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Ṛk 1.20.6

Ṛbhus · Medhātithi Kāṇva

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Saṃhitā

उ॒त त्यं च॑म॒सं नवं॒ त्वष्टु॑र्दे॒वस्य॒ निष्कृ॑तं ।
अक॑र्त च॒तुरः॒ पुनः॑ ॥

उत त्यं चमसं नवं त्वष्टुर् देवस्य निष्कृतम् |
अकर्त चतुरः पुनः ||

utá tyám camasám návam tváṣṭurdevásya níṣkṛtam ǀ
ákarta catúraḥ púnaḥ ǁ

uta tyaṃ camasaṃ navaṃ tvaṣṭur devasya niṣkṛtam |
akarta caturaḥ punaḥ ||

Padapāṭha

उ॒त । त्यम् । च॒म॒सम् । नव॑म् । त्वष्टुः॑ । दे॒वस्य॑ । निःऽकृ॑तम् ।
अक॑र्त । च॒तुरः॑ । पुन॒रिति॑ ॥

उत । त्यम् । चमसम् । नवम् । त्वष्टुः । देवस्य । निःऽकृतम् ।
अकर्त । चतुरः । पुनरिति ॥

utá ǀ tyám ǀ camasám ǀ návam ǀ tváṣṭuḥ ǀ devásya ǀ níḥ-kṛtam ǀ
ákarta ǀ catúraḥ ǀ púnaríti ǁ

uta ǀ tyam ǀ camasam ǀ navam ǀ tvaṣṭuḥ ǀ devasya ǀ niḥ-kṛtam ǀ
akarta ǀ caturaḥ ǀ punariti ǁ

References

Maṇḍala · Sūkta · Ṛk
01.020.06
Aṣṭaka · Adhyāya · Varga · Ṛk
1.2.02.01
Maṇḍala · Anuvāka · Ṛk
01.05.024
Devatā देवता
Ṛbhus
Ṛṣi ऋषि
Medhātithi Kāṇva
Chandas छन्दस्
Gāyatrī
Svara स्वरः
षड्जः

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Ṛgveda 1.20.6

Interpretations

Kapali Shastri

Translation

Tr. And new-made by God Tvashtri, the vessel they again fashioned fourfold.

Commentary

uta and again; tvașțuh of Tvashtri who presides over the affair of fashioning the universe; devasya divine; navam new; nişkſtam fashioned; tyam that; camasam the drinking vessel holding Soma, the nectar-delight, (which is) one; punaḥ again; caturaḥ divided fourfold; akarta did. (The Ribhus, the subject, has to be understood.) navam : the form denoting the act of praise from nu.

akarta : did. Aorist of krjn, ta is substituted and affix dropped.

The form is Vedic. The gods in the sacrifice drink the nectarious juice of Soma from Chamasa, the drinking bowl of four arrays. In the beginning Tvashtri, the architect of the forms in the universe, gave man only one Chamasa; by himself it is now new-made, well fixed. That is the physical body, the holder of the waking consciousness. In it is the essence of all experience, denoted by the term Soma-juice offered to the gods for drink. Manifestations of the Light of Knowledge, the Ribhus marshall that one Chamasa of the material body fourfold. The provisions for such action are built from the planes of existence subtler and higher than the physical earth. Thus, here, the first vessel is the material body. When that itself is made fourfold, the other three come to be fashioned. They are the vital body, the mental body and the causal body-origin of all the three.