Rig Veda 9.3.4

Addressed to: Soma

Group: Tirasci and Other Poets

Text (Devanagari)

9.3.4

ए॒ष विश्वा॑नि॒ वार्या॒ शूरो॒ यन्नि॑व॒ सत्व॑भिः

पव॑मानः सिषासति

Text (Roman)

9.3.4

eṣá víśvāni vā́ryā

śū́ro yánn iva sátvabhiḥ

pávamānaḥ siṣāsati

Padapāṭha

9.3.4

eṣaḥ | viśvāni

nominal stemPLNACC

from víśva-

viśva : víśva mf(A)n. (prob. fr. √ 1. viś, to pervade, cf. [Uṇ. i, 151]; declined as a pron. like sarva, by which it is superseded in the Brāhmaṇas and later language) all, every, every one

viśva : whole, entire, universal, [RV.] &c. &c.

viśva : all-pervading or all-containing, omnipresent (applied to Viṣṇu-Kṛṣṇa, the soul, intellect &c.), [Up.]; [MBh.] &c.

viśva : víśva m. (in phil.) the intellectual faculty or (accord. to some) the faculty which perceives individuality or the individual underlying the gross body (sthūla-śarīra-vyaṣṭy-upahita), [Vedāntas.]

viśva : N. of a class of gods, cf. below

viśva : N. of the number ‘thirteen’, [Gol.]

viśva : of a class of deceased ancestors, [MārkP.]

viśva : of a king, [MBh.]

viśva : of a well-known dictionary = viśva-prakāśa

viśva : pl. (víśve, with or scil. devā́s cf. viśve-deva, p. 995) ‘all the gods collectively’ or the ‘All-gods’ (a partic. class of gods, forming one of the 9 Gaṇas enumerated under gaṇadevatā, q.v.; accord. to the Viṣṇu and other Purāṇas they were sons of Viśvā, daughter of Dakṣa, and their names are as follow, 1. Vasu, 2. Satya, 3. Kratu, 4. Dakṣa, 5. Kāla, 6. Kāma, 7. Dhṛti, 8. Kuru, 9. Purū-ravas, 10. Mādravas [?]; two others are added by some, viz. 11. Rocaka or Locana, 12. Dhvani [or Dhūri; or this may make 13] : they are particularly worshipped at Śrāddhas and at the Vaiśvadeva ceremony [[RTL. 416]]; moreover accord. to Manu [[iii, 90], [121]], offerings should be made to them daily — these privileges having been bestowed on them by Brahmā and the Pitṛs, as a reward for severe austerities they had performed on the Himālaya: sometimes it is difficult to decide whether the expression viśve devāḥ refers to all the gods or to the particular troop of deities described above), [RV.] &c. &c.;

viśva : víśva n. the whole world, universe, [AV.] &c. &c.

viśva : dry ginger, [Suśr.]

viśva : myrrh, [L.]

viśva : a mystical N. of the sound o, [Up.]

🔎 víśvāni 🔎 víśva-

| vāryā | śūraḥ | yaniva

rootSGMNOMPRSACTnon-finite:PTCP

from √i- 1

yan : in comp. for yad.

i : the third vowel of the alphabet, corresponding to i short, and pronounced as that letter in kill &c.

i : ind. an interjection of anger, calling, sorrow, distress, compassion, &c., (g. cādi, [Pāṇ. i, 4, 57], &c.)

i : base of Nominative case and Acc. sg. du. and pl. of the demonstrative pronoun idam, ‘this’ or ‘that’

i : [cf. ítara, itas, iti, íd, idā́, iyat, iva, iha: cf. also Lat. id; Goth. ita; Eng. it; Old Germ. iz; Mod. Germ. es.]

i : m. N. of Kāmadeva, [L.]

i : cl. 2. P. éti (Impv. 2. sg. ihí) and 1. P. Ā. áyati, ayate [cf. √ ay], (pf. iyāya [2. sg. iyátha, [AV. viii, 1, 10], and iyétha, [RV.]] fut. eṣyati; aor. aiṣīt; inf. etum, étave, [RV.] & [AV.], étavaí, [RV.] étos, [RV.] ityaí, [RV. i, 113, 6]; [124, 1]) to go, walk; to flow; to blow; to advance, spread, get about; to go to or towards (with acc.), come, [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; [MBh.]; [R.]; [Hit.]; [Ragh.] &c.; to go away, escape, pass, retire, [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; [R.]; to arise from, come from, [RV.]; [ChUp.]; to return (in this sense only fut.), [MBh.]; [R.]; (with punar) to come back again, return, [MBh.]; [R.]; [Pañcat.] &c.; to succeed, [Mn. iii, 127]; to arrive at, reach, obtain, [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; [Śak.]; [Hit.] &c.; to fall into, come to; to approach with prayers, gain by asking (cf. ita); to undertake anything (with acc.); to be employed in, go on with, continue in any condition or relation (with a part. or instr., e.g. asura-rakṣasāni mṛdyamānāni yanti, ‘the Asuras and Rakshases are being continually crushed’, [ŚBr. i, 1, 4, 14]; gavāmayaneneyuḥ, ‘they, were engaged in the [festival called] Gavāmayana’, [KātyŚr. xxv, 5, 2]); to appear, be, [KaṭhUp.] : Intens. Ā. ī́yate ([RV. i, 30, 18]; p. iyāná, [RV.]; inf. iyádhyai, [RV. vi, 20, 8]) to go quickly or repeatedly; to come, wander, run, spread, get about, [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; to appear, make one's appearance, [RV.]; [AV.]; [BṛĀrUp.]; to approach any one with requests (with two acc.), ask, request, [RV.]; [AV.]: Pass. ī́yate, to be asked or requested, [RV.]: Caus. āyayati, to cause to go or escape, [Vop.];

i : [cf. Gk. εἶ-μι, ἴ-μεν; Lat. e-o, ī-mus, i-ter, &c.; Lith. ei-mì, ‘I go’; Slav. i-dû, ‘I go’, i-ti, ‘to go’; Goth. i-ddja, ‘I went’.]

🔎 yán 🔎 √i- 1

| satvabhiḥ | pavamānaḥ | sisāsati

Monier-Williams dictionary from Cologne Sanskrit Lexicon

English Translation by Griffith

9.3.4

He, like a warrior going forth with heroes, as he flows along Is fain to win all precious boons.

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Grammatical analysis

Source index	Surface	Lemma	Information
9.3.4	eṣá eṣa : eṣá mfn. gliding, running, hastening, [RV.] eṣa : eṣá (nom. m. of etád, q.v.) eṣa : éṣa mfn. (fr. √ iṣ) ifc. seeking, [ŚBr. xiii] eṣa : éṣa m. the act of seeking or going after, [RV. x, 48, 9] eṣa : (eṣá), wish, option, [RV. i, 180, 4], (cf. svaīṣá) eṣa : [cf. Zd. aêsha; O. H. G. ērā.] 🔎 eṣá	eṣá eṣa : eṣá mfn. gliding, running, hastening, [RV.] eṣa : eṣá (nom. m. of etád, q.v.) eṣa : éṣa mfn. (fr. √ iṣ) ifc. seeking, [ŚBr. xiii] eṣa : éṣa m. the act of seeking or going after, [RV. x, 48, 9] eṣa : (eṣá), wish, option, [RV. i, 180, 4], (cf. svaīṣá) eṣa : [cf. Zd. aêsha; O. H. G. ērā.] 🔎 eṣá	pronounSGMNOM
9.3.4	víśvāni 🔎 víśvāni	víśva- viśva : víśva mf(A)n. (prob. fr. √ 1. viś, to pervade, cf. [Uṇ. i, 151]; declined as a pron. like sarva, by which it is superseded in the Brāhmaṇas and later language) all, every, every one viśva : whole, entire, universal, [RV.] &c. &c. viśva : all-pervading or all-containing, omnipresent (applied to Viṣṇu-Kṛṣṇa, the soul, intellect &c.), [Up.]; [MBh.] &c. viśva : víśva m. (in phil.) the intellectual faculty or (accord. to some) the faculty which perceives individuality or the individual underlying the gross body (sthūla-śarīra-vyaṣṭy-upahita), [Vedāntas.] viśva : N. of a class of gods, cf. below viśva : N. of the number ‘thirteen’, [Gol.] viśva : of a class of deceased ancestors, [MārkP.] viśva : of a king, [MBh.] viśva : of a well-known dictionary = viśva-prakāśa viśva : pl. (víśve, with or scil. devā́s cf. viśve-deva, p. 995) ‘all the gods collectively’ or the ‘All-gods’ (a partic. class of gods, forming one of the 9 Gaṇas enumerated under gaṇadevatā, q.v.; accord. to the Viṣṇu and other Purāṇas they were sons of Viśvā, daughter of Dakṣa, and their names are as follow, 1. Vasu, 2. Satya, 3. Kratu, 4. Dakṣa, 5. Kāla, 6. Kāma, 7. Dhṛti, 8. Kuru, 9. Purū-ravas, 10. Mādravas [?]; two others are added by some, viz. 11. Rocaka or Locana, 12. Dhvani [or Dhūri; or this may make 13] : they are particularly worshipped at Śrāddhas and at the Vaiśvadeva ceremony [[RTL. 416]]; moreover accord. to Manu [[iii, 90], [121]], offerings should be made to them daily — these privileges having been bestowed on them by Brahmā and the Pitṛs, as a reward for severe austerities they had performed on the Himālaya: sometimes it is difficult to decide whether the expression viśve devāḥ refers to all the gods or to the particular troop of deities described above), [RV.] &c. &c.; viśva : víśva n. the whole world, universe, [AV.] &c. &c. viśva : dry ginger, [Suśr.] viśva : myrrh, [L.] viśva : a mystical N. of the sound o, [Up.] 🔎 víśva-	nominal stemPLNACC
9.3.4	vā́ryā 🔎 vā́ryā	vā́rya- vārya : mfn. (for 2. and 3. See p. 944, col. 1) watery, aquatic, [L.] vārya : mfn. (for 1. See p. 943, col. 3) to be warded off or prevented or checked or impeded, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c. vārya : m. a wall, [R.] vārya : vā́rya mfn. to be chosen, [Pāṇ. iii, 1, 101], Sch. vārya : precious, valuable, [RV.] vārya : vā́rya n. treasure, wealth, goods, [ib.] vārya : m. (for 1. 2. 3. see pp. 943, col. 3, and 944, col. 1) patr. (?), [ĀrṣBr.] 🔎 vā́rya-	nominal stemPLNACCnon-finite:GDV
9.3.4	śū́raḥ 🔎 śū́raḥ	śū́ra- śūra : śū́ra mfn. (prob. fr. √ 1. śū = śvi and connected with śavas, śuna, śūna) strong, powerful, valiant, heroic, brave (cf. -tama and -tara), [RV.]; [MBh.] śūra : śū́ra m. a strong or mighty or valiant man, warrior, champion, hero, one who acts heroically towards any one (loc.) or with regard to anything (loc. instr., or comp.; ifc. f(A). ), [RV.] &c. &c. śūra : śū́ra m. heroism (?, = or w.r. for śaurya), [Kāv.] śūra : a lion, [L.] śūra : a tiger or panther, [L.] śūra : a boar, [L.] śūra : a dog, [L.] śūra : a cock, [L.] śūra : white rice, [L.] śūra : lentil, [L.] śūra : Artocarpus Lacucha, [L.] śūra : Vatica Robusta, [L.] śūra : N. of a Yādava, the father of Vasu-deva and grandfather of Kṛṣṇa, [MBh.] śūra : of a Sauvīraka, [ib.] śūra : of a son of Īlina, [ib.] śūra : of a son of Kārtavīrya, [Hariv.]; [Pur.] śūra : of a son of Vidūratha, [ib.] śūra : of a son of Deva-mīḍhuṣa, [ib.] śūra : of a son of Bhajamāna, [Hariv.] śūra : of a son of Vasu-deva, [BhP.] śūra : of a son of Vatsa-prī, [MārkP.] śūra : of a poet, [Cat.] śūra : of various other men, [Buddh.]; [Rājat.] śūra : w.r. for sūra, [L.] śūra : (pl.) N. of a people, [MBh.]; [Hariv.] [cf. Gk. κῦρος in ἄ-κῡρος.] 🔎 śū́ra-	nominal stemSGMNOM
9.3.4	yán yan : in comp. for yad. 🔎 yán	√i- 1 i : the third vowel of the alphabet, corresponding to i short, and pronounced as that letter in kill &c. i : ind. an interjection of anger, calling, sorrow, distress, compassion, &c., (g. cādi, [Pāṇ. i, 4, 57], &c.) i : base of Nominative case and Acc. sg. du. and pl. of the demonstrative pronoun idam, ‘this’ or ‘that’ i : [cf. ítara, itas, iti, íd, idā́, iyat, iva, iha: cf. also Lat. id; Goth. ita; Eng. it; Old Germ. iz; Mod. Germ. es.] i : m. N. of Kāmadeva, [L.] i : cl. 2. P. éti (Impv. 2. sg. ihí) and 1. P. Ā. áyati, ayate [cf. √ ay], (pf. iyāya [2. sg. iyátha, [AV. viii, 1, 10], and iyétha, [RV.]] fut. eṣyati; aor. aiṣīt; inf. etum, étave, [RV.] & [AV.], étavaí, [RV.] étos, [RV.] ityaí, [RV. i, 113, 6]; [124, 1]) to go, walk; to flow; to blow; to advance, spread, get about; to go to or towards (with acc.), come, [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; [MBh.]; [R.]; [Hit.]; [Ragh.] &c.; to go away, escape, pass, retire, [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; [R.]; to arise from, come from, [RV.]; [ChUp.]; to return (in this sense only fut.), [MBh.]; [R.]; (with punar) to come back again, return, [MBh.]; [R.]; [Pañcat.] &c.; to succeed, [Mn. iii, 127]; to arrive at, reach, obtain, [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; [Śak.]; [Hit.] &c.; to fall into, come to; to approach with prayers, gain by asking (cf. ita); to undertake anything (with acc.); to be employed in, go on with, continue in any condition or relation (with a part. or instr., e.g. asura-rakṣasāni mṛdyamānāni yanti, ‘the Asuras and Rakshases are being continually crushed’, [ŚBr. i, 1, 4, 14]; gavāmayaneneyuḥ, ‘they, were engaged in the [festival called] Gavāmayana’, [KātyŚr. xxv, 5, 2]); to appear, be, [KaṭhUp.] : Intens. Ā. ī́yate ([RV. i, 30, 18]; p. iyāná, [RV.]; inf. iyádhyai, [RV. vi, 20, 8]) to go quickly or repeatedly; to come, wander, run, spread, get about, [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; to appear, make one's appearance, [RV.]; [AV.]; [BṛĀrUp.]; to approach any one with requests (with two acc.), ask, request, [RV.]; [AV.]: Pass. ī́yate, to be asked or requested, [RV.]: Caus. āyayati, to cause to go or escape, [Vop.]; i : [cf. Gk. εἶ-μι, ἴ-μεν; Lat. e-o, ī-mus, i-ter, &c.; Lith. ei-mì, ‘I go’; Slav. i-dû, ‘I go’, i-ti, ‘to go’; Goth. i-ddja, ‘I went’.] 🔎 √i- 1	rootSGMNOMPRSACTnon-finite:PTCP
9.3.4	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
9.3.4	sátvabhiḥ 🔎 sátvabhiḥ	sátvan- satvan : sátvan mfn. living, breathing, [RV.] satvan : strong, powerful, [ib.] satvan : sátvan m. a living being, [ib.] satvan : a warrior satvan : pl. warriors, vassals, attendants, followers, [RV.]; [VS.]; [AV.] &c. satvan : (sg.) = udaka or karman, [Nir. vi, 30] satvan : N. of a Ṛṣi, [MBh.] (v.l. ṛtvan). satvan : sátvan &c. See p. 1137, col. 1. 🔎 sátvan-	nominal stemPLMINS
9.3.4	pávamānaḥ 🔎 pávamānaḥ	√pū- pū : cl. 9. P. Ā. ([Dhātup. xxxi, 12]) punā́ti, punīté (3. pl. Ā. punáte, [AV.], punaté, [RV.]; 2. sg. Impv. P. punīhi, [RV.] &c., punāhí, [SV.]); cl. 1. Ā. ([xxii, 70]) pávate (of P. only Impv. -pava, [RV. ix, 19, 3], and p. gen. pl. pavatām, [Bhag. x, 31]; p. Ā. punāná below, pávamāna See p. 610, col. 3; 1. sg. Ā. punīṣe, [RV. vii, 85, 1]; pf. pupuvuḥ, °ve, [Br.]; apupot, [RV. iii, 26, 8]; aor. apāviṣuḥ Subj. apaviṣṭa, [RV.]; fut. paviṣyati, pavitā Gr.; ind.p. pūtvā́, [AV.]; pūtvī́, [RV.]; pavitvā Gr.; -pū́ya and -pāvam, [Br.] &c.; inf. pavitum, [Br.]), to make clean or clear or pure or bright, cleanse, purify, purge, clarify, illustrate, illume (with sáktum, ‘to cleanse from chaff, winnow’; with krátum or manīṣā́m, ‘to enlighten the understanding’; with hiraṇyam, ‘to wash gold’), [RV.] &c. &c.; (met.) to sift, discriminate, discern; to think of or out, invent, compose (as a hymn), [RV.]; [AV.]; (Ā. pávate) to purify one's self, be or become clear or bright; (esp.) to flow off clearly (said of the Soma), [RV.]; to expiate, atone for, [ib.] [vii, 28, 4]; to pass so as to purify; to purify in passing or pervading, ventilate, [RV.] &c. (cf. √ pav) : Pass. pūyáte, to be cleaned or washed or purified; to be freed or delivered from (abl.), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.: Caus. paváyati or pāvayati (ep. also °te; aor. apīpavat Gr.; Pass. pāvyate, [Kāv.]), to cleanse, purify, [TS.]; [Br.]; &c. : Desid., pupūṣati, pipaviṣate Gr.: Desid. of Caus. pipāvayiṣati Gr. pū : [cf. Gk. πῦρ; Umbr. pir; Germ. Feuer; Eng. fire.] pū : mfn. cleansing, purifying (ifc.; cf. anna-, uda-, ghṛta- &c.) pū : mfn. (√ 1. pā) drinking (see agre-pū́). 🔎 √pū-	rootSGMNOMPRSMEDnon-finite:PTCP
9.3.4	siṣāsati 🔎 siṣāsati	√sanⁱ- san : in comp. for sat. san : cl. 1. P., cl. 8. P. Ā. ([Dhātup. xiii, 21]; [xxx, 2]) sánati, °te or sanóti, sanute (Ā. rare and only in non-conjugational tenses; pf. sasā́na, [RV.]; p. sasavás, [ib.] f. sasanúṣī, [Br.]; sasanivas or senivas Gr.; sene, [ib.]; aor. asāniṣam [Subj. saniṣat Ā. saniṣāsmahe, sániṣanta] [RV.]; Impv. sániṣantu, [SV.]; seṣam, set, [MaitrS.]; [Br.]; asāta Gr.; Prec. sanyāt, sāyāt, [ib.]; fut. sanitā, [ib.]; saniṣyáti, [RV.]; [Br.]; inf. sanitum Gr.), to gain, acquire, obtain as a gift, possess, enjoy, [RV.]; [AV.]; [Br.]; [ŚrS.]; to gain for another, procure, bestow, give, distribute, [RV.]; (Ā.) to be successful, be granted or fulfilled, [ib.] : Pass. sanyate or sāyate, [Pāṇ. vi, 4, 43] : Caus. sānayati (aor. asīṣaṇat) Gr.: Desid. of Caus. sisānayiṣati, [ib.] : Desid. sisaniṣati (Gr.) or síṣāsati (? sīṣatī, [AV. iv, 38, 2]), to wish to acquire or obtain, [RV.]; [TS.]; [AV.]; to wish to procure or bestow, [RV.]; [AV.] : Intens. saṃsanyate, sāsāyate, saṃsanti (Gr.), to gain or acquire repeatedly (only 3. pl. saniṣṇata, [RV. i, 131, 5]). san : in go-ṣán, q.v. san : (in gram.) a technical term for the syllable sa or sign of the desiderative. san : N. of an era (current in Bengal and reckoned from 593 A.D.), [RTL. 433]. 🔎 √sanⁱ-	rootSGPRSACT3INDsecondary conjugation:DES

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