3.2.8
न॒म॒स्यत॑ ह॒व्यदा॑तिं स्वध्व॒रं दु॑व॒स्यत॒ दम्यं॑ जा॒तवे॑दसम्
र॒थीर्ऋ॒तस्य॑ बृह॒तो विच॑र्षणिर॒ग्निर्दे॒वाना॑मभवत्पु॒रोहि॑तः
3.2.8
namasyáta havyádātiṃ svadhvaráṃ
duvasyáta dámyaṃ jātávedasam
rathī́r r̥tásya br̥ható vícarṣaṇir
agnír devā́nām abhavat puróhitaḥ
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namasyatafrom havyádāti-
from svadhvará-
from jātávedas-
from rathī́-
from r̥tá-
from vícarṣaṇi-
from agní-
from devá-
from √bhū-
from puróhita-
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Honour the oblation-bearer, him who knows fair rites, serve ye the Household Friend who knows all things that be. He drives the chariot of the lofty ordinance: Agni most active, is the great High Priest of Gods.
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Adore ye him, the giver of offerings, the best performer of worship; honour ye him the domestic Gâtavedas. Agni, the charioteer of the mighty Rita, he who dwells among manifold tribes, has become the Purohita of the gods.
| Source index | Surface | Lemma | Information |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.2.8 | namasyáta | √namasy- | rootPLPRSACT2IMPsecondary conjugation:DEN |
| 3.2.8 | havyádātim | havyádāti- havyadāti : havyá—dāti (havyá-), mfn. conveying or presenting oblations (to the gods; said of Agni), [RV.] havyadāti : havyá—dāti f. sacrificial gift, oblation, [ib.] 🔎 havyádāti- | nominal stemSGMACC |
| 3.2.8 | svadhvarám | svadhvará- svadhvara : sv-adhvará m. n. a good sacrifice, [RV.]; [BhP.] svadhvara : sv-adhvará mfn. performing a sacrifice well, well adapted to a sacrifice, [RV.] 🔎 svadhvará- | nominal stemSGMACC |
| 3.2.8 | duvasyáta | √duvasy- | rootPLPRSACT2IMPsecondary conjugation:DEN |
| 3.2.8 | dámyam | dámya- damya : mfn. tamable, [Mn. viii, 146]; [BhP. xi] damya : m. a young bullock that has to be tamed, [MBh. xii f.]; [Hariv.]; [R.]; [Ragh.]; [Vikr.] damya : dámya mfn. being in a house, homely, [RV.] 🔎 dámya- | nominal stemSGMACC |
| 3.2.8 | jātávedasam | jātávedas- jātavedas : jātá—vedas (°tá-), mfn. (fr. √ vid, cl. 6) ‘having whatever is born or created as his property’, ‘all-possessor’ (or fr. √ vid, cl. 2. ‘knowing [or known by] all created beings’; cf. [Nir. vii, 19]; [ŚBr. ix, 5, 1, 68]; [MBh. ii, 1146] &c.; N. of Agni), [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.] &c. jātavedas : accord. to some,‘sage, wise’ jātavedas : jātá—vedas m. fire, [MBh.] &c. 🔎 jātávedas- | nominal stemSGMACC |
| 3.2.8 | rathī́ḥ | rathī́- rathī : ráthī (ī), f. a small carriage or waggon, cart, [Śiś.] rathī : rathī́ mfn. (nom. sg. m. and f. rathī́s; acc. sg. rathyám pl. rathyás) going or fighting in a chariot (as subst. = a carriage-driver, charioteer, car-fighter, champion, hero, leader, lord), [RV.]; [AitBr.] rathī : carried on a waggon, forming a cart-load, [RV.] rathī : belonging to a chariot, [ib.] 🔎 rathī́- | nominal stemSGMNOM |
| 3.2.8 | r̥tásya | r̥tá- ṛta : ṛtá mf(A)n. met with, afflicted by (with instr.), [TS. v] ṛta : proper, right, fit, apt, suitable, able, brave, honest, [RV.]; [VS. xvii, 82] ṛta : true, [MBh.]; [BhP.]; [Mn. viii, 82]; [87]; [Bhag.] &c. ṛta : worshipped, respected, [L.] ṛta : enlightened, luminous, [L.] ṛta : ṛtá (as), m. N. of a Rudra, [MBh.] ṛta : of a son of Manu Cākṣuṣa, [BhP. iv, 13, 16] ṛta : of a son of Vijaya, [VP.] ṛta : ṛtá (am), n. fixed or settled order, law, rule (esp. in religion) ṛta : sacred or pious action or custom, divine law, faith, divine truth (these meanings are given by, [BRD.] and are generally more to be accepted than those of native authorities and marked, [L.] below), [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [ŚBr.] &c. ṛta : truth in general, righteousness, right, [RV.]; [AV.]; [MBh.]; [Mn. viii, 61]; [104]; [Pañcat.] &c. ṛta : figuratively said of gleaning (as the right means of a Brāhman's obtaining a livelihood as opposed to agriculture, which is anṛta), [Mn. iv, 4 ff.] ṛta : promise, oath, vow, [TāṇḍyaBr.]; [Lāṭy.] ṛta : truth personified (as an object of worship, and hence enumerated among the sacred objects in the [Nir.]) ṛta : water, [L.] ṛta : sacrifice, [L.] ṛta : a particular sacrifice, [L.] ṛta : the sun, [L.] ṛta : wealth, [L.] ṛta : ṛti, ṛtu See p. 223, col. 2 — p. 224, col. 1. 🔎 r̥tá- | nominal stemSGNGEN |
| 3.2.8 | br̥hatáḥ | br̥hánt- | nominal stemSGNGEN |
| 3.2.8 | vícarṣaṇiḥ | vícarṣaṇi- vicarṣaṇi : vi—carṣaṇa (prob. w.r.) and vi—carṣaṇi (vi-), mfn. very active or busy, [RV.]; [TĀr.] 🔎 vícarṣaṇi- | nominal stemSGMNOM |
| 3.2.8 | agníḥ | agní- agni : agní m. (√ ag, [Uṇ.]) fire, sacrificial fire (of three kinds, Gārhapatya, Āhavanīya, and Dakṣiṇa) agni : the number three, [Sūryas.] agni : the god of fire, the fire of the stomach, digestive faculty, gastric fluid agni : bile, [L.] agni : gold, [L.] agni : N. of various plants Semecarpus Anacardium, [Suśr.], Plumbago Zeylanica and Rosea, Citrus Acida agni : mystical substitute for the letter r agni : in the Kātantra grammar N. of noun-stems ending in i and u agni : (also) = next, [ĀpŚr.] agni : [cf. Lat. ignì-s; Lith. ugni-s; Slav. ognj]. 🔎 agní- | nominal stemSGMNOM |
| 3.2.8 | devā́nām | devá- 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.] 🔎 devá- | nominal stemPLMGEN |
| 3.2.8 | abhavat | √bhū- bhū : cl. 1. P. ([Dhātup. i, 1]) bhávati (rarely Ā. °te; pf. babhū́va, 2. pers. °ū́tha or °ūvitha cf. [Pāṇ. vii, 2, 64]; babhūyās, °yā́r, babhūtu, [RV.]; Ā. babhūve or bubhūve, [Vop.]; cf. below; aor. ábhūt, °ūvan; Impv. bodhí [cf. √ budh], bhūtu, [RV.]; aor. or impf. ábhuvat, bhúvat, bhuvāni, [ib.]; Prec. bhūyāsam, 2. 3. sg. °yās, [ib.] ; bhūyāt, [AV.]; bhūyiṣṭhās, [BhP.]; bhaviṣāt [?] [AitBr.]; abhaviṣṭa, bhaviṣīṣta. Gr.; fut. bhaviṣyáti, ep. also °te and 2. pl. °ṣyadhvam; bhavitā, [Br.] &c.; inf. bhuvé, -bhvé, bhūṣáṇi, [RV.]; bhavitum, °tos, [Br.]; ind.p. bhūtvā́; bhūtvī́, [RV.]; -bhū́ya, [RV.] &c.; -bhū́yam, -bhávam, [Br.]), to become, be (with nom., or adv. or indeclinable words ending in ī or ū cf. kṛṣṇī-√ bhū &c.), arise, come into being, exist, be found, live, stay, abide, happen, occur, [RV.] &c. &c. (often used with participles and other verbal nouns to make periphrastical verbal forms; with a fut. p. = to be going or about to, e.g. anuvakṣyan bhavati, he is going to recite, [ŚBr.]; the fut. of √ with a pf. p. = a fut. pf., e.g. kṛtavān bhaviṣyasi, you will have done, [MBh.]; the pf. P. babhūva after the syllable ām is put for the pf. of verbs of the 10th class &c. [cf. √ as and √ kṛ]; the Ā. appears in this meaning, [Śiś. ix, 84]; [Kum. xiv, 46]; observe also bhavati with a fut. tense, it is possible that, e.g. bhavati bhavān yājayiṣyati, it is possible that you will cause a sacrifice to be performed, [Pāṇ. iii, 3, 146], Sch.; bhavet, may be, granted, admitted, [Kāś.] on [Pāṇ. iii, 2, 114]; bhavatu id., well, good, enough of this, [Kāv.]; [Hit.]; iticed bhavet, if this question should be asked, [Mn. x, 66]; kva tad bhavati, what is to become of this, it is quite useless, [TBr.]; with na = to cease to exist, perish, die, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; with iha na, not to be born on earth, [MBh.]; with śata-dhā, to fall into a hundred pieces, [MBh.]; with dūrataḥ, to keep aloof, [ŚārṅgP.]; with manasi or cetasi and gen., to occur to the mind of any one, [Kād.]; id. with gen. alone, [Lalit.]); to fall to the share or become the property of, belong to (cf. ‘esse alicujus’; with gen., rarely dat. or loc. accord. to [Vop.] also with pari or prati and preceding acc.), [RV.] &c. &c.; to be on the side of, assist (with gen. or -tas), [MBh. 1301] (cf. [Pāṇ. v, 4, 48], Sch.); to serve for, tend or conduce to (with dat. of thing), [RV.] &c. &c. (with phalāya. to bear fruit, [Kām.]); to be occupied with or engaged in, devote one's self to (with loc.), [MBh.]; [Kāv.]; to thrive or prosper in (instr.), turn out well, succeed, [RV.]; [TS.]; [Br.]; to be of consequence or useful, [Mn. iii, 181]; (also Ā. [Dhātup. xxxiv, 37]) to fall, or get into, attain to, obtain, [Br.]; [MBh.]; (with idám) to obtain it i.e. be successful or fortunate, [TS.] : Pass. bhūyate (or °ti, [Up.]; aor. abhāvi) sometimes used impers., e.g. yair bhaviṣyate, by whom it will be existed i.e. who will be, [Rājat.] : Caus. bhāvayati (rarely °te; aor. abībhavat Gr.; inf. bhāvitum, [R.]; Pass. bhāvyate &c., [MBh.]), to cause to be or become, call into existence or life, originate, produce, cause, create, [Pur.]; [Sāh.]; to cherish, foster, animate, enliven, refresh, encourage, promote, further, [AitUp.]; [MBh.] &c.; to addict or devote one's self to, practise (acc.), [MBh.]; [HYog.]; to subdue, control, [R.]; (also Ā. [Dhātup. xxxiv, 37]) to obtain, [Jaim.], Sch.; to manifest, exhibit, show, betray, [MBh.]; [Kām.]; [Daś.]; to purify, [BhP.]; to present to the mind, think about, consider, know, recognize as or take for (two acc.), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; to mingle, mix, saturate, soak, perfume, [Kauś.]; [Suśr.] (cf. bhāvita, p. 755, col. 1) : Desid. of Caus. bibhāvayiṣati ([Pāṇ. vii, 4, 80], Sch.), to wish to cause to be &c., [Br.] : Desid. búbhūṣati (°te), to wish or strive to become or be, [RV.] &c. &c.; (with kṣipram), to strive to be quickly possessed, [MBh.]; to want to get on, strive to prosper or succeed, [TS.]; [Br.]; [MBh.]; to want to have, care for, strive after, esteem, honour, [MBh.]; [Hariv.]; to want to take revenge, [BhP.] : Intens. bóbhavīti, bobhavati, bobhoti, bobhūyate, to be frequently, to be in the habit of [BhP.]; [Bhaṭṭ.]; to be transformed into (acc.), [RV.]; [AV.]; (with tiraḥ), to keep anything (instr.) secret, [ŚBr.] bhū : [cf. Zd. bū; Gk. ϕύω, ἔϕυν; Lat. fuit, fuat &c.; Slav. byti; Lith. búti; Germ. bim, bin; Angl.Sax. beó; Eng. be.] bhū : bhū́ mfn. becoming, being, existing, springing, arising (ifc.; cf. akṣi-, giri-, citta-, padmabhū &c.) bhū : bhū́ m. N. of Viṣṇu, [MBh. xii, 1509] ([Nīlak.]) bhū : of an Ekāha, [ŚrS.] bhū : bhū́ f. the act of becoming or arising, [Pāṇ. i, 4, 31] bhū : the place of being, space, world or universe (also pl.), [RV.]; [AV.] bhū : the earth (as constituting one of the 3 worlds, and therefore a symbolical N. for the number ‘one’), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c. bhū : one of the three Vyāhṛtis (see bhúvas, bhūr, pp. 760 and 763) bhū : earth (as a substance), ground, soil, land, landed property, [ib.] bhū : floor, pavement, [Megh.] bhū : a place, spot, piece of ground, [RV.] &c. &c. bhū : the base of any geometrical figure, [Āryabh.] bhū : object, matter (see vivādasaṃvāda-bhū) bhū : a term for the letter l, [RāmatUp.] bhū : a sacrificial fire, [L.] bhū : (also) a partic. land-measure, [Inscr.] 🔎 √bhū- | rootSGIPRFACT3IND |
| 3.2.8 | puróhitaḥ | puróhita- purohita : puró—hita (puro-), mfn. placed foremost or in front, charged, commissioned, appointed purohita : puró—hita m. one holding a charge or commission, an agent purohita : (esp.) a family priest, a domestic chaplain, [RV.] &c. &c. ([RTL. 352] &c.) 🔎 puróhita- | nominal stemSGMNOM |