requested, [RV.]: Caus. āyayati, to cause to go or escape, [Vop.]; i : [cf. Gk. εἶ-μι, ἴ-μεν; Lat. e-o, ī-mus, i-ter, &c.; Lith. ei-mì, ‘I go’; Slav. i-dû, ‘I go’, i-ti, ‘to go’; Goth. i-ddja, ‘I went’.] 🔎 √i- 1	rootPLPRSACT3IND
1.50.2	aktúbhiḥ 🔎 aktúbhiḥ	aktú- aktu : aktú m. tinge, ray, light, [RV.] aktu : dark tinge, darkness, night, [RV.] 🔎 aktú-	nominal stemPLMINS
1.50.2	sū́rāya 🔎 sū́rāya	sū́ra- sūra : sū́ra m. the sun, [RV.]; [AV.] sūra : Calotropis Gigantea (= arka), [MW.] sūra : a wise or learned man, teacher (= sūri), [L.] sūra : N. of the father of Kunthu (the 17th Arhat of the present Avasarpiṇī), [L.] sūra : of various authors (also with bhaṭṭa and miśra), [Cat.] sūra : sū́ra m. (fr. √ 1. sū) an inciter, propeller, [RV. i, 121, 7] ([Sāy.]) sūra : sū́ra m. (fr. √ su) the Soma-juice flowing from the Soma press, [RV.]; [AV.] 🔎 sū́ra-	nominal stemSGMDAT
1.50.2	viśvácakṣase 🔎 viśvácakṣase	viśvácakṣas- viśvacakṣas : viśvá—cakṣas (viśvá), mfn. id., [RV.] 🔎 viśvácakṣas-	nominal stemSGMDAT

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