Atharvaveda — Book 12. in English
A collection of hymns, prayers, charms, and ritual verses in twenty books. Translation: Ralph T.H. Griffith (1895-1896).
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- Atharvaveda 12.1: Hymn 1. A hymn of prayer and praise to Prithivī or deified Earth
- Atharvaveda 12.2: Hymn 2. A funeral hymn, and deprecation of Agni the Consumer of corpses
- Atharvaveda 12.3: Hymn 3. An accompaniment to the preparation and presentation of sacrificial offerings by a householder and his wife, with prayer for prosperity and happiness on earth and in heaven
- Atharvaveda 12.4: Hymn 4. On the duty of giving cows to Brāhmans, and the sin and danger of withholding the gift
- Atharvaveda 12.5: Hymn 5. On the duty of giving cows to Brāhmans, and the sin and danger of withholding the gift
Atharvaveda 12.1 — Hymn 1. A hymn of prayer and praise to Prithivī or deified Earth
1. Truth, high and potent Law, the Consecrating Rite, Fervour, Brahma, and Sacrifice uphold the Earth. May she, the Queen of all that is and is to be, may Prithivī make ample space and room for us.
2. Not over awded by the crowd of Manu's sons, she who hath many heights and floods and level plains; She who bears plants endowed with many varied powers, may Prithivī for us spread wide and favour us.
3. In whom the sea, and Sindhu, and the waters, in whom our food and corn-lands had their being, In whom this all that breathes and moves is active, this Earth. assign us foremost rank and station!
4. She who is Lady of the earth's four regions, in whom our food and corn-lands had their being, Nurse in each place of breathing, moving creatures, this Earth. vouchsafe us kine with milk that fails not!
5. On whom the men of old before us battled, on whom the Gods attacked the hostile demons, The varied home of bird, and kine and horses, this Prithivī vouchsafe us luck and splendour!
6. Firm standing-place, all-bearing, store of treasures, gold-breasted, harbourer of all that moveth. May Earth who bears Agni Vaisvānara, Consort of mighty Indra, give us great possessions
7. May Earth, may Prithivī, always protected with ceaseless care by Gods who never slumber, May she pour out for us delicious nectar, may she bedew us with a flood of splendour.
8. She who at first was water in the ocean, whom with their wond- rous powers the sages followed, May she whose heart is in the highest heaven, compassed about wit h truth, and everlasting, May she, this Earth, bestow upon us lustre, and grant us power in loftiest dominion.
9. On whom the running universal waters flow day and night with never-ceasing motion, May she with many streams pour milk to feed us, may she bedew us with a flood of splendour.
10. She whom the Asvins measured out, o'er whom the foot of Vishnu strode, Whom Indra, Lord of Power and Might, freed from all foemen for himself, May Earth pour out her milk for us, a mother unto me her son.
11. O Prithivī, auspicious be thy woodlands, auspicious be thy hills and snow-clad mountains. Unslain, unwounded, unsubdued, I have set foot upon the Earth, On earth brown, black, ruddy and every-coloured, on the firm earth that Indra guards from danger.
12. O Prithivī, thy centre and thy navel, all forces that have issued from thy body Set us amid those forces; breathe upon us. I am the son of Earth, Earth is my Mother. Parjanya is my Sire; may he promote me.
43. Earth on whose surface they enclose the altar, and all-performers spin the thread of worship; In whom the stakes of sacrifice, resplendent, are fixed and raised on high before the oblation, may she, this Earth, prospering, make us prosper.
14. The man who hates us, Earth! who fights against us, who threaten us with thought or deadly weapon, make him our thrall as thou hast done aforetime.
15. Produced from thee, on thee move mortal creatures: thou bearest them, both quadruped and biped. Thine, Prithivī, are these Five human Races, for whom, though mortal, Sūrya as he rises spreads with his rays the light that is immortal.
16. In concert may these creatures yield us blessings. With honey of discourse, O Earth, endow me.
17. Kind, ever gracious be the Earth we tread on, the firm Earth, Prithivī, borne up by Order, mother of plants and herbs, the all-producer.
18. A vast abode hast thou become, the Mighty. Great stress is on thee, press and agitation, but with unceasing care great Indra guards thee. So make us shine, O Earth, us with the splendour of gold. Let no man look on us with hatred.
19. Agni is in the earth, in plants; the waters hold Agni in them, in the stones is Agni. Agni abideth deep in men: Agnis abide in cows and steeds.
20. Agni gives shine and heat in heaven: the spacious air is his, the God's Lover of fatness, bearer of oblation, men enkindle him.
21. Dark-kneed, invested with a fiery mantle, Prithivī sharpen me and give me splendour!
22. On earth they offer sacrifice and dressed oblation to the Gods. Men, mortals, live upon the earth by food in their accustomed way. May that Earth grant us breath and vital power. Prithivī give me life of long duration!
23. Scent that hath risen from thee, O Earth, the fragrance which. growing herbs and plants and waters carry, Shared by Apsarases, shared by Gandharvas therewith make thou me sweet: let no man hate me.
24. Thy scent which entered and possessed the lotus, the scent which they prepared at Sūryā's bridal, Scent which Immortals Earth! of old collected, therewith make thou me sweet: let no man hate me.
25. Thy scent in women and in men, the luck and light that is in. males, That is in heroes and in steeds in sylvan beasts and elephants, The splendid energy of maids, therewith do thou unite us,. Earth! Let no man look on us with hate.
26. Rock earth, and stone, and dust, this Earth is held together,. firmly bound. To this gold-breasted Prithivī mine adoration have I paid.
27. Hither we call the firmly held, the all-supporting Prithivī, On whom the trees, lords of the wood, stand evermore immov- able.
28. Sitting at ease or rising up, standing or going on our way. With our right foot and with our left we will not reel upon the earth.
29. I speak to Prithivī the purifier, to patient Earth who groweth strong through Brahma. O Earth, may we recline on thee who bearest strength, increase, portioned share of food, and fatness.
30. Purified for our bodies flow the waters: we bring distress on him who would attack us. I cleanse myself, O Earth, with that which cleanseth.
31. Earth, be thine eastern and thy northern regions, those lying southward and those lying westward. Propitious unto me in all my movements. Long as I tread the ground let me not stumble.
32. Drive us not from the west or east, drive us not from the north or south, Be gracious unto us, O Earth: let not the robbers find us; keep the deadly weapon far away.
33. Long as, on thee, I look around, possessing Sūrya as a friend, So long, through each succeeding year, let not my power of vision fail.
34. When, as I lie, O Earth, I turn upon my right side and my left, When stretched at all our length we lay our ribs on thee who meetest us. Do us no injury there, O Earth who furnishest a bed for all.
35. Let what I dig from thee, O Earth, rapidly spring and grow again. O Purifier, let me not pierce through thy vitals or thy heart.
36. Earth, may thy summer, and thy rains, and autumn, thy winter, and thy dewy frosts, and spring-time. May thy years, Prithivī! and ordered seasons, and day and night pour out for us abundance.
37. The purifier, shrinking from the Serpent, she who held fires that lie within the waters, Who gives as prey the God-blaspheming Dasyus, Earth choosing Indra for her Lord, not Vritra, hath clung to Sakra, to the Strong and Mighty.
38. Base of the seat and sheds, on whom the sacrificial stake is reared, On whom the Yajus-knowing priests recite their hymns and chant their psalms, And ministers are busied that Indra may drink the Soma juice;
39. On whom the ancient Rishis, they who made the world, sang forth the cows, Seven worshippers, by session, with their fervent zeal and sacrifice;
40. May she, the Earth, assign to us the opulence for which we yearn, May Bhaga share and aid the task and Indra come to lead the way.
41. May she, the Earth, whereon men sing and dance with varied shout and noise, Whereon men meet in battle, and the war-cry and the drum resound, May she drive off our foemen, may Prithivī rid me of my foes.
42. On whom is food, barley and rice, to whom these Races Five belong, Homage to her, P arjanya's wife, to her whose marrow is the rain!
43. Whose castles are the work of Gods, and men wage war upon her plain The Lord of Life make Prithivī, who beareth all things in her womb, pleasant to us on every side!
44. May Earth the Goddess, she who bears her treasure stored up in many a place, gold, gems, and riches, Giver of opulence, grant great possessions to us bestowing them with love and favour.
45. Earth, bearing folk of many a varied language with divers rites as suits their dwelling-places, Pour, like a constant cow that never faileth, a thousand streams of treasure to enrich me!
46. Thy snake, thy sharply stinging scorpion, lying concealed, be- wildered, chilled with cold of winter, The worm, O Prithivī, each thing that in the Rains revives and stirs, Creeping, forbear to creep on us! With all things gracious bless thou us.
47. Thy many ways on which the people travel, the road for car and wain to journey over, Thereon meet both the good and bad, that pathway may we attain without a foe or robber. With all things gracious bless thou us.
48. Supporting both the foolish and the weighty she bears the death both of the good and evil. In friendly concord with the boar, Earth opens herself for the wild swine that roams the forest.
49. All sylvan beasts of thine that love the woodlands, man-eaters,. forest-haunting, lions, tigers, Hyena, wolf, Misfortune, evil spirit, drive from us, chase the demons to a distance.
50. Gandharvas and Apsarases, Kimīdins, and malignant sprites, Pisāchas all, and Rākshasas, these keep thou, Earth! afar from us.
51. To whom the winged bipeds fly together, birds of each various kind, the swans, the eagles; On whom the Wind comes rushing, Mātarisvan, rousing the dust and causing trees to tremble, and flame pursues the blast. hither and thither;
52. Earth, upon whom are settled, joined together, the night and day, the dusky and the ruddy, Prithivī compassed by the rain about her, Happily may she stablish us in each delightful dwelling place.
53. Heaven, Earth, the realm of Middle Air have granted me this ample room, Agni, Sun, Waters, all the Gods have joined to give me mental power.
54. I am victorious, I am called the lord superior on earth, Triumphant, all-o'erpowering the conqueror on every side
55. There, when the Gods, O Goddess, named thee, spreading thy wide expanse as thou wast broadening eastward, Then into thee passed many a charm and glory: thou madest for thyself the world's four regions.
56. In hamlets and in woodland, and in all assemblages on earth, In gatherings, meeting of the folk, we will speak glorious things of thee.
57. As the horse scattereth the dust, the people who dwelt upon the land, at birth, she scattered, Leader and head of all the world, delightful, the trees' protectress and the plants' upholder.
58. Whate'er I say I speak with honey-sweetness, whatever I behold for that they love me. Dazzling, impetuous am I: others who fiercely stir I slay.
59. Mild, gracious, sweetly odorous, milky, with nectar in her breast, May Earth, may Prithivī bestow her benison, with milk, on me.
60. Whom Visvakarman with oblation followed, when she was set in mid-air's billowy ocean A useful vessel, hid, when, for enjoyment, she was made mani- fest to those with mothers.
61. Thou art the vessel that containeth people, Aditi, granter of the wish, far-spreading. Prajāpati, the first-born Son of Order, supplieth thee with what- soe'er thou lackest.
62. Let thy breasts, frec from sickness and Consumption, be. Prithivī, produced for our advantage. Through long-extended life wakeful and watching still may we be thy tributary servants.
63. O Earth, my Mother, set thou me happily in a place secure. Of one accord with Heaven, O Sage, set me in glory and in wealth.
Sanskrit and transliteration
Sanskrit
1. सत्यं बृहद् ऋतम् उग्रं दीक्षा तपो ब्रह्म यज्ञः पृथिवीं धारयन्ति । सा नो भूतस्य भव्यस्य पत्न्य् उरुं लोकं पृथिवी नः कृणोतु ॥1॥ 2. असंबाधं मध्यतो मानवानां यस्या उद्वतः प्रवतः समं बहु । नानावीर्या ओषधीर् या बिभर्ति पृथिवी नः प्रथतां राध्यतां नः ॥2॥ 3. यस्यां समुद्र उत सिन्धुर् आपो यस्याम् अन्नं कृष्टयः संबभूवुः । यस्याम् इदं जिन्वति प्राणद् एजत् सा नो भूमिः पूर्वपेये दधातु ॥3॥ 4. यस्याश् चतस्रः प्रदिशः पृथिव्या यस्याम् अन्नम् कृष्टयः संबभूवुः । या बिभर्ति बहुधा प्राणद् एजत् सा नो भूमिर् गोष्व् अप्य् अन्ने दधातु ॥4॥ 5. यस्यां पूर्वे पूर्वजना विचक्रिरे यस्यां देवा असुरान् अभ्यवर्तयन् । गवाम् अश्वानां वयसश् च विष्ठा भगं वर्चः पृथिवी नो दधातु ॥5॥ 6. विश्वंभरा वसुधानी प्रतिष्ठा हिरण्यवक्षा जगतो निवेशनी । वैश्वानरं बिभ्रती भूमिर् अग्निम् इन्द्रऋषभा द्रविणे नो दधातु ॥6॥ 7. यां रक्षन्त्य् अस्वप्ना विश्वदानीं देवा भूमिं पृथिवीम् अप्रमादम् । सा नो मधु प्रियं दुहाम् अथो उक्षतु वर्चसा ॥7॥ 8. यार्णवे ऽधि सलिलम् अग्र आसीत् यां मायाभिर् अन्वचरन् मनीषिणः । यस्या हृदयं परमे व्योमन्त् सत्येनावृतम् अमृतं पृथिव्याः । सा नो भूमिस् त्विषिं बलं राष्ट्रे दधातूत्तमे ॥8॥ 9. यस्याम् आपः परिचराः समानीर् अहोरात्रे अप्रमादं क्षरन्ति । सा नो भूमिर् भूरिधारा पयो दुहाम् अथो उक्षतु वर्चसा ॥9॥ 10. याम् अश्विनाव् अमिमातां विष्णुर् यस्यां विचक्रमे । इन्द्रो यां चक्र आत्मने ऽनमित्रां शचीपतिः । सा नो भूमिर् वि सृजतां माता पुत्राय मे पयः ॥10॥ {1} 11. गिरयस् ते पर्वता हिमवन्तो ऽरण्यं ते पृथिवि स्योनम् अस्तु । बभ्रुं कृष्णां रोहिणीं विश्वरूपां ध्रुवां भूमिं पृथिवीम् इन्द्रगुप्ताम् । अजीतो ऽहतो अक्षतो ऽध्य् अष्ठाम् पृथिवीम् अहम् ॥11॥ 12. यत् ते मध्यं पृथिवि यच् च नभ्यं यास् त ऊर्जस् तन्वः संबभूवुः । तासु नो धेह्य् अभि नः पवस्व माता भूमिः पुत्रो अहं पृथिव्याः पर्जन्यः पिता स उ नः पिपर्तु ॥12॥ 13. यस्यां वेदिं परिगृह्णन्ति भूम्यां यस्यां यज्ञं तन्वते विश्वकर्माणः । यस्यां मीयन्ते स्वरवः पृथिव्याम् ऊर्ध्वाः शुक्रा आहुत्याः पुरस्तात् । सा नो भूमिर् वर्धयद् वर्धमाना ॥13॥ 14. यो नो द्वेषत् पृथिवि यः पृतन्याद् यो ऽभिदासान् मनसा यो वधेन । तं नो भूमे रन्धय पूर्वकृत्वरि ॥14॥ 15. त्वज् जातास् त्वयि चरन्ति मर्त्यास् त्वं बिभर्षि द्विपदस् त्वं चतुष्पदः । तवेमे पृथिवि पञ्च मानवा येभ्यो ज्योतिर् अमृतं मर्त्येभ्य उद्यन्त् सूर्यो रश्मिभिर् आतनोति ॥15॥ 16. ता नः प्रजाः सं दुह्रतां समग्रा वाचो मधु पृथिवि धेहि मह्यम् ॥16॥ 17. विश्वस्वं मातरम् ओषधीनां ध्रुवां भूमिं पृथिवीं धर्मणा धृताम् । शिवां स्योनाम् अनु चरेम विश्वहा ॥17॥ 18. महत् सधस्थं महती बभूविथ महान् वेग एजथुर् वेपथुष् टे । महांस् त्वेन्द्रो रक्षत्य् अप्रमादम् । सा नो भूमे प्र रोचय हिरण्यस्येव संदृशि मा नो द्विक्षत कश् चन ॥18॥ 19. अग्निर् भूम्याम् ओषधीष्व् अग्निम् आपो बिभ्रत्य् अग्निर् अश्मसु । अग्निर् अन्तः पुरुषेषु गोष्व् अश्वेष्व् अग्नयः ॥19॥ 20. अग्निर् दिव आ तपत्य् अग्नेर् देवस्योर्व् अन्तरिक्षम् । अग्निं मर्तास इन्धते हव्यवाहं घृतप्रियम् ॥20॥ {2} 21. अग्निवासाः पृथिव्य् असितज्ञूस् त्विषीमन्तं संशितं मा कृणोतु ॥21॥ 22. भूम्यां देवेभ्यो ददति यज्ञं हव्यम् अरंकृतम् । भूम्यां मनुष्या जीवन्ति स्वधयान्नेन मर्त्याः । सा नो भूमिः प्राणम् आयुर् दधातु जरदष्टिं मा पृथिवी कृणोतु ॥22॥ 23. यस् ते गन्धः पृथिवि संबभूव यं बिभ्रत्य् ओषधयो यम् आपः । यं गन्धर्वा अप्सरसश् च भेजिरे तेन मा सुरभिं कृणु मा नो द्विक्षत कश् चन ॥23॥ 24. यस् ते गन्धः पुष्करम् आविवेश यं संजभ्रुः सूर्याया विवाहे । अमर्त्याः पृथिवि गन्धम् अग्रे तेन मा सुरभिं कृणु मा नो द्विक्षत कश् चन ॥24॥ 25. यस् ते गन्धः पुरुषेषु स्त्रीषु पुंसु भगो रुचिः । यो अश्वेषु वीरेषु यो मृगेषूत हस्तिषु । कन्यायां वर्चो यद् भूमे तेनास्मां अपि सं सृज मा नो द्विक्षत कश् चन ॥25॥ 26. शिला भूमिर् अश्मा पांसुः सा भूमिः संधृता धृता । तस्यै हिरण्यवक्षसे पृथिव्या अकरं नमः ॥26॥ 27. यस्यां वृक्षा वानस्पत्या ध्रुवास् तिष्ठन्ति विश्वहा । पृथिवीं विश्वधायसं धृताम् अछावदामसि ॥27॥ 28. उदीराणा उतासीनास् तिष्ठन्तः प्रक्रामन्तः । पद्भ्यां दक्षिणसव्याभ्यां मा व्यथिष्महि भूम्याम् ॥28॥ 29. विमृग्वरीं पृथिवीम् आ वदामि क्षमां भूमिं ब्रह्मणा वावृधानाम् । ऊर्जं पुष्टं बिभ्रतीम् अन्नभागं घृतं त्वाभि नि षीदेम भूमे ॥29॥ 30. शुद्धा न आपस् तन्वे क्षरन्तु यो नः सेदुर् अप्रिये तं नि दध्मः । पवित्रेण पृथिवि मोत् पुनामि ॥30॥ {3} 31. यास् ते प्राचीः प्रदिशो या उदीचीर् यास् ते भूमे अधराद् याश् च पश्चात् । स्योनास् ता मह्यं चरते भवन्तु मा नि पप्तं भुवने शिश्रियाणः ॥31॥ 32. मा नः पश्चान् मा पुरस्तान् नुदिष्ठा मोत्तराद् अधराद् उत । स्वस्ति भूमे नो भव मा विदन् परिपन्थिनो वरीयो यावया वधम् ॥32॥ 33. यावत् ते ऽभि विपश्यामि भूमे सूर्येण मेदिना । तावन् मे चक्षुर् मा मेष्टोत्तरामुत्तरां समाम् ॥33॥ 34. यच् छयानः पर्यावर्ते दक्षिणं सख्यम् अभि भूमे पार्श्वम् उत्तानास् त्वा प्रतीचीं यत् पृष्टीभिर् अधिशेमहे । मा हिंसीस् तत्र नो भूमे सर्वस्य प्रतिशीवरि ॥34॥ 35. यत् ते भूमे विखनामि क्षिप्रं तद् अपि रोहतु । मा ते मर्म विमृग्वरि मा ते हृदयम् अर्पिपम् ॥35॥ 36. ग्रीष्मस् ते भूमे वर्षाणि शरद् धेमन्तः शिशिरो वसन्तः । ऋतवस् ते विहिता हायनीर् अहोरात्रे पृथिवि नो दुहाताम् ॥36॥ 37. याप सर्पं विजमाना विमृग्वरी यस्याम् आसन्न् अग्नयो ये अप्स्व् अन्तः । परा दस्यून् ददती देवपीयून् इन्द्रं वृणाना पृथिवी न वृत्रम् शक्राय दध्रे वृषभाय वृष्णे ॥37॥ 38. यस्यां सदोहविर्धाने यूपो यस्यां निमीयते । ब्रह्माणो यस्याम् अर्चन्त्य् ऋग्भिः साम्ना यजुर्विदः युज्यन्ते यस्याम् ऋत्विजः सोमम् इन्द्राय पातवे ॥38॥ 39. यस्यां पूर्वे भूतकृत ऋषयो गा उदानृचुः । सप्त सत्रेण वेधसो यज्ञेन तपसा सह ॥39॥ 40. सा नो भूमिर् आ दिशतु यद् धनं कामयामहे । भगो अनुप्रयुङ्क्ताम् इन्द्र एतु पुरोगवः ॥40॥ {4} 41. यस्यां गायन्ति नृत्यन्ति भूम्यां मर्त्या व्यैलबाः । युध्यन्ते यस्याम् आक्रन्दो यस्याम् वदति दुन्दुभिः । सा नो भूमिः प्र णुदतां सपत्नान् असपत्नं मा पृथिवी कृणोतु ॥41॥ 42. यस्याम् अन्नं व्रीहियवौ यस्या इमाः पञ्च कृष्टयः । भूम्यै पर्जन्यपत्न्यै नमो ऽस्तु वर्षमेदसे ॥42॥ 43. यस्याः पुरो देवकृताः क्षेत्रे यस्या विकुर्वते । प्रजापतिः पृथिवीं विश्वगर्भाम् आशामाशां रण्यां नः कृणोतु ॥43॥ 44. निधिं बिभ्रती बहुधा गुहा वसु मणिं हिरण्यं पृथिवी ददातु मे । वसूनि नो वसुदा रासमाना देवी दधातु सुमनस्यमाना ॥44॥ 45. जनं बिभ्रती बहुधा विवाचसं नानाधर्माणं पृथिवी यथौकसम् । सहस्रं धारा द्रविणस्य मे दुहां ध्रुवेव धेनुर् अनपस्फुरन्ती ॥45॥ 46. यस् ते सर्पो वृश्चिकस् तृष्टदंश्मा हेमन्तजब्धो भृमलो गुहा शये । क्रिमिर् जिन्वत् पृथिवि यद्यद् एजति प्रावृषि तन् नः सर्पन् मोप सृपद् यच् छिवं तेन नो मृड ॥46॥ 47. ये ते पन्थानो बहवो जनायना रथस्य वर्त्मानसश् च यातवे । यैः संचरन्त्य् उभये भद्रपापास् तं पन्थानं जयेमानमित्रम् अतस्करं यच् छिवं तेन नो मृड ॥47॥ 48. मल्वं बिभ्रती गुरुभृद् भद्रपापस्य निधनं तितिक्षुः । वराहेण पृथिवी संविदाना सूकराय वि जिहीते मृगाय ॥48॥ 49. ये त आरण्याः पशवो मृगा वने हिताः सिंहा व्याघ्राः पुरुषादश् चरन्ति । उलं वृकं पृथिवि दुछुनाम् इत ऋक्षीकां रक्षो अप बाधयास्मत् ॥49॥ 50. ये गन्धर्वा अप्सरसो ये चारायाः किमीदिनः । पिशाचान्त् सर्वा रक्षांसि तान् अस्मद् भूमे यावय ॥50॥ {5} 51. यां द्विपादः पक्षिणः संपतन्ति हंसाः सुपर्णाः शकुना वयांसि । यस्यां वातो मातरिश्वेयते रजांसि कृण्वंश् च्यावयंश् च वृक्षान् । वातस्य प्रवाम् उपवाम् अनु वात्य् अर्चिः ॥51॥ 52. यस्यां कृष्णम् अरुणं च संहिते अहोरात्रे विहिते भूम्याम् अधि । वर्षेण भूमिः पृथिवी वृतावृता सा नो दधातु भद्रया प्रिये धामनिधामनि ॥52॥ 53. द्यौश् च म इदं पृथिवी चान्तरिक्षं च मे व्यचः । अग्निः सूर्य आपो मेधां विश्वे देवाश् च सं ददुः ॥53॥ 54. अहम् अस्मि सहमान उत्तरो नाम भूम्याम् । अभीषाड् अस्मि विश्वाषाड् आशामाशां विषासहिः ॥54॥ 55. अदो यद् देवि प्रथमाना पुरस्ताद् देवैर् उक्ता व्यसर्पो महित्वम् । आ त्वा सुभूतम् अविशत् तदानीम् अकल्पयथाः प्रदिशश् चतस्रः ॥55॥ 56. ये ग्रामा यद् अरण्यं याः सभा अधि भूम्याम् । ये संग्रामाः समितयस् तेषु चारु वदेम ते ॥56॥ 57. अश्व इव रजो दुधुवे वि तान् जनान् य आक्षियन् पृथिवीं याद् अजायत । मन्द्राग्रेत्वरी भुवनस्य गोपा वनस्पतीनां गृभिर् ओषधीनाम् ॥57॥ 58. यद् वदामि मधुमत् तद् वदामि यद् ईक्षे तद् वनन्ति मा । त्विषीमान् अस्मि जूतिमान् अवान्यान् हन्मि दोधतः ॥58॥ 59. शन्तिवा सुरभिः स्योना कीलालोध्नी पयस्वती । भूमिर् अधि ब्रवीतु मे पृथिवी पयसा सह ॥59॥ 60. याम् अन्वैछद् धविषा विश्वकर्मान्तर् अर्णवे रजसि प्रविष्टाम् । भुजिष्यं पात्रं निहितं गुहा यद् आविर् भोगे अभवन् मातृमद्भ्यः ॥60॥ 61. त्वम् अस्य् आवपनी जनानाम् अदितिः कामदुघा पप्रथाना । यत् त ऊनं तत् त आ पूरयाति प्रजापतिः प्रथमजा ऋतस्य ॥61॥ 62. उपस्थास् ते अनमीवा अयक्ष्मा अस्मभ्यं सन्तु पृथिवि प्रसूताः । दीर्घं न आयुः प्रतिबुध्यमाना वयं तुभ्यं बलिहृतः स्याम ॥62॥ 63. भूमे मातर् नि धेहि मा भद्रया सुप्रतिष्ठितम् । संविदाना दिवा कवे श्रियां मा धेहि भूत्याम् ॥63॥ {6}
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1. satyaṃ bṛhad ṛtam ugraṃ dīkṣā tapo brahma yajñaḥ pṛthivīṃ dhārayanti | sā no bhūtasya bhavyasya patny uruṃ lokaṃ pṛthivī naḥ kṛṇotu ||1|| 2. asaṃbādhaṃ madhyato mānavānāṃ yasyā udvataḥ pravataḥ samaṃ bahu | nānāvīryā oṣadhīr yā bibharti pṛthivī naḥ prathatāṃ rādhyatāṃ naḥ ||2|| 3. yasyāṃ samudra uta sindhur āpo yasyām annaṃ kṛṣṭayaḥ saṃbabhūvuḥ | yasyām idaṃ jinvati prāṇad ejat sā no bhūmiḥ pūrvapeye dadhātu ||3|| 4. yasyāś catasraḥ pradiśaḥ pṛthivyā yasyām annam kṛṣṭayaḥ saṃbabhūvuḥ | yā bibharti bahudhā prāṇad ejat sā no bhūmir goṣv apy anne dadhātu ||4|| 5. yasyāṃ pūrve pūrvajanā vicakrire yasyāṃ devā asurān abhyavartayan | gavām aśvānāṃ vayasaś ca viṣṭhā bhagaṃ varcaḥ pṛthivī no dadhātu ||5|| 6. viśvaṃbharā vasudhānī pratiṣṭhā hiraṇyavakṣā jagato niveśanī | vaiśvānaraṃ bibhratī bhūmir agnim indraṛṣabhā draviṇe no dadhātu ||6|| 7. yāṃ rakṣanty asvapnā viśvadānīṃ devā bhūmiṃ pṛthivīm apramādam | sā no madhu priyaṃ duhām atho ukṣatu varcasā ||7|| 8. yārṇave 'dhi salilam agra āsīt yāṃ māyābhir anvacaran manīṣiṇaḥ | yasyā hṛdayaṃ parame vyomant satyenāvṛtam amṛtaṃ pṛthivyāḥ | sā no bhūmis tviṣiṃ balaṃ rāṣṭre dadhātūttame ||8|| 9. yasyām āpaḥ paricarāḥ samānīr ahorātre apramādaṃ kṣaranti | sā no bhūmir bhūridhārā payo duhām atho ukṣatu varcasā ||9|| 10. yām aśvināv amimātāṃ viṣṇur yasyāṃ vicakrame | indro yāṃ cakra ātmane 'namitrāṃ śacīpatiḥ | sā no bhūmir vi sṛjatāṃ mātā putrāya me payaḥ ||10|| {1} 11. girayas te parvatā himavanto 'raṇyaṃ te pṛthivi syonam astu | babhruṃ kṛṣṇāṃ rohiṇīṃ viśvarūpāṃ dhruvāṃ bhūmiṃ pṛthivīm indraguptām | ajīto 'hato akṣato 'dhy aṣṭhām pṛthivīm aham ||11|| 12. yat te madhyaṃ pṛthivi yac ca nabhyaṃ yās ta ūrjas tanvaḥ saṃbabhūvuḥ | tāsu no dhehy abhi naḥ pavasva mātā bhūmiḥ putro ahaṃ pṛthivyāḥ parjanyaḥ pitā sa u naḥ pipartu ||12|| 13. yasyāṃ vediṃ parigṛhṇanti bhūmyāṃ yasyāṃ yajñaṃ tanvate viśvakarmāṇaḥ | yasyāṃ mīyante svaravaḥ pṛthivyām ūrdhvāḥ śukrā āhutyāḥ purastāt | sā no bhūmir vardhayad vardhamānā ||13|| 14. yo no dveṣat pṛthivi yaḥ pṛtanyād yo 'bhidāsān manasā yo vadhena | taṃ no bhūme randhaya pūrvakṛtvari ||14|| 15. tvaj jātās tvayi caranti martyās tvaṃ bibharṣi dvipadas tvaṃ catuṣpadaḥ | taveme pṛthivi pañca mānavā yebhyo jyotir amṛtaṃ martyebhya udyant sūryo raśmibhir ātanoti ||15|| 16. tā naḥ prajāḥ saṃ duhratāṃ samagrā vāco madhu pṛthivi dhehi mahyam ||16|| 17. viśvasvaṃ mātaram oṣadhīnāṃ dhruvāṃ bhūmiṃ pṛthivīṃ dharmaṇā dhṛtām | śivāṃ syonām anu carema viśvahā ||17|| 18. mahat sadhasthaṃ mahatī babhūvitha mahān vega ejathur vepathuṣ ṭe | mahāṃs tvendro rakṣaty apramādam | sā no bhūme pra rocaya hiraṇyasyeva saṃdṛśi mā no dvikṣata kaś cana ||18|| 19. agnir bhūmyām oṣadhīṣv agnim āpo bibhraty agnir aśmasu | agnir antaḥ puruṣeṣu goṣv aśveṣv agnayaḥ ||19|| 20. agnir diva ā tapaty agner devasyorv antarikṣam | agniṃ martāsa indhate havyavāhaṃ ghṛtapriyam ||20|| {2} 21. agnivāsāḥ pṛthivy asitajñūs tviṣīmantaṃ saṃśitaṃ mā kṛṇotu ||21|| 22. bhūmyāṃ devebhyo dadati yajñaṃ havyam araṃkṛtam | bhūmyāṃ manuṣyā jīvanti svadhayānnena martyāḥ | sā no bhūmiḥ prāṇam āyur dadhātu jaradaṣṭiṃ mā pṛthivī kṛṇotu ||22|| 23. yas te gandhaḥ pṛthivi saṃbabhūva yaṃ bibhraty oṣadhayo yam āpaḥ | yaṃ gandharvā apsarasaś ca bhejire tena mā surabhiṃ kṛṇu mā no dvikṣata kaś cana ||23|| 24. yas te gandhaḥ puṣkaram āviveśa yaṃ saṃjabhruḥ sūryāyā vivāhe | amartyāḥ pṛthivi gandham agre tena mā surabhiṃ kṛṇu mā no dvikṣata kaś cana ||24|| 25. yas te gandhaḥ puruṣeṣu strīṣu puṃsu bhago ruciḥ | yo aśveṣu vīreṣu yo mṛgeṣūta hastiṣu | kanyāyāṃ varco yad bhūme tenāsmāṃ api saṃ sṛja mā no dvikṣata kaś cana ||25|| 26. śilā bhūmir aśmā pāṃsuḥ sā bhūmiḥ saṃdhṛtā dhṛtā | tasyai hiraṇyavakṣase pṛthivyā akaraṃ namaḥ ||26|| 27. yasyāṃ vṛkṣā vānaspatyā dhruvās tiṣṭhanti viśvahā | pṛthivīṃ viśvadhāyasaṃ dhṛtām achāvadāmasi ||27|| 28. udīrāṇā utāsīnās tiṣṭhantaḥ prakrāmantaḥ | padbhyāṃ dakṣiṇasavyābhyāṃ mā vyathiṣmahi bhūmyām ||28|| 29. vimṛgvarīṃ pṛthivīm ā vadāmi kṣamāṃ bhūmiṃ brahmaṇā vāvṛdhānām | ūrjaṃ puṣṭaṃ bibhratīm annabhāgaṃ ghṛtaṃ tvābhi ni ṣīdema bhūme ||29|| 30. śuddhā na āpas tanve kṣarantu yo naḥ sedur apriye taṃ ni dadhmaḥ | pavitreṇa pṛthivi mot punāmi ||30|| {3} 31. yās te prācīḥ pradiśo yā udīcīr yās te bhūme adharād yāś ca paścāt | syonās tā mahyaṃ carate bhavantu mā ni paptaṃ bhuvane śiśriyāṇaḥ ||31|| 32. mā naḥ paścān mā purastān nudiṣṭhā mottarād adharād uta | svasti bhūme no bhava mā vidan paripanthino varīyo yāvayā vadham ||32|| 33. yāvat te 'bhi vipaśyāmi bhūme sūryeṇa medinā | tāvan me cakṣur mā meṣṭottarāmuttarāṃ samām ||33|| 34. yac chayānaḥ paryāvarte dakṣiṇaṃ sakhyam abhi bhūme pārśvam uttānās tvā pratīcīṃ yat pṛṣṭībhir adhiśemahe | mā hiṃsīs tatra no bhūme sarvasya pratiśīvari ||34|| 35. yat te bhūme vikhanāmi kṣipraṃ tad api rohatu | mā te marma vimṛgvari mā te hṛdayam arpipam ||35|| 36. grīṣmas te bhūme varṣāṇi śarad dhemantaḥ śiśiro vasantaḥ | ṛtavas te vihitā hāyanīr ahorātre pṛthivi no duhātām ||36|| 37. yāpa sarpaṃ vijamānā vimṛgvarī yasyām āsann agnayo ye apsv antaḥ | parā dasyūn dadatī devapīyūn indraṃ vṛṇānā pṛthivī na vṛtram śakrāya dadhre vṛṣabhāya vṛṣṇe ||37|| 38. yasyāṃ sadohavirdhāne yūpo yasyāṃ nimīyate | brahmāṇo yasyām arcanty ṛgbhiḥ sāmnā yajurvidaḥ yujyante yasyām ṛtvijaḥ somam indrāya pātave ||38|| 39. yasyāṃ pūrve bhūtakṛta ṛṣayo gā udānṛcuḥ | sapta satreṇa vedhaso yajñena tapasā saha ||39|| 40. sā no bhūmir ā diśatu yad dhanaṃ kāmayāmahe | bhago anuprayuṅktām indra etu purogavaḥ ||40|| {4} 41. yasyāṃ gāyanti nṛtyanti bhūmyāṃ martyā vyailabāḥ | yudhyante yasyām ākrando yasyām vadati dundubhiḥ | sā no bhūmiḥ pra ṇudatāṃ sapatnān asapatnaṃ mā pṛthivī kṛṇotu ||41|| 42. yasyām annaṃ vrīhiyavau yasyā imāḥ pañca kṛṣṭayaḥ | bhūmyai parjanyapatnyai namo 'stu varṣamedase ||42|| 43. yasyāḥ puro devakṛtāḥ kṣetre yasyā vikurvate | prajāpatiḥ pṛthivīṃ viśvagarbhām āśāmāśāṃ raṇyāṃ naḥ kṛṇotu ||43|| 44. nidhiṃ bibhratī bahudhā guhā vasu maṇiṃ hiraṇyaṃ pṛthivī dadātu me | vasūni no vasudā rāsamānā devī dadhātu sumanasyamānā ||44|| 45. janaṃ bibhratī bahudhā vivācasaṃ nānādharmāṇaṃ pṛthivī yathaukasam | sahasraṃ dhārā draviṇasya me duhāṃ dhruveva dhenur anapasphurantī ||45|| 46. yas te sarpo vṛścikas tṛṣṭadaṃśmā hemantajabdho bhṛmalo guhā śaye | krimir jinvat pṛthivi yadyad ejati prāvṛṣi tan naḥ sarpan mopa sṛpad yac chivaṃ tena no mṛḍa ||46|| 47. ye te panthāno bahavo janāyanā rathasya vartmānasaś ca yātave | yaiḥ saṃcaranty ubhaye bhadrapāpās taṃ panthānaṃ jayemānamitram ataskaraṃ yac chivaṃ tena no mṛḍa ||47|| 48. malvaṃ bibhratī gurubhṛd bhadrapāpasya nidhanaṃ titikṣuḥ | varāheṇa pṛthivī saṃvidānā sūkarāya vi jihīte mṛgāya ||48|| 49. ye ta āraṇyāḥ paśavo mṛgā vane hitāḥ siṃhā vyāghrāḥ puruṣādaś caranti | ulaṃ vṛkaṃ pṛthivi duchunām ita ṛkṣīkāṃ rakṣo apa bādhayāsmat ||49|| 50. ye gandharvā apsaraso ye cārāyāḥ kimīdinaḥ | piśācānt sarvā rakṣāṃsi tān asmad bhūme yāvaya ||50|| {5} 51. yāṃ dvipādaḥ pakṣiṇaḥ saṃpatanti haṃsāḥ suparṇāḥ śakunā vayāṃsi | yasyāṃ vāto mātariśveyate rajāṃsi kṛṇvaṃś cyāvayaṃś ca vṛkṣān | vātasya pravām upavām anu vāty arciḥ ||51|| 52. yasyāṃ kṛṣṇam aruṇaṃ ca saṃhite ahorātre vihite bhūmyām adhi | varṣeṇa bhūmiḥ pṛthivī vṛtāvṛtā sā no dadhātu bhadrayā priye dhāmanidhāmani ||52|| 53. dyauś ca ma idaṃ pṛthivī cāntarikṣaṃ ca me vyacaḥ | agniḥ sūrya āpo medhāṃ viśve devāś ca saṃ daduḥ ||53|| 54. aham asmi sahamāna uttaro nāma bhūmyām | abhīṣāḍ asmi viśvāṣāḍ āśāmāśāṃ viṣāsahiḥ ||54|| 55. ado yad devi prathamānā purastād devair uktā vyasarpo mahitvam | ā tvā subhūtam aviśat tadānīm akalpayathāḥ pradiśaś catasraḥ ||55|| 56. ye grāmā yad araṇyaṃ yāḥ sabhā adhi bhūmyām | ye saṃgrāmāḥ samitayas teṣu cāru vadema te ||56|| 57. aśva iva rajo dudhuve vi tān janān ya ākṣiyan pṛthivīṃ yād ajāyata | mandrāgretvarī bhuvanasya gopā vanaspatīnāṃ gṛbhir oṣadhīnām ||57|| 58. yad vadāmi madhumat tad vadāmi yad īkṣe tad vananti mā | tviṣīmān asmi jūtimān avānyān hanmi dodhataḥ ||58|| 59. śantivā surabhiḥ syonā kīlālodhnī payasvatī | bhūmir adhi bravītu me pṛthivī payasā saha ||59|| 60. yām anvaichad dhaviṣā viśvakarmāntar arṇave rajasi praviṣṭām | bhujiṣyaṃ pātraṃ nihitaṃ guhā yad āvir bhoge abhavan mātṛmadbhyaḥ ||60|| 61. tvam asy āvapanī janānām aditiḥ kāmadughā paprathānā | yat ta ūnaṃ tat ta ā pūrayāti prajāpatiḥ prathamajā ṛtasya ||61|| 62. upasthās te anamīvā ayakṣmā asmabhyaṃ santu pṛthivi prasūtāḥ | dīrghaṃ na āyuḥ pratibudhyamānā vayaṃ tubhyaṃ balihṛtaḥ syāma ||62|| 63. bhūme mātar ni dhehi mā bhadrayā supratiṣṭhitam | saṃvidānā divā kave śriyāṃ mā dhehi bhūtyām ||63|| {6}
Unaccented IAST transliteration from GRETIL's Atharvaveda-Samhita, Shaunaka recension. Devanagari is generated from that IAST text.
Atharvaveda 12.2 — Hymn 2. A funeral hymn, and deprecation of Agni the Consumer of corpses
1. This is no place to hold thee; mount the Nāda: this lead is thine appointed share. Come hither. Together with Consumption in the cattle, Consumption in our men, go henee, go southward.
2. With this we chase and banish all consumptive malady and Death, With sinner andamalicious man, with helper and with minister,
3. Death and Misfortune we expel, Malignity we drive away. O Agni, thou who eatest not the corpse, eat him who hateth us: him whom we hate we send to thee.
4. If the corpse-eating Agni, or a tiger leaving his lair, hath entered this our homestead, With beans prepared in butter I expel him: far let him go to fires that lie in waters.
5. When, angered that a man hath died, we in our wrath have banished thee, That deed is easily set right through thee: we kindle thee again.
6. Again have the Ādityas, Rudras, Vasus, the Brāhman, bringer of good things, O Agni, Again hath Brāhmanaspati disposed thee for long life lasting through a hundred autumns.
7. I sweep afar, for sacrifice to Fathers, corpse-eating Agni who hath come among us, Although he saw this other, Jātavedas: in loftiest space let him inflame the caldron.
8. I drive corpse-eating Agni to a distance: sin-laden let him go to Yamas vassals. Here let this other, Jātavedas, carry oblation to the Deities, fore- knowing.
9. I quickly sweep away corpse-eating Agni, Death, with his bolt potdepriving men of motion. From household fire, well-knowing, I divide him: so in the world of Fathers be his portion.
10. Corpse-eating Agni, toil-worn, meet for praises, I send away bypaths used by the Fathers. Stay there; keep watch among the Fathers: come not again to us by ways whereon Gods travel.
11. They being cleansed and bright, the purifiers, kindle Sankasuka for our well-being. Impurity leaveth us and sin departeth: lighted by the good cleanser Agni cleanseth.
12. Agni the God, the Breaker-up, hath mounted to the heights of heaven. Released from all transgression, he hath from the curse delivered us.
13. On Agni here, the Breaker-up, we wipe impurities away. Cleansed, fit for sacrifice have we become: may he prolong our lives.
14. The Breaker-up, the Burster, the Destroyer, and the Silent One, These have expelled Consumption far, far off from thee ānd all thou hast,
15. Corpse-eating Agni we expel, the Agni who bewilders men, Him who is in our horses, in our heroes, cows, and goats, and sheep:
16. We drive thee forth to other folk, to alien cattle, alien steeds, Thee the corpse-eating Agni, thee the Agni who bewilders men,
17. Whereon the Deities, whereon men too have purified themselves, Exalting fatness, cleanse thyself, Agni, therein and mount to heaven.
18. O Agni, kindled and adored, turn not away to visit us. Shine brightly even there in heaven, so that we long may see the Sun.
19. Wipe all away on lead and reed, on Agni, him who breaketh up, Then on a black-hued sheep, and on a cushion pain that racks. the head,
20. Wipe off pollution, lay it in the lead and in the black-hued sheep, And headache in the cushion; then be cleansed and fit to sacri- fice.
21. Go onward, Death, pursue thy special pathway apart from that which Gods are wont to travel. To thee I say it who hast eyes and hearest: great grow the number of these men around us!
22. Divided from the dead are these, the living: now is our calling on the Gods successful. We have gone forth for dancing and for laughter: may we with brave sons speak to the assembly.
23. Here I erect this rampart for the living: let none of these, none other, reach this limit. May they survive a hundred lengthened autumns, and may they bury Death beneath this mountain.
24. Live your full lives and find age delightful, all of you striving, one behind the other. May Tvashtar, maker of fair things, be gracious, and lead your whole lives on to full existence.
25. As the days follow days in close succession, as with the seasons duly come the seasons. As each successor fails not his foregoer, so constitute the lives of these, Ordainer!
26. Gather your strength, my friends; the stream flows stony: acquit yourselves as men, and cross the river. Abandon here the powers that were malignant, and let us cross to powers exempt from sickness.
27. Rise up erect, cross over, my companions: the stream is stony that flows here before us. Abandon here the powers that were ungracious, and let us cross to powers benign and friendly.
28. Becoming pure and bright and purifying begin the Vaisvadevi strain for splendour.. May we rejoice, o'erpassing troublous places, with all our heroes through a hundred winters.
29. On pathways swept by wind, directed upward, passing beyond the lower, on the higher, Thrice seven times have the Rishis, the Departed, forced Mrityu backward with the fastened fetter.
30. Effecting Mrityu's footstep ye came hither, to further times pro- longing your existence, Seated, drive Mrityu to his proper dwelling: then may we, living, speak to the assembly.
31. Let these unwidowed dames with goodly husbands adorn them- selves with fragrant balm and unguent, Decked with fair jewels, tearless, sound and healthy, first let the dames go up to where he lieth.
32. I with oblation separate both classes, and with my prayer dis- part their several portions. I offer food that wastes not to the Fathers, a nd to these men give life of long duration.
33. That Agni, Fathers! who, himself immortal, hath entered and possessed our mortal bosoms, Even him I grasp and hold the God with me, Let him not hate us, may we never hate him.
34. When ye have left the household fire, with the Corpse-eater southward go. Do that which is delightful to the Fathers, Brāhmans, and your- selves.
35. Agni, the banqueter on flesh, not banished, for the eldest son Taketh a double share of wealth and spoileth it with poverty.
36. What man acquires by plough, by war, all that he wins by toil of hand, He loses all if Agni the Carnivorous be not set aside,
37. Unholy, splendour-reft is he, his sacrifice unfit to eat. Krayād deprives of tilth of cow, of riches him whom he pursues,
38. Oft as a greedy beggar speaks the mortal who has brought distress, Those whom Carnivorous Agni close at hand runs after and detects.
39. When a dame's husband dies the house is tangled in Grāhi's net. A learned Brāhman must be sought to drive Carnivorous Agni, forth.
40. From any evil we have done, act of impurity or sin, Let waters purge me and from all that comes from Agni Breaker-up.
41. By pathways travelled by the Gods these waters, well-knowing, from below have mounted upward. High on the summit of the raining mountain the ancient rivers fresh and new are flowing.
42. Drive off Carnivorous Agni, thou Agni who eatest not the flesh;. carry oblation paid to Gods.
43. The Flesh-eater hath entered him: he hath pursued the Flesh- eater. Making two tigers different-wise, I bear away the ungracious one.
44. He who holds Gods within himself, the rampart and defence of men, Agni, the sacred household fire, hath come and stands between them both.
45. Prolong the lives of those who live, O Agni, Let the dead go unto world of Fathers. As goodly household fire burn up Arāti; give this man dawn brighter than all the mornings.
46. Subduing all our adversaries, Agni, give us their food, their strength and their possessions.
47. Grasp ye this Indra, furtherer, satisfier: he will release you from disgrace and trouble. With him drive back the shaft that flies against you, with him. ward off the missile shot by Rudra.
48. Seize with firm hold the Ox who boundeth forward: he will uplift you from disgrace and trouble. Enter this ship of Savitar; let us flee from poverty over all the six expenses.
49. Thou followest the day and night, supporting, standing, at peace, promoting, rich in heroes. Long bearing undiseased and happy sleepers, be ours, O Bed, with smell of man about thee,
50. They sever from the Gods, they live in sin and misery evermore, Those whom from very near at hand Carnivorous Agni casteth down as a horse tramples down the reeds.
51. The faithless, who from lust of wealth abide with him who feeds on flesh, For ever set upon the fire an alien caldron, not their own.
52. Forward in spirit would he fly, and often turns he back again, Whomso Carnivorous Agni from anear discovers and torments.
53. Among tame beasts the black ewe is thy portion, and the bright lead is thine, they say, Flesh-eater! Mashed beans have been assigned thee for oblation go seek the dark wood and the wildernesses.
54. I sought the rustling sugar-cane, white Seasamum, and cane and reed. I made this Indra's fuel, and the Fire of Yama I removed.
55. Against the sinking western Sun I set them; each sundered path, knowing my way, I entered. I have warned off the ghosts of the Departed: to these I give the boon of long existence.
Sanskrit and transliteration
Sanskrit
1. नडम् आ रोह न ते अत्र लोक इदं सीसं भागधेयं त एहि । यो गोषु यक्ष्मः पुरुषेषु यक्ष्मस् तेन त्वं साकम् अधराङ् परेहि ॥1॥ 2. अघशंसदुःशंसाभ्यां करेणानुकरेण च । यक्ष्मं च सर्वं तेनेतो मृत्युं च निर् अजामसि ॥2॥ 3. निर् इतो मृत्युं निरृतिं निर् अरातिम् अजामसि । यो नो द्वेष्टि तम् अद्ध्य् अग्ने अक्रव्याद् यम् उ द्विष्मस् तम् उ ते प्र सुवामसि ॥3॥ 4. यद्य् अग्निः क्रव्याद् यदि वा व्याघ्र इमं गोष्ठं प्रविवेशान्योकाः । तं माषाज्यं कृत्वा प्र हिणोमि दूरं स गछत्व् अप्सुषदो ऽप्य् अग्नीन् ॥4॥ 5. यत् त्वा क्रुद्धाः प्रचक्रुर् मन्युना पुरुषे मृते । सुकल्पम् अग्ने तत् त्वया पुनस् त्वोद् दीपयामसि ॥5॥ 6. पुनस् त्वादित्या रुद्रा वसवः पुनर् ब्रह्मा वसुनीतिर् अग्ने । पुनस् त्वा ब्रह्मणस् पतिर् आधाद् दीर्घायुत्वाय शतशारदाय ॥6॥ 7. यो अग्निः क्रव्यात् प्रविवेश नो गृहम् इमं पश्यन्न् इतरं जातवेदसम् । तं हरामि पितृयज्ञाय दूरं स घर्मम् इन्धां परमे सधस्थे ॥7॥ 8. क्रव्यादम् अग्निं प्र हिणोमि दूरम् यमराज्ञो गछतु रिप्रवाहः । इहायम् इतरो जातवेदा देवो देवेभ्यो हव्यं वहतु प्रजानन् ॥8॥ 9. क्रव्यादम् अग्निम् इषितो हरामि जनान् दृंहन्तं वज्रेण मृत्युम् । नि तं शास्मि गार्हपत्येन विद्वान् पितॄणां लोके ऽपि भागो अस्तु ॥9॥ 10. क्रव्यादम् अग्निं शशमानम् उक्थ्यं प्र हिणोमि पथिभिः पितृयाणैः । मा देवयानैः पुनर् आ गा अत्रैवैधि पितृषु जागृहि त्वम् ॥10॥ {7} 11. सम् इन्धते संकसुकं स्वस्तये शुद्धा भवन्तः शुचयः पावकाः । जहाति रिप्रम् अत्य् एन एति समिद्धो अग्निः सुपुना पुनाति ॥11॥ 12. देवो अग्निः संकसुको दिवस् पृष्ठान्य् आरुहत् । मुच्यमानो निर् एणसो ऽमोग् अस्मां अशस्त्याः ॥12॥ 13. अस्मिन् वयं संकसुके अग्नौ रिप्राणि मृज्महे । अभूम यज्ञियाः शुद्धाः प्र ण आयूंषि तारिषत् ॥13॥ 14. संकसुको विकसुको निरृथो यश् च निस्वरः । ते ते यक्ष्मं सवेदसो दूराद् दूरम् अनीनशन् ॥14॥ 15. यो नो अश्वेषु वीरेषु यो नो गोष्व् अजाविषु । क्रव्यादं निर् णुदामसि यो अग्निर् जनयोपनः ॥15॥ 16. अन्येभ्यस् त्वा पुरुषेभ्यो गोभ्यो अश्वेभ्यस् त्वा । निः क्रव्यादं नुदामसि यो अग्निर् जीवितयोपनः ॥16॥ 17. यस्मिन् देवा अमृजत यस्मिन् मनुष्या उत । तस्मिन् घृतस्तावो मृष्ट्वा त्वम् अग्ने दिवं रुह ॥17॥ 18. समिद्धो अग्न आहुत स नो माभ्यपक्रमीः । अत्रैव दीदिहि द्यवि ज्योक् च सूर्यं दृशे ॥18॥ 19. सीसे मृड्ढ्वं नडे मृड्ढ्वम् अग्नौ संकसुके च यत् । अथो अव्यां रामायां शीर्षक्तिम् उपबर्हणे ॥19॥ 20. सीसे मलं सादयित्वा शीर्षक्तिम् उपबर्हणे । अव्याम् असिक्न्यां मृष्ट्वा शुद्धा भवत यज्ञियाः ॥20॥ {8} 21. परं मृत्यो अनु परेहि पन्थां यस् त एष इतरो देवयानात् । चक्षुष्मते शृण्वते ते ब्रवीमीहेमे वीरा बहवो भवन्तु ॥21॥ 22. इमे जीवा वि मृतैर् आववृत्रन्न् अभूद् भद्रा देवहुतिर् नो अद्य । प्राञ्चो अगाम नृतये हसाय सुवीरासो विदथम् आ वदेम ॥22॥ 23. इमं जीवेभ्यः परिधिं दधामि मैषां नु गाद् अपरो अर्थम् एतम् । शतं जीवन्तः शरदः पुरूचीस् तिरो मृत्युं दधताम् पर्वतेन ॥23॥ 24. आ रोहतायुर् जरसं वृणाना अनुपूर्वं यतमाना यति स्थ । तान् वस् त्वष्टा सुजनिमा सजोषाः सर्वम् आयुर् नयतु जीवनाय ॥24॥ 25. यथाहान्य् अनुपूर्वं भवन्ति यथ र्तव ऋतुभिर् यन्ति साकम् । यथा न पूर्वम् अपरो जहात्य् एवा धातर् आयूंषि कल्पयैषाम् ॥25॥ 26. अश्मन्वती रीयते सं रभध्वं वीरयध्वं प्र तरता सखायः । अत्रा जहीत ये असन् दुरेवा अनमीवान् उत् तरेमाभि वाजान् ॥26॥ 27. उत् तिष्ठता प्र तरता सखायो ऽश्मन्वती नदी स्यन्दत इयम् । अत्रा जहीत ये असन्न् अशिवाः शिवान्त् स्योनान् उत् तरेमाभि वाजान् ॥27॥ 28. वैश्वदेवीं वर्चसा आ रभध्वं शुद्धा भवन्तः शुचयः पावकाः । अतिक्रामन्तो दुरिता पदानि शतं हिमाः सर्ववीरा मदेम ॥28॥ 29. उदीचीनैः पथिभिर् वायुमद्भिर् अतिक्रामन्तो ऽवरान् परेभिः । त्रिः सप्त कृत्व ऋषयः परेता मृत्युं प्रत्य् औहन् पदयोपनेन ॥29॥ 30. मृत्योः पदं योपयन्त एत द्राघीय आयुः प्रतरं दधानाः । आसीना मृत्युं नुदता सधस्थे ऽथ जीवासो विदथम् आ वदेम ॥30॥ {9} 31. इमा नारीर् अविधवाः सुपत्नीर् आञ्जनेन सर्पिषा सं स्पृशन्ताम् । अनश्रवो अनमीवाः सुरत्ना आ रोहन्तु जनयो योनिम् अग्रे ॥31॥ 32. व्याकरोमि हविषाहम् एतौ तौ ब्रह्मणा व्य् अहं कल्पयामि । स्वधां पितृभ्यो अजरां कृणोमि दीर्घेणायुषा सम् इमान्त् सृजामि ॥32॥ 33. यो नो अग्निः पितरो हृत्स्व् अन्तर् आविवेशामृतो मर्त्येषु । मय्य् अहं तं परि गृह्णामि देवं मा सो अस्मान् द्विक्षत मा वयं तम् ॥33॥ 34. अपावृत्य गार्हपत्यात् क्रव्यादा प्रेत दक्षिणा । प्रियं पितृभ्य आत्मने ब्रह्मभ्यः कृणुता प्रियम् ॥34॥ 35. द्विभागधनम् आदाय प्र क्षिणात्य् अवर्त्या । अग्निः पुत्रस्य ज्येष्ठस्य यः क्रव्याद् अनिराहितः ॥35॥ 36. यत् कृषते यद् वनुते यच् च वस्नेन विन्दते । सर्वं मर्त्यस्य तन् नास्ति क्रव्याच् चेद् अनिराहितः ॥36॥ 37. अयज्ञियो हतवर्चा भवति नैनेन हविर् अत्तवे । छिनत्ति कृष्या गोर् धनाद् यं क्रव्याद् अनुवर्तते ॥37॥ 38. मुहुर् गृध्यैः प्र वदत्य् आर्तिम् मर्त्यो नीत्य । क्रव्याद् यान् अग्निर् अन्तिकाद् अनुविद्वान् वितावति ॥38॥ 39. ग्राह्या गृहाः सं सृज्यन्ते स्त्रिया यन् म्रियते पतिः । ब्रह्मैव विद्वान् एष्यो यः क्रव्यादं निरादधत् ॥39॥ 40. यद् रिप्रं शमलं चकृम यच् च दुष्कृतम् । आपो मा तस्माच् छुम्भन्त्व् अग्नेः संकसुकाच् च यत् ॥40॥ {10} 41. ता अधराद् उदीचीर् आववृत्रन् प्रजानैतीः पथिभिर् देवयानैः । पर्वतस्य वृषभस्याधि पृष्ठे नवाश् चरन्ति सरितः पुराणीः ॥41॥ 42. अग्ने अक्रव्यान् निः क्रव्यादं नुदा देवयजनं वह ॥42॥ 43. इमं क्रव्याद् आ विवेशायं क्रव्यादम् अन्व् अगात् । व्याघ्रौ कृत्वा नानानं तं हरामि शिवापरम् ॥43॥ 44. अन्तर्धिर् देवानां परिधिर् मनुष्याणाम् अग्निर् गार्हपत्य उभयान् अन्तरा श्रितः ॥44॥ 45. जीवानाम् आयुः प्र तिर त्वम् अग्ने पितॄणां लोकम् अपि गछन्तु ये मृताः । सुगार्हपत्यो वितपन्न् अरातिम् उषामुषां श्रेयसीं धेह्य् अस्मै ॥45॥ 46. सर्वान् अग्ने सहमानः सपत्नान् ऐषाम् ऊर्जं रयिम् अस्मासु धेहि ॥46॥ 47. इमम् इन्द्रं वह्निं पप्रिम् अन्वारभध्वं स वो निर् वक्षद् दुरिताद् अवद्यात् । तेनाप हत शरुम् आपतन्तं तेन रुद्रस्य परि पातास्ताम् ॥47॥ 48. अनड्वाहं प्लवम् अन्वारभध्वं स वो निर् वक्षद् दुरिताद् अवद्यात् । आ रोहत सवितुर् नावम् एतां षड्भिर् उर्वीभिर् अमतिं तरेम ॥48॥ 49. अहोरात्रे अन्व् एषि बिभ्रत् क्षेम्यस् तिष्ठन् प्रतरणः सुवीरः । अनातुरान्त् सुमनसस् तल्प बिभ्रज् ज्योग् एव नः पुरुषगन्धिर् एधि ॥49॥ 50. ते देवेभ्य आ वृश्चन्ते पापं जीवन्ति सर्वदा । क्रव्याद् यान् अग्निर् अन्तिकाद् अश्व इवानुवपते नडम् ॥50॥ {11} 51. ये ऽश्रद्धा धनकाम्या क्रव्यादा समासते । ते वा अन्येषां कुम्भीं पर्यादधति सर्वदा ॥51॥ 52. प्रेव पिपतिषति मनसा मुहुर् आ वर्तते पुनः । क्रव्याद् यान् अग्निर् अन्तिकाद् अनुविद्वान् वितावति ॥52॥ 53. अविः कृष्णा भागधेयं पशूनां सीसं क्रव्याद् अपि चन्द्रं त आहुः । माषाः पिष्टा भागधेयं ते हव्यम् अरण्यान्या गह्वरं सचस्व ॥53॥ 54. इषीकां जरतीम् इष्ट्वा तिल्पिञ्जं दण्डनं नडम् । तम् इन्द्र इध्मम् कृत्वा यमस्याग्निं निरादधौ ॥54॥ 55. प्रत्यञ्चम् अर्कं प्रत्यर्पयित्वा प्रविद्वान् पन्थां वि ह्य् आविवेश । परामीषाम् असून् दिदेश दीर्घेणायुषा सम् इमान्त् सृजामि ॥55॥ {12}
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1. naḍam ā roha na te atra loka idaṃ sīsaṃ bhāgadheyaṃ ta ehi | yo goṣu yakṣmaḥ puruṣeṣu yakṣmas tena tvaṃ sākam adharāṅ parehi ||1|| 2. aghaśaṃsaduḥśaṃsābhyāṃ kareṇānukareṇa ca | yakṣmaṃ ca sarvaṃ teneto mṛtyuṃ ca nir ajāmasi ||2|| 3. nir ito mṛtyuṃ nirṛtiṃ nir arātim ajāmasi | yo no dveṣṭi tam addhy agne akravyād yam u dviṣmas tam u te pra suvāmasi ||3|| 4. yady agniḥ kravyād yadi vā vyāghra imaṃ goṣṭhaṃ praviveśānyokāḥ | taṃ māṣājyaṃ kṛtvā pra hiṇomi dūraṃ sa gachatv apsuṣado 'py agnīn ||4|| 5. yat tvā kruddhāḥ pracakrur manyunā puruṣe mṛte | sukalpam agne tat tvayā punas tvod dīpayāmasi ||5|| 6. punas tvādityā rudrā vasavaḥ punar brahmā vasunītir agne | punas tvā brahmaṇas patir ādhād dīrghāyutvāya śataśāradāya ||6|| 7. yo agniḥ kravyāt praviveśa no gṛham imaṃ paśyann itaraṃ jātavedasam | taṃ harāmi pitṛyajñāya dūraṃ sa gharmam indhāṃ parame sadhasthe ||7|| 8. kravyādam agniṃ pra hiṇomi dūram yamarājño gachatu ripravāhaḥ | ihāyam itaro jātavedā devo devebhyo havyaṃ vahatu prajānan ||8|| 9. kravyādam agnim iṣito harāmi janān dṛṃhantaṃ vajreṇa mṛtyum | ni taṃ śāsmi gārhapatyena vidvān pitṝṇāṃ loke 'pi bhāgo astu ||9|| 10. kravyādam agniṃ śaśamānam ukthyaṃ pra hiṇomi pathibhiḥ pitṛyāṇaiḥ | mā devayānaiḥ punar ā gā atraivaidhi pitṛṣu jāgṛhi tvam ||10|| {7} 11. sam indhate saṃkasukaṃ svastaye śuddhā bhavantaḥ śucayaḥ pāvakāḥ | jahāti ripram aty ena eti samiddho agniḥ supunā punāti ||11|| 12. devo agniḥ saṃkasuko divas pṛṣṭhāny āruhat | mucyamāno nir eṇaso 'mog asmāṃ aśastyāḥ ||12|| 13. asmin vayaṃ saṃkasuke agnau riprāṇi mṛjmahe | abhūma yajñiyāḥ śuddhāḥ pra ṇa āyūṃṣi tāriṣat ||13|| 14. saṃkasuko vikasuko nirṛtho yaś ca nisvaraḥ | te te yakṣmaṃ savedaso dūrād dūram anīnaśan ||14|| 15. yo no aśveṣu vīreṣu yo no goṣv ajāviṣu | kravyādaṃ nir ṇudāmasi yo agnir janayopanaḥ ||15|| 16. anyebhyas tvā puruṣebhyo gobhyo aśvebhyas tvā | niḥ kravyādaṃ nudāmasi yo agnir jīvitayopanaḥ ||16|| 17. yasmin devā amṛjata yasmin manuṣyā uta | tasmin ghṛtastāvo mṛṣṭvā tvam agne divaṃ ruha ||17|| 18. samiddho agna āhuta sa no mābhyapakramīḥ | atraiva dīdihi dyavi jyok ca sūryaṃ dṛśe ||18|| 19. sīse mṛḍḍhvaṃ naḍe mṛḍḍhvam agnau saṃkasuke ca yat | atho avyāṃ rāmāyāṃ śīrṣaktim upabarhaṇe ||19|| 20. sīse malaṃ sādayitvā śīrṣaktim upabarhaṇe | avyām asiknyāṃ mṛṣṭvā śuddhā bhavata yajñiyāḥ ||20|| {8} 21. paraṃ mṛtyo anu parehi panthāṃ yas ta eṣa itaro devayānāt | cakṣuṣmate śṛṇvate te bravīmīheme vīrā bahavo bhavantu ||21|| 22. ime jīvā vi mṛtair āvavṛtrann abhūd bhadrā devahutir no adya | prāñco agāma nṛtaye hasāya suvīrāso vidatham ā vadema ||22|| 23. imaṃ jīvebhyaḥ paridhiṃ dadhāmi maiṣāṃ nu gād aparo artham etam | śataṃ jīvantaḥ śaradaḥ purūcīs tiro mṛtyuṃ dadhatām parvatena ||23|| 24. ā rohatāyur jarasaṃ vṛṇānā anupūrvaṃ yatamānā yati stha | tān vas tvaṣṭā sujanimā sajoṣāḥ sarvam āyur nayatu jīvanāya ||24|| 25. yathāhāny anupūrvaṃ bhavanti yatha rtava ṛtubhir yanti sākam | yathā na pūrvam aparo jahāty evā dhātar āyūṃṣi kalpayaiṣām ||25|| 26. aśmanvatī rīyate saṃ rabhadhvaṃ vīrayadhvaṃ pra taratā sakhāyaḥ | atrā jahīta ye asan durevā anamīvān ut taremābhi vājān ||26|| 27. ut tiṣṭhatā pra taratā sakhāyo 'śmanvatī nadī syandata iyam | atrā jahīta ye asann aśivāḥ śivānt syonān ut taremābhi vājān ||27|| 28. vaiśvadevīṃ varcasā ā rabhadhvaṃ śuddhā bhavantaḥ śucayaḥ pāvakāḥ | atikrāmanto duritā padāni śataṃ himāḥ sarvavīrā madema ||28|| 29. udīcīnaiḥ pathibhir vāyumadbhir atikrāmanto 'varān parebhiḥ | triḥ sapta kṛtva ṛṣayaḥ paretā mṛtyuṃ praty auhan padayopanena ||29|| 30. mṛtyoḥ padaṃ yopayanta eta drāghīya āyuḥ prataraṃ dadhānāḥ | āsīnā mṛtyuṃ nudatā sadhasthe 'tha jīvāso vidatham ā vadema ||30|| {9} 31. imā nārīr avidhavāḥ supatnīr āñjanena sarpiṣā saṃ spṛśantām | anaśravo anamīvāḥ suratnā ā rohantu janayo yonim agre ||31|| 32. vyākaromi haviṣāham etau tau brahmaṇā vy ahaṃ kalpayāmi | svadhāṃ pitṛbhyo ajarāṃ kṛṇomi dīrgheṇāyuṣā sam imānt sṛjāmi ||32|| 33. yo no agniḥ pitaro hṛtsv antar āviveśāmṛto martyeṣu | mayy ahaṃ taṃ pari gṛhṇāmi devaṃ mā so asmān dvikṣata mā vayaṃ tam ||33|| 34. apāvṛtya gārhapatyāt kravyādā preta dakṣiṇā | priyaṃ pitṛbhya ātmane brahmabhyaḥ kṛṇutā priyam ||34|| 35. dvibhāgadhanam ādāya pra kṣiṇāty avartyā | agniḥ putrasya jyeṣṭhasya yaḥ kravyād anirāhitaḥ ||35|| 36. yat kṛṣate yad vanute yac ca vasnena vindate | sarvaṃ martyasya tan nāsti kravyāc ced anirāhitaḥ ||36|| 37. ayajñiyo hatavarcā bhavati nainena havir attave | chinatti kṛṣyā gor dhanād yaṃ kravyād anuvartate ||37|| 38. muhur gṛdhyaiḥ pra vadaty ārtim martyo nītya | kravyād yān agnir antikād anuvidvān vitāvati ||38|| 39. grāhyā gṛhāḥ saṃ sṛjyante striyā yan mriyate patiḥ | brahmaiva vidvān eṣyo yaḥ kravyādaṃ nirādadhat ||39|| 40. yad ripraṃ śamalaṃ cakṛma yac ca duṣkṛtam | āpo mā tasmāc chumbhantv agneḥ saṃkasukāc ca yat ||40|| {10} 41. tā adharād udīcīr āvavṛtran prajānaitīḥ pathibhir devayānaiḥ | parvatasya vṛṣabhasyādhi pṛṣṭhe navāś caranti saritaḥ purāṇīḥ ||41|| 42. agne akravyān niḥ kravyādaṃ nudā devayajanaṃ vaha ||42|| 43. imaṃ kravyād ā viveśāyaṃ kravyādam anv agāt | vyāghrau kṛtvā nānānaṃ taṃ harāmi śivāparam ||43|| 44. antardhir devānāṃ paridhir manuṣyāṇām agnir gārhapatya ubhayān antarā śritaḥ ||44|| 45. jīvānām āyuḥ pra tira tvam agne pitṝṇāṃ lokam api gachantu ye mṛtāḥ | sugārhapatyo vitapann arātim uṣāmuṣāṃ śreyasīṃ dhehy asmai ||45|| 46. sarvān agne sahamānaḥ sapatnān aiṣām ūrjaṃ rayim asmāsu dhehi ||46|| 47. imam indraṃ vahniṃ paprim anvārabhadhvaṃ sa vo nir vakṣad duritād avadyāt | tenāpa hata śarum āpatantaṃ tena rudrasya pari pātāstām ||47|| 48. anaḍvāhaṃ plavam anvārabhadhvaṃ sa vo nir vakṣad duritād avadyāt | ā rohata savitur nāvam etāṃ ṣaḍbhir urvībhir amatiṃ tarema ||48|| 49. ahorātre anv eṣi bibhrat kṣemyas tiṣṭhan prataraṇaḥ suvīraḥ | anāturānt sumanasas talpa bibhraj jyog eva naḥ puruṣagandhir edhi ||49|| 50. te devebhya ā vṛścante pāpaṃ jīvanti sarvadā | kravyād yān agnir antikād aśva ivānuvapate naḍam ||50|| {11} 51. ye 'śraddhā dhanakāmyā kravyādā samāsate | te vā anyeṣāṃ kumbhīṃ paryādadhati sarvadā ||51|| 52. preva pipatiṣati manasā muhur ā vartate punaḥ | kravyād yān agnir antikād anuvidvān vitāvati ||52|| 53. aviḥ kṛṣṇā bhāgadheyaṃ paśūnāṃ sīsaṃ kravyād api candraṃ ta āhuḥ | māṣāḥ piṣṭā bhāgadheyaṃ te havyam araṇyānyā gahvaraṃ sacasva ||53|| 54. iṣīkāṃ jaratīm iṣṭvā tilpiñjaṃ daṇḍanaṃ naḍam | tam indra idhmam kṛtvā yamasyāgniṃ nirādadhau ||54|| 55. pratyañcam arkaṃ pratyarpayitvā pravidvān panthāṃ vi hy āviveśa | parāmīṣām asūn dideśa dīrgheṇāyuṣā sam imānt sṛjāmi ||55|| {12}
Unaccented IAST transliteration from GRETIL's Atharvaveda-Samhita, Shaunaka recension. Devanagari is generated from that IAST text.
Atharvaveda 12.3 — Hymn 3. An accompaniment to the preparation and presentation of sacrificial offerings by a householder and his wife, with prayer for prosperity and happiness on earth and in heaven
1. Mount, male from male, the skin. Go thither: summon those whom thou lovest, one and all, to meet thee, Strong as ye were when first ye met each other, still be your strength the same in Yama's kingdom.
2. So strong your sight, so many be your powers, so great your force, your energies so many, When fire attends the body as its fuel, then may, ye gain full chargers, O ye couple.
3. Together in this world, in God-ward pathway, together be ye in the realms of Yama. Invite, made pure with means of purifying, whatever seed of yours hath been developed.
4. Do ye, O sons, unite you with the waters, meeting this living man, ye life-sustainers, Allot to them the Odana your mother is making ready, which they call immortal.
5. That which your mother and your sire, to banish sin and un- cleanness from their lips, are cooking. That Odana with hundred streams, sky-reaching, hath in its might prevaded earth and heaven.
6. Live with your sons, when life on earth is ended, live in the sphere most rich in light and sweetness. In skies that have been won by sacrificers make both the worlds, earth, heaven, your habitation.
7. Approach the eastern, yea: the eastern region, this is the sphere to which the faithful turn them, Your cooked oblation that in fire was offered, together, wife and husband, meet to guard it.
8. Now, as your steps approach the southern quarter, move in. your circling course about this vessel. Herein, accordant with the Fathers, Yama shall mightily protect your cooked oblation.
9. Best of the regions is indeed this western wherein the King and gracious Lord is Soma. Thither resort for rest, follow the pious. Then gain the laden chargers, O ye couple.
10. Ever victorious is the northern region: may the east quarter set us first and foremost. The Man became the five-divisioned metre. May we abide wit . all our members perfect.
11. This stedfast realm is Queen. To her be homage! To me and to my sons may she be gracious. Guard thou, O Goddess Aditi, all-bounteous, our cooked oblation as an active warder.
12. Embrace us as a father clasps his children. Here on the Earth let kindly breezes fan us. Let the rice-mess these two cook here, O Goddess, know this our truthfulness and zealous fervour.
13. If the dark bird hath come to us and, stealing the hanging. . morsel, settled in his dwelling, Or if the slave-girl hath, wet-handed, smearing the pestle and the mortar, cleansed the waters,
14. This pressing-stone, broad-based and strength-bestowing, made pure by cleansing means, shall chase the demon. Mount on the skin: afford us great protection, Let not the sons' sin fall on wife and husband.
15. Together with the Gods, banning Pis5chas and demons, hath Vanaspati come hither. He shall rise up and send his voice out loudly. May we win all the worlds with him to help us.
16. Seven victims held the sacrificial essence, the bright one and the one that hath grown feeble. The three-and-thirty Deities attend them. As such, conduct us io the world of Svarga.
17. Unto the world of Svarga shalt thou lead us: there may we dwell beside our wife and children. I take thy hand Let not Destruction, let not Malignity come hither and subdue us.
18. We have subdued that sinful-hearted Grāhi. Thou shalt speak sweetly having chased the darkness. Let not the wooden gear made ready fail us, nor harm the grain of rice that pays due worship.
19. Soon to be, decked with butter, all-embracing, come to this world wherewith birth unites thee. Seize thou the winnowing-fan which rains have nourished, and let this separate the chaff and refuse.
20. Three worlds hath Power Divine marked out and measured, Fheaven yonder, and the earth, and airs mid-region. Grasp ye the stalks and in your hands retain them: let them be watered and again be winnowed.
21. Manifold, various are the shapes of victims. Thou growest uni- form by great abundance. Push thou away this skin of ruddy colour: the stone will cleanse as one who cleanses raiment.
22. Earth upon earth l set thee. This thy body is con-substantial,. but in form it differs. Whate'er hath been worn off or scratched in fixing, leak not thereat: I spread a charm to mend it.
23. Thou for thy son shalt yearn as yearns a mother. I lay thee down and with the earth unite thee. Conjoined with sacrificial gear and butter may pot and jar stand firmly on the altar.
24. Eastward may Agni as he cooks preserve thee. Southward may Indra, grit by Maruts, guard thee, Varuna strengthen and support thee westward, and Soma on the north hold thee together.
25. Drops flow, made pure by filters, from the rain-cloud: to heaven and earth and to the worlds they travel, May Indra light them up, poured in the vessel, lively and sted- fast, quickening living creatures.
26. From heaven they come, they visit earth, and rising from earth unite themselves with air's mid-region, Purified, excellent, they with shine in beauty. Thus may they lead us to the world of Svarga.
27. Yea, and supreme, alike in conformation, and brilliant and refulgent and immortal, As such, enjoined, well-guarding, water-givers, dress ye the Odana for wife and husband.
28. Numbered, they visit earth, these drops of moisture, commensu- rate with plants and vital breathings, Unnumbered, scattered, beautiful in colour, the bright, ones have pervaded all refulgence.
29. Heated, they rage and boil in agitation, they cast about their foam and countless bubbles Like a fond woman when she sees her husband—what time ye waters and these rice-grains mingle,
30. Take up these rice-grains lying at the bottom: led them be blent and mingled with the waters. This water I have measured in the vessel, if as mid-points the rice-grains have been meted.
31. Present the sickle: quickly bring it hither. Let them out plants and joints with hands that harm not. So may the plants be free from wrath against us, they o'er whose realm Soma hath won dominion.
32. Strew ye fresh grass for the boiled rice to rest on: fair let it be, sweet to the eye and spirit. Hither come Goddesses with Gods, and sitting here taste in proper season this oblation.
33. On the strewn grass. Vanaspati, be seated; commensurate with Gods and Agnishtomas. Let thy fair form, wrought as by Tvashtar's hatchet, mark these that yearn for thee within the vessel.
34. In sixty autumns may the Treasure-Guardian seek to gain heavenly light by cooked oblation. On this may sons and fathers live dependent. Send thou this mess to Fire that leads to heaven.
35. On the earth's breast stand firmly as supporter: may Deities stir thee who ne'er hast shaken. So living man and wife with living children remove thee from the hearth of circling Agni.
36. All wishes that have blessed those with fulfilment, having won all the worlds have met together. Let them plunge in both stirring-spoon and ladle: raise this and set it in a single vessel.
37. Pour out the covering butter, spread it eastward: sprinkle this vessel over with the fatness. Greet this, ye Deities, with gentle murmur, as lowing cows wel- come their tender suckling.
38. Thou hast poured oil and made the worlds: let heaven, unequal- led, be spread out in wide extension. Herein be cooked the buffalo, strong-pinioned: the Gods shall give the Deities this oblation.
39. Whate'er thy wife, away from thee, makes ready, or what, O wife, apart from thee, thy husband, Combine it all: let it be yours in common while ye produce one world with joint endeavour.
40. All these now dwelling on the earth, mine offspring, these whom, this woman here, my wife, hath borne me, Invite them all unto the vessel: knowing their kinship have the children met together.
41. Swollen with savoury meath, the stream of treasures, sources of immortality blent with fatness Soma retains all these; in sixty autumns the Guardian Lord of Treasures may desire them.
42. The Lord of Treasures may desire this treasure: lordless on. every side be all the others. Our mess, presented seeking heaven, hath mounted in three divisions all three realms of Svarga.
43. May Agni burn the God-denying demon: let no carnivorous. Pis icha drink here. We drive him off, we keep him at a distance. Ādityas and Angirases pursue him!
44. This meath do I announce, mingled with butter, to the Angi- rases and the Ādityas. With pure hands ne'er laid roughly on a Brahman go, pious. couple, to the world of Svarga.
45. Of this have I obtained the noblest portion from that same world whence Parmeshthin gained it. Pour forth, besprinkle butter rich in fatness: the share of Angiras is here before us.
46. To Deities, to Truth, to holy Fervour this treasure we consign,. this rich deposit, At play, in meeting led it not desert us, never give out to anyone besides me.
47. I cook the offering, I present oblation: only my wife attends the holy service. A youthful world, a son hath been begotten. Begin a life that brings success and triumph.
48. There is no fault in this, no reservation, none when it goes with friends in close alliance. We have laid down this vessel in perfection: the cooked mess shall re-enter him who cooked it.
49. To those we love may we do acts that please them. Away to darkness go all those who hate us! Cow, ox, and strength of every kind approach us! Thus let them banish death of human beings.
50. Perfectly do the Agnis know each other, one visitor of plants and one of rivers, And all the Gods who shine and glow in heaven. Gold is the light of him who cooks oblation.
51. Man hath received this skin of his from nature: of other animals not one is naked. Ye make him clothe himself with might for raiment. Odana's mouth is a home-woven vesture.
52. Whatever thou may say at dice, in meeting, whatever falsehood through desire of riches, Ye two, about one common warp uniting, deposit all impurity within it.
53. Win thou the rain: approach the Gods. Around thee thou from the skin shalt make the smoke rise upward. Soon to be, decked with butter, all-embracing, come to this world wherewith one birth unites thee.
54. In many a shape hath heaven transformed its body, as in itself is known, of varied eolour. Cleansing the bright, the dark form hath it banished: the red form in the fire to thee I offer.
55. To the eastern region, to Agni the Regent, to Asita the Protector, Āditya the Archer, we present thee, this offering of ours. Do ye preserve it from aggression To full old age may Destiny conduct us; may full old age deliver us to Mrityu. Then may we be with our prepared oblation.
56. To the southern region, to Indra the Regent, to Tiraschirāji the Protector, to Yama the Archer, we present, etc. (as in stanza 55)
57. To the western region, to Varuna the Regent, to Pridāku the Protector, to Food the Archer, we present, etc.
58. To the northern region, to Soma the Regent, to Svaja the Protec- tor, to Thunderbolt the Archer, we present, etc.
59. To the stedfast region, to Vishnu the Regent, to Kalmāshagriva the Protector, to Plants the Archers, we present, etc.
60. To the upper region, to Brihaspati the Regent, to Svitra the Protector, to Rain the Archer, we present thee, this offering of ours. Do ye preserve it from aggression. To full old age may Destiny conduct us, may full old age deliver us to Mrityu. Then may we be with our prepared oblation.
Sanskrit and transliteration
Sanskrit
1. पुमान् पुंसो ऽधि तिष्ठ चर्मेहि तत्र ह्वयस्व यतमा प्रिया ते । यावन्ताव् अग्रे प्रथमं समेयथुस् तद् वां वयो यमराज्ये समानम् ॥1॥ 2. तावद् वां चक्षुस् तति वीर्याणि तावत् तेजस् ततिधा वाजिनानि । अग्निः शरीरं सचते यदैधो ऽधा पक्वान् मिथुना सं भवाथः ॥2॥ 3. सम् अस्मिंल् लोके सम् उ देवयाने सं स्मा समेतं यमराज्येषु । पूतौ पवित्रैर् उप तद् ध्वयेथां यद्यद् रेतो अधि वां संबभूव ॥3॥ 4. आपस् पुत्रासो अभि सं विशध्वम् इमं जीवं जीवधन्याः समेत्य । तासां भजध्वम् अमृतं यम् आहुर् ओदनं पचति वां जनित्री ॥4॥ 5. यं वां पिता पचति यं च माता रिप्रान् निर्मुक्त्यै शमलाच् च वाचः । स ओदनः शतधारः स्वर्ग उभे व्य् आप नभसी महित्वा ॥5॥ 6. उभे नभसी उभयांश् च लोकान् ये यज्वनाम् अभिजिताः स्वर्गाः । तेषां ज्योतिष्मान् मधुमान् यो अग्रे तस्मिन् पुत्रैर् जरसि सं श्रयेथाम् ॥6॥ 7. प्राचींप्राचीं प्रदिशम् आ रभेथाम् एतं लोकं श्रद्दधानाः सचन्ते । यद् वां पक्वं परिविष्टम् अग्नौ तस्य गुप्तये दंपती सं श्रयेथाम् ॥7॥ 8. दक्षिणां दिशम् अभि नक्षमाणौ पर्यावर्तेथाम् अभि पात्रम् एतत् । तस्मिन् वां यमः पितृभिः संविदानः पक्वाय शर्म बहुलं नि यछात् ॥8॥ 9. प्रतीची दिशाम् इयम् इद् वरं यस्यां सोमो अधिपा मृडिता च । तस्यां श्रयेथां सुकृतः सचेथाम् अधा पक्वान् मिथुना सं भवाथः ॥9॥ 10. उत्तरं राष्ट्रं प्रजयोत्तरावद् दिशाम् उदीची कृणवन् नो अग्रम् । पाङ्क्तं छन्दः पुरुषो बभूव विश्वैर् विश्वाङ्गैः सह सं भवेम ॥10॥ {13} 11. ध्रुवेयं विराण् नमो अस्त्व् अस्यै शिवा पुत्रेभ्य उत मह्यम् अस्तु । सा नो देव्य् अदिते विश्ववार इर्य इव गोपा अभि रक्ष पक्वम् ॥11॥ 12. पितेव पुत्रान् अभि सं स्वजस्व नः शिवा नो वाता इह वान्तु भूमौ । यम् ओदनं पचतो देवते इह तं नस् तप उत सत्यं च वेत्तु ॥12॥ 13. यद्यद् कृष्णः शकुन एह गत्वा त्सरन् विषक्तं बिल आससाद । यद् वा दास्य् आर्द्रहस्ता समङ्क्त उलूखलं मुसलं शुम्भतापः ॥13॥ 14. अयं ग्रावा पृथुबुध्नो वयोधाः पूतः पवित्रैर् अप हन्तु रक्षः । आ रोह चर्म महि शर्म यछ मा दंपती पौत्रम् अघं नि गाताम् ॥14॥ 15. वनस्पतिः सह देवैर् न आगन् रक्षः पिशाचां अपबाधमानः । स उच् छ्रयातै प्र वदाति वाचं तेन लोकां अभि सर्वान् जयेम ॥15॥ 16. सप्त मेधान् पशवः पर्य् अगृह्णन् य एषां ज्योतिष्मां उत यश् चकर्श । त्रयस्त्रिंशद् देवतास् तान्त् सचन्ते स नः स्वर्गम् अभि नेष लोकम् ॥16॥ 17. स्वर्गं लोकम् अभि नो नयासि सं जायया सह पुत्रैः स्याम । गृह्णामि हस्तम् अनु मैत्व् अत्र मा नस् तारीन् निरृतिर् मो अरातिः ॥17॥ 18. ग्राहिं पाप्मानम् अति तां अयाम तमो व्य् अस्य प्र वदासि वल्गु । वानस्पत्य उद्यतो मा जिहिंसीर् मा तण्डुलं वि शरीर् देवयन्तम् ॥18॥ 19. विश्वव्यचा घृतपृष्ठो भविष्यन्त् सयोनिर् लोकम् उप याह्य् एतम् । वर्षवृद्धम् उप यछ शूर्पं तुषं पलावान् अप तद् विनक्तु ॥19॥ 20. त्रयो लोकाः संमिता ब्राह्मणेन द्यौर् एवासौ पृथिव्य् अन्तरिक्षम् । अंशून् गृभीत्वान्वारभेथाम् आ प्यायन्तां पुनर् आ यन्तु शूर्पम् ॥20॥ {14} 21. पृथग् रूपाणि बहुधा पशूनाम् एकरूपो भवसि सं समृद्ध्या । एतां त्वचं लोहिनीं तां नुदस्व ग्रावा शुम्भाति मलग इव वस्त्रा ॥21॥ 22. पृथिवीं त्वा पृथिव्याम् आ वेशयामि तनूः समानी विकृता त एषा । यद्यद् द्युत्तं लिखितम् अर्पणेन तेन मा सुस्रोर् ब्रह्मणापि तद् वपामि ॥22॥ 23. जनित्रीव प्रति हर्यासि सूनुं सं त्वा दधामि पृथिवीं पृथिव्या । उखा कुम्भी वेद्यां मा व्यथिष्ठा यज्ञायुधैर् आज्येनातिषक्ता ॥23॥ 24. अग्निः पचन् रक्षतु त्वा पुरस्ताद् इन्द्रो रक्षतु दक्षिणतो मरुत्वान् । वरुणस् त्वा दृंहाद् धरुणे प्रतीच्या उत्तरात् त्वा सोमः सं ददातै ॥24॥ 25. पूताः पवित्रैः पवन्ते अभ्राद् दिवं च यन्ति पृथिवीं च लोकान् । ता जीवला जीवधन्याः प्रतिष्ठाः पात्र आसिक्ताः पर्य् अग्निर् इन्धाम् ॥25॥ 26. आ यन्ति दिवः पृथिवीं सचन्ते भूम्याः सचन्ते अध्य् अन्तरिक्षम् । शुद्धाः सतीस् ता उ शुम्भन्त एव ता नः स्वर्गम् अभि लोकं नयन्तु ॥26॥ 27. उतेव प्रभ्वीर् उत संमितास उत शुक्राः शुचयश् चामृतासः । ता ओदनं दंपतिभ्यां प्रशिष्टा आपः शिक्षन्तीः पचता सुनाथाः ॥27॥ 28. संख्याता स्तोकाः पृथिवीं सचन्ते प्राणापानैः संमिता ओषधीभिः । असंख्याता ओप्यमानाः सुवर्णाः सर्वं व्यापुः शुचयः शुचित्वम् ॥28॥ 29. उद् योधन्त्य् अभि वल्गन्ति तप्ताः फेनम् अस्यन्ति बहुलांश् च बिन्दून् । योषेव दृष्ट्वा पतिम् ऋत्वियायैतैस् तण्डुलैर् भवता सम् आपः ॥29॥ 30. उत् थापय सीदतो बुध्न एनान् अद्भिर् आत्मानम् अभि सं स्पृशन्ताम् । अमासि पात्रैर् उदकं यद् एतन् मितास् तण्डुलाः प्रदिशो यदीमाः ॥30॥ {15} 31. प्र यछ पर्शुं त्वरया हरौसम् अहिंसन्त ओषधीर् दान्तु पर्वन् । वासां सोमः परि राज्यं बभूवामन्युता नो वीरुधो भवन्तु ॥31॥ 32. नवं बर्हिर् ओदनाय स्तृणीत प्रियं हृदश् चक्षुषो वल्ग्व् अस्तु । तस्मिन् देवाः सह दैवीर् विशन्त्व् इमं प्राश्नन्त्व् ऋतुभिर् निषद्य ॥32॥ 33. वनस्पते स्तीर्णम् आ सीद बर्हिर् अग्निष्टोभैः संमितो देवताभिः । त्वष्ट्रेव रूपं सुकृतं स्वधित्यैना एहाः परि पात्रे ददृश्राम् ॥33॥ 34. षष्ट्यां शरत्सु निधिपा अभीछात् स्वः पक्वेनाभ्य् अश्नवातै । उपैनं जीवान् पितरश् च पुत्रा एतं स्वर्गं गमयान्तम् अग्नेः ॥34॥ 35. धर्ता ध्रियस्व धरुणे पृथिव्या अच्युतं त्वा देवताश् च्यावयन्तु । तं त्वा दंपती जीवन्तौ जीवपुत्राव् उद् वासयातः पर्य् अग्निधानात् ॥35॥ 36. सर्वान्त् समागा अभिजित्य लोकान् यावन्तः कामाः सम् अतीतृपस् तान् । वि गाहेथाम् आयवनं च दर्विर् एकस्मिन् पात्रे अध्य् उद् धरैनम् ॥36॥ 37. उप स्तृणीहि प्रथय पुरस्ताद् घृतेन पात्रम् अभि घारयैतत् । वाश्रेवोस्रा तरुणं स्तनस्युम् इमं देवासो अभिहिङ्कृणोत ॥37॥ 38. उपास्तरीर् अकरो लोकम् एतम् उरुः प्रथताम् असमः स्वर्गः । तस्मिं छ्रयातै महिषः सुपर्णो देवा एनं देवताभ्यः प्र यछान् ॥38॥ 39. यद्यज् जाया पचति त्वत् परःपरः पतिर् वा जाये त्वत् तिरः । सं तत् सृजेथां सह वां तद् अस्तु संपादयन्तौ सह लोकम् एकम् ॥39॥ 40. यावन्तो अस्याः पृथिवीं सचन्ते अस्मत् पुत्राः परि ये संबभूवुः । सर्वांस् तां उप पात्रे ह्वयेथां नाभिं जानानाः शिशवः समायान् ॥40॥ {16} 41. वसोर् या धारा मधुना प्रपीना घृतेन मिश्रा अमृतस्य नाभयः । सर्वास् ता अव रुन्धे स्वर्गः षष्ट्यां शरत्सु निधिपा अभीछात् ॥41॥ 42. निधिं निधिपा अभ्य् एनम् इछाद् अनीश्वरा अभितः सन्तु ये ऽन्ये । अस्माभिर् दत्तो निहितः स्वर्गस् त्रिभिः काण्डैस् त्रीन्त् स्वर्गान् अरुक्षत् ॥42॥ 43. अग्नी रक्षस् तपतु यद् विदेवं क्रव्याद् पिशाच इह मा प्र पास्त । नुदाम एनम् अप रुध्मो अस्मद् आदित्या एनम् अङ्गिरसः सचन्ताम् ॥43॥ 44. आदित्येभ्यो अङ्गिरोभ्यो मध्व् इदं घृतेन मिश्रं प्रति वेदयामि । शुद्धहस्तौ ब्राह्मणस्यानिहत्यैतं स्वर्गं सुकृताव् अपीतम् ॥44॥ 45. इदं प्रापम् उत्तमं काण्डम् अस्य यस्माल् लोकात् परमेष्ठी समाप । आ सिञ्च सर्पिर् घृतवत् सम् अङ्ग्ध्य् एष भागो अङ्गिरसो नो अत्र ॥45॥ 46. सत्याय च तपसे देवताभ्यो निधिं शेवधिं परि दद्म एतम् । मा नो द्यूते ऽव गान् मा समित्यां मा स्मान्यस्मा उत् सृजता पुरा मत् ॥46॥ 47. अहं पचाम्य् अहं ददामि ममेद् उ कर्मन् करुणे ऽधि जाया । कौमारो लोको अजनिष्ट पुत्रो ऽन्वारभेथां वय उत्तरावत् ॥47॥ 48. न किल्बिषम् अत्र नाधारो अस्ति न यन् मित्रैः समममान एति । अनूनं पात्रं निहितं न एतत् पक्तारं पक्वः पुनर् आ विशाति ॥48॥ 49. प्रियं प्रियाणां कृणवाम तमस् ते यन्तु यतमे द्विषन्ति । धेनुर् अनड्वान् वयोवय आयद् एव पौरुषेयम् अप मृत्युं नुदन्तु ॥49॥ 50. सम् अग्नयः विदुर् अन्यो अन्यं य ओषधीः सचते यश् च सिन्धून् । यावन्तो देवा दिव्य् आतपन्ति हिरण्यं ज्योतिः पचतो बभूव ॥50॥ {17} 51. एषा त्वचां पुरुषे सं बभूवानग्नाः सर्वे पशवो ये अन्ये । क्षत्रेणात्मानं परि धापयाथो ऽमोतं वासो मुखम् ओदनस्य ॥51॥ 52. यद् अक्षेषु वदा यत् समित्यां यद् वा वदा अनृतं वित्तकाम्या । समानं तन्तुम् अभि सम्वसानौ तस्मिन्त् सर्वं शमलं सादयाथः ॥52॥ 53. वर्षं वनुष्वापि गछ देवांस् त्वचो धूमं पर्य् उत् पातयासि । विश्वव्यचा घृतपृष्ठो भविष्यन्त् सयोनिर् लोकम् उप याह्य् एतम् ॥53॥ 54. तन्वं स्वर्गो बहुधा वि चक्रे यथा विद आत्मन्न् अन्यवर्णाम् । अपाजैत् कृष्णां रुशतीं पुनानो या लोहिनी तां ते अग्नौ जुहोमि ॥54॥ 55. प्राच्यै त्वा दिशे ऽग्नये ऽधिपतये ऽसिताय रक्षित्र आदित्यायेषुमते । एतं परि दद्मस् तं नो गोपायतास्माकम् ऐतोः । दिष्टं नो अत्र जरसे नि नेषज् जरा मृत्यवे परि णो ददात्व् अथ पक्वेन सह सं भवेम ॥55॥ 56. दक्षिणायै त्वा दिश इन्द्रायाधिपतये तिरश्चिराजये रक्षित्रे यमायेषुमते । एतं परि दद्मस् तं नो गोपायतास्माकम् ऐतोः । दिष्टं नो अत्र जरसे नि नेषज् जरा मृत्यवे परि णो ददात्व् अथ पक्वेन सह सं भवेम ॥56॥ 57. प्रतीच्यै त्वा दिशे वरुणायाधिपतये पृदाकवे रक्षित्रे ऽन्नायेषुमते । एतं परि दद्मस् तं नो गोपायतास्माकम् ऐतोः । दिष्टं नो अत्र जरसे नि नेषज् जरा मृत्यवे परि णो ददात्व् अथ पक्वेन सह सं भवेम ॥57॥ 58. उदीच्यै त्वा दिशे सोमायाधिपतये स्वजाय रक्षित्रे ऽशन्या इषुमत्यै । एतं परि दद्मस् तं नो गोपायतास्माकम् ऐतोः । दिष्टं नो अत्र जरसे नि नेषज् जरा मृत्यवे परि णो ददात्व् अथ पक्वेन सह सं भवेम ॥58॥ 59. ध्रुवायै त्वा दिशे विष्णवे ऽधिपतये कल्माषग्रीवाय रक्षित्र ओषधीभ्य इषुमतीभ्यः । एतं परि दद्मस् तं नो गोपायतास्माकम् ऐतोः । दिष्टं नो अत्र जरसे नि नेषज् जरा मृत्यवे परि णो ददात्व् अथ पक्वेन सह सं भवेम ॥59॥ 60. ऊर्ध्वायै त्वा दिशे बृहस्पतये ऽधिपतये श्वित्राय रक्षित्रे वर्षायेषुमते । एतं परि दद्मस् तं नो गोपायतास्माकम् ऐतोः । दिष्टं नो अत्र जरसे नि नेषज् जरा मृत्यवे परि णो ददात्व् अथ पक्वेन सह सं भवेम ॥60॥ {18}
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1. pumān puṃso 'dhi tiṣṭha carmehi tatra hvayasva yatamā priyā te | yāvantāv agre prathamaṃ sameyathus tad vāṃ vayo yamarājye samānam ||1|| 2. tāvad vāṃ cakṣus tati vīryāṇi tāvat tejas tatidhā vājināni | agniḥ śarīraṃ sacate yadaidho 'dhā pakvān mithunā saṃ bhavāthaḥ ||2|| 3. sam asmiṃl loke sam u devayāne saṃ smā sametaṃ yamarājyeṣu | pūtau pavitrair upa tad dhvayethāṃ yadyad reto adhi vāṃ saṃbabhūva ||3|| 4. āpas putrāso abhi saṃ viśadhvam imaṃ jīvaṃ jīvadhanyāḥ sametya | tāsāṃ bhajadhvam amṛtaṃ yam āhur odanaṃ pacati vāṃ janitrī ||4|| 5. yaṃ vāṃ pitā pacati yaṃ ca mātā riprān nirmuktyai śamalāc ca vācaḥ | sa odanaḥ śatadhāraḥ svarga ubhe vy āpa nabhasī mahitvā ||5|| 6. ubhe nabhasī ubhayāṃś ca lokān ye yajvanām abhijitāḥ svargāḥ | teṣāṃ jyotiṣmān madhumān yo agre tasmin putrair jarasi saṃ śrayethām ||6|| 7. prācīṃprācīṃ pradiśam ā rabhethām etaṃ lokaṃ śraddadhānāḥ sacante | yad vāṃ pakvaṃ pariviṣṭam agnau tasya guptaye daṃpatī saṃ śrayethām ||7|| 8. dakṣiṇāṃ diśam abhi nakṣamāṇau paryāvartethām abhi pātram etat | tasmin vāṃ yamaḥ pitṛbhiḥ saṃvidānaḥ pakvāya śarma bahulaṃ ni yachāt ||8|| 9. pratīcī diśām iyam id varaṃ yasyāṃ somo adhipā mṛḍitā ca | tasyāṃ śrayethāṃ sukṛtaḥ sacethām adhā pakvān mithunā saṃ bhavāthaḥ ||9|| 10. uttaraṃ rāṣṭraṃ prajayottarāvad diśām udīcī kṛṇavan no agram | pāṅktaṃ chandaḥ puruṣo babhūva viśvair viśvāṅgaiḥ saha saṃ bhavema ||10|| {13} 11. dhruveyaṃ virāṇ namo astv asyai śivā putrebhya uta mahyam astu | sā no devy adite viśvavāra irya iva gopā abhi rakṣa pakvam ||11|| 12. piteva putrān abhi saṃ svajasva naḥ śivā no vātā iha vāntu bhūmau | yam odanaṃ pacato devate iha taṃ nas tapa uta satyaṃ ca vettu ||12|| 13. yadyad kṛṣṇaḥ śakuna eha gatvā tsaran viṣaktaṃ bila āsasāda | yad vā dāsy ārdrahastā samaṅkta ulūkhalaṃ musalaṃ śumbhatāpaḥ ||13|| 14. ayaṃ grāvā pṛthubudhno vayodhāḥ pūtaḥ pavitrair apa hantu rakṣaḥ | ā roha carma mahi śarma yacha mā daṃpatī pautram aghaṃ ni gātām ||14|| 15. vanaspatiḥ saha devair na āgan rakṣaḥ piśācāṃ apabādhamānaḥ | sa uc chrayātai pra vadāti vācaṃ tena lokāṃ abhi sarvān jayema ||15|| 16. sapta medhān paśavaḥ pary agṛhṇan ya eṣāṃ jyotiṣmāṃ uta yaś cakarśa | trayastriṃśad devatās tānt sacante sa naḥ svargam abhi neṣa lokam ||16|| 17. svargaṃ lokam abhi no nayāsi saṃ jāyayā saha putraiḥ syāma | gṛhṇāmi hastam anu maitv atra mā nas tārīn nirṛtir mo arātiḥ ||17|| 18. grāhiṃ pāpmānam ati tāṃ ayāma tamo vy asya pra vadāsi valgu | vānaspatya udyato mā jihiṃsīr mā taṇḍulaṃ vi śarīr devayantam ||18|| 19. viśvavyacā ghṛtapṛṣṭho bhaviṣyant sayonir lokam upa yāhy etam | varṣavṛddham upa yacha śūrpaṃ tuṣaṃ palāvān apa tad vinaktu ||19|| 20. trayo lokāḥ saṃmitā brāhmaṇena dyaur evāsau pṛthivy antarikṣam | aṃśūn gṛbhītvānvārabhethām ā pyāyantāṃ punar ā yantu śūrpam ||20|| {14} 21. pṛthag rūpāṇi bahudhā paśūnām ekarūpo bhavasi saṃ samṛddhyā | etāṃ tvacaṃ lohinīṃ tāṃ nudasva grāvā śumbhāti malaga iva vastrā ||21|| 22. pṛthivīṃ tvā pṛthivyām ā veśayāmi tanūḥ samānī vikṛtā ta eṣā | yadyad dyuttaṃ likhitam arpaṇena tena mā susror brahmaṇāpi tad vapāmi ||22|| 23. janitrīva prati haryāsi sūnuṃ saṃ tvā dadhāmi pṛthivīṃ pṛthivyā | ukhā kumbhī vedyāṃ mā vyathiṣṭhā yajñāyudhair ājyenātiṣaktā ||23|| 24. agniḥ pacan rakṣatu tvā purastād indro rakṣatu dakṣiṇato marutvān | varuṇas tvā dṛṃhād dharuṇe pratīcyā uttarāt tvā somaḥ saṃ dadātai ||24|| 25. pūtāḥ pavitraiḥ pavante abhrād divaṃ ca yanti pṛthivīṃ ca lokān | tā jīvalā jīvadhanyāḥ pratiṣṭhāḥ pātra āsiktāḥ pary agnir indhām ||25|| 26. ā yanti divaḥ pṛthivīṃ sacante bhūmyāḥ sacante adhy antarikṣam | śuddhāḥ satīs tā u śumbhanta eva tā naḥ svargam abhi lokaṃ nayantu ||26|| 27. uteva prabhvīr uta saṃmitāsa uta śukrāḥ śucayaś cāmṛtāsaḥ | tā odanaṃ daṃpatibhyāṃ praśiṣṭā āpaḥ śikṣantīḥ pacatā sunāthāḥ ||27|| 28. saṃkhyātā stokāḥ pṛthivīṃ sacante prāṇāpānaiḥ saṃmitā oṣadhībhiḥ | asaṃkhyātā opyamānāḥ suvarṇāḥ sarvaṃ vyāpuḥ śucayaḥ śucitvam ||28|| 29. ud yodhanty abhi valganti taptāḥ phenam asyanti bahulāṃś ca bindūn | yoṣeva dṛṣṭvā patim ṛtviyāyaitais taṇḍulair bhavatā sam āpaḥ ||29|| 30. ut thāpaya sīdato budhna enān adbhir ātmānam abhi saṃ spṛśantām | amāsi pātrair udakaṃ yad etan mitās taṇḍulāḥ pradiśo yadīmāḥ ||30|| {15} 31. pra yacha parśuṃ tvarayā harausam ahiṃsanta oṣadhīr dāntu parvan | vāsāṃ somaḥ pari rājyaṃ babhūvāmanyutā no vīrudho bhavantu ||31|| 32. navaṃ barhir odanāya stṛṇīta priyaṃ hṛdaś cakṣuṣo valgv astu | tasmin devāḥ saha daivīr viśantv imaṃ prāśnantv ṛtubhir niṣadya ||32|| 33. vanaspate stīrṇam ā sīda barhir agniṣṭobhaiḥ saṃmito devatābhiḥ | tvaṣṭreva rūpaṃ sukṛtaṃ svadhityainā ehāḥ pari pātre dadṛśrām ||33|| 34. ṣaṣṭyāṃ śaratsu nidhipā abhīchāt svaḥ pakvenābhy aśnavātai | upainaṃ jīvān pitaraś ca putrā etaṃ svargaṃ gamayāntam agneḥ ||34|| 35. dhartā dhriyasva dharuṇe pṛthivyā acyutaṃ tvā devatāś cyāvayantu | taṃ tvā daṃpatī jīvantau jīvaputrāv ud vāsayātaḥ pary agnidhānāt ||35|| 36. sarvānt samāgā abhijitya lokān yāvantaḥ kāmāḥ sam atītṛpas tān | vi gāhethām āyavanaṃ ca darvir ekasmin pātre adhy ud dharainam ||36|| 37. upa stṛṇīhi prathaya purastād ghṛtena pātram abhi ghārayaitat | vāśrevosrā taruṇaṃ stanasyum imaṃ devāso abhihiṅkṛṇota ||37|| 38. upāstarīr akaro lokam etam uruḥ prathatām asamaḥ svargaḥ | tasmiṃ chrayātai mahiṣaḥ suparṇo devā enaṃ devatābhyaḥ pra yachān ||38|| 39. yadyaj jāyā pacati tvat paraḥparaḥ patir vā jāye tvat tiraḥ | saṃ tat sṛjethāṃ saha vāṃ tad astu saṃpādayantau saha lokam ekam ||39|| 40. yāvanto asyāḥ pṛthivīṃ sacante asmat putrāḥ pari ye saṃbabhūvuḥ | sarvāṃs tāṃ upa pātre hvayethāṃ nābhiṃ jānānāḥ śiśavaḥ samāyān ||40|| {16} 41. vasor yā dhārā madhunā prapīnā ghṛtena miśrā amṛtasya nābhayaḥ | sarvās tā ava rundhe svargaḥ ṣaṣṭyāṃ śaratsu nidhipā abhīchāt ||41|| 42. nidhiṃ nidhipā abhy enam ichād anīśvarā abhitaḥ santu ye 'nye | asmābhir datto nihitaḥ svargas tribhiḥ kāṇḍais trīnt svargān arukṣat ||42|| 43. agnī rakṣas tapatu yad videvaṃ kravyād piśāca iha mā pra pāsta | nudāma enam apa rudhmo asmad ādityā enam aṅgirasaḥ sacantām ||43|| 44. ādityebhyo aṅgirobhyo madhv idaṃ ghṛtena miśraṃ prati vedayāmi | śuddhahastau brāhmaṇasyānihatyaitaṃ svargaṃ sukṛtāv apītam ||44|| 45. idaṃ prāpam uttamaṃ kāṇḍam asya yasmāl lokāt parameṣṭhī samāpa | ā siñca sarpir ghṛtavat sam aṅgdhy eṣa bhāgo aṅgiraso no atra ||45|| 46. satyāya ca tapase devatābhyo nidhiṃ śevadhiṃ pari dadma etam | mā no dyūte 'va gān mā samityāṃ mā smānyasmā ut sṛjatā purā mat ||46|| 47. ahaṃ pacāmy ahaṃ dadāmi mamed u karman karuṇe 'dhi jāyā | kaumāro loko ajaniṣṭa putro 'nvārabhethāṃ vaya uttarāvat ||47|| 48. na kilbiṣam atra nādhāro asti na yan mitraiḥ samamamāna eti | anūnaṃ pātraṃ nihitaṃ na etat paktāraṃ pakvaḥ punar ā viśāti ||48|| 49. priyaṃ priyāṇāṃ kṛṇavāma tamas te yantu yatame dviṣanti | dhenur anaḍvān vayovaya āyad eva pauruṣeyam apa mṛtyuṃ nudantu ||49|| 50. sam agnayaḥ vidur anyo anyaṃ ya oṣadhīḥ sacate yaś ca sindhūn | yāvanto devā divy ātapanti hiraṇyaṃ jyotiḥ pacato babhūva ||50|| {17} 51. eṣā tvacāṃ puruṣe saṃ babhūvānagnāḥ sarve paśavo ye anye | kṣatreṇātmānaṃ pari dhāpayātho 'motaṃ vāso mukham odanasya ||51|| 52. yad akṣeṣu vadā yat samityāṃ yad vā vadā anṛtaṃ vittakāmyā | samānaṃ tantum abhi samvasānau tasmint sarvaṃ śamalaṃ sādayāthaḥ ||52|| 53. varṣaṃ vanuṣvāpi gacha devāṃs tvaco dhūmaṃ pary ut pātayāsi | viśvavyacā ghṛtapṛṣṭho bhaviṣyant sayonir lokam upa yāhy etam ||53|| 54. tanvaṃ svargo bahudhā vi cakre yathā vida ātmann anyavarṇām | apājait kṛṣṇāṃ ruśatīṃ punāno yā lohinī tāṃ te agnau juhomi ||54|| 55. prācyai tvā diśe 'gnaye 'dhipataye 'sitāya rakṣitra ādityāyeṣumate | etaṃ pari dadmas taṃ no gopāyatāsmākam aitoḥ | diṣṭaṃ no atra jarase ni neṣaj jarā mṛtyave pari ṇo dadātv atha pakvena saha saṃ bhavema ||55|| 56. dakṣiṇāyai tvā diśa indrāyādhipataye tiraścirājaye rakṣitre yamāyeṣumate | etaṃ pari dadmas taṃ no gopāyatāsmākam aitoḥ | diṣṭaṃ no atra jarase ni neṣaj jarā mṛtyave pari ṇo dadātv atha pakvena saha saṃ bhavema ||56|| 57. pratīcyai tvā diśe varuṇāyādhipataye pṛdākave rakṣitre 'nnāyeṣumate | etaṃ pari dadmas taṃ no gopāyatāsmākam aitoḥ | diṣṭaṃ no atra jarase ni neṣaj jarā mṛtyave pari ṇo dadātv atha pakvena saha saṃ bhavema ||57|| 58. udīcyai tvā diśe somāyādhipataye svajāya rakṣitre 'śanyā iṣumatyai | etaṃ pari dadmas taṃ no gopāyatāsmākam aitoḥ | diṣṭaṃ no atra jarase ni neṣaj jarā mṛtyave pari ṇo dadātv atha pakvena saha saṃ bhavema ||58|| 59. dhruvāyai tvā diśe viṣṇave 'dhipataye kalmāṣagrīvāya rakṣitra oṣadhībhya iṣumatībhyaḥ | etaṃ pari dadmas taṃ no gopāyatāsmākam aitoḥ | diṣṭaṃ no atra jarase ni neṣaj jarā mṛtyave pari ṇo dadātv atha pakvena saha saṃ bhavema ||59|| 60. ūrdhvāyai tvā diśe bṛhaspataye 'dhipataye śvitrāya rakṣitre varṣāyeṣumate | etaṃ pari dadmas taṃ no gopāyatāsmākam aitoḥ | diṣṭaṃ no atra jarase ni neṣaj jarā mṛtyave pari ṇo dadātv atha pakvena saha saṃ bhavema ||60|| {18}
Unaccented IAST transliteration from GRETIL's Atharvaveda-Samhita, Shaunaka recension. Devanagari is generated from that IAST text.
Atharvaveda 12.4 — Hymn 4. On the duty of giving cows to Brāhmans, and the sin and danger of withholding the gift
1. Give the gift, shall be his word: and straightway they have bound the Cow For Brāhman priests who beg the boon. That bringeth sons and progeny.
2. He trades and traffics with his sons, and in his cattle suffers loss. Who will not give the Cow of Gods to Rishis children when they beg.
3. They perish through a hornless cow, a lame cow sinks them in a pit. Through a maimed cow his house is burnt: a one-eyed cow destroys his wealth.
4. Fierce fever where her droppings fall attacks the master of the kine. So have they named her Vasa, for thou art called uncontrollable.
5. The malady Viklindu springs on him from ground whereon she stands, And suddenly, from fell disease, perish the men on whom she sniffs.
6. Whoever twitches up her ears is separated from the Gods. He deems he makes a mark, but he diminishes his wealth thereby.
7. If to his own advantage one applies the long hair of her tail, His colts, in consequence thereof. die, and the wolf destroys his calves.
8. If, while her master owneth her, a carrion crow hath harmed her hair, His young boys die thereof, Decline o'ertakes them after fell disease.
9. What time the Dāsi woman throws lye on the droppings of the Cow, Misshapen birth arises thence, inseparable from that sin.
10. For Gods and Brāhmans is the Cow produced when first she springs to life, Hence to the priests must she be given: this they call guarding private wealth.
11. The God-created Cow belongs to those who come to ask for her. They call it outrage on the priests when one retains her as his own.
12. He who withholds the Cow of Gods from Rishis' sons who ask the gift Is made an alien to the Gods, and subject to the Brāhmans' wrath:
13. Then let him seek another Cow, whate'er his profit be in this. The Cow, not given, harms a man when he denies her at their prayer.
14. Like a rich treasure stored away in safety is the Brāhmans' Cow. Therefore men come to visit her, with whomsoever she is born.
15. So when the Brāhmans come unto the Cow they come unto their own. For this is her withholding, to oppress these in another life.
16. Thus after three years may she go, speaking what is not under- stood. He, Nārads! would know the Cow, then Brāhmans must be sought unto.
17. Whoso calls her a worthless Cow, the stored-up treasure of the Gods, Bhava and Sarva, both of them, move round and shoot a shaft at him.
18. The man who hath no knowledge of her udder and the teats thereof, She yields him milk with these, if he hath purposed to bestow the Cow.
19. If he withholds the Cow they beg, she lies rebellious in his stall. Vain are the wishes and the hopes which he, withholding her, would gain.
20. The Deities have begged the Cow, using the Brāhman as their mouth: The man who gives her not incurs the enmity of all the Gods.
21. Withholding her from Brāhmans, he incurs the anger of the beasts, When mortal man appropriates the destined portion of the Gods.
22. If hundred other Brāhmans beg the Cow of him who owneth her, The Gods have said, She, verily, belongs to him who knows the truth.
23. Whoso to others, not to him who hath this knowledge, gives the Cow, Earth, with the Deities, is hard for him to win and rest upon.
24. The Deities begged the Cow from him with whom at first she was produced: Her, this one, Nārada would know: with Deities he drove her forth.
25. The Cow deprives of progeny and makes him poor in cattle who Retains in his possession her whom Brāhmans have solicited.
26. For Agni and for Soma, for Kāma, Mitra and Varuna, For these the Brāhmans ask: from these is he who giveth not estranged.
27. Long as her owner hath not heard, himself, the verses, let her move Among his kine: when he hath heard, let her not make her home with him;
28. He who hath heard her verses and still makes her roam among his kine. The Gods in anger rend away his life and his prosperity
29. Roaming in many a place the Cow is the stored treasure of the Gods, Make manifest thy shape and form when she would seek her dwelling-place.
30. Her shape and form she manifests when she would seek her dwelling-place; Then verily the Cow attends to Brāhman priests and their request.
31. This thought he settles in his mind. This safely goeth to the Gods. Then verily the Brāhman priests approach that they may beg the Cow
32. By Svadhā to the Fathers, by sacrifice to the Deities, By giving them the Cow, the Prince doth not incur the mother's. wrath.
33. The Prince's mother is the Cow: so was it ordered from of old. She, when bestowed upon the priests, cannot be given back, they say.
34. As molten butter, held at length, drops down to Agni from the scoop, So falls away from Agni he who gives no Cow to Brāhman priests.
35. Good milker, with rice-cake as calf, she in the world comes nigh to him, To him who gave her as a gift the Cow grants every hope and. wish.
36. In Yama's realm the Cow fulfils each wish for him who gave her up; But hell, they say, is for the man who, when they beg, bestow her not.
37. Enraged against her owner roams the Cow when she hath been impregned. He deemed me fruitless is her thought; let him be bound in, snares of Death!
38. Whoever looking on the Cow as fruitless, cooks her flesh at home, Brihaspati compels his sons and children of his sons to beg.
39. Downward she sends a mighty heat, though amid kine a Cow she roams. Poison she yields for him who owns and hath not given her away.
40. The animal is happy when it is bestowed upon the priests: But happy is the Cow when she is made a sacrifice to Gods.
41. Nārada chose the terrible Vilipti out of all the cows Which the Gods formed and framed when they had risen up from sacri- fice
42. The Gods considered her in doubt whether she were a Cow or not. Mirada spake of her and said, The veriest Cow of cows is she.
43. How many cows, O Nārada, knowest thou, born among man- kind I ask thee who dost know, of which must none who is no Brāhman eat?
44. Vilipti, cow, and she who drops no second calf, Brihaspati! Of these none not a Brāhmana should eat if he hope for emi- nence.
45. Homage, O Nārada, to thee who hast quick knowledge of the cows. Which of these is the direst, whose withholding bringeth death to man?
46. Vilipti, O Brihaspati, cow, mother of no second calf—Of these none not a Brāhman should eat if he hope for eminence.
47. Threefold are kine, Vilipti, cow, the mother of no seeond calf: These one should give to priests, and he will not offend Prajā- pati.
48. This Brāhmans! is your sacrifice: thus should one think when he is asked, What time they beg from him the Cow fearful in the with- holder's house.
49. He gave her not to us, so spake the Gods, in anger, of the Cow. With these same verses they addressed Bheda: this brought him to his death.
50. Solicited by Indra, still Bheda refused to give this Cow. In strife for victory the Gods destroyed him for that sin of his.
51. The men of evil counsel who advise refusal of the Cow, Miscreants, through their foolishness, are subjected to Indra's wrath.
52. They who seduce the owner of the Cow and say, Bestow her not. Encounter through their want of sense the missile shot by Rudra's hand.
53. If in his home one cooks the Cow, sacrificed or not sacrificed. Wronger of Gods and Brāhmans' he departs, dishonest, from the world.
Sanskrit and transliteration
Sanskrit
1. ददामीत्य् एव ब्रूयाद् अनु चैनाम् अभुत्सत । वशां ब्रह्मभ्यो याचद्भ्यस् तत् प्रजावद् अपत्यवत् ॥1॥ 2. प्रजया स वि क्रीणीते पशुभिश् चोप दस्यति । य आर्षेयेभ्यो याचद्भ्यो देवानां गां न दित्सति ॥2॥ 3. कूटयास्य सं शीर्यन्ते श्लोणया काटम् अर्दति । बण्डया दह्यन्ते गृहाः काणया दीयते स्वम् ॥3॥ 4. विलोहितो अधिष्ठानाच् छक्नो विन्दति गोपतिम् । तथा वशायाः संविद्यं दुरदभ्ना ह्य् उच्यसे ॥4॥ 5. पदोर् अस्या अधिष्ठानाद् विक्लिन्दुर् नाम विन्दति । अनामनात् सं शीर्यन्ते या मुखेनोपजिघ्रति ॥5॥ 6. यो अस्याः कर्णाव् आस्कुनोत्य् आ स देवेषु वृश्चते । लक्ष्म कुर्व इति मन्यते कनीयः कृणुते स्वम् ॥6॥ 7. यद् अस्याः कस्मै चिद् भोगाय बालान् कश् चित् प्रकृन्तति । ततः किशोरा म्रियन्ते वत्सांश् च घातुको वृकः ॥7॥ 8. यद् अस्या गोपतौ सत्या लोम ध्वाङ्क्षो अजीहिडत् । ततः कुमारा म्रियन्ते यक्ष्मो विन्दत्य् अनामनात् ॥8॥ 9. यद् अस्याः पल्पूलनं शकृद् दासी समस्यति । ततो ऽपरूपं जायते तस्माद् अव्येष्यद् एनसः ॥9॥ 10. जायमानाभि जायते देवान्त् सब्राह्मणान् वशा । तस्माद् ब्रह्मभ्यो देयैषा तद् आहुः स्वस्य गोपनम् ॥10॥ {19} 11. य एनां वनिम् आयन्ति तेषां देवकृता वशा । ब्रह्मज्येयं तद् अब्रुवन् य एनां निप्रियायते ॥11॥ 12. य आर्षेयेभ्यो याचद्भ्यो देवानां गां न दित्सति । आ स देवेषु वृश्चते ब्राह्मणानां च मन्यवे ॥12॥ 13. यो अस्य स्याद् वशाभोगो अन्याम् इछेत तर्हि सः । हिंस्ते अदत्ता पुरुषं याचितां च न दित्सति ॥13॥ 14. यथा शेवधिर् निहितो ब्राह्मणानां तथा वशा । ताम् एतद् अछायन्ति यस्मिन् कस्मिंश् च जायते ॥14॥ 15. स्वम् एतद् अछायन्ति यद् वशां ब्राह्मणा अभि । यथैनान् अन्यस्मिन् जिनीयाद् एवास्या निरोधनम् ॥15॥ 16. चरेद् एवा त्रैहायणाद् अविज्ञातगदा सती । वशां च विद्यान् नारद ब्राह्मणास् तर्ह्य् एष्याः ॥16॥ 17. य एनाम् अवशाम् आह देवानां निहितं निधिम् । उभौ तस्मै भवाशर्वौ परिक्रम्येषुम् अस्यतः ॥17॥ 18. यो अस्या ऊधो न वेदाथो अस्या स्तनान् उत । उभयेनैवास्मै दुहे दातुं चेद् अशकद् वशाम् ॥18॥ 19. दुरदभ्नैनम् आ शये याचितां च न दित्सति । नास्मै कामाः सम् ऋध्यन्ते याम् अदत्त्वा चिकीर्षति ॥19॥ 20. देवा वशाम् अयाचन् मुखं कृत्वा ब्राह्मणम् । तेषां सर्वेषाम् अददद् धेडं न्य् एति मानुषः ॥20॥ {20} 21. हेडं पशूनां न्य् एति ब्राह्मणेभ्यो ऽददद् वशाम् । देवानां निहितं भागं मर्त्यश् चेन् निप्रियायते ॥21॥ 22. यद् अन्ये शतं याचेयुर् ब्राह्मणा गोपतिं वशाम् । अथैनां देवा अब्रुवन्न् एवं ह विदुषो वशा ॥22॥ 23. य एवं विदुषे ऽदत्त्वाथान्येभ्यो ददद् वशाम् । दुर्गा तस्मा अधिष्ठाने पृथिवी सहदेवता ॥23॥ 24. देवा वशाम् अयाचन् यस्मिन्न् अग्रे अजायत । ताम् एतां विद्यान् नारदः सह देवैर् उद् आजत ॥24॥ 25. अनपत्यम् अल्पपशुं वशा कृणोति पूरुषम् । ब्राह्मणैश् च याचिताम् अथैनां निप्रियायते ॥25॥ 26. अग्नीषोमाभ्यां कामाय मित्राय वरुणाय च । तेभ्यो याचन्ति ब्राह्मणास् तेष्व् आ वृश्चते ऽददत् ॥26॥ 27. यावद् अस्या गोपतिर् नोपशृणुयाद् ऋचः स्वयम् । चरेद् अस्य तावद् गोषु नास्य श्रुत्वा गृहे वसेत् ॥27॥ 28. यो अस्या ऋच उपश्रुत्याथ गोष्व् अचीचरत् । आयुश् च तस्य भूतिं च देवा वृश्चन्ति हीडिताः ॥28॥ 29. वशा चरन्ती बहुधा देवानां निहितो निधिः । आविष् कृणुष्व रूपाणि यदा स्थाम जिघांसति ॥29॥ 30. आविर् आत्मानं कृणुते यदा स्थाम जिघांसति । अथो ह ब्रह्मभ्यो वशा याञ्च्याय कृणुते मनः ॥30॥ {21} 31. मनसा सं कल्पयति तद् देवां अपि गछति । ततो ह ब्रह्माणो वशाम् उपप्रयन्ति याचितुम् ॥31॥ 32. स्वधाकारेण पितृभ्यो यज्ञेन देवताभ्यः । दानेन राजन्यो वशाया मातुर् हेडम् न गछति ॥32॥ 33. वशा माता राजन्यस्य तथा संभूतम् अग्रशः । तस्या आहुर् अनर्पणं यद् ब्रह्मभ्यः प्रदीयते ॥33॥ 34. यथाज्यं प्रगृहीतम् आलुम्पेत् स्रुचो अग्नये । एवा ह ब्रह्मभ्यो वशाम् अग्नय आ वृश्चते ऽददत् ॥34॥ 35. पुरोडाशवत्सा सुदुघा लोके ऽस्मा उप तिष्ठति । सास्मै सर्वान् कामान् वशा प्रददुषे दुहे ॥35॥ 36. सर्वान् कामान् यमराज्ये वशा प्रददुषे दुहे । अथाहुर् नारकं लोकं निरुन्धानस्य याचिताम् ॥36॥ 37. प्रवीयमाना चरति क्रुद्धा गोपतये वशा । वेहतं मा मन्यमानो मृत्योः पाशेषु बध्यताम् ॥37॥ 38. यो वेहतं मन्यमानो ऽमा च पचते वशाम् । अप्य् अस्य पुत्रान् पौत्रांश् च याचयते बृहस्पतिः ॥38॥ 39. महद् एषाव तपति चरन्ती गोषु गौर् अपि । अथो ह गोपतये वशाददुषे विषं दुहे ॥39॥ 40. प्रियं पशूनां भवति यद् ब्रह्मभ्यः प्रदीयते । अथो वशायास् तत् प्रियं यद् देवत्रा हविः स्यात् ॥40॥ {22} 41. या वशा उदकल्पयन् देवा यज्ञाद् उदेत्य । तासां विलिप्त्यं भीमाम् उदाकुरुत नारदः ॥41॥ 42. तां देवा अमीमांसन्त वशेया3म् अवशेति । ताम् अब्रवीन् नारद एषा वशानां वशतमेति ॥42॥ 43. कति नु वशा नारद यास् त्वं वेत्थ मनुष्यजाः । तास् त्वा पृछामि विद्वांसं कस्या नाश्नीयाद् अब्राह्मणः ॥43॥ 44. विलिप्त्या बृहस्पते या च सूतवशा वशा । तस्या नाश्नीयाद् अब्राह्मणो य आशंसेत भूत्याम् ॥44॥ 45. नमस् ते अस्तु नारदानुष्ठु विदुषे वशा । कतमासां भीमतमा याम् अदत्त्वा पराभवेत् ॥45॥ 46. विलिप्ती या बृहस्पते ऽथो सूतवशा वशा । तस्या नाश्नीयाद् अब्राह्मणो य आशंसेत भूत्याम् ॥46॥ 47. त्रीणि वै वशाजातानि विलिप्ती सूतवशा वशा । ताः प्र यछेद् ब्रह्मभ्यः सो ऽनाव्रस्कः प्रजापतौ ॥47॥ 48. एतद् वो ब्राह्मणा हविर् इति मन्वीत याचितः । वशां चेद् एनं याचेयुर् या भीमाददुषो गृहे ॥48॥ 49. देवा वशां पर्य् अवदन् न नो ऽदाद् इति हीडिताः । एताभिर् ऋग्भिर् भेदं तस्माद् वै स पराभवत् ॥49॥ 50. उतैनां भेदो नाददाद् वशाम् इन्द्रेण याचितः । तस्मात् तं देवा आगसो ऽवृश्चन्न् अहमुत्तरे ॥50॥ 51. ये वशाया अदानाय वदन्ति परिरापिणः । इन्द्रस्य मन्यवे जाल्मा आ वृश्चन्ते अचित्त्या ॥51॥ 52. ये गोपतिं पराणीयाथाहुर् मा ददा इति । रुद्रस्यास्तां ते हेतीं परि यन्त्य् अचित्त्या ॥52॥ 53. यदि हुतं यद्य् अहुताम् अमा च पचते वशाम् । देवान्त् सब्राह्मणान् ऋत्वा जिह्मो लोकान् निर् ऋछति ॥53॥ {23}
Transliteration
1. dadāmīty eva brūyād anu cainām abhutsata | vaśāṃ brahmabhyo yācadbhyas tat prajāvad apatyavat ||1|| 2. prajayā sa vi krīṇīte paśubhiś copa dasyati | ya ārṣeyebhyo yācadbhyo devānāṃ gāṃ na ditsati ||2|| 3. kūṭayāsya saṃ śīryante śloṇayā kāṭam ardati | baṇḍayā dahyante gṛhāḥ kāṇayā dīyate svam ||3|| 4. vilohito adhiṣṭhānāc chakno vindati gopatim | tathā vaśāyāḥ saṃvidyaṃ duradabhnā hy ucyase ||4|| 5. pador asyā adhiṣṭhānād viklindur nāma vindati | anāmanāt saṃ śīryante yā mukhenopajighrati ||5|| 6. yo asyāḥ karṇāv āskunoty ā sa deveṣu vṛścate | lakṣma kurva iti manyate kanīyaḥ kṛṇute svam ||6|| 7. yad asyāḥ kasmai cid bhogāya bālān kaś cit prakṛntati | tataḥ kiśorā mriyante vatsāṃś ca ghātuko vṛkaḥ ||7|| 8. yad asyā gopatau satyā loma dhvāṅkṣo ajīhiḍat | tataḥ kumārā mriyante yakṣmo vindaty anāmanāt ||8|| 9. yad asyāḥ palpūlanaṃ śakṛd dāsī samasyati | tato 'parūpaṃ jāyate tasmād avyeṣyad enasaḥ ||9|| 10. jāyamānābhi jāyate devānt sabrāhmaṇān vaśā | tasmād brahmabhyo deyaiṣā tad āhuḥ svasya gopanam ||10|| {19} 11. ya enāṃ vanim āyanti teṣāṃ devakṛtā vaśā | brahmajyeyaṃ tad abruvan ya enāṃ nipriyāyate ||11|| 12. ya ārṣeyebhyo yācadbhyo devānāṃ gāṃ na ditsati | ā sa deveṣu vṛścate brāhmaṇānāṃ ca manyave ||12|| 13. yo asya syād vaśābhogo anyām icheta tarhi saḥ | hiṃste adattā puruṣaṃ yācitāṃ ca na ditsati ||13|| 14. yathā śevadhir nihito brāhmaṇānāṃ tathā vaśā | tām etad achāyanti yasmin kasmiṃś ca jāyate ||14|| 15. svam etad achāyanti yad vaśāṃ brāhmaṇā abhi | yathainān anyasmin jinīyād evāsyā nirodhanam ||15|| 16. cared evā traihāyaṇād avijñātagadā satī | vaśāṃ ca vidyān nārada brāhmaṇās tarhy eṣyāḥ ||16|| 17. ya enām avaśām āha devānāṃ nihitaṃ nidhim | ubhau tasmai bhavāśarvau parikramyeṣum asyataḥ ||17|| 18. yo asyā ūdho na vedātho asyā stanān uta | ubhayenaivāsmai duhe dātuṃ ced aśakad vaśām ||18|| 19. duradabhnainam ā śaye yācitāṃ ca na ditsati | nāsmai kāmāḥ sam ṛdhyante yām adattvā cikīrṣati ||19|| 20. devā vaśām ayācan mukhaṃ kṛtvā brāhmaṇam | teṣāṃ sarveṣām adadad dheḍaṃ ny eti mānuṣaḥ ||20|| {20} 21. heḍaṃ paśūnāṃ ny eti brāhmaṇebhyo 'dadad vaśām | devānāṃ nihitaṃ bhāgaṃ martyaś cen nipriyāyate ||21|| 22. yad anye śataṃ yāceyur brāhmaṇā gopatiṃ vaśām | athaināṃ devā abruvann evaṃ ha viduṣo vaśā ||22|| 23. ya evaṃ viduṣe 'dattvāthānyebhyo dadad vaśām | durgā tasmā adhiṣṭhāne pṛthivī sahadevatā ||23|| 24. devā vaśām ayācan yasminn agre ajāyata | tām etāṃ vidyān nāradaḥ saha devair ud ājata ||24|| 25. anapatyam alpapaśuṃ vaśā kṛṇoti pūruṣam | brāhmaṇaiś ca yācitām athaināṃ nipriyāyate ||25|| 26. agnīṣomābhyāṃ kāmāya mitrāya varuṇāya ca | tebhyo yācanti brāhmaṇās teṣv ā vṛścate 'dadat ||26|| 27. yāvad asyā gopatir nopaśṛṇuyād ṛcaḥ svayam | cared asya tāvad goṣu nāsya śrutvā gṛhe vaset ||27|| 28. yo asyā ṛca upaśrutyātha goṣv acīcarat | āyuś ca tasya bhūtiṃ ca devā vṛścanti hīḍitāḥ ||28|| 29. vaśā carantī bahudhā devānāṃ nihito nidhiḥ | āviṣ kṛṇuṣva rūpāṇi yadā sthāma jighāṃsati ||29|| 30. āvir ātmānaṃ kṛṇute yadā sthāma jighāṃsati | atho ha brahmabhyo vaśā yāñcyāya kṛṇute manaḥ ||30|| {21} 31. manasā saṃ kalpayati tad devāṃ api gachati | tato ha brahmāṇo vaśām upaprayanti yācitum ||31|| 32. svadhākāreṇa pitṛbhyo yajñena devatābhyaḥ | dānena rājanyo vaśāyā mātur heḍam na gachati ||32|| 33. vaśā mātā rājanyasya tathā saṃbhūtam agraśaḥ | tasyā āhur anarpaṇaṃ yad brahmabhyaḥ pradīyate ||33|| 34. yathājyaṃ pragṛhītam ālumpet sruco agnaye | evā ha brahmabhyo vaśām agnaya ā vṛścate 'dadat ||34|| 35. puroḍāśavatsā sudughā loke 'smā upa tiṣṭhati | sāsmai sarvān kāmān vaśā pradaduṣe duhe ||35|| 36. sarvān kāmān yamarājye vaśā pradaduṣe duhe | athāhur nārakaṃ lokaṃ nirundhānasya yācitām ||36|| 37. pravīyamānā carati kruddhā gopataye vaśā | vehataṃ mā manyamāno mṛtyoḥ pāśeṣu badhyatām ||37|| 38. yo vehataṃ manyamāno 'mā ca pacate vaśām | apy asya putrān pautrāṃś ca yācayate bṛhaspatiḥ ||38|| 39. mahad eṣāva tapati carantī goṣu gaur api | atho ha gopataye vaśādaduṣe viṣaṃ duhe ||39|| 40. priyaṃ paśūnāṃ bhavati yad brahmabhyaḥ pradīyate | atho vaśāyās tat priyaṃ yad devatrā haviḥ syāt ||40|| {22} 41. yā vaśā udakalpayan devā yajñād udetya | tāsāṃ viliptyaṃ bhīmām udākuruta nāradaḥ ||41|| 42. tāṃ devā amīmāṃsanta vaśeyā3m avaśeti | tām abravīn nārada eṣā vaśānāṃ vaśatameti ||42|| 43. kati nu vaśā nārada yās tvaṃ vettha manuṣyajāḥ | tās tvā pṛchāmi vidvāṃsaṃ kasyā nāśnīyād abrāhmaṇaḥ ||43|| 44. viliptyā bṛhaspate yā ca sūtavaśā vaśā | tasyā nāśnīyād abrāhmaṇo ya āśaṃseta bhūtyām ||44|| 45. namas te astu nāradānuṣṭhu viduṣe vaśā | katamāsāṃ bhīmatamā yām adattvā parābhavet ||45|| 46. viliptī yā bṛhaspate 'tho sūtavaśā vaśā | tasyā nāśnīyād abrāhmaṇo ya āśaṃseta bhūtyām ||46|| 47. trīṇi vai vaśājātāni viliptī sūtavaśā vaśā | tāḥ pra yached brahmabhyaḥ so 'nāvraskaḥ prajāpatau ||47|| 48. etad vo brāhmaṇā havir iti manvīta yācitaḥ | vaśāṃ ced enaṃ yāceyur yā bhīmādaduṣo gṛhe ||48|| 49. devā vaśāṃ pary avadan na no 'dād iti hīḍitāḥ | etābhir ṛgbhir bhedaṃ tasmād vai sa parābhavat ||49|| 50. utaināṃ bhedo nādadād vaśām indreṇa yācitaḥ | tasmāt taṃ devā āgaso 'vṛścann ahamuttare ||50|| 51. ye vaśāyā adānāya vadanti parirāpiṇaḥ | indrasya manyave jālmā ā vṛścante acittyā ||51|| 52. ye gopatiṃ parāṇīyāthāhur mā dadā iti | rudrasyāstāṃ te hetīṃ pari yanty acittyā ||52|| 53. yadi hutaṃ yady ahutām amā ca pacate vaśām | devānt sabrāhmaṇān ṛtvā jihmo lokān nir ṛchati ||53|| {23}
Unaccented IAST transliteration from GRETIL's Atharvaveda-Samhita, Shaunaka recension. Devanagari is generated from that IAST text.
Atharvaveda 12.5 — Hymn 5. On the duty of giving cows to Brāhmans, and the sin and danger of withholding the gift
1. Created by toil and holy fervour, found by devotion, resting in right;
2. Invested with truth, surrounded with honour, compassed about with glory;
3. Girt round with inherent power, fortified with faith, protected, by consecration, installed at sacrifice, the world her resting- place;
4. Brahma her guide, the Brāhman her lord and ruler;
5. Of the Kshatriya who taketh to himself this Brāhman's cow and oppresseth the Brāhman.
6. The glory, the heroism, and the favouring fortune depart.
7. The energy and vigour, the power and might the speech and mental strength, the glory and duty;
8. Devotion and princely sway, kingship and people, brilliance and honour, and splendour and wealth;
9. Long life and goodly form, and name and fame, inbreathing and expiration, and sight, and hearing;
10. Milk and flavour, and food and nourishment, and right and truth, and action and fulfilment, and children and cattle;
11. All these blessings of a Kshatriya depart from him when he oppresseth the Brāhman and taketh to himself the hhman's cow.
12. Terrible is she this Brāhman's cow, and fearfully venomous, visibly witchcraft.
13. In her are all horrors and all death.
14. In her are all dreadful, deeds, all slaughters of mankind.
15. This, the Brāhman's cow, being appropriated, holdeth bound in the fetter of Death the oppressor of the Brāhman, the blas- phemer of the Gods.
16. A hundred-killing bolt is she: she slays the Brāhman's injurer.
17. Therefore the Brāhmans' cow is held inviolable by the wise.
18. Running she is a thunderbolt, when driven away she is Vaisvā- nara;
19. An arrow when she draweth up her hooves, and Mahādeva when she looketh around;
20. Sharp as a razor when she beholdeth, she thundereth when she belloweth.
21. Death is she when she loweth, and a fierce God when she whis- keth her tail;
22. Utter destruction when she moveth her ears this way and that, Consumption when she droppeth water;
23. A missile when milking, pain in the head when milked;
24. The taking away of strength when she approacheth, a hand-to- hand fighter when roughly touched;
25. Wounding like an arrow when she is fastened by her mouth, contention when she is beaten;
26. Fearfully venomous when falling, darkness when she hath fallen down.
27. Following him, the Brāhman's cow extinguisheth the vital breath of the injurer of the Brāhman.
28. Hostility when being cut to pieces, woe to children when the portions are distributed,
29. A destructive missile of Gods when she is being seized, misfortune when carried away;
30. Misery while being additionally acquired, contumely and abuse while being put in the stall;
31. Poison when in agitation, fever when seasoned with condi- ments;
32. Sin while she is cooking, evil dream when she is cooked;
33. Uprooting when she is being turned round, destruction when she hath been turned round;
34. Discord by her smell, grief when she is being eviscerated: ser- pent with poison in its fang when drawn;
35. Loss of power while sacrificially presented, humiliation when she hath been offered;
36. Wrathful Sarva while being carved. Simidā when cut up:
37. Poverty while she is being eaten. Destruction when eaten.
38. The Brāhman's cow when eaten cuts off the injurer of Brāhmans both from this world and from the world yonder.
39. Her slaughter is the sin of witchcraft, her cutting-up is a thunder- bolt, her undigested grass is a secret spell.
40. Homelessness is she when denied her rights.
41. Having become Flesh-eating Agni the Brāhman's cow entereth into and devoureth the oppressor of Brāhmans.
42. She sunders all his members, joints, and roots.
43. She cuts off relationship on the father's side and destroys mater- nal kinship.
44. The Brāhman's cow, not restored by a Kshatriya, ruins the marriages and all the kinsmen of the Brāhman's oppressor.
45. She makes him houseless, homeless, childless: he is extinguished without posterity to succeed him.
0. 46. So shall it be with the Kshatriya who takes to himself the cow of the Braman who hath this knowledge.
47. Quickly, when he is smitten down by death, the clamorous vul- tures cry:
48. Quickly around his funeral fire dance women with dishevelled locks, Striking the hand upon the breast and uttering their evil shriek.
49. Quickly the wolves are howling in the habitation where he lived:
50. Quickly they ask about him, What is this? What thing hath happened here?
51. Rend, rend to pieces, rend away, destroy, destroy him utterly.
52. Destroy Angirasi! the wretch who robs and wrongs the Brah- mans, born.
53. Of evil womb, thou witchcraft hid, for Vaisvadevi is thy name,
54. Consuming, burning all things up, the thunderbolt of spell and charm.
55. Go thou, becoming Mrityu sharp as razor's edge pursue thy course:
56. Thou bearest off the tyrants' strength, their store of merit, and their prayers.
57. Bearing off wrong, thou givest in that world to him who hath been wronged.
58. O Cow, become a tracker through the curse the Brāhman hath pronounced,
59. Become a bolt, an arrow through his sin, be terribly venomous.
60. O Cow, break thou the head of him who wrongs the Brāhmans, criminal, niggard, blasphemer of the Gods.
61. Let Agni burn the spiteful wretch when crushed to death and slain by thee.
62. Rend, rend to bits, rend through and through, scorch and con- sume and burn to dust,
63. Consume thou, even from the root, the Brāhmans' tyrant, god- like Cow!
64. That he may go from Yama's home afar into the worlds of sin. its
65. So, Goddess Cow, do thou from him, the Brāhmans' tyrant, criminal, niggard, blasphemer of the Gods,
66. With hundred-knotted thunderbolt, sharpened and edged with razor-blades,
67. Strike off the shoulders and the head.
68. Snatch thou the hair from off his head, and from his body strip the skin:
69. Tear out his sinews, cause his flesh to fall in pieces from his frame.
70. Crush thou his bones together, strike and beat the marrow out of him.
71. Dislocate all his limbs and joints.
72. From earth let the Carnivorous Agni drive him, let Vayu burn. him from mid-air's broad region.
73. From heaven let Sūrya drive him and consume him.
Sanskrit and transliteration
Sanskrit
2. सत्येनावृता श्रिया प्रावृता यशसा परीवृता ॥2॥ 3. स्वधया परिहिता श्रद्धया पर्यूढा दीक्षया गुप्ता यज्ञे प्रतिष्ठिता लोको निधनम् ॥3॥ 4. ब्रह्म पदवायं ब्राह्मणो ऽधिपतिः ॥4॥ 5. ताम् आददानस्य ब्रह्मगवीं जिनतो ब्राह्मणं क्षत्रियस्य ॥5॥ 6. अप क्रामति सूनृता वीर्यं पुन्या लक्ष्मीः ॥6॥ {24} 7. ओजश् च तेजश् च सहश् च बलं च वाक् चेन्द्रियं च श्रीश् च धर्मश् च ॥7॥ 8. ब्रह्म च क्षत्रं च राष्ट्रं च विशश् च त्विषिश् च यशश् च वर्चश् च द्रविणं च ॥8॥ 9. आयुश् च रूपं च नाम च कीर्तिश् च प्राणश् चापानश् च चक्षुश् च श्रोत्रं च ॥9॥ 10. पयश् च रसश् चान्नं चान्नाद्यं च र्तं च सत्यं चेष्टं च पूर्तं च प्रजा च पशवश् च ॥10॥ 11. तानि सर्वाण्य् अप क्रामन्ति ब्रह्मगवीम् आददानस्य जिनतो ब्राह्मणं क्षत्रियस्य ॥11॥ {25} 12. सैषा भीमा ब्रह्मगव्य् अघविषा साक्षात् कृत्या कूल्बजम् आवृता ॥12॥ 13. सर्वाण्य् अस्यां घोराणि सर्वे च मृत्यवः ॥13॥ 14. सर्वाण्य् अस्यां क्रूराणि सर्वे पुरुषवधाः ॥14॥ 15. सा ब्रह्मज्यं देवपीयुं ब्रह्मगव्य् आदीयमाना मृत्योः पद्वीष आ द्यति ॥15॥ 16. मेनिः शतवधा हि सा ब्रह्मज्यस्य क्षितिर् हि सा ॥16॥ 17. तस्माद् वै ब्राह्मणानां गौर् दुराधर्षा विजानता ॥17॥ 18. वज्रो धावन्ती वैश्वानर उद्वीता ॥18॥ 19. हेतिः शफान् उत्खिदन्ती महादेवो ऽपेक्षमाणा ॥19॥ 20. क्षुरपविर् ईक्षमाणा वाश्यमानाभि स्फूर्जति ॥20॥ 21. मृत्युर् हिङ्कृण्वत्य् उग्रो देवः पुछं पर्यस्यन्ती ॥21॥ 22. सर्वज्यानिः कर्णौ वरीवर्जयन्ती राजयक्ष्मो मेहन्ती ॥22॥ 23. मेनिर् दुह्यमाना शीर्षक्तिर् दुग्धा ॥23॥ 24. सेदिर् उपतिष्ठन्ती मिथोयोधः परामृष्टा ॥24॥ 25. शरव्या मुखे ऽपिनह्यमान ऋतिर् हन्यमाना ॥25॥ 26. अघविषा निपतन्ती तमो निपतिता ॥26॥ 27. अनुगछन्ती प्राणान् उप दासयति ब्रह्मगवी ब्रह्मज्यस्य ॥27॥ {26} 28. वैरं विकृत्यमाना पौत्राद्यं विभाज्यमाना ॥28॥ 29. देवहेतिर् ह्रियमाणा व्यृद्धिर् हृता ॥29॥ 30. पाप्माधिधीयमाना पारुष्यम् अवधीयमाना ॥30॥ 31. विषं प्रयस्यन्ती तक्मा प्रयस्ता ॥31॥ 32. अघं प्रच्यमाना दुष्वप्न्यं पक्वा ॥32॥ 33. मूलबर्हणी पर्याक्रियमाणा क्षितिः पर्याकृता ॥33॥ 34. असंज्ञा गन्धेन शुग् उद्ध्रियमाणाशीविष उद्धृता ॥34॥ 35. अभूतिर् उपह्रियमाणा पराभूतिर् उपहृता ॥35॥ 36. शर्वः क्रुद्धः पिश्यमाना शिमिदा पिशिता ॥36॥ 37. अवर्तिर् अश्यमाना निरृतिर् अशिता ॥37॥ 38. अशिता लोकाच् छिनत्ति ब्रह्मगवी ब्रह्मज्यम् अस्माच् चामुष्माच् च ॥38॥ {27} 39. तस्या आहननं कृत्या मेनिर् आशसनं वलग ऊबध्यम् ॥39॥ 40. अस्वगता परिह्णुता ॥40॥ 41. अग्निः क्रव्याद् भूत्वा ब्रह्मगवी ब्रह्मज्यं प्रविश्यात्ति ॥41॥ 42. सर्वास्याङ्गा पर्वा मूलानि वृश्चति ॥42॥ 43. छिनत्त्य् अस्य पितृबन्धु परा भावयति मातृबन्धु ॥43॥ 44. विवाहां ज्ञातीन्त् सर्वान् अपि क्षापयति ब्रह्मगवी ब्रह्मज्यस्य क्षत्रियेणापुनर्दीयमाना ॥44॥ 45. अवास्तुम् एनम् अस्वगम् अप्रजसं करोत्य् अपरापरणो भवति क्षीयते ॥45॥ 46. य एवं विदुषो ब्राह्मणस्य क्षत्रियो गाम् आदत्ते ॥46॥ {28} 47. क्षिप्रं वै तस्याहनने गृध्राः कुर्वत ऐलबम् ॥47॥ 48. क्षिप्रं वै तस्यादहनं परि नृत्यन्ति केशिनीर् आघ्नानाः पाणिनोरसि कुर्वाणाः पापम् ऐलबम् ॥48॥ 49. क्षिप्रं वै तस्य वास्तुषु वृकाः कुर्वत ऐलबम् ॥49॥ 50. क्षिप्रं वै तस्य पृछन्ति यत् तद् आसी3द् इदं नु ता3द् इति ॥50॥ 51. छिन्ध्य् आ छिन्धि प्र छिन्ध्य् अपि क्षापय क्षापय ॥51॥ 52. आददानम् आङ्गिरसि ब्रह्मज्यम् उप दासय ॥52॥ 53. श्रमेण तपसा सृष्टा ब्रह्मणा वित्ता र्ते श्रिता ॥1॥ वैश्वदेवी ह्य् उच्यसे कृत्या कूल्बजम् आवृता ॥53॥ 54. ओषन्ती समोषन्ती ब्रह्मणो वज्रः ॥54॥ 55. क्षुरपविर् मृत्युर् भूत्वा वि धाव त्वम् ॥55॥ 56. आ दत्से जिनतां वर्च इष्टं पूर्तं चाशिषः ॥56॥ 57. आदाय जीतं जीताय लोके ऽमुष्मिन् प्र यछसि ॥57॥ 58. अघ्न्ये पदवीर् भव ब्राह्मणस्याभिशस्त्या ॥58॥ 59. मेनिः शरव्या भवाघाद् अघविषा भव ॥59॥ 60. अघ्न्ये प्र शिरो जहि ब्रह्मज्यस्य कृतागसो देवपीयोर् अराधसः ॥60॥ 61. त्वया प्रमूर्णं मृदितम् अग्निर् दहतु दुश्चितम् ॥61॥ {29} 62. वृश्च प्र वृश्च सं वृश्च दह प्र दह सं दह ॥62॥ 63. ब्रह्मज्यं देव्य् अघ्न्य आ मूलाद् अनुसंदह ॥63॥ 64. यथायाद् यमसादनात् पापलोकान् परावतः ॥64॥ 65. एवा त्वं देव्य् अघ्न्ये ब्रह्मज्यस्य कृतागसो देवपीयोर् अराधसः ॥65॥ 66. वज्रेण शतपर्वणा तीक्ष्णेन क्षुरभृष्टिना ॥66॥ 67. प्र स्कन्धान् प्र शिरो जहि ॥67॥ 68. लोमान्य् अस्य सं छिन्धि त्वचम् अस्य वि वेष्टय ॥68॥ 69. मांसान्य् अस्य शातय स्नावान्य् अस्य सं वृह ॥69॥ 70. अस्थीन्य् अस्य पीडय मज्जानम् अस्य निर् जहि ॥70॥ 71. सर्वास्याङ्गा पर्वाणि वि श्रथय ॥71॥ 72. अग्निर् एनं क्रव्यात् पृथिव्या नुदताम् उद् ओषतु वायुर् अन्तरिक्षान् महतो वरिम्णः ॥72॥ 73. सूर्य एनं दिवः प्र णुदतां न्य् ओषतु ॥73॥ {30}
Transliteration
2. satyenāvṛtā śriyā prāvṛtā yaśasā parīvṛtā ||2|| 3. svadhayā parihitā śraddhayā paryūḍhā dīkṣayā guptā yajñe pratiṣṭhitā loko nidhanam ||3|| 4. brahma padavāyaṃ brāhmaṇo 'dhipatiḥ ||4|| 5. tām ādadānasya brahmagavīṃ jinato brāhmaṇaṃ kṣatriyasya ||5|| 6. apa krāmati sūnṛtā vīryaṃ punyā lakṣmīḥ ||6|| {24} 7. ojaś ca tejaś ca sahaś ca balaṃ ca vāk cendriyaṃ ca śrīś ca dharmaś ca ||7|| 8. brahma ca kṣatraṃ ca rāṣṭraṃ ca viśaś ca tviṣiś ca yaśaś ca varcaś ca draviṇaṃ ca ||8|| 9. āyuś ca rūpaṃ ca nāma ca kīrtiś ca prāṇaś cāpānaś ca cakṣuś ca śrotraṃ ca ||9|| 10. payaś ca rasaś cānnaṃ cānnādyaṃ ca rtaṃ ca satyaṃ ceṣṭaṃ ca pūrtaṃ ca prajā ca paśavaś ca ||10|| 11. tāni sarvāṇy apa krāmanti brahmagavīm ādadānasya jinato brāhmaṇaṃ kṣatriyasya ||11|| {25} 12. saiṣā bhīmā brahmagavy aghaviṣā sākṣāt kṛtyā kūlbajam āvṛtā ||12|| 13. sarvāṇy asyāṃ ghorāṇi sarve ca mṛtyavaḥ ||13|| 14. sarvāṇy asyāṃ krūrāṇi sarve puruṣavadhāḥ ||14|| 15. sā brahmajyaṃ devapīyuṃ brahmagavy ādīyamānā mṛtyoḥ padvīṣa ā dyati ||15|| 16. meniḥ śatavadhā hi sā brahmajyasya kṣitir hi sā ||16|| 17. tasmād vai brāhmaṇānāṃ gaur durādharṣā vijānatā ||17|| 18. vajro dhāvantī vaiśvānara udvītā ||18|| 19. hetiḥ śaphān utkhidantī mahādevo 'pekṣamāṇā ||19|| 20. kṣurapavir īkṣamāṇā vāśyamānābhi sphūrjati ||20|| 21. mṛtyur hiṅkṛṇvaty ugro devaḥ puchaṃ paryasyantī ||21|| 22. sarvajyāniḥ karṇau varīvarjayantī rājayakṣmo mehantī ||22|| 23. menir duhyamānā śīrṣaktir dugdhā ||23|| 24. sedir upatiṣṭhantī mithoyodhaḥ parāmṛṣṭā ||24|| 25. śaravyā mukhe 'pinahyamāna ṛtir hanyamānā ||25|| 26. aghaviṣā nipatantī tamo nipatitā ||26|| 27. anugachantī prāṇān upa dāsayati brahmagavī brahmajyasya ||27|| {26} 28. vairaṃ vikṛtyamānā pautrādyaṃ vibhājyamānā ||28|| 29. devahetir hriyamāṇā vyṛddhir hṛtā ||29|| 30. pāpmādhidhīyamānā pāruṣyam avadhīyamānā ||30|| 31. viṣaṃ prayasyantī takmā prayastā ||31|| 32. aghaṃ pracyamānā duṣvapnyaṃ pakvā ||32|| 33. mūlabarhaṇī paryākriyamāṇā kṣitiḥ paryākṛtā ||33|| 34. asaṃjñā gandhena śug uddhriyamāṇāśīviṣa uddhṛtā ||34|| 35. abhūtir upahriyamāṇā parābhūtir upahṛtā ||35|| 36. śarvaḥ kruddhaḥ piśyamānā śimidā piśitā ||36|| 37. avartir aśyamānā nirṛtir aśitā ||37|| 38. aśitā lokāc chinatti brahmagavī brahmajyam asmāc cāmuṣmāc ca ||38|| {27} 39. tasyā āhananaṃ kṛtyā menir āśasanaṃ valaga ūbadhyam ||39|| 40. asvagatā parihṇutā ||40|| 41. agniḥ kravyād bhūtvā brahmagavī brahmajyaṃ praviśyātti ||41|| 42. sarvāsyāṅgā parvā mūlāni vṛścati ||42|| 43. chinatty asya pitṛbandhu parā bhāvayati mātṛbandhu ||43|| 44. vivāhāṃ jñātīnt sarvān api kṣāpayati brahmagavī brahmajyasya kṣatriyeṇāpunardīyamānā ||44|| 45. avāstum enam asvagam aprajasaṃ karoty aparāparaṇo bhavati kṣīyate ||45|| 46. ya evaṃ viduṣo brāhmaṇasya kṣatriyo gām ādatte ||46|| {28} 47. kṣipraṃ vai tasyāhanane gṛdhrāḥ kurvata ailabam ||47|| 48. kṣipraṃ vai tasyādahanaṃ pari nṛtyanti keśinīr āghnānāḥ pāṇinorasi kurvāṇāḥ pāpam ailabam ||48|| 49. kṣipraṃ vai tasya vāstuṣu vṛkāḥ kurvata ailabam ||49|| 50. kṣipraṃ vai tasya pṛchanti yat tad āsī3d idaṃ nu tā3d iti ||50|| 51. chindhy ā chindhi pra chindhy api kṣāpaya kṣāpaya ||51|| 52. ādadānam āṅgirasi brahmajyam upa dāsaya ||52|| 53. śrameṇa tapasā sṛṣṭā brahmaṇā vittā rte śritā ||1|| vaiśvadevī hy ucyase kṛtyā kūlbajam āvṛtā ||53|| 54. oṣantī samoṣantī brahmaṇo vajraḥ ||54|| 55. kṣurapavir mṛtyur bhūtvā vi dhāva tvam ||55|| 56. ā datse jinatāṃ varca iṣṭaṃ pūrtaṃ cāśiṣaḥ ||56|| 57. ādāya jītaṃ jītāya loke 'muṣmin pra yachasi ||57|| 58. aghnye padavīr bhava brāhmaṇasyābhiśastyā ||58|| 59. meniḥ śaravyā bhavāghād aghaviṣā bhava ||59|| 60. aghnye pra śiro jahi brahmajyasya kṛtāgaso devapīyor arādhasaḥ ||60|| 61. tvayā pramūrṇaṃ mṛditam agnir dahatu duścitam ||61|| {29} 62. vṛśca pra vṛśca saṃ vṛśca daha pra daha saṃ daha ||62|| 63. brahmajyaṃ devy aghnya ā mūlād anusaṃdaha ||63|| 64. yathāyād yamasādanāt pāpalokān parāvataḥ ||64|| 65. evā tvaṃ devy aghnye brahmajyasya kṛtāgaso devapīyor arādhasaḥ ||65|| 66. vajreṇa śataparvaṇā tīkṣṇena kṣurabhṛṣṭinā ||66|| 67. pra skandhān pra śiro jahi ||67|| 68. lomāny asya saṃ chindhi tvacam asya vi veṣṭaya ||68|| 69. māṃsāny asya śātaya snāvāny asya saṃ vṛha ||69|| 70. asthīny asya pīḍaya majjānam asya nir jahi ||70|| 71. sarvāsyāṅgā parvāṇi vi śrathaya ||71|| 72. agnir enaṃ kravyāt pṛthivyā nudatām ud oṣatu vāyur antarikṣān mahato varimṇaḥ ||72|| 73. sūrya enaṃ divaḥ pra ṇudatāṃ ny oṣatu ||73|| {30}
Unaccented IAST transliteration from GRETIL's Atharvaveda-Samhita, Shaunaka recension. Devanagari is generated from that IAST text.