Yāska's Nirukta 13.3
Nirukta 13.3
- Language
- Sanskrit
13.3
``yad udañco vṛsākape gṛham indrājagantana/
kvasya pulvagho mṛgaḥ kam agañjanayopano viśvasmād indra uttarah/''.
``yad udañco vṛkākapi8.gṛham indra ājagamatah,.kva asya pulvagho mṛgah,.kva sa bahvādī mṛgah/
mṛgo mārṣter gati karmaṇah/
kam agamad deśam jana yopanah/
sarvasmād ya indra uttaras tam etad brūma ādityam/
atha eṣā āditya raśmīnām/
"Since heading north, O Vṛṣākapi, you came to the house, O Indra,
where is his noxious beast? To what [place] has the bewilderer of people gone? Superior to all is Indra."
"Since heading north, O Vṛṣākapi, you came to the house, O Indra; where is his noxious beast? Where is that beast that devours much?"
*Mṛga* [beast] is from the root *mṛj* [to wipe/cleanse], meaning going.
To what region has the bewilderer of people gone?
He who is Indra, superior to all—him we declare to be Āditya.
Now this [verse] is of Āditya's rays:
Translations (1)
- English (machine translation) — English, machine translation
Commentaries (4)
- Niruktaṭīkā — Skandasvāmin & Maheśvara, Sanskrit
- Ṛjvarthā (Niruktavṛtti) — Durgācārya, Sanskrit
- Niruktavṛtti — Durgācārya, Sanskrit
- Niruktavivaraṇa — Maheśvaratīrtha, Sanskrit
Linked texts (7)
- Atharvaveda — Sanskrit
- History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) — P. V. Kane, English
- Aṅgirasī — Sanskrit
- A Vedic Concordance — Maurice Bloomfield, English
- Ṛjvarthā — Durga or Durgācārya, Sanskrit
- The Orion, or Researches into the Antiquity of the Vedas — Bal Gangadhar Tilak, English
- Saṃvādasūkta — Sanskrit