Rig Veda 1.50.6

Addressed to: Surya

Group: Hymns of Praskanva

Text (Devanagari)

1.50.6

येना॑ पावक॒ चक्ष॑सा भुर॒ण्यन्तं॒ जनाँ॒ अनु॑

त्वं व॑रुण॒ पश्य॑सि

Text (Roman)

1.50.6

yénā pāvaka cákṣasā

bhuraṇyántaṃ jánām̐ ánu

tváṃ varuṇa páśyasi

Padapāṭha

1.50.6

nominal stemSGMVOC

from váruṇa-

varuṇa : váruṇa m. (once in the [TĀr.] varuṇá) ‘All-enveloping Sky’, N. of an Āditya (in the Veda commonly associated with Mitra [q.v.] and presiding over the night as Mitra over the day, but often celebrated separately, whereas Mitra is rarely invoked alone; Varuṇa is one of the oldest of the Vedic gods, and is commonly thought to correspond to the Οὐρανός of the Greeks, although of a more spiritual conception; he is often regarded as the supreme deity, being then styled ‘king of the gods’ or ‘king of both gods and men’ or ‘king of the universe’; no other deity has such grand attributes and functions assigned to him; he is described as fashioning and upholding heaven and earth, as possessing extraordinary power and wisdom called māyā, as sending his spies or messengers throughout both worlds, as numbering the very winkings of men's eyes, as hating falsehood, as seizing transgressors with his pāśa or noose, as inflicting diseases, especially dropsy, as pardoning sin, as the guardian of immortality; he is also invoked in the Veda together with Indra, and in later Vedic literature together with Agni, with Yama, and with Viṣṇu; in [RV. iv, 1, 2], he is even called the brother of Agni; though not generally regarded in the Veda as a god of the ocean, yet he is often connected with the waters, especially the waters of the atmosphere or firmament, and in one place [[RV. vii, 64, 2]] is called with Mitra, sindhu-pati, ‘lord of the sea or of rivers’; hence in the later mythology he became a kind of Neptune, and is there best known in his character of god of the ocean; in the [MBh.] Varuṇa is said to be a son of Kardama and father of Puṣkara, and is also variously represented as one of the Deva-gandharvas, as a Nāga, as a king of the Nāgas, and as an Asura; he is the regent of the western quarter [cf. loka-pāla] and of the Nakṣatra Śatabhiṣaj [[VarBṛS.]]; the Jainas consider Varuṇa as a servant of the twentieth Arhat of the present Avasarpiṇī), [RV.] &c. &c. (cf. [IW. 10]; [12] &c.)

varuṇa : the ocean, [VarBṛS.]

varuṇa : water, [Kathās.]

varuṇa : the sun, [L.]

varuṇa : awarder off or dispeller, [Sāy.] on [RV. v, 48, 5]

varuṇa : N. of a partic. magical formula recited over weapons, [R.] (v.l. varaṇa)

varuṇa : the tree Crataeva Roxburghii, [L.] (cf. varaṇa)

varuṇa : pl. (prob.) the gods generally, [AV. iii, 4, 6]

varuṇa : váruṇa &c. See p. 921, col. 2.

🔎 varuṇa

| paśyasi

Monier-Williams dictionary from Cologne Sanskrit Lexicon

English Translation by Griffith

1.50.6

With that same eye of thine wherewith thou lookest brilliant Varuṇa, Upon the busy race of men,

Grammatical analysis

Source index	Surface	Lemma	Information
1.50.6	yéna + yena : ind. (instr. of 3. ya) by whom or by which, by means of which, by which way, [RV.] &c. &c. yena : in which direction, whither, where, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c. yena : in which manner, [PārGṛ.]; [Mn.] yena : on which account, in consequence of which, wherefore, [MBh.]; [R.]; [Kathās.] yena : because, since, as, [RV.]; &c. yena : that, so that, in order that (with pres. or fut. or Pot.) 🔎 yéna +	yá- 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 🔎 yá-	pronounSGNINS
1.50.6	pāvaka pāvaka : pāvaká mf(A/)n. pure, clear, bright, shining, [RV.]; [VS.]; [AV.] (said of Agni, Sūrya and other gods, of water, day and night &c.; according to native Comms. it is mostly = sodhaka, ‘cleansing, purifying’) pāvaka : pāvaká m. N. of a partic. Agni (in the Purāṇas said to be a son of Agni Abhimānin and Svāhā or of Antardhāna and Śikhaṇḍinī), [TS.]; [TBr.]; [KātyŚr.]; [Pur.] pāvaka : pāvaká m. (ifc. f(A). ) fire or the god of fire, [Up.]; [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c. pāvaka : pāvaká m. N. of the number 3 (like all words for ‘fire’, because fire is of three kinds See agni), [Sūryas.] pāvaka : a kind of Ṛṣi, a saint, a person purified by religious abstraction or one who purified from sin, [MBh.] pāvaka : Prenina Spinosa, [L.] pāvaka : Plumbago Zeylanica or some other species, [L.] pāvaka : Semecarpus Anacardium, [L.] pāvaka : Carthamus Tinctoria, [L.] pāvaka : Embelia Ribes, [L.] 🔎 pāvaka	pāvaká- pāvaka : pāvaká mf(A/)n. pure, clear, bright, shining, [RV.]; [VS.]; [AV.] (said of Agni, Sūrya and other gods, of water, day and night &c.; according to native Comms. it is mostly = sodhaka, ‘cleansing, purifying’) pāvaka : pāvaká m. N. of a partic. Agni (in the Purāṇas said to be a son of Agni Abhimānin and Svāhā or of Antardhāna and Śikhaṇḍinī), [TS.]; [TBr.]; [KātyŚr.]; [Pur.] pāvaka : pāvaká m. (ifc. f(A). ) fire or the god of fire, [Up.]; [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c. pāvaka : pāvaká m. N. of the number 3 (like all words for ‘fire’, because fire is of three kinds See agni), [Sūryas.] pāvaka : a kind of Ṛṣi, a saint, a person purified by religious abstraction or one who purified from sin, [MBh.] pāvaka : Prenina Spinosa, [L.] pāvaka : Plumbago Zeylanica or some other species, [L.] pāvaka : Semecarpus Anacardium, [L.] pāvaka : Carthamus Tinctoria, [L.] pāvaka : Embelia Ribes, [L.] 🔎 pāvaká-	nominal stemSGMVOC
1.50.6	cákṣasā 🔎 cákṣasā	cákṣas- cakṣas : cákṣas n. radiance, clearness, [RV.]; [AV. vi, 76, 1] cakṣas : (of the sea), [Lāṭy. i, 7, 5] cakṣas : look, sight, eye, [RV.] cakṣas : (ase) dat. inf. √ cakṣ, q.v. cakṣas : cákṣas m. a teacher, spiritual instructor, [L.] cakṣas : ‘teacher of the gods’, Bṛhaspati, [L.] (cf. ápāka-, īya-, upāká-, ghorá-, viśvá-, sū́ra-, svár-; uru-, duś-, nṛ- and su-cákṣ°.) 🔎 cákṣas-	nominal stemSGNINS
1.50.6	bhuraṇyántam 🔎 bhuraṇyántam	√bhuraṇy- 🔎 √bhuraṇy-	rootSGMACCPRSACTnon-finite:PTCPsecondary conjugation:DEN
1.50.6	jánān 🔎 jánān	jána- jana : jána mf(I)n. ‘generating’, see puraṃ- jana : jána m. (g. vṛṣādi) creature, living being, man, person, race (páñca jánās, ‘the five races’ = p° kṛṣṭáyas, [RV. iii], [viii ff.]; [MBh. iii, 14160]), people, subjects (the sg. used collectively, e.g. daívya or divyā́ j°, ‘divine race’, the gods collectively, [RV.]; mahat j°, many people, [R. vi, 101, 2]; often ifc. denoting one person or a number of persons collectively, e.g. preṣya-, bandhu-, sakhī- &c., qq.vv. ; with names of peoples, [VarBṛS. iv, 22] and [v, 74]; ayaṃ janaḥ, ‘this person, these persons’, I, we, [MBh. viii, 709]; [Hariv. 7110]; [R. ii, 41, 2]; [Śak.] &c.; eṣa j°, id., [Kāvyād. ii, 75]), [RV.] &c. jana : the person nearest to the speaker (also with ayam or asau, ‘this my lover’, [Kāvyād. ii, 271]; [Ratnāv. i, 24/25]), [Nal. x, 10]; [Śak.]; [Mālav.] jana : a common person, one of the people, [Kir. ii, 42] and [47] jana : the world beyond the Mahar-loka, [BhP. iii, 11, 29]; [SkandaP.] jana : janá (°ná), m. (g. aśvādi) N. of a man (with the patr. Śārkarākṣya), [ŚBr. x]; [ChUp.] 🔎 jána-	nominal stemPLMACC
1.50.6	ánu anu : mfn. = aṇu, q.v., [L.] anu : ánu m. a non-Āryan man, [RV.] anu : N. of a king (one of Yayāti's sons) anu : of a non-Āryan tribe, [MBh.] &c. anu : ánu ind. (as a prefix to verbs and nouns, expresses) after, along, alongside, lengthwise, near to, under, subordinate to, with. (When prefixed to nouns, especially in adverbial compounds), according to, severally, each by each, orderly, methodically, one after another, repeatedly. (As a separable preposition, with accusative) after, along, over, near to, through, to, towards, at, according to, in order, agreeably to, in regard to, inferior to, [Pāṇ. i, 4, 86.] (As a separable adverb) after, afterwards, thereupon, again, further, then, next. 🔎 ánu	ánu anu : mfn. = aṇu, q.v., [L.] anu : ánu m. a non-Āryan man, [RV.] anu : N. of a king (one of Yayāti's sons) anu : of a non-Āryan tribe, [MBh.] &c. anu : ánu ind. (as a prefix to verbs and nouns, expresses) after, along, alongside, lengthwise, near to, under, subordinate to, with. (When prefixed to nouns, especially in adverbial compounds), according to, severally, each by each, orderly, methodically, one after another, repeatedly. (As a separable preposition, with accusative) after, along, over, near to, through, to, towards, at, according to, in order, agreeably to, in regard to, inferior to, [Pāṇ. i, 4, 86.] (As a separable adverb) after, afterwards, thereupon, again, further, then, next. 🔎 ánu	invariablelocal particle:LP
1.50.6	tvám 🔎 tvám	tvám 🔎 tvám	pronounSGNOM
1.50.6	varuṇa varuṇa : váruṇa m. (once in the [TĀr.] varuṇá) ‘All-enveloping Sky’, N. of an Āditya (in the Veda commonly associated with Mitra [q.v.] and presiding over the night as Mitra over the day, but often celebrated separately, whereas Mitra is rarely invoked alone; Varuṇa is one of the oldest of the Vedic gods, and is commonly thought to correspond to the Οὐρανός of the Greeks, although of a more spiritual conception; he is often regarded as the supreme deity, being then styled ‘king of the gods’ or ‘king of both gods and men’ or ‘king of the universe’; no other deity has such grand attributes and functions assigned to him; he is described as fashioning and upholding heaven and earth, as possessing extraordinary power and wisdom called māyā, as sending his spies or messengers throughout both worlds, as numbering the very winkings of men's eyes, as hating falsehood, as seizing transgressors with his pāśa or noose, as inflicting diseases, especially dropsy, as pardoning sin, as the guardian of immortality; he is also invoked in the Veda together with Indra, and in later Vedic literature together with Agni, with Yama, and with Viṣṇu; in [RV. iv, 1, 2], he is even called the brother of Agni; though not generally regarded in the Veda as a god of the ocean, yet he is often connected with the waters, especially the waters of the atmosphere or firmament, and in one place [[RV. vii, 64, 2]] is called with Mitra, sindhu-pati, ‘lord of the sea or of rivers’; hence in the later mythology he became a kind of Neptune, and is there best known in his character of god of the ocean; in the [MBh.] Varuṇa is said to be a son of Kardama and father of Puṣkara, and is also variously represented as one of the Deva-gandharvas, as a Nāga, as a king of the Nāgas, and as an Asura; he is the regent of the western quarter [cf. loka-pāla] and of the Nakṣatra Śatabhiṣaj [[VarBṛS.]]; the Jainas consider Varuṇa as a servant of the twentieth Arhat of the present Avasarpiṇī), [RV.] &c. &c. (cf. [IW. 10]; [12] &c.) varuṇa : the ocean, [VarBṛS.] varuṇa : water, [Kathās.] varuṇa : the sun, [L.] varuṇa : awarder off or dispeller, [Sāy.] on [RV. v, 48, 5] varuṇa : N. of a partic. magical formula recited over weapons, [R.] (v.l. varaṇa) varuṇa : the tree Crataeva Roxburghii, [L.] (cf. varaṇa) varuṇa : pl. (prob.) the gods generally, [AV. iii, 4, 6] varuṇa : váruṇa &c. See p. 921, col. 2. 🔎 varuṇa	váruṇa- varuṇa : váruṇa m. (once in the [TĀr.] varuṇá) ‘All-enveloping Sky’, N. of an Āditya (in the Veda commonly associated with Mitra [q.v.] and presiding over the night as Mitra over the day, but often celebrated separately, whereas Mitra is rarely invoked alone; Varuṇa is one of the oldest of the Vedic gods, and is commonly thought to correspond to the Οὐρανός of the Greeks, although of a more spiritual conception; he is often regarded as the supreme deity, being then styled ‘king of the gods’ or ‘king of both gods and men’ or ‘king of the universe’; no other deity has such grand attributes and functions assigned to him; he is described as fashioning and upholding heaven and earth, as possessing extraordinary power and wisdom called māyā, as sending his spies or messengers throughout both worlds, as numbering the very winkings of men's eyes, as hating falsehood, as seizing transgressors with his pāśa or noose, as inflicting diseases, especially dropsy, as pardoning sin, as the guardian of immortality; he is also invoked in the Veda together with Indra, and in later Vedic literature together with Agni, with Yama, and with Viṣṇu; in [RV. iv, 1, 2], he is even called the brother of Agni; though not generally regarded in the Veda as a god of the ocean, yet he is often connected with the waters, especially the waters of the atmosphere or firmament, and in one place [[RV. vii, 64, 2]] is called with Mitra, sindhu-pati, ‘lord of the sea or of rivers’; hence in the later mythology he became a kind of Neptune, and is there best known in his character of god of the ocean; in the [MBh.] Varuṇa is said to be a son of Kardama and father of Puṣkara, and is also variously represented as one of the Deva-gandharvas, as a Nāga, as a king of the Nāgas, and as an Asura; he is the regent of the western quarter [cf. loka-pāla] and of the Nakṣatra Śatabhiṣaj [[VarBṛS.]]; the Jainas consider Varuṇa as a servant of the twentieth Arhat of the present Avasarpiṇī), [RV.] &c. &c. (cf. [IW. 10]; [12] &c.) varuṇa : the ocean, [VarBṛS.] varuṇa : water, [Kathās.] varuṇa : the sun, [L.] varuṇa : awarder off or dispeller, [Sāy.] on [RV. v, 48, 5] varuṇa : N. of a partic. magical formula recited over weapons, [R.] (v.l. varaṇa) varuṇa : the tree Crataeva Roxburghii, [L.] (cf. varaṇa) varuṇa : pl. (prob.) the gods generally, [AV. iii, 4, 6] varuṇa : váruṇa &c. See p. 921, col. 2. 🔎 váruṇa-	nominal stemSGMVOC
1.50.6	páśyasi 🔎 páśyasi	√spaś- spaś : (cf. √ paś; only occurring in pf. paspaśe, p. paspaśāná; aor. áspaṣṭa), to see, behold, perceive, espy, [RV.] : Caus. spāśayati ([ĀpŚr.]) and spāśáyate ([RV.]), to make clear, show; to perceive, observe. spaś : [cf. Gk. σκέπ-τομαι, σκοπ-ή; Lat. spicio; Germ. spëhôn, spähen; Eng. spy.] spaś : spáś m. one who looks or beholds, a watcher, spy, messenger (esp. applied to the messengers of Varuṇa), [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.] spaś : [cf. Lat. spex in auspex; Gk. σκώψ.] spaś : (cf. √ paś) cl. 1. P. Ā. spaśati, °te (p. paspāśa, paspaśe; fut. spaśitā &c.), to bind, fetter, stop, hinder, [Dhātup. xxi, 22] : Caus. spāśayati (aor. apaspaśat) Gr.: Desid. pispaśiṣati, °te, [ib.] : Intens. pāspaśyate, pāspaṣṭi, [ib.] spaś : (v.l. sparś; connected with √ 1. spṛś) cl. 10. P. spāśayati, to take or take hold of [Dhātup. xxxiii, 7]; to unite, join, embrace, [ib.] 🔎 √spaś-	rootSGPRSACT2IND

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