3.10
सहयज्ञाः प्रजाः सृष्ट्वा पुरोवाच प्रजापतिः ।
अनेन प्रसविष्यध्वमेष वोऽस्त्विष्टकामधुक् ॥
sahayajñāḥ prajāḥ sṛṣṭvā purovāca prajāpatiḥ
anena prasaviṣyadhvam eṣa vo 'stv iṣṭakāmadhuk
śrībhagavān (श्रीभगवान्) is speaking, and inside the verse प्रजापतिः Prajāpati speaks to the creatures he has just made.
The verse
Having created creatures together with sacrifice, Prajāpati (प्रजापति) said of old: By this, bring forth; let this be your cow of wishes.
नेपालीमा
यज्ञसँगै प्राणीहरू सिर्जना गरेर प्रजापतिले पहिले भने, यसद्वारा उत्पन्न गर। यो तिम्रो इच्छा पूरा गर्ने गाई होस्।
Where it sits
yajña (यज्ञ) in 3.9 was a purpose, and here it is planted at the making of creatures. The next two verses are still his speech, the gods and the people keeping each other.
Split: सह-यज्ञाः + प्रजाः + सृष्ट्वा + पुरा + उवाच + प्रजापतिः + अनेन + प्रसविष्यध्वम् + एषः + वः + अस्तु + इष्ट-काम-धुक्
saha-yajñāḥ + prajāḥ + sṛṣṭvā + purā + uvāca + prajāpatiḥ + anena + prasaviṣyadhvam + eṣaḥ + vaḥ + astu + iṣṭa-kāma-dhuk
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| देवनागरी | Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|---|
| सह-यज्ञाः | saha-yajñāḥ | accusative plural feminine | together with sacrifice. Agrees with prajāḥ (प्रजाः). |
| प्रजाः | prajāḥ | accusative plural | creatures, offspring. |
| सृष्ट्वा | sṛṣṭvā | gerund of sṛj (सृज्) | having created. |
| पुरा | purā | indeclinable | of old. |
| उवाच | uvāca | perfect, 3rd singular | he said. This uvāca (उवाच) is inside the meter. It is a verb, not the speaker line. |
| प्रजापतिः | prajāpatiḥ | nominative | Prajāpati (प्रजापति), the lord of creatures. |
| अनेन | anena | instrumental of idam (इदम्) | by this. By this sacrifice. |
| प्रसविष्यध्वम् | prasaviṣyadhvam | imperative, 2nd plural, middle, on the future stem of pra-sū (प्र-सू) | bring forth, be fruitful. |
| एषः | eṣaḥ | nominative | this. |
| वः | vaḥ | enclitic, dative or genitive plural | for you, your. |
| अस्तु | astu | imperative, 3rd singular of as (अस्) | let it be. |
| इष्ट-काम-धुक् | iṣṭa-kāma-dhuk | nominative | the yielder of desired wants. dhuk (धुक्) is "a milker." |
The phrases
sahayajñāḥ prajāḥ sṛṣṭvā (सहयज्ञाः प्रजाः सृष्ट्वा) is the first act. He created creatures, and he created them with the sacrifice already beside them. The sacrifice is not an afterthought added to a finished world.
purā uvāca prajāpatiḥ (पुरा उवाच प्रजापतिः) is the speech-act. Of old, Prajāpati said. आ + उ ā + u has made purovāca (पुरोवाच).
अनेन प्रसविष्यध्वम् एष वः अस्तु इष्टकामधुक् anena prasaviṣyadhvam eṣa vaḥ astu iṣṭakāmadhuk is what he said. By this, bring forth. Let this be your cow of wishes. eṣaḥ (एषः) before a consonant is eṣa (एष), the same pronoun rule as saḥ (सः) in 3.7. Then वः + अस्तु + इष्ट vaḥ + astu + iṣṭa is recited vo 'stv iṣṭa (वोऽस्त्विष्ट).
Sanskrit in this line
वः + अस्तु vaḥ + astu is vo 'stu (वोऽस्तु), अः + अ aḥ + a again. अस्तु + इष्ट astu + iṣṭa then joins उ + इ u + i into v (व्): vo 'stv iṣṭa (वोऽस्त्विष्ट). Three words, one recited cluster. Split them before you gloss them. The ऽ is only the dropped a (अ) of astu (अस्तु).
Say it back
Who created, what he created them with, and what he told them this sacrifice would be. If iṣṭakāmadhuk (इष्टकामधुक्) becomes "a payment," stay here. It yields what is wished, because the sacrifice is kept.