Rig Veda 6.55.3

Addressed to: Pusan

Group: Hymns to Pusan

Text (Devanagari)

6.55.3

रा॒यो धारा॑स्याघृणे॒ वसो॑ रा॒शिर॑जाश्व

धीव॑तोधीवतः॒ सखा॑

Text (Roman)

6.55.3

rāyó dhā́rāsy āghr̥ṇe

váso rāśír ajāśva

dhī́vato-dhīvataḥ sákhā

Padapāṭha

6.55.3

rāyaḥ | dhārā | asi | āghṛṇe | vasoḥ

nominal stemSGNGEN

from 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.

🔎 vásoḥ 🔎 vásu-

| rāśiḥ | ajaaśva | dhīvataḥdhīvataḥ | sakhā

Monier-Williams dictionary from Cologne Sanskrit Lexicon

English Translation by Griffith

6.55.3

Bright God whose steeds are goats, thou art a stream of wealth, a treasure-heap, The Friend of every pious man.

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Grammatical analysis

Source index	Surface	Lemma	Information
6.55.3	rāyáḥ 🔎 rāyáḥ	rayí- ~ rāy- rayi : rayí m. or (rarely) f. (fr. √ rā; the following forms occur in the Veda, rayis, °yím, °yibhis, °yīṇām; rayyā́, °yyaí, °yyā́m; cf. 2. rai), property, goods, possessions, treasure, wealth (often personified), [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [Br.]; [ŚrS.]; [ChUp.] rayi : stuff, materials, [PraśnUp.] rayi : v.l. for raji, q.v. rayi : rayí mfn. (?) rich, [RV. viii, 31, 11]; [ix, 101, 7.] 🔎 rayí- ~ rāy-	nominal stemSGMGEN
6.55.3	dhā́rā dhārā : dhā́rā f. stream or current of water dhārā : (cf. tri-, dvi-, śata-, sahasra-), flood, gush, jet, drop (of any liquid), shower, rain (also fig. of arrows, flowers, &c.; vásor dh°, ‘source of good’, N. of a partic. libation to Agni, [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; [MBh.]; of a sacred bathing-place, [MBh.]; of Agni's wife, [BhP.]) dhārā : a leak or hole in a pitcher &c., [L.] dhārā : the pace of horse, [Śiś. v, 60] (5 enumerated, viz. dhorita, valgita, pluta, ut-tejita, ut-terita, or ā-skandita, recita for the two latter, [L.]; with paramā, the quickest pace, [Kathās. xxxi, 39]) dhārā : uniformity, sameness (as of flowing water?), [L.] dhārā : custom, usage, [W.] dhārā : continuous line or series (cf. vana-) dhārā : fig. line of a family, [L.] dhārā : N. of a sacred bathing-place (also with māheśvarī cf. above), [MBh.] dhārā : of a town (the residence of Bhoja), [Cat.] dhārā : dhā́rā f. (√ dhāv) margin, sharp edge, rim, blade (esp. of a sword, knife, &c.; fig. applied to the flame of fire), [RV.]; [ŚBr.]; [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c. dhārā : the edge of a mountain, [L.] dhārā : the rim of a wheel, [Ragh. xiii, 15] dhārā : the fence or hedge of a garden, [L.] dhārā : the van of an army, [L.] dhārā : the tip of the ear, [L.] dhārā : highest point, summit (cf. °rādhirūḍha) glory, excellence, [L.] dhārā : night, [L.] dhārā : turmeric, [L.] 🔎 dhā́rā	dhā́rā- 1 dhārā : dhā́rā f. stream or current of water dhārā : (cf. tri-, dvi-, śata-, sahasra-), flood, gush, jet, drop (of any liquid), shower, rain (also fig. of arrows, flowers, &c.; vásor dh°, ‘source of good’, N. of a partic. libation to Agni, [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; [MBh.]; of a sacred bathing-place, [MBh.]; of Agni's wife, [BhP.]) dhārā : a leak or hole in a pitcher &c., [L.] dhārā : the pace of horse, [Śiś. v, 60] (5 enumerated, viz. dhorita, valgita, pluta, ut-tejita, ut-terita, or ā-skandita, recita for the two latter, [L.]; with paramā, the quickest pace, [Kathās. xxxi, 39]) dhārā : uniformity, sameness (as of flowing water?), [L.] dhārā : custom, usage, [W.] dhārā : continuous line or series (cf. vana-) dhārā : fig. line of a family, [L.] dhārā : N. of a sacred bathing-place (also with māheśvarī cf. above), [MBh.] dhārā : of a town (the residence of Bhoja), [Cat.] dhārā : dhā́rā f. (√ dhāv) margin, sharp edge, rim, blade (esp. of a sword, knife, &c.; fig. applied to the flame of fire), [RV.]; [ŚBr.]; [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c. dhārā : the edge of a mountain, [L.] dhārā : the rim of a wheel, [Ragh. xiii, 15] dhārā : the fence or hedge of a garden, [L.] dhārā : the van of an army, [L.] dhārā : the tip of the ear, [L.] dhārā : highest point, summit (cf. °rādhirūḍha) glory, excellence, [L.] dhārā : night, [L.] dhārā : turmeric, [L.] 🔎 dhā́rā- 1	nominal stemSGFNOM
6.55.3	asi asi : así m. (√ 2. as), a sword, scimitar, knife (used for killing animals), [RV.]; [AV.] &c. asi : (also) a shark, alligator, [L.] asi : (is), f. N. of a river (near Benares), [VāmP.] (cf. asī); asi : [Lat. ensi-s.] 🔎 asi	√as- 1 as : cl. 2. P. ásti (2. sg. ási, 1. sg. ásmi; pl. smási or smás, sthá, sánti; (rarely Ā., e.g. 1. pl. smahe, [MBh. xiii, 13]); Subj. ásat; Imper. astu, 2. sg. edhi (fr. as-dhi cf. [Pāṇ. vi, 4, 119]); Pot. syā́t; impf. ā́sīt, rarely ās [only in [RV. x]; cf. [Pāṇ. vii, 3, 97]] ; perf. 1. and 3. sg., ā́sa, 2. sg. ā́sitha, 3. pl. āsúḥ; p. m. sát f. satī́) to be, live, exist, be present; to take place, happen; to abide, dwell, stay; to belong to (gen. or dat.); to fall to the share of, happen to any one (gen.); to be equal to (dat.), [ŚBr. xiv]; [Mn. xi, 85]; to turn out, tend towards any result, prove (with dat.); to become, [BṛĀrUp.] &c., (cf. [Pāṇ. v, 4, 51]-[55]); to be (i.e. used as copula, but not only with adj., but also with adv. [e.g. tūṣṇīm āsīt, [MBh. iii, 4041]], and often with part., [e.g. perf. Pass. p. prasthitāḥ sma, [N.]; fut. p.p. hantavyo 'smi, [N.]; fut. p. especially with Pot., and only in [ŚBr.], as yádi dāsyán-t-syā́t, ‘if he should intend to give’]; the pf. āsa helps to form the periphrastic perf., and asmi &c. the fut.); as : [cf. Gk. ἐσ-τί; Lat. es-t; Goth. is-t; Lith. es-ti.] as : cl. 4. P. ásyati (p. ásyat; impf. ā́syat, [AV.] [cf. parās and vy-as]; fut. p. asiṣyát; aor. āsthat [[Nir. ii, 2]; [Pāṇ. vii, 4, 17]; cf. vy-as]; perf. P. āsa [cf. parās] Ā. āse [cf. vy-as]; Ved. Inf. ástave, [VS.]) to throw, cast, shoot at (loc. dat., or gen.), [RV.] &c.; to drive or frighten away, [Nalod. iv, 36]; See also 1. astá s.v. as : asati, °te = √ aṣ, q.v. 🔎 √as- 1	rootSGPRSACT2IND
6.55.3	āghr̥ṇe 🔎 āghr̥ṇe	ā́ghr̥ṇi- āghṛṇi : ā́-ghṛṇi mfn. glowing with heat (N. of Pūṣan), [RV.] 🔎 ā́ghr̥ṇi-	nominal stemSGMVOC
6.55.3	vásoḥ 🔎 vásoḥ	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 stemSGNGEN
6.55.3	rāśíḥ 🔎 rāśíḥ	rāśí- rāśi : rāśí m. ([L.] also f.; once m.c. in [R.] f(I). ; derivation doubtful, but cf. [Uṇ. iv, 32]) a heap, mass, pile, group, multitude, quantity, number, [RV.] &c. &c. rāśi : (in arithm.) a sum or the figure or figures put down for an operation (such as multiplying, dividing &c.), [Col.] rāśi : a measure of quantity (= droṇa), [ŚārṅgS.] rāśi : a sign of the zodiac (as being a certain sum or quantity of degrees), one-twelfth part of the ecliptic, an astrological house, [MBh.]; [VarBṛS.] &c. (cf. [IW. 178]) rāśi : a division of beings, [Sukh. i]. rāśi : a heap of corn, [L.] rāśi : N. of an Ekāha, [ŚrS.] 🔎 rāśí-	nominal stemSGMNOM
6.55.3	ajāśva ajāśva : ajā́śva n. goats and horses, [Yājñ.] ajāśva : ajā́śva m. Pūṣan or the Sun (having goats for horses), [RV.] 🔎 ajāśva	ajā́śva- ajāśva : ajā́śva n. goats and horses, [Yājñ.] ajāśva : ajā́śva m. Pūṣan or the Sun (having goats for horses), [RV.] 🔎 ajā́śva-	nominal stemSGMVOC
6.55.3	dhī́vato-dhīvataḥ 🔎 dhī́vato-dhīvataḥ	dhī́vant- 🔎 dhī́vant-	nominal stemSGMGEN
6.55.3	sákhā 🔎 sákhā	sákhi- sakhi : sákhi m. (strong cases nom. sákhā pl. sákhāyaḥ; acc. sg. sákhāyam; gen. abl. sákhyus; other cases regularly from ) a friend, assistant, companion, [RV.] &c. &c. sakhi : the husband of the wife's sister, brother-in-law, [Gal.] sakhi : [cf. Lat. socius.] 🔎 sákhi-	nominal stemSGMNOM

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