Rig Veda 6.61.7

Addressed to: Sarasvati

Group: Hymns to Various Gods

Text (Devanagari)

6.61.7

उ॒त स्या नः॒ सर॑स्वती घो॒रा हिर॑ण्यवर्तनिः

वृ॒त्र॒घ्नी व॑ष्टि सुष्टु॒तिम्

Text (Roman)

6.61.7

utá syā́ naḥ sárasvatī

ghorā́ híraṇyavartaniḥ

vr̥traghnī́ vaṣṭi suṣṭutím

Padapāṭha

6.61.7

uta

invariable

from utá

uta : mfn. (fr. √ ve, q.v.), sewn, woven.

uta : utá ind. and, also, even, or, [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; [ChUp.] &c.

uta : often used for the sake of emphasis, especially at the end of a line after iti or a verb (e.g. sarva-bhūtāni tam pārtha sadā paribhavanty uta, all creatures, O king, certainly always despise him, [MBh. iii, 1026]), [MBh.]; [Bhag.] &c. (As an interrogative particle, generally at the beginning of the second or following part of a double interrogation) or, utrum-an (e.g. katham nirṇīyate kiṃ syān niṣkāraṇo bandhur uta viśvāsa-ghātakaḥ, how can it be decided whether he be a friend without a motive or a violator of confidence? [Hit.]), [Kum.]; [Kathās.]; [Bhartṛ.]; [Sāh.] &c.

uta : in this sense it may be strengthened by āho (e.g. kaccit tvam asi mānuṣī utāho surāṅganā, art thou a mortal woman or divine? Nala), or by āho-svit (e.g. śālihotraḥ kiṃ nu syād utāhosvid rājā nalaḥ, can it be Śālihotra or king Nala?) Rarely kim is repeated before used in this sense (e.g. kim nu svargāt prāptā tasyā rūpeṇa kimutānyāgatā, has she arrived from heaven or has another come in her form? [Mṛcch.]), [Amar.]; [MBh.] &c. (As a particle of wishing, especially at the beginning of a sentence followed by a potential) would that! utinam! (e.g. utādhīyīta, would that he would read!) ( preceded by kim) on the contrary, how much more, how much less (e.g. samartho 'si sahasram api jetuṃ kimutaikam, thou art able to conquer even a thousand, how much more one, [R.]), [Śak.]; [Vikr.]; [Ragh.] &c. ( preceded by prati) on the contrary, rather (e.g. eṣa pṛṣṭo 'smābhir na jalpati hanti praty-uta pāṣāṇaiḥ, this one questioned by us does not speak, but rather throws stones at us), [Kathās.]; [Pañcat.] &c.

uta : uta vā, or else, and (e.g. samudrād uta vā purīṣāt, from the sea or from the moisture in the air)

uta : vā — uta vā or utāho vāpi — vā, either — or

uta : — , both — and (e.g. uta balavān utābalaḥ, both the strong and the weak)

uta : kim — uta vā, whether — or else.

uta : mfn. woven &c. See 1. , p. 175, col. 2.

🔎 utá

| syā | naḥ | sarasvatī

nominal stemSGFNOM

from sárasvant-

sarasvatī : sáras—vatī (atī), f., see s.v.

sarasvatī : sárasvatī f. (of sárasvat, q.v. under sáras) a region abounding in pools and lakes, [MBh. i, 7745]

sarasvatī : N. of a river (celebrated in [RV.] and held to be a goddess whose identity is much disputed; most authorities hold that the name S° is identical with the Avestan Haraquaiti river in Afghanistan, but that it usually means the Indus in the [RV.], and only occasionally the small sacred rivers in Madhya-deśa [see below]; the river-goddess has seven sisters and is herself sevenfold, she is called the mother of streams, the best of mothers, of rivers, and of goddesses; the Ṛṣis always recognize the connection of the goddess with the river, and invoke her to descend from the sky, to bestow vitality, renown, and riches; elsewhere she is described as moving along a golden path and as destroying Vṛtra &c.; as a goddess she is often connected with other deities, e.g. with Pūṣan, Indra, the Maruts and the Aśvins ; in the Āprī hymns she forms a triad with the sacrificial goddesses Iḍā and Bhāratī; accord. to a myth told in the [VS. xix, 12], S° through speech [vācā] communicated vigour to Indra; in the Brāhmaṇas she is identified with vāc, ‘Speech’, and in later times becomes goddess of eloquence See below), [RV.] &c. &c.

sarasvatī : N. of a well-known small river (held very sacred by the Hindūs; identified with the modern Sursooty, and formerly marking with the Dṛṣadvatī one of the boundaries of the region Ārya-deśa and of the sacred district called Brahmāvarta [see, [Mn. ii, 17]] in [RV. vii, 95, 2], this river is represented as flowing into the sea, although later legends make it disappear underground and join the Ganges and Jumnā at Allahābād; see tri-veṇī, prayāga), [ib.]

sarasvatī : N. of various rivers (esp. of rivers which in sacredness are equal to S° and which are three accord. to [AV. vi, 101], and seven accord. to [MBh. ix, 2188])

sarasvatī : any river, [Naigh. i, 13]

sarasvatī : N. of the goddess of eloquence and learning (cf. above; she is opposed to Śrī or Lakṣmī [cf. [Vikr. v, 24]], and sometimes considered as the daughter and also wife of Brahmā, the proper wife of that god being rather Sāvitri or Gāyatrī; she is also identified with Durgā, or even with the wife of Viṣṇu and of Manu, and held to be the daughter of Dakṣa), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.

sarasvatī : speech or the power of speech, eloquence, learning wisdom, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.

sarasvatī : a celestial or oracular voice, [Kālid.]; [Kathās.]; [Rājat.]

sarasvatī : a cow, [VS. viii, 43]

sarasvatī : an excellent woman (= strī-ratna), [L.]

sarasvatī : N. of various plants (Cardiospermum Halicacabum, Egle Marmelos, Ruta Graveolens &c.), [L.]

sarasvatī : N. of a two-year-old girl representing Durgā at her festival, [L.]

sarasvatī : of a poetess, [Cat.]

sarasvatī : of various other women (esp. of the wives of Dadhīca, Śaṃkarācārya, Maṇḍanamiśra &c.), [ib.]

sarasvatī : of one of the ten mendicant orders traced back to Śaṃkarācārya (whose members add the word to their names).

sarasvatī : &c. See p. 1182, col. 2.

🔎 sárasvatī 🔎 sárasvant-

Monier-Williams dictionary from Cologne Sanskrit Lexicon

English Translation by Griffith

6.61.7

Yea, this divine Sarasvatî, terrible with her golden path, Foe-slayer, claims our eulogy.

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Grammatical analysis

Source index	Surface	Lemma	Information
6.61.7	utá uta : mfn. (fr. √ ve, q.v.), sewn, woven. uta : utá ind. and, also, even, or, [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; [ChUp.] &c. uta : often used for the sake of emphasis, especially at the end of a line after iti or a verb (e.g. sarva-bhūtāni tam pārtha sadā paribhavanty uta, all creatures, O king, certainly always despise him, [MBh. iii, 1026]), [MBh.]; [Bhag.] &c. (As an interrogative particle, generally at the beginning of the second or following part of a double interrogation) or, utrum-an (e.g. katham nirṇīyate kiṃ syān niṣkāraṇo bandhur uta viśvāsa-ghātakaḥ, how can it be decided whether he be a friend without a motive or a violator of confidence? [Hit.]), [Kum.]; [Kathās.]; [Bhartṛ.]; [Sāh.] &c. uta : in this sense it may be strengthened by āho (e.g. kaccit tvam asi mānuṣī utāho surāṅganā, art thou a mortal woman or divine? Nala), or by āho-svit (e.g. śālihotraḥ kiṃ nu syād utāhosvid rājā nalaḥ, can it be Śālihotra or king Nala?) Rarely kim is repeated before used in this sense (e.g. kim nu svargāt prāptā tasyā rūpeṇa kimutānyāgatā, has she arrived from heaven or has another come in her form? [Mṛcch.]), [Amar.]; [MBh.] &c. (As a particle of wishing, especially at the beginning of a sentence followed by a potential) would that! utinam! (e.g. utādhīyīta, would that he would read!) ( preceded by kim) on the contrary, how much more, how much less (e.g. samartho 'si sahasram api jetuṃ kimutaikam, thou art able to conquer even a thousand, how much more one, [R.]), [Śak.]; [Vikr.]; [Ragh.] &c. ( preceded by prati) on the contrary, rather (e.g. eṣa pṛṣṭo 'smābhir na jalpati hanti praty-uta pāṣāṇaiḥ, this one questioned by us does not speak, but rather throws stones at us), [Kathās.]; [Pañcat.] &c. uta : uta vā, or else, and (e.g. samudrād uta vā purīṣāt, from the sea or from the moisture in the air) uta : vā — uta vā or utāho vāpi — vā, either — or uta : — , both — and (e.g. uta balavān utābalaḥ, both the strong and the weak) uta : kim — uta vā, whether — or else. uta : mfn. woven &c. See 1. , p. 175, col. 2. 🔎 utá	utá uta : mfn. (fr. √ ve, q.v.), sewn, woven. uta : utá ind. and, also, even, or, [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; [ChUp.] &c. uta : often used for the sake of emphasis, especially at the end of a line after iti or a verb (e.g. sarva-bhūtāni tam pārtha sadā paribhavanty uta, all creatures, O king, certainly always despise him, [MBh. iii, 1026]), [MBh.]; [Bhag.] &c. (As an interrogative particle, generally at the beginning of the second or following part of a double interrogation) or, utrum-an (e.g. katham nirṇīyate kiṃ syān niṣkāraṇo bandhur uta viśvāsa-ghātakaḥ, how can it be decided whether he be a friend without a motive or a violator of confidence? [Hit.]), [Kum.]; [Kathās.]; [Bhartṛ.]; [Sāh.] &c. uta : in this sense it may be strengthened by āho (e.g. kaccit tvam asi mānuṣī utāho surāṅganā, art thou a mortal woman or divine? Nala), or by āho-svit (e.g. śālihotraḥ kiṃ nu syād utāhosvid rājā nalaḥ, can it be Śālihotra or king Nala?) Rarely kim is repeated before used in this sense (e.g. kim nu svargāt prāptā tasyā rūpeṇa kimutānyāgatā, has she arrived from heaven or has another come in her form? [Mṛcch.]), [Amar.]; [MBh.] &c. (As a particle of wishing, especially at the beginning of a sentence followed by a potential) would that! utinam! (e.g. utādhīyīta, would that he would read!) ( preceded by kim) on the contrary, how much more, how much less (e.g. samartho 'si sahasram api jetuṃ kimutaikam, thou art able to conquer even a thousand, how much more one, [R.]), [Śak.]; [Vikr.]; [Ragh.] &c. ( preceded by prati) on the contrary, rather (e.g. eṣa pṛṣṭo 'smābhir na jalpati hanti praty-uta pāṣāṇaiḥ, this one questioned by us does not speak, but rather throws stones at us), [Kathās.]; [Pañcat.] &c. uta : uta vā, or else, and (e.g. samudrād uta vā purīṣāt, from the sea or from the moisture in the air) uta : vā — uta vā or utāho vāpi — vā, either — or uta : — , both — and (e.g. uta balavān utābalaḥ, both the strong and the weak) uta : kim — uta vā, whether — or else. uta : mfn. woven &c. See 1. , p. 175, col. 2. 🔎 utá	invariable
6.61.7	syā́ 🔎 syā́	syá- ~ tyá- sya : syá mfn. pron. base of 3rd person (= sá; only in nom. m. syás, syá f. syá; cf. tyá, tyád), [RV.] sya : n. a winnowing basket (= śūrpa), [ŚāṅkhGṛ.] 🔎 syá- ~ tyá-	pronounSGFNOM
6.61.7	naḥ 🔎 naḥ	ahám aham : ahám nom. sg., ‘I’, [RV.] &c. aham : = ahaṃkaraṇa, q.v., (hence declinable gen. ahamas, &c.), [BhP.] aham : [Zd. azem; Gk. ἐγώ; Goth. ik; Mod. Germ. ich; Lith. asz; Slav. az]. 🔎 ahám	pronounPLGEN
6.61.7	sárasvatī sarasvatī : sáras—vatī (atī), f., see s.v. sarasvatī : sárasvatī f. (of sárasvat, q.v. under sáras) a region abounding in pools and lakes, [MBh. i, 7745] sarasvatī : N. of a river (celebrated in [RV.] and held to be a goddess whose identity is much disputed; most authorities hold that the name S° is identical with the Avestan Haraquaiti river in Afghanistan, but that it usually means the Indus in the [RV.], and only occasionally the small sacred rivers in Madhya-deśa [see below]; the river-goddess has seven sisters and is herself sevenfold, she is called the mother of streams, the best of mothers, of rivers, and of goddesses; the Ṛṣis always recognize the connection of the goddess with the river, and invoke her to descend from the sky, to bestow vitality, renown, and riches; elsewhere she is described as moving along a golden path and as destroying Vṛtra &c.; as a goddess she is often connected with other deities, e.g. with Pūṣan, Indra, the Maruts and the Aśvins ; in the Āprī hymns she forms a triad with the sacrificial goddesses Iḍā and Bhāratī; accord. to a myth told in the [VS. xix, 12], S° through speech [vācā] communicated vigour to Indra; in the Brāhmaṇas she is identified with vāc, ‘Speech’, and in later times becomes goddess of eloquence See below), [RV.] &c. &c. sarasvatī : N. of a well-known small river (held very sacred by the Hindūs; identified with the modern Sursooty, and formerly marking with the Dṛṣadvatī one of the boundaries of the region Ārya-deśa and of the sacred district called Brahmāvarta [see, [Mn. ii, 17]] in [RV. vii, 95, 2], this river is represented as flowing into the sea, although later legends make it disappear underground and join the Ganges and Jumnā at Allahābād; see tri-veṇī, prayāga), [ib.] sarasvatī : N. of various rivers (esp. of rivers which in sacredness are equal to S° and which are three accord. to [AV. vi, 101], and seven accord. to [MBh. ix, 2188]) sarasvatī : any river, [Naigh. i, 13] sarasvatī : N. of the goddess of eloquence and learning (cf. above; she is opposed to Śrī or Lakṣmī [cf. [Vikr. v, 24]], and sometimes considered as the daughter and also wife of Brahmā, the proper wife of that god being rather Sāvitri or Gāyatrī; she is also identified with Durgā, or even with the wife of Viṣṇu and of Manu, and held to be the daughter of Dakṣa), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c. sarasvatī : speech or the power of speech, eloquence, learning wisdom, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c. sarasvatī : a celestial or oracular voice, [Kālid.]; [Kathās.]; [Rājat.] sarasvatī : a cow, [VS. viii, 43] sarasvatī : an excellent woman (= strī-ratna), [L.] sarasvatī : N. of various plants (Cardiospermum Halicacabum, Egle Marmelos, Ruta Graveolens &c.), [L.] sarasvatī : N. of a two-year-old girl representing Durgā at her festival, [L.] sarasvatī : of a poetess, [Cat.] sarasvatī : of various other women (esp. of the wives of Dadhīca, Śaṃkarācārya, Maṇḍanamiśra &c.), [ib.] sarasvatī : of one of the ten mendicant orders traced back to Śaṃkarācārya (whose members add the word to their names). sarasvatī : &c. See p. 1182, col. 2. 🔎 sárasvatī	sárasvant- 🔎 sárasvant-	nominal stemSGFNOM
6.61.7	ghorā́ ghorā : ghorā́ (ā), f. the night, [L.] ghorā : N. of a cucurbitaceous plant, [L.] ghorā : (scil. gati) N. of one of the 7 stations of the planet Mercury, [VarBṛS. vii, 8] and [11] 🔎 ghorā́	ghorá- ghora : ghorá mf(A/)n. (cf. √ ghur) venerable, awful, sublime (gods, the Aṅgiras, the Ṛṣis), [RV.]; [AV. ii, 34, 4] ghora : terrific, frightful, terrible, dreadful, violent, vehement (as pains, diseases, &c.), [VS.]; [AV.]; [TS. ii]; [ŚBr. xii] &c. (in comp., g. kāṣṭhādi) ghora : ghorá (as), m. ‘the terrible’, Śiva, [L.] (cf. -ghoratara) ghora : N. of a son of Aṅgiras, [ŚāṅkhBr. xxx, 6]; [ĀśvŚr. xii, 13, 1]; [ChUp.]; [MBh. xiii, 4148] ghora : (also) a jackal, [L.] ghora : ghorá (ám), n. venerableness, [VS. ii, 32] ghora : awfulness, horror, [AV.]; [ŚBr. ix]; [Kauś.]; [BhP. iv, 8, 36]; [Gobh. ii, 3], Sch. ghora : ‘horrible action’, magic formulas or charms, [RV. x, 34, 14]; [ĀśvŚr.]; [ŚāṅkhŚr.]; [R. i, 58, 8] ghora : a kind of mythical weapon, [MBh. v, 3491] ghora : poison, [L.] ghora : saffron, [L.] (cf. dhīra and gaura). 🔎 ghorá-	nominal stemSGFNOM
6.61.7	híraṇyavartaniḥ 🔎 híraṇyavartaniḥ	híraṇyavartani- hiraṇyavartani : híraṇya—vartani (híraṇya-), mfn. having a golden path, [RV.]; [VS.] 🔎 híraṇyavartani-	nominal stemSGFNOM
6.61.7	vr̥traghnī́ vṛtraghnī : vṛtra—ghnī See -hán. vṛtraghnī : vṛtra—ghnī f. N. of a river, [MārkP.] 🔎 vr̥traghnī́	vr̥trahán- vṛtrahan : vṛtra—hán mf(GnI)n. killing enemies or V°, victorious, [RV.] &c. &c. (mostly applied to Indra, but also to Agni and even to Sarasvatī) 🔎 vr̥trahán-	nominal stemSGFNOM
6.61.7	vaṣṭi vaṣṭi : mfn. (fr. √ vaś) eager, desirous, [RV. v, 79, 5.] 🔎 vaṣṭi	√vaś- vaś : cl. 2. P. ([Dhātup. xxiv, 71]) váṣṭi, (1. pl. uśmási, or śmasi, [RV.]; 3. pl. uśánti, [ib.]; p. uśát, uśāná and uśámāna, [ib.]; cl. 1. váśati and cl. 3. vivaṣṭi [also vaváṣṭi], 2. sg. vavákṣi, [ib.]; pf. vāvaśúḥ, °śe; p. °śāná, [ib.]; uvāśa, ūśuḥ Gr.; aor. avāśīt or avaśīt, [ib.]; 2. sg. vaśīh, [MBh.] Prec. uśyāt Gr.; fut. vaśitā, °śiṣyati, [ib.]), to will, command (p. uśámāna, ‘having at command’), [RV.]; [AV.]; to desire, wish, long for, be fond of, like (also with inf.), [RV.] &c. &c. (p. uśát and uśāná, ‘willing, glad, eager, zealous, obedient’; the former with superl. uśat-tama, also = charming, lovely, [BhP.] [accord. to Sch. also = śuddha, dedīpyamāna, and sv-arcita]); to aver, maintain, affirm, declare for (two acc.), [MaitrUp.]; [VarBṛS.]; [BhP.] : Caus. vāśayati (aor. avīvaśat), to cause to desire &c.; to get in one's power, subject, [Cat.] : Desid. vivaśiṣati Gr. Intens. vāvaśyate, vāvaśīti, or vāvaṣṭi, [ib.]; p. vāvaśāná, ‘willing, eager’, [RV.][cf. Gk. ἑκών, for ϝεκων, ‘willing’.] 🔎 √vaś-	rootSGPRSACT3IND
6.61.7	suṣṭutím 🔎 suṣṭutím	suṣṭutí- suṣṭuti : su—ṣṭutí f. excellent praise, a beautiful hymn, [RV.]; [VS.]; [AV.] 🔎 suṣṭutí-	nominal stemSGFACC

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