Rig Veda 2.7.6

Addressed to: Agni

Group: Hymns to Agni

Text (Devanagari)

2.7.6

द्र्व॑न्नः स॒र्पिरा॑सुतिः प्र॒त्नो होता॒ वरे॑ण्यः

सह॑सस्पु॒त्रो अद्भु॑तः

Text (Roman)

2.7.6

drvànnaḥ sarpírāsutiḥ

pratnó hótā váreṇyaḥ

sáhasas putró ádbhutaḥ

Padapāṭha

2.7.6

Monier-Williams dictionary from Cologne Sanskrit Lexicon

English Translation by Griffith

2.7.6

Wood-fed, bedewed with sacred oil, ancient, Invoker, excellent, The Son of Strength, the Wonderful.

Oldenberg's translation

2.7.6

The old excellent Hotri who feeds on wood and drinks butter, he is the wonderful son of strength.

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Grammatical analysis

Source index	Surface	Lemma	Information
2.7.6	drvànnaḥ 🔎 drvànnaḥ	drvànna- drvanna : drv-ànna mfn. one whose food is wood, [RV.] 🔎 drvànna-	nominal stemSGMNOM
2.7.6	sarpírāsutiḥ 🔎 sarpírāsutiḥ	sarpírāsuti- sarpirāsuti : sarpír—āsuti (°pír-), mfn. sipping clarified butter, [RV.] sarpirāsuti : sacrificed or worshipped with clarified butter, [MW.] sarpirāsuti : sarpír—āsuti m. N. of Agni, [RV.] 🔎 sarpírāsuti-	nominal stemSGMNOM
2.7.6	pratnáḥ 🔎 pratnáḥ	pratná- pratna : pra-tná mf(A/)n. former, preceding pratna : ancient, old pratna : traditional, customary, [RV.]; [AV.]; [TS.]; [Br.]; [BhP.] pratna : pra-tná n. a kind of metre, [RPrāt.] 🔎 pratná-	nominal stemSGMNOM
2.7.6	hótā 🔎 hótā	hótar- 🔎 hótar-	nominal stemSGMNOM
2.7.6	váreṇyaḥ 🔎 váreṇyaḥ	váreṇya- vareṇya : váreṇya mfn. to be wished for, desirable, excellent, best among (gen.), [RV.] &c. &c. vareṇya : váreṇya m. a partic. class of deceased ancestors, [MārkP.] vareṇya : N. of a son of Bhṛgu, [MBh.] vareṇya : váreṇya n. supreme bliss, [VP.] vareṇya : saffron, [L.] 🔎 váreṇya-	nominal stemSGMNOMnon-finite:GDV
2.7.6	sáhasaḥ 🔎 sáhasaḥ	sáhas- sahas : sáhas mfn. powerful, mighty, victorious (superl. tama), [RV.] sahas : sáhas m. the month Mārgaśīrṣa or Agrahāyaṇa (November-December), the winter season, [VS.]; [Suśr.]; [Pur.] sahas : sáhas n. strength, power, force, victory (sahasas putra or °saḥ sūnu m. ‘son of strength’, N. of Agni in [RV.]; sahasā ind. See below; sahobhiḥ ind. = ‘mightily, intensely’), [RV.] &c. &c. sahas : sáhas n. water, [Naigh. i, 12] sahas : light, [L.]; N. of various Sāmans, [ĀrṣBr.] sahas : [cf. Goth. sigis; Angl.Sax. sigor, sige; Germ. Sieg.] sahas : , °sa &c. See p. 1193, col. 1. 🔎 sáhas-	nominal stemSGNGEN
2.7.6	putráḥ 🔎 putráḥ	putrá- putra : putrá m. (etym. doubtful, perhaps fr. √ 2. puṣ; traditionally said to be a comp. put-tra, ‘preserving from the hell called Put’, [Mn. ix, 138]) a son, child, [RV.] &c. &c. (also the young of an animal; cf. [Pāṇ. viii, 1, 15], Sch.; ifc. it forms diminutives, cf. dṛṣat-p° and śilā-p°; voc. sg. du. pl. often used to address young persons, ‘my son, my children &c.’; du. ‘two sons’ or ‘a son and a daughter’; cf. [Pāṇ. i, 2, 68]) putra : a species of small venomous animal (= putraka), [Cat.] putra : (in astrol.) N. of the fifth house, [Var.] putra : N. of a son of Brahmiṣṭha, [Ragh.] putra : of a son of Priya-vrata, [VP.] &c. &c. putra : [cf. Zd. puthra; Gk. παῖς and Lat. puer (?).] 🔎 putrá-	nominal stemSGMNOM
2.7.6	ádbhutaḥ 🔎 ádbhutaḥ	ádbhuta- adbhuta : ád-bhuta mfn. extraordinary adbhuta : see s.v. adbhuta : ádbhuta mfn. [once adbhutá, [RV. i, 120, 4]] (see 1. at), supernatural, wonderful, marvellous adbhuta : (as), m. the marvellous (in style) adbhuta : surprise adbhuta : N. of the Indra of the ninth Manvantara adbhuta : (am), n. a marvel, a wonder, a prodigy. 🔎 ádbhuta-	nominal stemSGMNOM

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