Ṛgveda · Maṇḍala 1 · Sūkta 23

Ṛk 1.23.10

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Saṃhitā

विश्वां॑दे॒वान्ह॑वामहे म॒रुतः॒ सोम॑पीतये ।
उ॒ग्रा हि पृश्नि॑मातरः ॥

विश्वान् देवान् हवामहे मरुतः सोमपीतये |
उग्रा हि पृश्निमातरः ||

víśvāndevā́nhavāmahe marútaḥ sómapītaye ǀ
ugrā́ hí pṛ́śnimātaraḥ ǁ

viśvān devān havāmahe marutaḥ somapītaye |
ugrā hi pṛśnimātaraḥ ||

Padapāṭha

विश्वा॑न् । दे॒वान् । ह॒वा॒म॒हे॒ । म॒रुतः॑ । सोम॑ऽपीतये ।
उ॒ग्राः । हि । पृश्नि॑ऽमातरः ॥

विश्वान् । देवान् । हवामहे । मरुतः । सोमऽपीतये ।
उग्राः । हि । पृश्निऽमातरः ॥

víśvān ǀ devā́n ǀ havāmahe ǀ marútaḥ ǀ sóma-pītaye ǀ
ugrā́ḥ ǀ hí ǀ pṛ́śni-mātaraḥ ǁ

viśvān ǀ devān ǀ havāmahe ǀ marutaḥ ǀ soma-pītaye ǀ
ugrāḥ ǀ hi ǀ pṛśni-mātaraḥ ǁ

References

Maṇḍala · Sūkta · Ṛk
01.023.10
Aṣṭaka · Adhyāya · Varga · Ṛk
1.2.09.05
Maṇḍala · Anuvāka · Ṛk
01.05.063
Devatā देवता
1: Vāyu; 2, 3: Indra, Vāyu; 4-6: Mitra, Varuṇa; 7-9: Indra Marutvat; 10-12: Viśvedevās; 13-15: Pūṣan; 16-22: Apas; 23: Apas (A); Agni (B); 24: Agni
Ṛṣi ऋषि
Medhātithi Kāṇva
Chandas छन्दस्
Gāyatrī, Anuṣṭubh, Pura-Uṣṇih, Pratiṣṭhā
Svara स्वरः
षड्जः

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Ṛgveda 1.23.10

Interpretations

Kapali Shastri

Translation

Tr. We call Maruts, all the Gods, to drink the soma; forceful are they with Prishni for their mother. Thus ends the ninth Group in the second Chapter of the first Eighth.

Commentary

marutaḥ named Maruts; visvān devān these hosts; somapītaye to drink Soma; havāmahe we call; and those Maruts, ugrāḥ of fiery strength; prșnimataraḥ they whose mother is the Cow of variegated hue, sons of Prishni; hi in the sense of well-known.

It is to be kept in mind that though they are powers of mental energies illumined by the force of Indra's valour, the Maruts are primarily born of life-force, increasers of nerve-strengths, who have arrived on the field of Mind; this has been discussed before. Their mother is the Cow of variegated hue, called Prishni. Now the symbolic meaning becomes clear. Field for the play of manifestation of the Life-Force, delivering the inheld mental energies, extended in the infinite spaces of the Mid-region as Aditi, capable of multiple manifestation, this Power of living beings, the Mother of Maruts is Prishni, the Cow of variegated hues.