नामकरणम्Giving the name
Verse 151
ह्रीँ यो वः शिवतमो रसस्तस्य भाजयतेह न ऊशतीरिव मातरः ॥ १५१ ॥
hrīm̐ yō vaḥ śivatamō rasastasya bhājayatēha na ūśatīriva mātaraḥ || 151 ||
Translation
"Hrīṁ. The most blessed essence that is yours: give us our share in it here, like loving mothers."
Word by word
- hrīm̐
- hrīṁ
- yaḥ
- (yaḥ) which
- vaḥ
- your
- śivatamaḥ
- (śivatamaḥ) most blessed
- rasaḥ
- (rasaḥ) essence
- tasya
- in that
- bhājayata
- give a share
- iha
- here
- na
- (naḥ) us
- ūśatīḥ
- (uśatīḥ) loving
- iva
- like
- mātaraḥ
- (mātaraḥ) mothers
Meaning
As mothers out of love give their children a share in the same sweetness they enjoy, so may the waters let us share their rasa, their auspicious essence. This rasa, the pleasure the waters give, is itself a form of the supreme bliss.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
"Yo vaḥ" and the rest. O waters, the most auspicious (śivatama), utterly blessed, essence (rasa, the sweet juice) that is yours (vaḥ), let us (naḥ) share in that essence here, make us partakers of it: that is, bind us to that essence. Like what are you? "Uśatīḥ": loving, like mothers in their affection. The sense is: as mothers out of love make their sons sharers in the same essence, so you too give us a share in the essence that works good. "Uśatīḥ": from the root vaś, to desire, with the participle suffix śatṛ, then the feminine ī, then in the plural (jas) the lengthening of the vowel by special Vedic form. O waters, to that essence of yours we go (gamāma) in fullness (aram, alam, enough). And, in that essence, you produce enjoyment for us. "Yasya kṣayāya": in whose abode, the place of which essence, you gladden (jinvatha, prīṇayatha) the world, from Brahmā to the tuft of grass: supply "the world". The sense is: O waters, in the place of whichever essence of yours you gladden the world, in that we find satisfaction; and you give us enjoyment there. In "tasmai" and "kṣayāya" the dative stands for the locative. "Gamāma" is the imperative first person plural, without the substitute gaccha, by Vedic usage. "Janayathā" is lengthened in Vedic usage; "jinvatha" is established as Vedic. [These three verses are the Vedic hymn āpo hi ṣṭhā (Ṛgveda 10.9.1–3), each here preceded by hrīṁ.]