8.69.12
सु॒दे॒वो अ॑सि वरुण॒ यस्य॑ ते स॒प्त सिन्ध॑वः
अ॒नु॒क्षर॑न्ति का॒कुदं॑ सू॒र्म्यं॑ सुषि॒रामि॑व
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sudevó asi varuṇa
yásya te saptá síndhavaḥ
anukṣáranti kākúdaṃ
sūrmyàṃ suṣirā́m iva
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sudevaḥfrom sudevá-
from √as- 1
from váruṇa-
from yá-
from saptá-
from síndhu-
from √kṣar-
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from suṣirá-
8.69.12
Thou, Varuṇa, to whom belong Seven Rivers, art a glorious God. The waters flow into thy throat as 'twere a pipe with ample mouth.
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| 8.69.12 | sudeváḥ | sudevá- sudeva : su—devá m. a good or real god, [RV.]; [ŚBr.] sudeva : (accord. to some) ‘sporting well’, a potent or highly erotic lover (in this meaning fr. √ div, ‘to play’, and opp. to vi-deva, ‘impotent, unerotic’), [RV. x, 95, 14]; [AV. xx, 136, 12] sudeva : su—devá mfn. having the right gods, protected by them, [RV.]; [TS.] sudeva : destined for the right gods, [VS.]; [TBr.] sudeva : su—devá m. N. of a Kāśyapa, [TĀr.] sudeva : of a Brāhman, [MBh.] sudeva : of a general of Ambarīṣa, [ib.] sudeva : of a son of Hary-aśva and king of Kāśi, [ib.] sudeva : of a king of Vidarbha, [R.] sudeva : of a son of Akrūra, [Hariv.] sudeva : of a son of Pauṇḍra Vāsudeva, [ib.] sudeva : of a son of Cañcu, [ib.] sudeva : of a son of Campa, [BhP.] sudeva : of a son of Devaka, [VP.] sudeva : of a son of Viṣṇu, [BhP.] sudeva : of a poet, [Cat.] 🔎 sudevá- | nominal stemSGMNOM |
| 8.69.12 | 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 |
| 8.69.12 | varuṇa varuṇa : váruṇa m. (once in the [TĀr.] varuṇá) ‘All-enveloping Sky’, N. of an Āditya (in the Veda commonly associated with Mitra [q.v.] and presiding over the night as Mitra over the day, but often celebrated separately, whereas Mitra is rarely invoked alone; Varuṇa is one of the oldest of the Vedic gods, and is commonly thought to correspond to the Οὐρανός of the Greeks, although of a more spiritual conception; he is often regarded as the supreme deity, being then styled ‘king of the gods’ or ‘king of both gods and men’ or ‘king of the universe’; no other deity has such grand attributes and functions assigned to him; he is described as fashioning and upholding heaven and earth, as possessing extraordinary power and wisdom called māyā, as sending his spies or messengers throughout both worlds, as numbering the very winkings of men's eyes, as hating falsehood, as seizing transgressors with his pāśa or noose, as inflicting diseases, especially dropsy, as pardoning sin, as the guardian of immortality; he is also invoked in the Veda together with Indra, and in later Vedic literature together with Agni, with Yama, and with Viṣṇu; in [RV. iv, 1, 2], he is even called the brother of Agni; though not generally regarded in the Veda as a god of the ocean, yet he is often connected with the waters, especially the waters of the atmosphere or firmament, and in one place [[RV. vii, 64, 2]] is called with Mitra, sindhu-pati, ‘lord of the sea or of rivers’; hence in the later mythology he became a kind of Neptune, and is there best known in his character of god of the ocean; in the [MBh.] Varuṇa is said to be a son of Kardama and father of Puṣkara, and is also variously represented as one of the Deva-gandharvas, as a Nāga, as a king of the Nāgas, and as an Asura; he is the regent of the western quarter [cf. loka-pāla] and of the Nakṣatra Śatabhiṣaj [[VarBṛS.]]; the Jainas consider Varuṇa as a servant of the twentieth Arhat of the present Avasarpiṇī), [RV.] &c. &c. (cf. [IW. 10]; [12] &c.) varuṇa : the ocean, [VarBṛS.] varuṇa : water, [Kathās.] varuṇa : the sun, [L.] varuṇa : awarder off or dispeller, [Sāy.] on [RV. v, 48, 5] varuṇa : N. of a partic. magical formula recited over weapons, [R.] (v.l. varaṇa) varuṇa : the tree Crataeva Roxburghii, [L.] (cf. varaṇa) varuṇa : pl. (prob.) the gods generally, [AV. iii, 4, 6] varuṇa : váruṇa &c. See p. 921, col. 2. 🔎 varuṇa | váruṇa- varuṇa : váruṇa m. (once in the [TĀr.] varuṇá) ‘All-enveloping Sky’, N. of an Āditya (in the Veda commonly associated with Mitra [q.v.] and presiding over the night as Mitra over the day, but often celebrated separately, whereas Mitra is rarely invoked alone; Varuṇa is one of the oldest of the Vedic gods, and is commonly thought to correspond to the Οὐρανός of the Greeks, although of a more spiritual conception; he is often regarded as the supreme deity, being then styled ‘king of the gods’ or ‘king of both gods and men’ or ‘king of the universe’; no other deity has such grand attributes and functions assigned to him; he is described as fashioning and upholding heaven and earth, as possessing extraordinary power and wisdom called māyā, as sending his spies or messengers throughout both worlds, as numbering the very winkings of men's eyes, as hating falsehood, as seizing transgressors with his pāśa or noose, as inflicting diseases, especially dropsy, as pardoning sin, as the guardian of immortality; he is also invoked in the Veda together with Indra, and in later Vedic literature together with Agni, with Yama, and with Viṣṇu; in [RV. iv, 1, 2], he is even called the brother of Agni; though not generally regarded in the Veda as a god of the ocean, yet he is often connected with the waters, especially the waters of the atmosphere or firmament, and in one place [[RV. vii, 64, 2]] is called with Mitra, sindhu-pati, ‘lord of the sea or of rivers’; hence in the later mythology he became a kind of Neptune, and is there best known in his character of god of the ocean; in the [MBh.] Varuṇa is said to be a son of Kardama and father of Puṣkara, and is also variously represented as one of the Deva-gandharvas, as a Nāga, as a king of the Nāgas, and as an Asura; he is the regent of the western quarter [cf. loka-pāla] and of the Nakṣatra Śatabhiṣaj [[VarBṛS.]]; the Jainas consider Varuṇa as a servant of the twentieth Arhat of the present Avasarpiṇī), [RV.] &c. &c. (cf. [IW. 10]; [12] &c.) varuṇa : the ocean, [VarBṛS.] varuṇa : water, [Kathās.] varuṇa : the sun, [L.] varuṇa : awarder off or dispeller, [Sāy.] on [RV. v, 48, 5] varuṇa : N. of a partic. magical formula recited over weapons, [R.] (v.l. varaṇa) varuṇa : the tree Crataeva Roxburghii, [L.] (cf. varaṇa) varuṇa : pl. (prob.) the gods generally, [AV. iii, 4, 6] varuṇa : váruṇa &c. See p. 921, col. 2. 🔎 váruṇa- | nominal stemSGMVOC |
| 8.69.12 | yásya | 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- | pronounSGMGEN |
| 8.69.12 | te | tvám | pronounSGGEN |
| 8.69.12 | saptá sapta : ifc. (cf. tri-ṣaptá, tri-saptá) and in comp. for saptán, seven sapta : mfn. = °tamá, [L.] sapta : m. N. of Viṣṇu, [Viṣṇ. iii, 44] (where sapta mahā-bhāga may be two words; cf. sapta-mahā-bh°). 🔎 saptá | saptá- sapta : ifc. (cf. tri-ṣaptá, tri-saptá) and in comp. for saptán, seven sapta : mfn. = °tamá, [L.] sapta : m. N. of Viṣṇu, [Viṣṇ. iii, 44] (where sapta mahā-bhāga may be two words; cf. sapta-mahā-bh°). 🔎 saptá- | nominal stemPLMNOM |
| 8.69.12 | síndhavaḥ | síndhu- sindhu : síndhu m. and f. (prob. fr. √ 1. sidh, ‘to go’) a river, stream (esp. the Indus, and in this sense said to be the only river regarded as m. See -nada, col. 2), [RV.] &c. &c. sindhu : síndhu m. flood, waters (also in the sky), [RV.]; [AV.] sindhu : ocean, sea, [RV.] &c. &c. sindhu : a symbolical term for the number 4 (cf. 1. samudra), [Gaṇit.] sindhu : N. of Varuṇa (as god of the ocean), [MW.] sindhu : the moisture of the lips, [Kum.] sindhu : water ejected from an elephant's trunk (= vamathu), [L.] sindhu : the exudation from an elephant's temples, [L.] sindhu : the country around the Indus (commonly called Sindh; pl. ‘the inhabitants of Sindh’), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c. sindhu : a king of Sindh (?), [Cat.] sindhu : N. of Viṣṇu, [RV.]; [MBh.] sindhu : white or refined borax (= śveta-ṭaṅkaṇa), [L.] sindhu : = sindhuka, [L.] sindhu : (in music) a partic. Rāga, [Saṃgītas.] sindhu : N. of a king of the Gandharvas, [R.] sindhu : of a serpent-demon, [Buddh.] sindhu : of various men, [Rājat.] 🔎 síndhu- | nominal stemPLMNOM |
| 8.69.12 | anukṣáranti | √kṣar- kṣar : cl. 1. P. kṣárati (ep. also Ā. °te; Ved. cl. 2. P. kṣariti, [Pāṇ. vii, 2, 34]; Subj. kṣarat; impf. ákṣarat; aor. 3. sg. akṣār (cf. [Nir. v, 3]); akṣārīt, [Pāṇ. vii, 2, 2]; p. kṣárat; inf. kṣáradhyai, [RV. i, 63, 8]), to flow, stream, glide, distil, trickle, [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; [R.] &c.; to melt away, wane, perish, [Mn.]; [MBh. iii, 7001]; to fall or slip from, be deprived of (abl.), [MBh. xiii, 4716]; to cause to flow, pour out, [RV.]; [AV. vii, 18, 2]; [Mn. ii, 107]; [MBh.] &c. (with mūtram, ‘to urine’, [Car. ii, 4]); to give forth a stream, give forth anything richly, [MBh.]; [Hariv. 8898] (pf. cakṣāra), [R.]; [Ragh.] : Caus. kṣārayati, to cause to flow (as urine), [Vait.]; to overflow or soil with acrid substances (cf. kṣāra), [MārkP. viii, 142] (cf. kṣārita.) 🔎 √kṣar- | rootPLPRSACT3INDlocal particle:LP |
| 8.69.12 | kākúdam | kākúd- kākud : kākúd t, f. the hollow of the mouth, the palate (cf. kakud, Lat. cacūmen), [RV. i, 8, 7]; [vi, 41, 2] and [viii, 69, 12] kākud : ([Naigh. i, 11]; [Nir. v, 26.]) 🔎 kākúd- | nominal stemSGFACC |
| 8.69.12 | sūrmyàm | sūrmī́- sūrmī : sūrmi or sūrmī́, f. (rather fr. √ sṛ than fr. su + ūrmi; also written śūrmi and śūrmī) a pipe for conveying water, [RV.]; [ŚBr.]; a kind of tube serving as a candlestick, [RV.]; [TS.]; [Kāṭh.]; a metal image, [W.]; a hollow metal column made red-hot for burning criminals (esp. adulterers) to death, [Gaut.]; [Mn.] &c. 🔎 sūrmī́- | nominal stemSGFACC |
| 8.69.12 | suṣirā́m | suṣirá- suṣira : su—ṣirá See s.v. suṣira : mf(A)n. (prob. fr. su + sirā, q.v., also written śuṣ°) ‘having a good tube or channel’, perforated, pierced, hollow, [RV.] &c. &c. suṣira : having spaces, [MW.] suṣira : slow in articulation (= vilambita) id. suṣira : m. ‘having a good flow of fluid or sap’, a reed, bamboo, cane, [L.] suṣira : m. fire (also n.), [L.] suṣira : m. a mouse, [L.] suṣira : (am), n. a hollow, hole, cavity, [Kām.]; [MārkP.] suṣira : a wind instrument, [Saṃgīt.] suṣira : the air, atmosphere, [L.] suṣira : cloves, [L.] 🔎 suṣirá- | nominal stemSGFACC |
| 8.69.12 | iva iva : ind. (fr. pronominal base 3. i), like, in the same manner as (in this sense = yathā, and used correlatively to tathā) iva : as it were, as if (e.g. patheva, as if on a path) iva : in a certain manner, in some measure, a little, perhaps (in qualification or mitigation of a strong assertion) iva : nearly, almost, about (e.g. muhūrtam iva, almost an hour) iva : so, just so, just, exactly, indeed, very (especially after words which involve some restriction, e.g. īṣad iva, just a little; kiṃcid iva, just a little bit: and after a negation, e.g. na cirād iva, very soon). is connected vaguely, and somewhat pleonastically, with an interrogative pronoun or adverb (e.g. kim iva, what? katham iva, how could that possibly be? kveva, where, I should like to know?). In the Pada texts of the Ṛg, Yajur, and Atharva-veda, and by native grammarians, is considered to be enclitic, and therefore compounded with the word after which it stands, [RV.]; [AV.]; &c. 🔎 iva | iva iva : ind. (fr. pronominal base 3. i), like, in the same manner as (in this sense = yathā, and used correlatively to tathā) iva : as it were, as if (e.g. patheva, as if on a path) iva : in a certain manner, in some measure, a little, perhaps (in qualification or mitigation of a strong assertion) iva : nearly, almost, about (e.g. muhūrtam iva, almost an hour) iva : so, just so, just, exactly, indeed, very (especially after words which involve some restriction, e.g. īṣad iva, just a little; kiṃcid iva, just a little bit: and after a negation, e.g. na cirād iva, very soon). is connected vaguely, and somewhat pleonastically, with an interrogative pronoun or adverb (e.g. kim iva, what? katham iva, how could that possibly be? kveva, where, I should like to know?). In the Pada texts of the Ṛg, Yajur, and Atharva-veda, and by native grammarians, is considered to be enclitic, and therefore compounded with the word after which it stands, [RV.]; [AV.]; &c. 🔎 iva | invariable |