Rig Veda 8.5.17

Addressed to: Asvins

Group: Hymns of Priyamedha's, Medyatithi Etc.

Text (Devanagari)

8.5.17

जना॑सो वृ॒क्तब॑र्हिषो ह॒विष्म॑न्तो अरं॒कृतः॑

यु॒वां ह॑वन्ते अश्विना

Text (Roman)

8.5.17

jánāso vr̥ktábarhiṣaḥ

havíṣmanto araṃkŕ̥taḥ

yuvā́ṃ havante aśvinā

Padapāṭha

8.5.17

Monier-Williams dictionary from Cologne Sanskrit Lexicon

English Translation by Griffith

8.5.17

Men who have trimmed the sacred grass, bringing oblations and prepared, O Aṣvins, are invoking you.

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Grammatical analysis

Source index	Surface	Lemma	Information
8.5.17	jánāsaḥ 🔎 jánāsaḥ	jána- jana : jána mf(I)n. ‘generating’, see puraṃ- jana : jána m. (g. vṛṣādi) creature, living being, man, person, race (páñca jánās, ‘the five races’ = p° kṛṣṭáyas, [RV. iii], [viii ff.]; [MBh. iii, 14160]), people, subjects (the sg. used collectively, e.g. daívya or divyā́ j°, ‘divine race’, the gods collectively, [RV.]; mahat j°, many people, [R. vi, 101, 2]; often ifc. denoting one person or a number of persons collectively, e.g. preṣya-, bandhu-, sakhī- &c., qq.vv. ; with names of peoples, [VarBṛS. iv, 22] and [v, 74]; ayaṃ janaḥ, ‘this person, these persons’, I, we, [MBh. viii, 709]; [Hariv. 7110]; [R. ii, 41, 2]; [Śak.] &c.; eṣa j°, id., [Kāvyād. ii, 75]), [RV.] &c. jana : the person nearest to the speaker (also with ayam or asau, ‘this my lover’, [Kāvyād. ii, 271]; [Ratnāv. i, 24/25]), [Nal. x, 10]; [Śak.]; [Mālav.] jana : a common person, one of the people, [Kir. ii, 42] and [47] jana : the world beyond the Mahar-loka, [BhP. iii, 11, 29]; [SkandaP.] jana : janá (°ná), m. (g. aśvādi) N. of a man (with the patr. Śārkarākṣya), [ŚBr. x]; [ChUp.] 🔎 jána-	nominal stemPLMNOM
8.5.17	vr̥ktábarhiṣaḥ 🔎 vr̥ktábarhiṣaḥ	vr̥ktábarhis- vṛktabarhis : vṛktá—barhis (vṛktá-), mfn. one who has gathered and spread the sacrificial grass (and so is prepared to receive the gods), sacrificing or loving to sacrifice, [RV.] vṛktabarhis : vṛktá—barhis m. a priest, [L.] 🔎 vr̥ktábarhis-	nominal stemPLMNOM
8.5.17	havíṣmantaḥ 🔎 havíṣmantaḥ	havíṣmant- 🔎 havíṣmant-	nominal stemPLMNOM
8.5.17	araṃkŕ̥taḥ 🔎 araṃkŕ̥taḥ	araṃkŕ̥t- araṃkṛt : araṃ—kṛ́t mfn. preparing (a sacrifice), serving (as a worshipper), [RV.] 🔎 araṃkŕ̥t-	nominal stemPLMNOM
8.5.17	yuvā́m 🔎 yuvā́m	tvám 🔎 tvám	pronounDUACC
8.5.17	havante 🔎 havante	√hū- hū : weak form of √ hve, p. 1308. hū : mfn. calling, invoking (see indra-, deva-, pitṛ-hū &c.) hū : ind. an exclamation of contempt, grief &c. (hū hū, the yelling of a jackal, [VarBṛS.]) 🔎 √hū-	rootPLPRSMED3IND
8.5.17	aśvinā 🔎 aśvinā	aśvín- aśvin : aśvín mfn. possessed of horses, consisting of horses, [RV.] aśvin : mounted on horseback, [MārkP.] aśvin : aśvín (ī́), m. a cavalier aśvin : horse-tamer, [RV.] aśvin : aśvín (ínā or inau), m. du. ‘the two charioteers’, N. of two divinities (who appear in the sky before the dawn in a golden carriage drawn by horses or birds; they bring treasures to men and avert misfortune and sickness; they are considered as the physicians of heaven), [RV.] &c. aśvin : a N. of the Nakṣatra presided over by the Aśvins, [VarBṛS.] aśvin : the number, ‘two’, [ib.]; [Sūryas.] aśvin : (for aśvi-sutau) the two sons of the Aśvins, viz. Nakula and Sahadeva, [MBh. v, 1816] aśvin : aśvín (í), n. (= aśva-vat n. q.v.) richness in horses, [RV. i, 53, 4.] 🔎 aśvín-	nominal stemDUMVOC

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