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सायण-भाष्यम्

‘प्रत्यस्मै ’ इति चतुर्ऋचमेकोनविंशं सूक्तं भरद्वाजस्यार्षमैन्द्रम् । चतुर्थी बृहती शिष्टा अनुष्टुभः । तथा चानुक्रान्तं– प्रत्यस्मै चतुष्कमानुष्टुभ बृहत्यन्तम्’ इति । प्रातःसवनेऽच्छावाकस्येदमुन्नीयमानसूक्तम् । सूत्रितं च–’ प्रत्यस्मा इत्युन्नीयमानायानूच्य ’ ( आश्व. श्रौ. ५. ७ ) इति ॥

Jamison Brereton

42 (483)
Indra
Bharadvāja Bārhaspatya
4 verses: anuṣṭubh 1–3, br̥hatī 4
Yet another hymn concerned almost entirely with Indra’s soma-drinking, but unlike the immediately preceding hymns, Indra is not directly urged to come and drink the soma. Rather, Indra is in the 3rd person throughout, and commands are issued to a single individual (vss. 1, 4) and to a group (vss. 2–3), to serve Indra. None of the addressees is identified until verse 4, with its vocative addressing the Adhvaryu. He is likely therefore also to be the addressee in verse 1; presumably the priests as a whole are addressed by the plural imperatives in the internal verses.
In this otherwise ritually focused hymn, the very specific anxiety expressed in the last half-verse comes as some surprise, a surprise mirrored in the meter, with the 12/8 half-verse contrasting with the 8/8 structure that has prevailed throughout. This wondering question about Indra’s possible aid against the boastful slanderer functionally fills the usual hymn-final slot of direct plea to the god for help, despite its indirection.

Jamison Brereton Notes

Indra An uninsistent play on preverbs structures this hymn. práti appears with 3 different verbs in the 1st 3 vss.: práti … bhara 1ab, pratyétana 2a, prati bhū́ṣatha 3b, while in the last vs. the práti … bhara of vs. 1 is replaced by the more usual presentation verb prá bhara (4b).

01 प्रत्यस्मै पिपीषते - अनुष्टुप्

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+++(अध्वर्यो!)+++ प्र᳓त्यस्मै पि᳓पीषते वि᳓श्वानि विदु᳓षे भर ।
अरं+++(लं)+++गमा᳓य ज᳓ग्मये᳓+++(=गमनशीलाय)+++ ऽपश्चाद्दघ्वने+++(=पुरोगाय)+++ न᳓रे ॥

02 एमेनं प्रत्येतन - अनुष्टुप्

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ए᳓म् एनम् प्रतिए᳓तन
सो᳓मेभिः सोमपा᳓तमम्
अ᳓मत्रेभिर् ऋजीषि᳓णम्
इ᳓न्द्रं सुते᳓भिर् इ᳓न्दुभिः

03 यदी सुतेभिरिन्दुभिः - अनुष्टुप्

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य᳓दी सुते᳓भिर् इ᳓न्दुभिः
सो᳓मेभिः प्रतिभू᳓षथ
वे᳓दा वि᳓श्वस्य मे᳓धिरो
धृष᳓त् तं᳓-तम् इ᳓द् ए᳓षते

04 अस्माअस्मा इदन्धसोऽध्वर्यो - बृहती

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अस्मा᳓-अस्मा इ᳓द् अ᳓न्धसो
अ᳓ध्वर्यो प्र᳓ भरा सुत᳓म्
कुवि᳓त् समस्य जे᳓नियस्य श᳓र्धतो
अभि᳓शस्तेर् अवस्प᳓रत्