Ṛgveda · Maṇḍala 1 · Sūkta 22

Ṛk 1.22.21

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Saṃhitā

तद्विप्रा॑सो विप॒न्यवो॑ जागृ॒वांसः॒ समिं॑धते ।
विष्णो॒र्यत्प॑र॒मं प॒दं ॥

तद् विप्रासो विपन्यवो जागृवांसः सम् इन्धते |
विष्णोर् यत् परमम् पदम् ||

tádvíprāso vipanyávo jāgṛvā́ṃsaḥ sámindhate ǀ
víṣṇoryátparamám padám ǁ

tad viprāso vipanyavo jāgṛvāṃsaḥ sam indhate |
viṣṇor yat paramam padam ||

Padapāṭha

तत् । विप्रा॑सः । वि॒प॒न्यवः॑ । जा॒गृ॒ऽवांसः॑ । सम् । इ॒न्ध॒ते॒ ।
विष्णोः॑ । यत् । प॒र॒मम् । प॒दम् ॥

तत् । विप्रासः । विपन्यवः । जागृऽवांसः । सम् । इन्धते ।
विष्णोः । यत् । परमम् । पदम् ॥

tát ǀ víprāsaḥ ǀ vipanyávaḥ ǀ jāgṛ-vā́ṃsaḥ ǀ sám ǀ indhate ǀ
víṣṇoḥ ǀ yát ǀ paramám ǀ padám ǁ

tat ǀ viprāsaḥ ǀ vipanyavaḥ ǀ jāgṛ-vāṃsaḥ ǀ sam ǀ indhate ǀ
viṣṇoḥ ǀ yat ǀ paramam ǀ padam ǁ

References

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Devatā देवता
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Ṛṣi ऋषि
Medhātithi Kāṇva
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Text and interpretations from the Ṛgveda database of theveda.org.in.

Ṛgveda 1.22.21

Interpretations

Kapali Shastri

Translation

Tr. The illumined seers, superb chanters, awake, light well that supreme step of Vishnu.

Commentary

viprāsaḥ the wise, the illumined; vipanyavaḥ especial laudators (pan in the sense of praise, belongs to uņādi class and so the suffix yu); jāgļvāmsaḥ (jāgr in the sense of removal of sleep, Perfect participle) sleepless, always winkless (becoming); yat what is said before; vişnoḥ paramam padam the supreme step of Vishnu; tat that celebrated; samindhate they light up well.

The supreme step ever lit becomes lighted up again in the illumined seers who realise it, ever winkless and awake; their ceaseless manifestation of it is itself re-lighting; hence it is said they light it well (samindhate). Such Riks of patent lofty import are at times the bases and form the seeds of sentences like 'that is said by the Rishis', 'that is well said by the Rik’, of the Rishis of the Upanishad.

Thus ends the seventh Group in the second Chapter of the first Eighth.