9.17.2
अ॒भि सु॑वा॒नास॒ इन्द॑वो वृ॒ष्टयः॑ पृथि॒वीमि॑व
इन्द्रं॒ सोमा॑सो अक्षरन्
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abhí suvānā́sa índavo
vr̥ṣṭáyaḥ pr̥thivī́m iva
índraṃ sómāso akṣaran
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abhifrom abhí
from √su-
from índu-
from vr̥ṣṭí-
from pr̥thivī́-
from índra-
from sóma-
from √kṣar-
9.17.2
The drops of Soma juice effused fall like the rain upon the earth: To Indra flow the Soma-streams.
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| 9.17.2 | abhí abhi : abhí ind. (a prefix to verbs and nouns, expressing) to, towards, into, over, upon. (As a prefix to verbs of motion) it expresses the notion or going towards, approaching, &c. (As a prefix to nouns not derived from verbs) it expresses superiority, intensity, &c. abhi : e.g. abhi-tāmra, abhi-nava, q.v. (As a separate adverb or preposition) it expresses (with acc.) to, towards, in the direction of, against abhi : into, [ŚBr.] & [KātyŚr.] abhi : for, for the sake of abhi : on account of abhi : on, upon, with regard to, by, before, in front of abhi : over. It may even express one after the other, severally, [Pāṇ. i, 4, 91], e.g. vṛkṣaṃ vṛkṣam abhi, tree after tree abhi : [cf. Gk. ἀμϕί; Lat. ob; Zend aibi, aiwi; Goth. bi; Old High Germ. bī]. abhi : a-bhi mfn. fearless, [MBh.] 🔎 abhí | abhí abhi : abhí ind. (a prefix to verbs and nouns, expressing) to, towards, into, over, upon. (As a prefix to verbs of motion) it expresses the notion or going towards, approaching, &c. (As a prefix to nouns not derived from verbs) it expresses superiority, intensity, &c. abhi : e.g. abhi-tāmra, abhi-nava, q.v. (As a separate adverb or preposition) it expresses (with acc.) to, towards, in the direction of, against abhi : into, [ŚBr.] & [KātyŚr.] abhi : for, for the sake of abhi : on account of abhi : on, upon, with regard to, by, before, in front of abhi : over. It may even express one after the other, severally, [Pāṇ. i, 4, 91], e.g. vṛkṣaṃ vṛkṣam abhi, tree after tree abhi : [cf. Gk. ἀμϕί; Lat. ob; Zend aibi, aiwi; Goth. bi; Old High Germ. bī]. abhi : a-bhi mfn. fearless, [MBh.] 🔎 abhí | invariablelocal particle:LP |
| 9.17.2 | suvānā́saḥ | √su- su : cl. 1. P. Ā. savati, °te, to go, move, [Dhātup. xxii, 42] ([Vop.] sru). su : (= √ 1. sū) cl. 1. 2. P. ([Dhātup. xxii, 43] and [xxiv, 32]; savati, sauti, only in 3. sg. pr. sauti and 2. sg. Impv. suhi) to urge, impel, incite, [ŚBr.]; [KātyŚr.]; to possess supremacy, [Dhātup.] su : cl. 5. P. Ā. ([Dhātup. xxvii, 1]) sunóti, sunute (in [RV.] 3. pl. sunvánti, sunviré [with pass. sense] and suṣvati; p. sunvát or sunvāná [the latter with act. and pass. sense] [ib.]; pf. suṣāva, suṣuma &c., [ib.]; [MBh.]; p. in Veda suṣuvás and suṣvāṇá [the later generally with pass. sense; accord. to [Kāś.] on [Pāṇ. iii, 2, 106], also suṣuvāṇa with act. sense]; aor. accord. to Gr. asāvīt or asauṣīt, asoṣṭa or asaviṣṭa; in [RV.] also Impv. sótu, sutám, and p. [mostly pass.] suvāná [but the spoken form is svāná and so written in [SV.], suv° in [RV.]]; and 3. pl. asuṣavuḥ, [AitBr.]; fut. sotā, [ib.]; soṣyati, [KātyŚr.]; saviṣyati, [ŚBr.]; inf. sótave, sótos, [RV.] : [Br.]; sotum Gr.; ind.p. -sútya, [Br.]; -sūya, [MBh.]), to press out, extract (esp. the juice from the Soma plant for libations), [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; [KātyŚr.]; [Up.]; [MBh.]; to distil, prepare (wine, spirits &c.) Sch. on [Pāṇ. ii, 2, 132] : Pass. sūyáte (in [RV.] also Ā. 3. sg. sunve and 3. pl. sunviré with pass. sense; aor. ásāvi, [ib.]) : Caus. -sāvayati or -ṣāvayati (see abhi-ṣu and pra-√ su; aor. asūṣavat, accord. to some asīṣavat) Gr.: Desid. of Caus. suṣāvayiṣati, [ib.] : Desid. susūṣati, °te, [ib.] : Intens. soṣūyate, soṣavīti, soṣoti, [ib.] su : (= √ 2. sū), (only in 3. sg. sauti See pra-√ sū) to beget, bring forth. su : sú ind. (opp. to dus and corresponding in sense to Gk. εὖ; perhaps connected with 1. vásu, and, accord. to some, with pron. base sa, as ku with ka; in Veda also sū́ and liable to become ṣu or ṣū and to lengthen a preceding vowel, while a following na may become ṇa; it may be used as an adj. or adv.), good, excellent, right, virtuous, beautiful, easy, well, rightly, much, greatly, very, any, easily, willingly, quickly (in older language often with other particles; esp. with u, = ‘forthwith, immediately’; with mo i.e. mā u, = ‘never, by no means’ ; sú kam often emphatically with an Impv., e.g. tíṣṭhā sú kam maghavan mā́ parā gāḥ, ‘do tarry O Maghavan, go not past’, [RV. iii, 53, 2]; always qualifies the meaning of a verb and is never used independently at the beginning of a verse; in later language it is rarely a separate word, but is mostly prefixed to substantives, adjectives, adverbs and participles, exceptionally also to an ind.p., e.g. su-baddhvā, ‘having well bound’, [Mṛcch. x, 50]; or even to a finite verb, e.g. su-nirvavau, [Śiś. vi, 58]), [RV.] &c.; su : (to be similarly prefixed to the following) : su : (to be similarly prefixed to the following). su : (to be similarly prefixed to the following) : su : (to be similarly prefixed to the following) : su : (to be similarly prefixed to the following) su : (to be similarly prefixed to the following) : su : (to be similarly prefixed to the following) : su : (to be similarly prefixed to the following) : su : (to be similarly prefixed to the following, in which the initial ṣ stands for an orig. s) : su : (to be similarly prefixed to the following) : su : (to be similarly prefixed to the following) 🔎 √su- | rootPLMNOMAORMEDnon-finite:PTCP |
| 9.17.2 | índavaḥ | índu- indu : índu m. (√ und, [Uṇ. i, 13]; probably fr. ind = √ und, ‘to drop’ [see p. 165, col. 3, and cf. índra]; perhaps connected with bindu, which last is unknown in the Ṛg-veda, [BRD.]), Ved. a drop (especially of Soma), Soma, [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.] indu : a bright drop, a spark, [TS.] indu : the moon indu : m. pl. (avas) the moons i.e. the periodic changes of the moon indu : time of moonlight, night, [RV.]; [MBh.]; [Śak.]; [Megh.] &c. indu : camphor, [Bhpr.] indu : the point on a die, [AV. vii, 109, 6] indu : N. of Vāstoṣpati, [RV. vii, 54, 2] indu : a symbolic expression for the number ‘one’ indu : designation of the Anusvāra indu : a coin, [L.] (In the Brāhmaṇas, is used only for the moon; but the connexion between the meanings ‘Soma juice’ and ‘moon’ in the word has led to the same two ideas being transferred in classical Sanskṛt to the word soma, although the latter has properly only the sense ‘Soma juice’.) indu : the weight of a silver Pala, [L.] 🔎 índu- | nominal stemPLMNOM |
| 9.17.2 | vr̥ṣṭáyaḥ | vr̥ṣṭí- vṛṣṭi : vṛṣṭí or vṛ́ṣṭi, f. (sg. and pl.) rain, [RV.] &c. &c. (ifc. often = a shower of, cf. puṣpa-, śaravṛ°) vṛṣṭi : (in Sāṃkhya) one of the four forms of internal acquiescence (cf. salila), [MW.] vṛṣṭi : vṛṣṭí m. a partic. Ekāha, [ŚāṅkhŚr.] vṛṣṭi : N. of a son of Kukura (cf. vṛṣṭa), [VP.] 🔎 vr̥ṣṭí- | nominal stemPLFNOM |
| 9.17.2 | pr̥thivī́m | pr̥thivī́- pṛthivī : pṛthivī́ f. (= pṛthvī f. of pṛthu) the earth or wide world (‘the broad and extended One’, personified as devī and often invoked together with the sky [cf. 3. div and dyāvā-pṛthivī, [RTL. 182]]; according to [VP.] daughter of pṛthu; the Veda makes 3 earths, one called bhūmi, inhabited by men, and 2 under it; there is also an earth between the world of men and the circumambient ocean [[ŚBr.]] and one extending through the 3 worlds [[Naigh.]]), [RV.] &c. &c. pṛthivī : land, ground, soil, [ib.] pṛthivī : earth regarded as one of the elements, [Prab.]; [Suśr.] pṛthivī : = antarikṣa, [Naigh. i, 3] 🔎 pr̥thivī́- | nominal stemSGFACC |
| 9.17.2 | 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 |
| 9.17.2 | índram | índra- indra : índra m. (for etym. as given by native authorities See [Nir. x, 8]; [Sāy.] on [RV. i, 3, 4]; [Uṇ. ii, 28]; according to [BRD.] fr. in = √ inv with suff. ra preceded by inserted d, meaning ‘to subdue, conquer’ ; according to [Muir, S. T. v, 119], for sindra fr. √ syand, ‘to drop’; more probably from √ ind, ‘to drop’ q.v., and connected with indu above), the god of the atmosphere and sky indra : the Indian Jupiter Pluvius or lord of rain (who in Vedic mythology reigns over the deities of the intermediate region or atmosphere; he fights against and conquers with his thunder-bolt [vajra] the demons of darkness, and is in general a symbol of generous heroism; was not originally lord of the gods of the sky, but his deeds were most useful to mankind, and he was therefore addressed in prayers and hymns more than any other deity, and ultimately superseded the more lofty and spiritual Varuṇa; in the later mythology is subordinated to the triad Brahman, Viṣṇu, and Śiva, but remained the chief of all other deities in the popular mind), [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; [Mn.]; [MBh.]; [R.] &c. &c. indra : (he is also regent of the east quarter, and considered one of the twelve Ādityas), [Mn.]; [R.]; [Suśr.] &c. indra : in the Vedānta he is identified with the supreme being indra : a prince indra : ifc. best, excellent, the first, the chief (of any class of objects; cf. surendra, rājendra, parvatendra, &c.), [Mn.]; [Hit.] indra : the pupil of the right eye (that of the left being called Indrāṇī or Indra's wife), [ŚBr.]; [BṛĀrUp.] indra : the number fourteen, [Sūryas.] indra : N. of a grammarian indra : of a physician indra : the plant Wrightia Antidysenterica (see kuṭaja), [L.] indra : a vegetable poison, [L.] indra : the twenty-sixth Yoga or division of a circle on the plane of the ecliptic indra : the Yoga star in the twenty-sixth Nakṣatra, γ Pegasi indra : the human soul, the portion of spirit residing in the body indra : night, [L.] indra : one of the nine divisions of Jambu-dvīpa or the known continent, [L.] 🔎 índra- | nominal stemSGMACC |
| 9.17.2 | sómāsaḥ | sóma- soma : sóma m. (fr. √ 3. su) juice, extract, (esp.) the juice of the Soma plant, (also) the Soma plant itself (said to be the climbing plant Sarcostema Viminalis or Asclepias Acida, the stalks [aṃśu] of which were pressed between stones [adri] by the priests, then sprinkled with water, and purified in a strainer [pavitra]; whence the acid juice trinkled into jars [kalaśa] or larger vessels [droṇa]; after which it was mixed with clarified butter, flour &c., made to ferment, and then offered in libations to the gods [in this respect corresponding with the ritual of the Iranian Avesta] or was drunk by the Brāhmans, by both of whom its exhilarating effect was supposed to be prized; it was collected by moonlight on certain mountains [in [RV. x, 34, 1], the mountain Mūja-vat is mentioned]; it is sometimes described as having been brought from the sky by a falcon [śyena] and guarded by the Gandharvas; it is personified as one of the most important of Vedic gods, to whose praise all the 114 hymns of the 9th book of the [RV.] besides 6 in other books and the whole, [SV.] are dedicated; in post-Vedic mythology and even in a few of the latest hymns of the [RV.] [although not in the whole of the 9th book] as well as sometimes in the [AV.] and in the [Br.], Soma is identified with the moon [as the receptacle of the other beverage of the gods called Amṛta, or as the lord of plants, cf. indu, oṣadhi-pati] and with the god of the moon, as well as with Viṣṇu, Śiva, Yama, and Kubera; he is called rājan, and appears among the 8 Vasus and the 8 Loka-pālas [[Mn. v, 96]], and is the reputed author of [RV. x, 124, 1], [5]-[9], of a law-book &c.; cf. below), [RV.] &c. &c. soma : the moon or moon-god (see above) soma : a Soma sacrifice, [AitĀr.] soma : a day destined for extracting the Soma-juice, [ĀśvŚr.] soma : Monday (= soma-vāra), [Inscr.] soma : nectar, [L.] soma : camphor, [L.] soma : air, wind, [L.] soma : water, [L.] soma : a drug of supposed magical properties, [W.] soma : a partic. mountain or mountainous range (accord. to some the mountains of the moon), [ib.] soma : a partic. class of Pitṛs (prob. for soma-pā), [ib.] soma : N. of various authors (also with paṇḍita, bhaṭṭa, śarman &c.; cf. above), [Cat.] soma : = somacandra, or somendu, [HPariś.] soma : N. of a monkey-chief, [L.] soma : sóma (am), n. rice-water, rice-gruel, [L.] soma : heaven, sky, ether, [L.] soma : sóma mfn. relating to Soma (prob. w.r. for sauma), [Kāṭh.] soma : mfn. (prob.) together with Umā, [IndSt.] 🔎 sóma- | nominal stemPLMNOM |
| 9.17.2 | akṣaran | √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- | rootPLIPRFACT3IND |