10.10.9
रात्री॑भिरस्मा॒ अह॑भिर्दशस्ये॒त्सूर्य॑स्य॒ चक्षु॒र्मुहु॒रुन्मि॑मीयात्
दि॒वा पृ॑थि॒व्या मि॑थु॒ना सब॑न्धू य॒मीर्य॒मस्य॑ बिभृया॒दजा॑मि
10.10.9
rā́trībhir asmā áhabhir daśasyet
sū́ryasya cákṣur múhur ún mimīyāt
divā́ pr̥thivyā́ mithunā́ sábandhū
yamī́r yamásya bibhr̥yād ájāmi
10.10.9
rātrībhiḥfrom sū́rya-
from cákṣus-
from múhur
from úd
from √mī-
from dyú- ~ div-
from pr̥thivī́-
from mithuná-
from sábandhu-
from yamá-
from √bhr̥-
from ájāmi-
10.10.9
May Sûrya's eye with days and nights endow him, and ever may his light spread out before him. In heaven and earth the kindred Pair commingle. On Yam! be the unbrotherly act of Yama.
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| 10.10.9 | rā́trībhiḥ | rā́trī- | nominal stemPLFINS |
| 10.10.9 | asmai | ayám | pronounSGMDAT |
| 10.10.9 | áhabhiḥ | áhar ~ áhan- | nominal stemPLNINS |
| 10.10.9 | daśasyet | √daśasy- | rootSGPRSACT3OPTsecondary conjugation:DEN |
| 10.10.9 | sū́ryasya | sū́rya- sūrya : sū́rya m. the sun or its deity (in the Veda the name Sūrya is generally distinguished from Savitṛ [q.v.], and denotes the most concrete of the solar gods, whose connection with the luminary is always present to the poet's mind ; in [Nir. vii, 5] he is regarded as one of the original Vedic triad, his place being in the sky, while that of Agni is on the earth, and that of Indra is in the atmosphere; ten hymns in the [RV.] are entirely in praise of Sūrya, e.g. [i, 50], [i, 115] &c., also, [AV. xiii, 2]; he moves through the sky in a chariot drawn by seven ruddy horses or mares [see saptāśva, harit, harid-aśva]; in the later mythology Sūrya is identified with Savitṛ as one of the 12 Ādityas or emblems of the Sun in the 12 months of the year, and his seven-horsed chariot is said to be driven by Aruṇa or the Dawn as its charioteer, who is represented without legs; the Sun, whether named Sūrya or Vivasvat, has several wives See sūryā below), [RV.] &c. &c. (cf. [IW. 11]; [16] &c.; [RTL. 341]) sūrya : a symbolical expression for the number ‘twelve’ (in allusion to the sun in the 12 signs of the zodiac), [Jyot.]; [Hcat.] sūrya : the swallow-wort (either Calotropis or Asclepias Gigantea, = arka), [L.] sūrya : N. of the son of Bali, [L.] sūrya : of a Dānava, [VahniP.] sūrya : of an astronomer (= sūrya-dāsa), [Cat.] sūrya : epithet of Śiva, [MBh.] sūrya : sū́rya mfn. solar (perhaps w.r. for saurya), [Jyot.][For cognate words See under 2. svár.] sūrya : &c. See p. 1243, col. 1. 🔎 sū́rya- | nominal stemSGMGEN |
| 10.10.9 | cákṣuḥ | cákṣus- cakṣus : cákṣus mfn. seeing, [RV. ii, 39, 5] cakṣus : [x]; [AV. v, 24, 9]; [x, 10, 15] cakṣus : cákṣus m. N. of a Marut, [Hariv. 11545] cakṣus : of a Ṛṣi (with the patr. Mānava, author of [RV. ix, 106, 4]-[6]), [RAnukr.] cakṣus : of another Ṛṣi (with the patr. Saurya, author of [RV. x, 158]), [ib.] cakṣus : of a son of Anu, [BhP. ix, 23, 1] cakṣus : cákṣus f. N. of a river, [BhP. v, 17, 6 f.] cakṣus : cákṣus n. light, clearness, [RV.]; [SV.] cakṣus : the act of seeing (dat. inf. = °kṣase), [AV. xviii, 3, 10] cakṣus : aspect, [RV. x, 87, 8] cakṣus : faculty of seeing, sight, [RV.]; [AV.]; [TS. ii], [v]; [AitBr. ii, 6]; [ŚBr. x], [xiv]; [Mn.] &c. cakṣus : a look, [RV.]; [AV. iv, 9, 6] cakṣus : the eye, [RV.] &c. (often ifc. cf. a-, á-ghora-, á-dabdha-, &c.) cakṣus : prajāpates trīṇi cakṣūṃṣi, ‘the 3 eyes of Prajā-pati’, N. of a Sāman, [ĀrṣBr.] cakṣus : mitrā-varuṇayoś cakṣuḥ, ‘the eye of Mitra and Varuṇa’ (cf. [RV. vii, 61, 1]), another Sāman, [ĀrṣBr.] cakṣus : = °kṣur-bahala, [L.] 🔎 cákṣus- | nominal stemSGNACC |
| 10.10.9 | múhur muhur : múhur ind. (perhaps orig. ‘in a bewildering manner’) suddenly, at once, in a moment (often with a following ā́), [RV.]; [AV.] muhur : for a moment, a while, [RV.] &c. &c. muhur : at every moment, constantly, incessantly (muhur-muhur, now and again, at one moment and at another, again and again), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c. muhur : on the other hand, on the contrary, [Śak.] muhur : See col. 1. 🔎 múhur | múhur muhur : múhur ind. (perhaps orig. ‘in a bewildering manner’) suddenly, at once, in a moment (often with a following ā́), [RV.]; [AV.] muhur : for a moment, a while, [RV.] &c. &c. muhur : at every moment, constantly, incessantly (muhur-muhur, now and again, at one moment and at another, again and again), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c. muhur : on the other hand, on the contrary, [Śak.] muhur : See col. 1. 🔎 múhur | invariable |
| 10.10.9 | út ut : ind. a particle of doubt or deliberation (= 2. uta, q.v.), [L.] ut : (for the prep. ud See 1. ud.) 🔎 út | úd ud : a particle and prefix to verbs and nouns. (As implying superiority in place, rank, station, or power) up, upwards ud : upon, on ud : over, above. (As implying separation and disjunction) out, out of, from, off, away from, apart. (According to native authorities may also imply publicity, pride, indisposition, weakness, helplessness, binding, loosing, existence, acquisition.) is not used as a separable adverb or preposition ud : in those rare cases, in which it appears in the Veda uncompounded with a verb, the latter has to be supplied from the context (e.g. úd útsam śatádhāram, [AV. iii, 24, 4], out (pour) a fountain of a hundred streams). is sometimes repeated in the Veda to fill out the verse, [Pāṇ. viii, 1, 6] (kiṃ na ud ud u harṣase dātavā u, [Kāś.] on [Pāṇ.]) ud : , [cf. Zend uz; Hib. uas and in composition os, ois, e.g. os-car, ‘a leap, bound’, &c. See also uttamá, 1. úttara, &c.] ud : or und cl. 7. P. unátti ([RV. v, 85, 4]) : cl. 6. P. undati (p. undát, [RV. ii, 3, 2] : Impv. 3. pl. undantu, [AV. vi, 68, 1]; [2]) Ā. undáte ([AV. v, 19, 4]; undāṃ cakāra, undiṣyati &c., [Dhātup. xxix, 20]) to flow or issue out, spring (as water); to wet, bathe, [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; [KātyŚr.]; [ĀśvGṛ.]; [PārGṛ.] &c.: Caus. (aor. aundidat, [Vop. xviii, 1]) : Desid. undidiṣati, [Kāś.] on [Pāṇ. vi, 1, 3]; [cf. Gk. ὕδωρ; Lat. unda; Goth. vat-o; Old High Germ. waz-ar; Mod. Eng. wat-er; Lith. wand-ū́.] 🔎 úd | invariablelocal particle:LP |
| 10.10.9 | mimīyāt | √mī- mī : cl. 9. P. Ā. ([Dhātup. xxxi, 4]) mīnāti, mīnīte (Ved. also minā́ti and minoti; mī́yate or mīyáte [[Dhātup. xxvi, 28]]; mimītas, mimīyāt [?]; pf. mimāya, [RV.]; mīmaya, [AV.]; mamau, mimye Gr.; aor. amāsīt, amāsta Gr.; meṣṭa, [AV.]; aor. Pass. ámāyi, [Br.]; Prec. mīyāt, māsīṣṭa Gr.; fut. mātā, māsyati, °te Gr.; meṣyate, [Br.]; inf. -míyam, -miye, [RV.]; métos, [Br.]; ind.p. mītvā, -mīya, māya Gr.), to lessen, diminish, destroy (Ā. and Pass. to perish, disappear, die), [RV.]; [AV.]; [Br.]; [Up.]; [BhP.]; to lose one's way, go astray, [RV.]; to transgress, violate, frustrate, change, alter, [RV.]; [AV.] : Caus. māpayati aor. amīmapat. See pra-√ mī; Desid. mitsati, °te Gr.: Intens. memīyate, memayīti, memeti, [ib.] mī : [cf. Gk. μινύω ; Lat. minuere; Slav. mǐnij; Germ. minniro, minre, minder; Angl.Sax. min.] mī : See manyu-mī. mī : cl. 1. 10. P. mayati or māyayati, to go, move, [Dhātup. xxxiv, 18]; to understand, [Vop.] 🔎 √mī- | rootSGPRS3OPT |
| 10.10.9 | divā́ divā : dívā ind. (for divā́, instr. of 3. dív) g. svarādi, by day (often opposed to náktam), [RV.] divā : used also as subst., e.g. divā bhavati, [ChUp. iii, 11, 3] divā : (with rātris), [MBh. ii, 154] &c. divā : esp. in beginning of comp. 🔎 divā́ | dyú- ~ div- dyu : cl. 2. P. dyauti ([Dhātup. xxiv, 31]; pf. dudyāva, 3. pl. dudyuvur) to go against, attack, assail, [Bhaṭṭ.] dyu : dyú for 3. div as inflected stem and in comp. before consonants. 🔎 dyú- ~ div- | nominal stemSGMINS |
| 10.10.9 | pr̥thivyā́ | pr̥thivī́- pṛthivī : pṛthivī́ f. (= pṛthvī f. of pṛthu) the earth or wide world (‘the broad and extended One’, personified as devī and often invoked together with the sky [cf. 3. div and dyāvā-pṛthivī, [RTL. 182]]; according to [VP.] daughter of pṛthu; the Veda makes 3 earths, one called bhūmi, inhabited by men, and 2 under it; there is also an earth between the world of men and the circumambient ocean [[ŚBr.]] and one extending through the 3 worlds [[Naigh.]]), [RV.] &c. &c. pṛthivī : land, ground, soil, [ib.] pṛthivī : earth regarded as one of the elements, [Prab.]; [Suśr.] pṛthivī : = antarikṣa, [Naigh. i, 3] 🔎 pr̥thivī́- | nominal stemSGFINS |
| 10.10.9 | mithunā́ | mithuná- mithuna : mithuná mf(A)n. paired, forming a pair mithuna : mithuná m. a pair (male and female; but also ‘any couple or pair’, [RV.] &c. &c., usually du., in later language mostly n.; ifc. f(A). ) mithuna : mithuná n. pairing, copulation, [TS.] &c. &c. mithuna : a pair or couple (= m.; but also ‘twins’), [MBh.] mithuna : (also m.) the sign of the zodiac Gemini or the third arc of 30 degrees in a circle, [Sūryas.]; [Var.]; [Pur.] mithuna : the other part, complement or companion of anything, [MBh.] (also applied to a kind of small statue at the entrance of a temple, [VarBṛS.]) mithuna : honey and ghee, [L.] mithuna : (in gram.) root compounded with a preposition, [Siddh.] mithuna : &c. See p. 816, col. 3. 🔎 mithuná- | nominal stemDUMNOM |
| 10.10.9 | sábandhū | sábandhu- sabandhu : sá—bandhu (sá-), mfn. being of the same race or family, related, of kin, [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.] sabandhu : possessing a kinsman having a friend, befriended, [Hit.] 🔎 sábandhu- | nominal stemDUMNOM |
| 10.10.9 | yamī́ḥ | yamī́- yamī : yamī́ (ī́), f. N. of Yama's twin-sister (who is identified in Post-vedic mythology with the river-goddess Yamunā), [RV.] &c. &c. 🔎 yamī́- | nominal stemSGFNOM |
| 10.10.9 | yamásya | yamá- yama : yáma m. a rein, curb, bridle, [RV. v, 61, 2] yama : a driver, charioteer, [ib.] [viii, 103, 10] yama : the act of checking or curbing, suppression, restraint (with vācām, restraint of words, silence), [BhP.] yama : self-control forbearance, any great moral rule or duty (as opp. to niyama, a minor observance; in [Yājñ. iii, 313] ten Yamas are mentioned, sometimes only five), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c. yama : (in Yoga) self-restraint (as the first of the eight Aṅgas or means of attaining mental concentration), [IW. 93] yama : any rule or observance, [PārGṛ.] yama : yamá mf(A/ or I/)n. twin-born, twin, forming a pair, [RV.] &c. &c. yama : yáma m. a twin, one of a pair or couple, a fellow (du. ‘the twins’, N. of the Aśvins and of their twin children by Mādrī, called Nakula and Saha-deva; yamau mithunau, twins of different sex), [ib.] yama : a symbolical N. for the number ‘two’, [Hcat.] yama : N. of the god who presides over the Pitṛs (q.v.) and rules the spirits of the dead, [RV.] &c. &c., [IW. 18]; [197], [198] &c.; [RTL. 10]; [16]; [289] &c. (he is regarded as the first of men and born from Vivasvat, ‘the Sun’, and his wife Saraṇyū; while his brother, the seventh Manu, another form of the first man, is the son of Vivasvat and Saṃjñā, the image of Saraṇyū; his twin-sister is Yamī, with whom he resists sexual alliance, but by whom he is mourned after his death, so that the gods, to make her forget her sorrow, create night; in the Veda he is called a king or saṃgamano janānām, ‘the gatherer of men’, and rules over the departed fathers in heaven, the road to which is guarded by two broad-nosed, four-eyed, spotted dogs, the children of Śaramā q.v.; in Post-vedic mythology he is the appointed Judge and ‘Restrainer’ or ‘Punisher’ of the dead, in which capacity he is also called dharmarāja or dharma and corresponds to the Greek Pluto and to Minos; his abode is in some region of the lower world called Yama-pura; thither a soul when it leaves the body, is said to repair, and there, after the recorder, Citra-gupta, has read an account of its actions kept in a book called Agra-saṃdhānā, it receives a just sentence; in [MBh.] Yama is described as dressed in blood-red garments, with a glittering form, a crown on his head, glowing eyes and like Varuṇa, holding a noose, with which he binds the spirit after drawing it from the body, in size about the measure of a man's thumb; he is otherwise represented as grim in aspect, green in colour, clothed in red, riding on a buffalo, and holding a club in one hand and noose in the other; in the later mythology he is always represented as a terrible deity inflicting tortures, called yātanā, on departed spirits ; he is also one of the 8 guardians of the world as regent of the South quarter; he is the regent of the Nakṣatra Apa-bharaṇī or Bharaṇī, the supposed author of [RV. x, 10]; [14], of a hymn to Viṣṇu and of a law-book; yamasyārkaḥ N. of a Sāman, [ĀrṣBr.]) yama : N. of the planet Saturn (regarded as the son of Vivasvat and Chāyā), [Hariv.]; [BhP.] yama : of one of Skanda's attendants (mentioned together with Ati-yama), [MBh.] yama : a crow, [L.] (cf. -dūtaka) yama : a bad horse (whose limbs are either too small or too large), [L.] yama : yáma n. a pair, brace, couple, [L.] yama : (in gram.) a twin-letter (the consonant interposed and generally understood, but not written in practice, between a nasal immediately preceded by one of the four other consonants in each class), [Prāt.]; [Pat.] on [Pāṇ. i, 1, 8] yama : pitch of the voice, tone of utterance, key, [Prāt.] 🔎 yamá- | nominal stemSGMGEN |
| 10.10.9 | bibhr̥yāt | √bhr̥- bhṛ : cl. 1. P. Ā. ([Dhātup. xxii, 1]) bhárati, °te; cl. 3. P. Ā. ([xxv, 5]) bíbharti (bibhárti only, [RV. iv, 50, 7]), bibhṛte; cl. 2. P. bhárti, [RV. i, 173, 6.] (p. P. bíbhrat, q.v.; Ā. bibhrāṇa with act. meaning, [Ragh.], bibhramāṇa with pass. meaning, [RV.]; pf. jabhā́ra, jabhárat; jabhre, ajabhartana, [ib.]; babhāra, babhṛma, [Br.] &c.; p. babhrāṇá with pass. meaning, [RV.]; bibharāmbabhūva, [Ragh.], °rām-āsa, [Bhaṭṭ.]; aor. abhār, [RV.]; bhartám, bhṛtám, [Br.]; abhṛta Gr.; abhārṣam Subj. bharṣat, [RV.]; abhāriṣam, [AV.]; Prec. bhriyāsam, °yāt, [Br.]; fut. bhariṣyati cond. ábhariṣyat, [RV.]; bhartā́, [ŚBr.]; inf. bhártum, bhártave, bhártavaí, Ved.; bháradhyai, [RV.]; ind.p. -bhṛ́tya, [ib.] &c.), to bear, carry, convey, hold (‘on’ or ‘in’ loc.), [RV.] &c. &c.; to wear i.e. let grow (hair, beard, nails), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.; to balance, hold in equipoise (as a pair of scales), [Viṣṇ.]; to bear i.e. contain, possess, have, keep (also ‘keep in mind’), [RV.] &c. &c.; to support, maintain, cherish, foster, [ib.]; to hire, pay, [MBh.]; to carry off or along (Ā. bharate, ‘for one's self’ i.e. gain, obtain, or = ferri ‘to be borne along’), [RV.]; [AV.]; to bring, offer, procure, grant, bestow, [RV.] &c. &c.; to endure, experience, suffer, undergo, [ib.]; to lift up, raise (the voice or a sound; Ā. bharate, also ‘to rise, be heard’), [RV.]; to fill (the stomach), [Pañcat.]; (with garbham) to conceive, become pregnant (cf. under √ dhṛ), [RV.]; (with kṣitim) to take care of, rule, govern, [Rājat.]; (with, ājñām) to submit to, obey, [ib.]; (with ūrjām) to exert, employ, [Bhaṭṭ.] : Pass. bhriyáte (ep. also °ti; aor. abhāri), to be borne &c., [RV.] &c. &c.: Caus. bhārayati (aor. abībharat), to cause to bear &c.; to engage for hire, [MBh.] : Desid. búbhūrṣati ([ŚBr.]; [MārkP.]), bibhariṣati ([Pāṇ. viii, 2, 49]), to wish to bear or support or maintain: Intens. báribharti (3. pl. °bhrati, [RV.], where also 2. du. jarbhṛtáḥ), barībharti ([Kāv.]), to bear repeatedly or continually, carry hither and thither. bhṛ : [cf. Zd. bar; Gk. ϕέρω; Lat. fero; Slav. brati; Goth. baíran; Germ. beran, ge-bären; Eng. bear.] bhṛ : (1. See p. 764, col. 3), in comp. for bhrū. 🔎 √bhr̥- | rootSGPRSACT3OPT |
| 10.10.9 | ájāmi ajāmi : á-jāmi mfn. not of kin, not related, [RV.] ajāmi : (in Gr.) not corresponding, [Nir.] ajāmi : á-jāmi n. ‘(co-habitation) not allowed between relations’, incest, [RV.] 🔎 ájāmi | ájāmi- ajāmi : á-jāmi mfn. not of kin, not related, [RV.] ajāmi : (in Gr.) not corresponding, [Nir.] ajāmi : á-jāmi n. ‘(co-habitation) not allowed between relations’, incest, [RV.] 🔎 ájāmi- | nominal stemSGNACC |