6.16.48
अ॒ग्निं दे॒वासो॑ अग्रि॒यमि॒न्धते॑ वृत्र॒हन्त॑मम्
येना॒ वसू॒न्याभृ॑ता तृ॒ळ्हा रक्षां॑सि वा॒जिना॑
6.16.48
agníṃ devā́so agriyám
indháte vr̥trahántamam
yénā vásūny ā́bhr̥tā
tr̥ḷhā́ rákṣāṃsi vājínā
6.16.48
agnimfrom agní-
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from vásu-
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from rákṣas-
from vājín-
6.16.48
The Gods enkindle Agni, best slayer of Vr̥itra, first in rank, The Mighty, One who brings us wealth and crushes down the Raksasas.
| Source index | Surface | Lemma | Information |
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| 6.16.48 | agním | 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 stemSGMACC |
| 6.16.48 | devā́saḥ | 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 stemPLMNOM |
| 6.16.48 | agriyám | agriyá- agriya : agriyá mfn. foremost, principal, [RV.] agriya : oldest, first-born, [RV. i, 13, 10] agriya : agriyá (as), m. elder brother, [L.] agriya : agriyá (ám), n. the first-fruits, the best part, [RV. iv, 37, 4] and probably [ix, 71, 4.] 🔎 agriyá- | nominal stemSGMACC |
| 6.16.48 | indháte | √idh- 1 | rootPLPRSMED3IND |
| 6.16.48 | vr̥trahántamam | vr̥trahántama- vṛtrahantama : vṛtra—hán—tama hán, mfn. most victorious, bestowing abundant victory, [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚāṅkhŚr.] 🔎 vr̥trahántama- | nominal stemSGMACCdegree:SUP |
| 6.16.48 | 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- | pronounSGMINS |
| 6.16.48 | vásūni | vásu- vasu : vásu mf(u or vI)n. (for 2. See p. 932, col. 3) excellent, good, beneficent, [RV.]; [GṛŚrS.] vasu : sweet, [L.] vasu : dry, [L.] vasu : N. of the gods (as the ‘good or bright ones’, esp. of the Ādityas, Maruts, Aśvins, Indra, Uṣas, Rudra, Vāyu, Viṣṇu, Śiva, and Kubera), [RV.]; [AV.]; [MBh.]; [R.] vasu : of a partic. class of gods (whose number is usually eight, and whose chief is Indra, later Agni and Viṣṇu; they form one of the nine Gaṇas or classes enumerated under Gaṇa-devatā q.v.; the eight Vasus were originally personifications, like other Vedic deities, of natural phenomena, and are usually mentioned with the other Gaṇas common in the Veda, viz. the eleven Rudras and the twelve Ādityas, constituting with them and with Dyaus, ‘Heaven’, and Pṛthivī, ‘Earth’ [or, according to some, with Indra and Prajā-pati, or, according to others, with the two Aśvins], the thirty-three gods to which reference is frequently made; the names of the Vasus, according to the Viṣṇu-Purāṇa, are, 1. Āpa [connected with ap, ‘water’]; 2. Dhruva, ‘the Pole-star’; 3. Soma, ‘the Moon’; 4. Dhava or Dhara; 5. Anila, ‘Wind’; 6. Anala or Pāvaka, ‘Fire’; 7. Pratyūṣa, ‘the Dawn’; 8. Prabhāsa, ‘Light’; but their names are variously given; Ahan, ‘Day’, being sometimes substituted for 1; in their relationship to Fire and Light they appear to belong to Vedic rather than Purānic mythology), [RV.] &c. &c. vasu : a symbolical N. of the number ‘eight’, [VarBṛS.] vasu : a ray of light, [Naigh. i, 15] vasu : a partic. ray of light, [VP.] vasu : = jina, [Śīl.] (only [L.] the sun; the moon; fire; a rope, thong; a tree; N. of two kinds of plant = baka and pīta-madgu; a lake, pond; a kind of fish; the tie of the yoke of a plough; the distance from the elbow to the closed fist) vasu : N. of a Ṛṣi (with the patr. Bharad-vāja, author of [RV. ix, 80]-[82], reckoned among the seven sages), [Hariv.] vasu : of a son of Manu, [ib.] vasu : of a son of Uttāna-pāda, [ib.] vasu : of a prince of the Cedis also called Upari-cara, [MBh.] vasu : of a son of Īlina, [ib.] vasu : of a son of Kuśa and the country called after him, [RV.] vasu : of a son of Vasu-deva, [BhP.] vasu : of a son of Kṛṣṇa, [ib.] vasu : of a son of Vatsara, [ib.] vasu : of a son of Hiraṇya-retas and the Varṣa ruled by him, [ib.] vasu : of a son of Bhūtajyotis, [ib.] vasu : of a son of Naraka, [ib.] vasu : of a king of Kaśmīra, [Cat.] vasu : vásu (u), f. light, radiance, [L.] vasu : a partic. drug, [L.] vasu : N. of a daughter of Dakṣa and mother of the Vasus (as a class of gods), [Hariv.]; [VP.] vasu : vásu n. (in Veda gen. vásos, vásvas and vásunas; also pl., exceptionally m.) wealth, goods, riches, property, [RV.] &c. &c. (°soṣ-pati m. prob. ‘the god of wealth or property’, [AV. i, 12] [[Paipp.] asoṣ-p°, ‘the god of life’]; °sor-dhā́rā f. ‘stream of wealth’, N. of a partic. libation of Ghṛta at the Agni-cayana, [AV.]; [TS.]; [Br.] &c.; of the wife of Agni, [BhP.]; of the heavenly Gaṅgā, [MBh.]; of sacred bathing-place, [ib.]; of a kind of vessel, [ib.]; °sor-dhā́rā-prayoga m. N. of wk.) vasu : vásu n. gold (see -varma-dhara) vasu : a jewel, gem, pearl (see -mekhala) vasu : any valuable or precious object, [L.] vasu : vásu n. (also f.) a partic. drug, [L.] vasu : vásu n. a kind of salt (= romaka), [L.] vasu : water, [L.] vasu : a horse (?), [L.] vasu : = śyāma, [L.] vasu : m. or n. (for 1. See p. 930, col. 3) dwelling or dweller (see sáṃ-vasu). vasu : 1. 2. See pp. 930 and 932. 🔎 vásu- | nominal stemPLNNOM |
| 6.16.48 | ā́bhr̥tā | √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- | rootPLNNOMnon-finite:PTCP-talocal particle:LP |
| 6.16.48 | tr̥ḷhā́ | √tr̥h- tṛh : cl. 7. (Impv. tṛṇéḍhu; Subj. pl. tṛṇáhān; aor. atṛham, [AV.]; atarhīt, [Bhaṭṭ.]; atṛkṣat, [Durgād.]; pf. tatarha, [AV.]; pr. p. nom. m. tṛṃhát, [RV. x, 102, 4]; f. du. °hatī́, [ŚBr. xii, 2, 2, 2]; ind.p. tṛḍhvā́ Pass. pl. tṛhyánte, p. °hyámāṇa, [AV.]; cl. 6. tṛhati, tṛṃh°, [Dhātup.]) to crush, bruise, [RV.]; [AV.]; [TS. i, 5, 7, 6]; [ŚBr.]; [Bhaṭṭ.] : Desid. titṛkṣati, titṛṃhiṣati, [Pāṇ. i, 2, 10]; [Siddh.]; cf. vi-; tárhaṇa, tṛṃhaṇa, tṛḍhá. 🔎 √tr̥h- | rootPLNNOMnon-finite:PTCP-ta |
| 6.16.48 | rákṣāṃsi | rákṣas- rakṣas : rákṣas mfn. guarding, watching (see pathir°) rakṣas : rákṣas n. ‘anything to be guarded against or warded off’, harm, injury, damage, [RV.] rakṣas : (in [RV.] & [AV.] also rakṣás, m.) an evil being or demon, a Rākṣasa (q.v.; in [VP.] identified with Nirṛti or Nairṛta), [RV.]; &c. rakṣas : pl. N. of a warlike race g. parśv-ādi. 🔎 rákṣas- | nominal stemPLNNOM |
| 6.16.48 | vājínā | vājín- vājin : vājín mfn. swift, spirited, impetuous, heroic, warlike, [RV.] &c. &c. (with ratha m. a war-chariot; superl. vājín-tama) vājin : strong, manly, procreative, potent, [RV.]; [TS.]; [Br.] vājin : winged, (ifc.) having any thing for wings, [BhP.] vājin : feathered (as an arrow), [Hariv.] vājin : vājín m. a warrior, hero, man, [RV.] (often applied to gods, esp. to Agni, Indra, the Maruts &c.) vājin : the steed of a war-chariot, [ib.] vājin : a horse, stallion, [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c. vājin : N. of the number ‘seven’, [Gol.] (cf. aśva) vājin : a bridle, [L.] vājin : a bird, [L.] vājin : an arrow, [L.] vājin : Adhatoda Vasika, [L.] vājin : pl. ‘the Coursers’, a class of divine beings (prob. the steeds of the gods, but accord. to [TBr.] Agni, Vāyu and Sūrya), [RV.]; [Br.]; [ŚrS.] (vājināṃ sāma N. of a Sāman, [ĀrṣBr.]) vājin : the school of Vājasaneya (so called because the Sun in the shape of a horse revealed to Yājñavalkya partic. Yajus verses called a-yātayāmāni, q.v.), [VP.] 🔎 vājín- | nominal stemSGMINS |