Atharvaveda — Book 8. 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 8.1: Hymn 1. A charm to recover a dying man
- Atharvaveda 8.2: Hymn 2. The same
- Atharvaveda 8.3: Hymn 3. A prayer for the destruction of demons
- Atharvaveda 8.4: Hymn 4. Imprecations on demons
- Atharvaveda 8.5: Hymn 5. A charm accompanying investiture with an amulet
- Atharvaveda 8.6: Hymn 6. A charm to exercise evil spirits who beset women
- Atharvaveda 8.7: Hymn 7. A charm to restore a sick man to health
- Atharvaveda 8.8: Hymn 8. Imprecations directed against a hostile army
- Atharvaveda 8.9: Hymn 9. An enunciation of cosmogonical, ritual, and metrical doctrine
- Atharvaveda 8.10: Hymn 10. A glorification of the mystical abstraction Virāj
Atharvaveda 8.1 — Hymn 1. A charm to recover a dying man
1. Homage to Death the Ender! May thy breathings, inward and outward, still remain within thee. Here stay this man united with his spirit in the Sun's realm, the world of life eternal!
2. Bhaga hath lifted up this man, and Soma with his filaments, Indra and Agni, and the Gods the Maruts, raised him up to health.
3. Here is thy spirit, here thy breath, here is thy life, here is thy soul: By a celestial utterance we raise thee from Destruction's bonds.
4. Up from this place, O man, rise! sink not downward, casting away the bonds of Death that hold thee. Be not thou parted from this world, from sight of Agni and the Sun.
5. Purely for thee breathe Wind and Mātarisvan, and let the Waters rain on thee their nectar. The Sun shall shine with healing on thy body; Death shall have mercy on thee: do not leave us!
6. Upward must be thy way, O man, not downward: with life and mental vigour I endow thee. Ascend this car eternal, lightly rolling; then full of years shalt thou address the meeting.
7. Let not thy soul go thither, nor be lost to us: slight not the living, go not where the Fathers are. Let all the Gods retain thee here in safety.
8. Yearn not for the departed ones, for those who lead men far away. Rise up from darkness into light: come, both thy hands we clasp in ours.
9. Let not the black dog and the brindled seize thee, two warders of the way sent forth by Yama. Come hither; do not hesitate: with mind averted stay not there.
10. Forbear to tread this path, for it is awful: that path I speak of which thou hast not travelled. Enter it not, O man; this way is darkness: forward is danger, hitherward is safety.
11. Thy guardians be the Fires within the Waters, thy guardian be the Fire which men enkindle. Thy guardian be Vaisvānara Jātavedas; let not celestial Fire with lightning burn thee.
12. Let not the Flesh-Consumer plot against thee: depart thou far away from the Destroyer. Be Heaven and Earth and Sun and Moon thy keepers, and from the dart of Gods may Air protect thee.
13. May Vigilance and Watchfulness protect thee, Sleepless and Slumberless keep guard above thee! Let Guardian and let Wakeful be thy warders.
14. Let these be thy preservers, these thy keepers. All hail to these, to these be lowly worship!
15. May saving Savitar, Vāyu, Indra, Dhātar restore thee to com- munion with the living. Let not thy vigour or thy breath forsake thee: we recall thy life.
16. Let not the fiend with snapping jaws, nor darkness find thee: tongue, holy grass: how shouldst thou perish? May the Ādityas and the Vasus, Indra and Agni raise thee and to health restore thee.
17. The Sky hath raised thee, and the Earth, Prajāpati hath raised thee up. The Plants and Herbs with Soma as their King have rescued thee from Death.
18. Here let this man, O Gods, remain: let him not go to yonder world. We rescue him from Mrityu with a charm that hath a thousand powers.
19. I have delivered thee from Death. Strength-givers smelt and fashion thee! Let not she-fiends with wild loose locks, or fearful howlers yell at thee.
20. I have attained and captured thee: thou hast returned restored to youth. Perfect in body: so have I found all thy sight and all thy life.
21. Life hath breathed on thee; light hath come: darkness hath past away from thee. Far from thee we have buried Death, buried Destruction and: Decline.
Sanskrit and transliteration
Sanskrit
1. अन्तकाय मृत्यवे नमः प्राना अपाना इह ते रमन्ताम् । इहायम् अस्तु पुरुषः सहासुना सूर्यस्य भागे अमृतस्य लोके ॥1॥ 2. उद् एनं भगो अग्रभीद् उद् एनं सोमो अंशुमान् । उद् एनं मरुतो देवा उद् इन्द्राग्नी स्वस्तये ॥2॥ 3. इह ते ऽसुर् इह प्राण इहायुर् इह ते मनः । उत् त्वा निरृत्याः पाशेभ्यो दैव्या वचा भरामसि ॥3॥ 4. उत् क्रामातः पुरुष माव पत्था मृत्योः पड्वीषम् अवमुञ्चमानः । मा छित्था अस्माल् लोकाद् अग्नेः सूर्यस्य संदृशः ॥4॥ 5. तुभ्यं वातः पवतां मातरिश्वा तुभ्यं वर्षन्त्व् अमृतान्य् आपः । सूर्यस् ते तन्वे शं तपाति त्वाम् मृत्युर् दयतां मा प्र मेष्ठाः ॥5॥ 6. उद्यानं ते पुरुष नावयानं जीवातुं ते दक्षतातिं कृनोमि । आ हि रोहेमम् अमृतं सुखं रथम् अथ जिर्विर् विदथम् आ वदासि ॥6॥ 7. मा ते मनस् तत्र गान् मा तिरो भून् मा जीवेभ्यः प्र मदो मानु गाः पितॄन् । विश्वे देवा अभि रक्षन्तु त्वेह ॥7॥ 8. मा गतानाम् आ दीधीथा ये नयन्ति परावतम् । आ रोह तमसो ज्योतिर् एह्य् आ ते हस्तौ रभामहे ॥8॥ 9. श्यामश् च त्वा मा शबलश् च प्रेषितौ यमस्य यौ पथिरक्षी श्वानौ । अर्वाङ् एहि मा वि दीध्यो मात्र तिष्ठः पराङ्मनाः ॥9॥ 10. मैतं पन्थाम् अनु गा भीम एष येन पूर्वं नेयथ तं ब्रवीमि । तम एतत् पुरुष मा प्र पत्था भयं परस्ताद् अभयं ते अर्वाक् ॥10॥ {1} 11. रक्षन्तु त्वाग्नयो ये अप्स्व् अन्ता रक्षतु त्वा मनुष्या यम् इन्धते । वैश्वानरो रक्षतु जातवेदा दिव्यस् त्वा मा प्र धाग् विद्युता सह ॥11॥ 12. मा त्वा क्रव्याद् अभि मंस्तारात् संकसुकाच् चर रक्षतु त्वा द्यौ रक्षतु । पृथिवी सूर्यश् च त्वा रक्षतां चन्द्रमाश् च । अन्तरिक्षं रक्षतु देवहेत्याः ॥12॥ 13. बोधश् च त्वा प्रतिबोधश् च रक्षताम् अस्वप्नश् च त्वानवद्राणश् च रक्षताम् । गोपायंश् च त्वा जागृविश् च रक्षताम् ॥13॥ 14. ते त्वा रक्षन्तु ते त्वा गोपायन्तु तेभ्यो नमस् तेभ्यः स्वाहा ॥14॥ 15. जीवेभ्यस् त्वा समुदे वायुर् इन्द्रो धाता दधातु सविता त्रायमाणः । मा त्वा प्राणो बलं हासीद् असुं ते ऽनु ह्वयामसि ॥15॥ 16. मा त्वा जम्भः संहनुर् मा तमो विदन् मा जिह्वा बर्हिस् प्रमयुः कथा स्याः । उत् त्वादित्या वसवो भरन्तूद् इन्द्राग्नी स्वस्तये ॥16॥ 17. उत् त्वा द्यौर् उत् पृथिव्य् उत् प्रजापतिर् अग्रभीत् । उत् त्वा मृत्योर् ओषधयः सोमराज्ञीर् अपीपरन् ॥17॥ 18. अयं देवा इहैवास्त्व् अयं मामुत्र गाद् इतः । इमं सहस्रवीर्येण मृत्योर् उत् पारयामसि ॥18॥ 19. उत् त्वा मृत्योर् अपीपरं सं धमन्तु वयोधसः । मा त्वा व्यस्तकेश्यो मा त्वाघरुदो रुदन् ॥19॥ 20. आहार्षम् अविदं त्वा पुनर् आगाः पुनर्णवः । सर्वाङ्ग सर्वं ते चक्षुः सर्वम् आयुश् च ते ऽविदम् ॥20॥ 21. व्य् अवात् ते ज्योतिर् अभूद् अप त्वत् तमो अक्रमीत् । अप त्वन् मृत्युं निरृतिम् अप यक्ष्मं नि दध्मसि ॥21॥ {2}
Transliteration
1. antakāya mṛtyave namaḥ prānā apānā iha te ramantām | ihāyam astu puruṣaḥ sahāsunā sūryasya bhāge amṛtasya loke ||1|| 2. ud enaṃ bhago agrabhīd ud enaṃ somo aṃśumān | ud enaṃ maruto devā ud indrāgnī svastaye ||2|| 3. iha te 'sur iha prāṇa ihāyur iha te manaḥ | ut tvā nirṛtyāḥ pāśebhyo daivyā vacā bharāmasi ||3|| 4. ut krāmātaḥ puruṣa māva patthā mṛtyoḥ paḍvīṣam avamuñcamānaḥ | mā chitthā asmāl lokād agneḥ sūryasya saṃdṛśaḥ ||4|| 5. tubhyaṃ vātaḥ pavatāṃ mātariśvā tubhyaṃ varṣantv amṛtāny āpaḥ | sūryas te tanve śaṃ tapāti tvām mṛtyur dayatāṃ mā pra meṣṭhāḥ ||5|| 6. udyānaṃ te puruṣa nāvayānaṃ jīvātuṃ te dakṣatātiṃ kṛnomi | ā hi rohemam amṛtaṃ sukhaṃ ratham atha jirvir vidatham ā vadāsi ||6|| 7. mā te manas tatra gān mā tiro bhūn mā jīvebhyaḥ pra mado mānu gāḥ pitṝn | viśve devā abhi rakṣantu tveha ||7|| 8. mā gatānām ā dīdhīthā ye nayanti parāvatam | ā roha tamaso jyotir ehy ā te hastau rabhāmahe ||8|| 9. śyāmaś ca tvā mā śabalaś ca preṣitau yamasya yau pathirakṣī śvānau | arvāṅ ehi mā vi dīdhyo mātra tiṣṭhaḥ parāṅmanāḥ ||9|| 10. maitaṃ panthām anu gā bhīma eṣa yena pūrvaṃ neyatha taṃ bravīmi | tama etat puruṣa mā pra patthā bhayaṃ parastād abhayaṃ te arvāk ||10|| {1} 11. rakṣantu tvāgnayo ye apsv antā rakṣatu tvā manuṣyā yam indhate | vaiśvānaro rakṣatu jātavedā divyas tvā mā pra dhāg vidyutā saha ||11|| 12. mā tvā kravyād abhi maṃstārāt saṃkasukāc cara rakṣatu tvā dyau rakṣatu | pṛthivī sūryaś ca tvā rakṣatāṃ candramāś ca | antarikṣaṃ rakṣatu devahetyāḥ ||12|| 13. bodhaś ca tvā pratibodhaś ca rakṣatām asvapnaś ca tvānavadrāṇaś ca rakṣatām | gopāyaṃś ca tvā jāgṛviś ca rakṣatām ||13|| 14. te tvā rakṣantu te tvā gopāyantu tebhyo namas tebhyaḥ svāhā ||14|| 15. jīvebhyas tvā samude vāyur indro dhātā dadhātu savitā trāyamāṇaḥ | mā tvā prāṇo balaṃ hāsīd asuṃ te 'nu hvayāmasi ||15|| 16. mā tvā jambhaḥ saṃhanur mā tamo vidan mā jihvā barhis pramayuḥ kathā syāḥ | ut tvādityā vasavo bharantūd indrāgnī svastaye ||16|| 17. ut tvā dyaur ut pṛthivy ut prajāpatir agrabhīt | ut tvā mṛtyor oṣadhayaḥ somarājñīr apīparan ||17|| 18. ayaṃ devā ihaivāstv ayaṃ māmutra gād itaḥ | imaṃ sahasravīryeṇa mṛtyor ut pārayāmasi ||18|| 19. ut tvā mṛtyor apīparaṃ saṃ dhamantu vayodhasaḥ | mā tvā vyastakeśyo mā tvāgharudo rudan ||19|| 20. āhārṣam avidaṃ tvā punar āgāḥ punarṇavaḥ | sarvāṅga sarvaṃ te cakṣuḥ sarvam āyuś ca te 'vidam ||20|| 21. vy avāt te jyotir abhūd apa tvat tamo akramīt | apa tvan mṛtyuṃ nirṛtim apa yakṣmaṃ ni dadhmasi ||21|| {2}
Unaccented IAST transliteration from GRETIL's Atharvaveda-Samhita, Shaunaka recension. Devanagari is generated from that IAST text.
Atharvaveda 8.2 — Hymn 2. The same
1. Seize to thyself this trust of life for ever: thine be longevity which nothing shortens. Thy spirit and thy life again I bring thee: die not, nor vanish into mist and darkness.
2. Come to the light of living men, come hither: I draw thee to a life of hundred autumns. Loosing the bonds of Death, the curse that holds thee, I give thee age of very long duration.
3. Thy breath have I recovered from the Wind, thy vision from the Sun. Thy mind I stablish and secure within thee: feel in thy members,. use thy tongue, conversing.
4. I blow upon thee with the breath of bipeds and quadrupeds, as on a fire new-kindled. To thee, O Death, and to thy sight and breath have I paid reverence.
5. Let this man live, let him not die: we raise him, we recover him. I make for him a healing balm. O Death, forbear to slay this man.
6. Here for sound health I invocate a living animating plant, Preserving, queller of disease, victorious, full of power and might.
7. Seize him not, but encourage and release him: here let him stay, though thine, in all his vigour. Bhava and Sarva, pity and protect him: give him full life and drive away misfortunes.
8. Comfort him, Death, and pity him: let him arise and pass away, Unharmed, with all his members, hearing well, with old, may he through hundred years win profit with his soul.
9. May the Gods' missile pass thee by. I bring thee safe from the mist: from death have I preserved thee. Far have I banished flesh-consuming Agni: I place a rampart for thy life's protection.
10. Saving him from that misty path of thine which cannot be defined. From that descent of thine, O Death, we make for him a shield of prayer.
11. I give thee both the acts of breath, health, lengthened life, and death by age. All Yama's messengers who roam around, sent by Vaivasvata, I chase away.
12. Far off we drive Malignity, Destruction, Pisāchas banqueters on flesh, and Grāhi. And all the demon kind, the brood of sin, like darkness, we dispel.
13. I win thy life from Agni, from the living everlasting Jātavedas. This I procure for thee, that thou, undying, mayst not suffer harm, that thou mayst be content, that all be well with thee.
14. Gracious to thee be Heaven and Earth, bringing no grief, and drawing nigh! Pleasantly shine the Sun for thee, the Wind blow sweetly to thy heart! Let the celestial Waters full of milk flow happily for thee.
15. Auspicious be the Plants to thee! I have upraised thee, borne thee from the lower to the upper earth: Let the two Sons of Aditi, the Sun and Moon, protect thee there.
16. Whatever robe to cover thee or zone thou makest for thyself, We make it pleasant to thy frame: may it be soft and smooth to touch.
17. When, with a very keen and cleasing razor, our hair and beards thou shavest as a barber, Smoothing our face steal not our vital forces.
18. Auspicious unto thee be rice and barley, causing no painful sick- ness or consumption, these deliver from calamity.
19. Thy food, thy drink, whate'er they be corn grown by cultivation, milk, Food eatable, uneatable, I make all poisonless for thee.
20. We give thee over as a charge to Day and Night, in trust to both. Keep him for me from stingy fiends, from those who fain would feed on him.
21. A hundred, yea, ten thousand years we give thee, ages two, three, four. May Indra, Agni, all the Gods, with willing favour look on thee.
22. To Autumn we deliver thee, to Winter, Spring and Summer's care. We trust thee with auspicious years wherein the plants and herbs grow up.
23. Death is the lord of bipeds, Death is sovran lord of quadrupeds. Away I bear thee from that: Death the ruler: be not thou afraid.
24. Thou, still uninjured, shalt not die: be not afraid; thou shalt not die. Here where I am men do not die or go to lowest depths of gloom.
25. Here verily all creatures live, the cow, the horse, the man, the beast, Here where this holy prayer is used, a rampart that protecteth life. Let it preserve thee from thy peers, from incantation, from thy friends.
26. Live very long, be healthy, be immortal: let not the vital breath forsake thy body.
27. One and a hundred modes of death, dangers that may be over- come, May Gods deliver thee from this when Agni, dear to all men, bids.
28. Body of Agni prompt to save, slayer of fiends and foes art thou, Yea, banisher of malady, the healing balm called Pūtudru.
Sanskrit and transliteration
Sanskrit
1. आ रभस्वेमाम् अमृतस्य श्नुष्टिम् अछिद्यमाना जरदष्टिर् अस्तु ते । असुं त आयुः पुनर् आ भरामि रजस् तमो मोप गा मा प्र मेष्ठाः ॥1॥ 2. जीवतां ज्योतिर् अभ्येह्य् अर्वाङ् आ त्वा हरामि शतशारदाय । अवमुञ्चन् मृत्युपाशान् अशस्तिं द्राघीय आयुः प्रतरं ते दधामि ॥2॥ 3. वातात् ते प्रानम् अविदं सूर्याच् चक्षुर् अहं तव । यत् ते मनस् त्वयि तद् धारयामि सं वित्स्वाङ्गैर् वद जिह्वयालपन् ॥3॥ 4. प्राणेन त्वा द्विपदां चतुष्पदाम् अग्निम् इव जातम् अभि सं धमामि । नमस् ते मृत्यो चक्षुषे नमः प्राणाय ते ऽकरम् ॥4॥ 5. अयं जीवतु मा मृतेमं सम् ईरयामसि । कृणोम्य् अस्मै भेषजं मृत्यो मा पुरुषं वधीः ॥5॥ 6. जीवलां नघारिषां जीवन्तीम् ओषधीम् अहम् । त्रायमाणां सहमानां सहस्वतीम् इह हुवे ऽस्मा अरिष्टतातये ॥6॥ 7. अधि ब्रूहि मा रभथाः सृजेमं तवैव सन्त् सर्वहायाः इहास्तु । भवाशर्वौ मृडतं शर्म यछतम् अपसिध्य दुरितं धत्तम् आयुः ॥7॥ 8. अस्मै मृत्यो अधि ब्रूहीमं दयस्वोद् इतो ऽयम् एतु । अरिष्टः सर्वाङ्गः सुश्रुज् जरसा शतहायन आत्मना भुजम् अश्नुताम् ॥8॥ 9. देवानां हेतिः परि त्वा वृणक्तु पारयामि त्वा रजस उत् त्वा मृत्योर् अपीपरम् । आराद् अग्निं क्रव्यादं निरूहं जीवातवे ते परिधिं दधामि ॥9॥ 10. यत् ते नियानं रजसं मृत्यो अनवधर्ष्यम् । पथ इमं तस्माद् रक्षन्तो ब्रह्मास्मै वर्म कृण्मसि ॥10॥ {3} 11. कृणोमि ते प्राणापानौ जरां मृत्युं दीर्घम् आयुः स्वस्ति । वैवस्वतेन प्रहितान् यमदूतांश् चरतो ऽप सेधामि सर्वान् ॥11॥ 12. आराद् अरातिं निरृतिं परो ग्राहिं क्रव्यादः पिशाचान् । रक्षो यत् सर्वं दुर्भूतं तत् तम इवाप हन्मसि ॥12॥ 13. अग्नेष् ट प्रानम् अमृताद् आयुष्मतो वन्वे जातवेदसः । यथा न रिष्या अमृतः सजूर् असस् तत् ते कृणोमि तद् उ ते सम् ऋध्यताम् ॥13॥ 14. शिवे ते स्तां द्यावापृथिवी असंतापे अभिश्रियौ । शं ते सूर्य आ तपतु शं वातो वातु ते हृदे । शिवा अभि क्षरन्तु त्वापो दिव्याः पयस्वतीः ॥14॥ 15. शिवास् ते सन्त्व् ओषधय उत् त्वाहार्षम् अधरस्या उत्तरां पृथिवीम् अभि । तत्र त्वादित्यौ रक्षतां सूर्याचन्द्रमसाव् उभा ॥15॥ 16. यत् ते वासः परिधानं यां नीविं कृणुषे त्वम् । शिवं ते तन्वे तत् कृण्मः संस्पर्शे ऽद्रूक्ष्णम् अस्तु ते ॥16॥ 17. यत् क्षुरेण मर्चयता सुतेजसा वप्ता वपसि केशश्मश्रु । शुभं मुखं मा न आयुः प्र मोषीः ॥17॥ 18. शिवौ ते स्तां व्रीहियवाव् अबलासाव् अदोमधौ । एतौ यक्ष्मं वि बाधेते एतौ मुञ्चतो अंहसः ॥18॥ 19. यद् अश्नासि यत् पिबसि धान्यं कृष्याः पयः । यद् आद्यं यद् अनाद्यं सर्वं ते अन्नम् अविषं कृणोमि ॥19॥ 20. अह्ने च त्वा रात्रये चोभाभ्यां परि दद्मसि । अरायेभ्यो जिघत्सुभ्य इमं मे परि रक्षत ॥20॥ {4} 21. शतं ते ऽयुतं हायनान् द्वे युगे त्रीणि चत्वारि कृण्मः । इन्द्राग्नी विश्वे देवास् ते ऽनु मन्यन्ताम् अहृणीयमानाः ॥21॥ 22. शरदे त्वा हेमन्ताय वसन्ताय ग्रीष्माय परि दद्मसि । वर्षाणि तुभ्यं स्योनानि येषु वर्धन्त ओषधीः ॥22॥ 23. मृत्युर् ईशे द्विपदां मृत्युर् ईशे चतुष्पदाम् । तस्मात् त्वां मृत्योर् गोपतेर् उद् भरामि स मा बिभेः ॥23॥ 24. सो ऽरिष्ट न मरिष्यसि न मरिष्यसि मा बिभेः । न वै तत्र म्रियन्ते नो यन्ति अधमं तमः ॥24॥ 25. सर्वो वै तत्र जीवति गौर् अश्वः पुरुषः पशुः । यत्रेदं ब्रह्म क्रियते परिधिर् जीवनाय कम् ॥25॥ 26. परि त्वा पातु समानेभ्यो ऽभिचारात् सबन्धुभ्यः । अमम्रिर् भवामृतो ऽतिजीवो मा ते हासिषुर् असवः शरीरम् ॥26॥ 27. ये मृत्यव एकशतं या नाष्ट्रा अतितार्याः । मुञ्चन्तु तस्मात् त्वां देवा अग्नेर् वैश्वानराद् अधि ॥27॥ 28. अग्नेः शरीरम् असि पारयिष्णु रक्षोहासि सपत्नहा । अथो अमीवचातनः पूतुद्रुर् नाम भेषजम् ॥28॥ {5}
Transliteration
1. ā rabhasvemām amṛtasya śnuṣṭim achidyamānā jaradaṣṭir astu te | asuṃ ta āyuḥ punar ā bharāmi rajas tamo mopa gā mā pra meṣṭhāḥ ||1|| 2. jīvatāṃ jyotir abhyehy arvāṅ ā tvā harāmi śataśāradāya | avamuñcan mṛtyupāśān aśastiṃ drāghīya āyuḥ prataraṃ te dadhāmi ||2|| 3. vātāt te prānam avidaṃ sūryāc cakṣur ahaṃ tava | yat te manas tvayi tad dhārayāmi saṃ vitsvāṅgair vada jihvayālapan ||3|| 4. prāṇena tvā dvipadāṃ catuṣpadām agnim iva jātam abhi saṃ dhamāmi | namas te mṛtyo cakṣuṣe namaḥ prāṇāya te 'karam ||4|| 5. ayaṃ jīvatu mā mṛtemaṃ sam īrayāmasi | kṛṇomy asmai bheṣajaṃ mṛtyo mā puruṣaṃ vadhīḥ ||5|| 6. jīvalāṃ naghāriṣāṃ jīvantīm oṣadhīm aham | trāyamāṇāṃ sahamānāṃ sahasvatīm iha huve 'smā ariṣṭatātaye ||6|| 7. adhi brūhi mā rabhathāḥ sṛjemaṃ tavaiva sant sarvahāyāḥ ihāstu | bhavāśarvau mṛḍataṃ śarma yachatam apasidhya duritaṃ dhattam āyuḥ ||7|| 8. asmai mṛtyo adhi brūhīmaṃ dayasvod ito 'yam etu | ariṣṭaḥ sarvāṅgaḥ suśruj jarasā śatahāyana ātmanā bhujam aśnutām ||8|| 9. devānāṃ hetiḥ pari tvā vṛṇaktu pārayāmi tvā rajasa ut tvā mṛtyor apīparam | ārād agniṃ kravyādaṃ nirūhaṃ jīvātave te paridhiṃ dadhāmi ||9|| 10. yat te niyānaṃ rajasaṃ mṛtyo anavadharṣyam | patha imaṃ tasmād rakṣanto brahmāsmai varma kṛṇmasi ||10|| {3} 11. kṛṇomi te prāṇāpānau jarāṃ mṛtyuṃ dīrgham āyuḥ svasti | vaivasvatena prahitān yamadūtāṃś carato 'pa sedhāmi sarvān ||11|| 12. ārād arātiṃ nirṛtiṃ paro grāhiṃ kravyādaḥ piśācān | rakṣo yat sarvaṃ durbhūtaṃ tat tama ivāpa hanmasi ||12|| 13. agneṣ ṭa prānam amṛtād āyuṣmato vanve jātavedasaḥ | yathā na riṣyā amṛtaḥ sajūr asas tat te kṛṇomi tad u te sam ṛdhyatām ||13|| 14. śive te stāṃ dyāvāpṛthivī asaṃtāpe abhiśriyau | śaṃ te sūrya ā tapatu śaṃ vāto vātu te hṛde | śivā abhi kṣarantu tvāpo divyāḥ payasvatīḥ ||14|| 15. śivās te santv oṣadhaya ut tvāhārṣam adharasyā uttarāṃ pṛthivīm abhi | tatra tvādityau rakṣatāṃ sūryācandramasāv ubhā ||15|| 16. yat te vāsaḥ paridhānaṃ yāṃ nīviṃ kṛṇuṣe tvam | śivaṃ te tanve tat kṛṇmaḥ saṃsparśe 'drūkṣṇam astu te ||16|| 17. yat kṣureṇa marcayatā sutejasā vaptā vapasi keśaśmaśru | śubhaṃ mukhaṃ mā na āyuḥ pra moṣīḥ ||17|| 18. śivau te stāṃ vrīhiyavāv abalāsāv adomadhau | etau yakṣmaṃ vi bādhete etau muñcato aṃhasaḥ ||18|| 19. yad aśnāsi yat pibasi dhānyaṃ kṛṣyāḥ payaḥ | yad ādyaṃ yad anādyaṃ sarvaṃ te annam aviṣaṃ kṛṇomi ||19|| 20. ahne ca tvā rātraye cobhābhyāṃ pari dadmasi | arāyebhyo jighatsubhya imaṃ me pari rakṣata ||20|| {4} 21. śataṃ te 'yutaṃ hāyanān dve yuge trīṇi catvāri kṛṇmaḥ | indrāgnī viśve devās te 'nu manyantām ahṛṇīyamānāḥ ||21|| 22. śarade tvā hemantāya vasantāya grīṣmāya pari dadmasi | varṣāṇi tubhyaṃ syonāni yeṣu vardhanta oṣadhīḥ ||22|| 23. mṛtyur īśe dvipadāṃ mṛtyur īśe catuṣpadām | tasmāt tvāṃ mṛtyor gopater ud bharāmi sa mā bibheḥ ||23|| 24. so 'riṣṭa na mariṣyasi na mariṣyasi mā bibheḥ | na vai tatra mriyante no yanti adhamaṃ tamaḥ ||24|| 25. sarvo vai tatra jīvati gaur aśvaḥ puruṣaḥ paśuḥ | yatredaṃ brahma kriyate paridhir jīvanāya kam ||25|| 26. pari tvā pātu samānebhyo 'bhicārāt sabandhubhyaḥ | amamrir bhavāmṛto 'tijīvo mā te hāsiṣur asavaḥ śarīram ||26|| 27. ye mṛtyava ekaśataṃ yā nāṣṭrā atitāryāḥ | muñcantu tasmāt tvāṃ devā agner vaiśvānarād adhi ||27|| 28. agneḥ śarīram asi pārayiṣṇu rakṣohāsi sapatnahā | atho amīvacātanaḥ pūtudrur nāma bheṣajam ||28|| {5}
Unaccented IAST transliteration from GRETIL's Atharvaveda-Samhita, Shaunaka recension. Devanagari is generated from that IAST text.
Atharvaveda 8.3 — Hymn 3. A prayer for the destruction of demons
1. I balm with oil the mighty demon-slayer, to the most famous friend I come for shelter. Enkindled, sharpened by our rites, may Agni protect us in the day and night from evil.
2. O Jātavedas, armed with teeth of iron, enkindled with thy flame, attack the demons. Seize with thy tongue the foolish gods' adorers: rend, put with- in thy mouth the raw-flesh-eaters.
3. Apply thy teeth, the upper and the lower, thou who hast both, enkindled and destroying. Roam also in the air, O King, around us, and with thy jaws assail the wicked spirits.
4. Pierce through the Yātudhāna's skin, O Agni; let the destroying dart with fire consume him. Rend his joints, Jātavedas! let the eater of raw flesh, seeking flesh, tear and destroy him.
5. Where now thou seest, Agni Jātavedas! a Yātudhāna, standing still or roaming. Or one that flieth through the air's mid-region, kindled to fury as an archer pierce him.
6. Bending thy shafts through sacrifices, Agni! dipping thine arrows in the hymn to point them, Pierce to the heart therewith the Yātudhānas, and break their arms uplifted to attack thee.
7. Rescue the captives also, Jātavedas! yea, those whom Yātudhā- nas' spears have captured. Strike down that fiend, blazing before him, Agni! Let spotted carrion-eating kites devour him.
8. Here tell this forth, O Agni: whosoever is, he himself, or acteth as, a demon, Grasp him, O thou most youthful, with thy fuel: to the Man- Seer's eye give him as booty.
9. With keen glance guard the sacrifice, O Agni: thou Sage, con- duct it onward to the Vasus. Let not the fiends, O Man-Beholder, harm thee burning against the Rākshasas to slay them.
10. Look on the fiend, 'mid men, as Man-Beholder: rend thou his three extremities in pieces. Demolish with thy flame his ribs, O Agni: the Yātudhāna's root destroy thou triply.
11. Thrice, Agni, let thy noose surround the demon who with his falsehood injures holy Order. Loud roaring with thy flame, Jātavedas, fetter him in the pre- sense of the singer.
12. Agni, what curse the pair this day may utter, what rude rough word the worshippers have spoken, Each arrowy taunt sped from the angry spirit,—pierce to the heart therewith the Yātudhānas.
13. With fervent heat exterminate the demons: destroy the fiends with glow and flame, O Agni. Destroy with fire the foolish gods' adorers: destroy the insatiate fiercely-burning creatures.
14. May Gods destroy to-day the evil-doer: may uttered curses turn again and strike him. Let arrows pierce the liar in his vitals, and Visva's net enclose the Yātudhāna.
15. The fiend who smears himself with flesh of cattle, with flesh of horses and of human bodies, Who steals the milch-cow's milk away, O Agni,—tear off the heads of such with fiery fury.
16. Let the fiends steal the poison of the cattle: may Aditi cast off the evil-doers. May the God Savitar give them up to ruin, and be their share of herbs and plants denied them.
17. The cow gives milk each year, O Man-Beholder: let not the Yātudhāna ever taste it. Agni, if one should glut him with the biestings, pierce with thy flame his vitals as he meets thee.
18. Agni, from days of old thou slayest demons: never have Rākshasas in fight o'ercome thee. Burn up the foolish ones, the flesh-devourers: let none of them escape thy heavenly arrow.
19. Guard us, O Agni, from above and under, protect us from be- hind and from before us; And may thy flames, most fierce and never wasting, glowing with fervent heat, consume the sinner.
20. From rear, from front, from under, from above us, Agni, pro- tect us as a sage with wisdom. Guard to old age thy friend as friend eternal: O Agni, as im- mortal, guard us mortals.
21. Lend thou the worshipper that eye, O Agni, where with thou lookest on the hoof-armed demons. With light celestial in Atharvan's manner burn up the fool who ruins truth with falsehood.
22. We set thee round us as a fort, victorious Agni! thee, a sage, In conquering colour day by day, destroyer of the treacherous foe.
23. With deadly poison strike thou back the treacherous brood of Rākshasas, O Agni, with thy sharpened glow, with rays that flash with points of flame.
24. Agni shines far and wide with lofty splendour, and by his great- ness makes all things apparent. He conquers godless and malign enchantments, and sharpens both his horns to gore the ogres.
25. Thy two unwasting horns, O Jātavedas, keen-pointed weapons, sharpened by devotion With these transfix the wicked-souled Kimidin, with fierce flame, Jātavedas! when he meets thee.
26. Bright, radiant, meet to be adored, immortal with refulgent glow, Agni drives Rākshasas away.
Sanskrit and transliteration
Sanskrit
1. रक्षोहणं वाजिनम् आ जिघर्मि मित्रं प्रथिष्ठम् उप यामि शर्म । शिशानो अग्निः क्रतुभिः समिद्धः स नो दिवा स रिषः पातु नक्तम् ॥1॥ 2. अयोदंष्ट्रो अर्चिषा यातुधानान् उप स्पृश जातवेदः समिद्धः । आ जिह्वया मूरदेवान् रभस्व क्रव्यादो वृष्ट्वापि धत्स्वासन् ॥2॥ 3. उभोभयाविन्न् उप धेहि दंष्ट्रौ हिंस्रः शिशानो ऽवरं परं च । उतान्तरिक्षे परि याह्य् अग्ने जम्भैः सं धेह्य् अभि यातुधानान् ॥3॥ 4. अग्ने त्वचं यातुधानस्य भिन्धि हिंस्राशनिर् हरसा हन्त्व् एनम् । प्र पर्वाणि जातवेदः शृणीहि क्रव्यात् क्रविष्णुर् वि चिनोत्व् एनम् ॥4॥ 5. यत्रेदानीं पश्यसि जातवेदस् तिष्ठन्तम् अग्न उत वा चरन्तम् । उतान्तरिक्षे पतन्तं यातुधानं तम् अस्ता विध्य शर्वा शिशानः ॥5॥ 6. यज्ञैर् इषूः संनममानो अग्ने इवाचा शल्यां अशनिभिर् दिहानः । ताभिर् विध्य हृदये यातुधानान् प्रतीचो बाहून् प्रति भङ्ग्ध्य् एषाम् ॥6॥ 7. उतारब्धान्त् स्पृनुहि जातवेद उतारेभाणां ऋष्टिभिर् यातुधानान् । अग्ने पूर्वो नि जहि शोशुचान आमादः क्ष्विङ्कास् तम् अदन्त्व् एनीः ॥7॥ 8. इह प्र ब्रूहि यतमः सो अग्ने यातुधानो य इदं कृणोति । तम् आ रभस्व समिधा यविष्ठ नृचक्षसश् चक्षुषे रन्धयैनम् ॥8॥ 9. तीक्ष्णेनाग्ने चक्षुषा रक्ष यज्ञं प्राञ्चं वसुभ्यः प्र णय प्रचेतः । हिंस्रं रक्षांस्य् अभि शोशुचानं मा त्वा दभन् यातुधाना नृचक्षः ॥9॥ 10. नृचक्षा रक्षः परि पश्य विक्षु तस्य त्रीणि प्रति शृणीह्य् अग्रा । तस्याग्ने पृष्टीर् हरसा शृणीहि त्रेधा मूलं यातुधानस्य वृश्च ॥10॥ {6} 11. त्रिर् यातुधानः प्रसितिं त एत्व् ऋतं यो अग्ने अनृतेन हन्ति । तम् अर्चिषा स्फूर्जयन् जातवेदः समक्षम् एनम् गृणते नि युङ्ग्धि ॥11॥ 12. यद् अग्ने अद्य मिथुना शपातो यद् वाचस् तृष्टं जनयन्त रेभाः । मन्योर् मनसः शरव्या जायते या तया विध्य हृदये यातुधानान् ॥12॥ 13. परा शृणीहि तपसा यातुधानान् पराग्ने रक्षो हरसा शृणीहि । परार्चिषा मूरदेवान् छृणीहि परासुतृपः शोशुचतः शृणीहि ॥13॥ 14. पराद्य देवा वृजिनं शृणन्तु प्रत्यग् एनं शपथा यन्तु सृष्टाः । वाचास्तेनं शरव ऋछन्तु मर्मन् विश्वस्यैतु प्रसितिं यातुधानः ॥14॥ 15. यः पौरुषेयेण क्रविषा समङ्क्ते यो अश्व्येन पशुना यातुधानः । यो अघ्न्याया भरति क्षीरम् अग्ने तेषां शीर्षाणि हरसापि वृश्च ॥15॥ 16. विषं गवां यातुधाना भरन्ताम् आ वृश्चन्ताम् अदितये दुरेवाः । परैणान् देवः सविता ददातु परा भागम् ओषधीनां जयन्ताम् ॥16॥ 17. संवत्सरीणं पय उस्रियायास् तस्य माशीद् यातुधानो नृचक्षः । पीयूषम् अग्ने यतमस् तितृप्सात् तं प्रत्यञ्चम् अर्चिषा विध्य मर्मणि ॥17॥ 18. सनाद् अग्ने मृणसि यातुधानान् न त्वा रक्षांसि पृतनासु जिग्युः । सहमूरान् अनु दह क्रव्यादो मा ते हेत्या मुक्षत दैव्यायाः ॥18॥ 19. त्वं नो अग्ने अधराद् उदक्तस् त्वं पश्चाद् उत रक्षा पुरस्तात् । प्रति त्ये ते अजरासस् तपिष्ठा अघशंसं शोशुचतो दहन्तु ॥19॥ 20. पश्चात् पुरस्ताद् अधराद् उतोत्तरात् कविः काव्येन परि पाह्य् अग्ने । सखा सखायम् अजरो जरिम्ने अग्ने मर्तां अमर्त्यस् त्वं नः ॥20॥ {7} 21. तद् अग्ने चक्षुः प्रति धेहि रेभे शफारुजो येन पश्यसि यातुधानान् । अथर्ववज् ज्योतिषा दैव्येन सत्यं धूर्वन्तम् अचितं न्योष ॥21॥ 22. परि त्वाग्ने पुरं वयं विप्रं सहस्य धीमहि । धृषद्वर्णं दिवेदिवे हन्तारं भङ्गुरावतः ॥22॥ 23. विषेण भङ्गुरावतः प्रति स्म रक्षसो जहि । अग्ने तिग्मेन शोचिषा तपुरग्राभिर् अर्चिभिः ॥23॥ 24. वि ज्योतिषा बृहता भात्य् अग्निर् आविर् विश्वानि कृणुते महित्वा । प्रादेवीर् मायाः सहते दुरेवाः शिशीते शृङ्गे रक्षोभ्यो विनिक्षे ॥24॥ 25. ये ते शृङ्गे अजरे जातवेदस् तिग्महेती ब्रह्मसंशिते । ताभ्यां दुर्हार्दम् अभिदासन्तं किमीदिनं । प्रत्यञ्चम् अर्चिषा जातवेदो वि निक्ष्व ॥25॥ 26. अग्नी रक्षांसि सेधति शुक्रशोचिर् अमर्त्यः । शुचिः पावक ईड्यः ॥26॥ {8}
Transliteration
1. rakṣohaṇaṃ vājinam ā jigharmi mitraṃ prathiṣṭham upa yāmi śarma | śiśāno agniḥ kratubhiḥ samiddhaḥ sa no divā sa riṣaḥ pātu naktam ||1|| 2. ayodaṃṣṭro arciṣā yātudhānān upa spṛśa jātavedaḥ samiddhaḥ | ā jihvayā mūradevān rabhasva kravyādo vṛṣṭvāpi dhatsvāsan ||2|| 3. ubhobhayāvinn upa dhehi daṃṣṭrau hiṃsraḥ śiśāno 'varaṃ paraṃ ca | utāntarikṣe pari yāhy agne jambhaiḥ saṃ dhehy abhi yātudhānān ||3|| 4. agne tvacaṃ yātudhānasya bhindhi hiṃsrāśanir harasā hantv enam | pra parvāṇi jātavedaḥ śṛṇīhi kravyāt kraviṣṇur vi cinotv enam ||4|| 5. yatredānīṃ paśyasi jātavedas tiṣṭhantam agna uta vā carantam | utāntarikṣe patantaṃ yātudhānaṃ tam astā vidhya śarvā śiśānaḥ ||5|| 6. yajñair iṣūḥ saṃnamamāno agne ivācā śalyāṃ aśanibhir dihānaḥ | tābhir vidhya hṛdaye yātudhānān pratīco bāhūn prati bhaṅgdhy eṣām ||6|| 7. utārabdhānt spṛnuhi jātaveda utārebhāṇāṃ ṛṣṭibhir yātudhānān | agne pūrvo ni jahi śośucāna āmādaḥ kṣviṅkās tam adantv enīḥ ||7|| 8. iha pra brūhi yatamaḥ so agne yātudhāno ya idaṃ kṛṇoti | tam ā rabhasva samidhā yaviṣṭha nṛcakṣasaś cakṣuṣe randhayainam ||8|| 9. tīkṣṇenāgne cakṣuṣā rakṣa yajñaṃ prāñcaṃ vasubhyaḥ pra ṇaya pracetaḥ | hiṃsraṃ rakṣāṃsy abhi śośucānaṃ mā tvā dabhan yātudhānā nṛcakṣaḥ ||9|| 10. nṛcakṣā rakṣaḥ pari paśya vikṣu tasya trīṇi prati śṛṇīhy agrā | tasyāgne pṛṣṭīr harasā śṛṇīhi tredhā mūlaṃ yātudhānasya vṛśca ||10|| {6} 11. trir yātudhānaḥ prasitiṃ ta etv ṛtaṃ yo agne anṛtena hanti | tam arciṣā sphūrjayan jātavedaḥ samakṣam enam gṛṇate ni yuṅgdhi ||11|| 12. yad agne adya mithunā śapāto yad vācas tṛṣṭaṃ janayanta rebhāḥ | manyor manasaḥ śaravyā jāyate yā tayā vidhya hṛdaye yātudhānān ||12|| 13. parā śṛṇīhi tapasā yātudhānān parāgne rakṣo harasā śṛṇīhi | parārciṣā mūradevān chṛṇīhi parāsutṛpaḥ śośucataḥ śṛṇīhi ||13|| 14. parādya devā vṛjinaṃ śṛṇantu pratyag enaṃ śapathā yantu sṛṣṭāḥ | vācāstenaṃ śarava ṛchantu marman viśvasyaitu prasitiṃ yātudhānaḥ ||14|| 15. yaḥ pauruṣeyeṇa kraviṣā samaṅkte yo aśvyena paśunā yātudhānaḥ | yo aghnyāyā bharati kṣīram agne teṣāṃ śīrṣāṇi harasāpi vṛśca ||15|| 16. viṣaṃ gavāṃ yātudhānā bharantām ā vṛścantām aditaye durevāḥ | paraiṇān devaḥ savitā dadātu parā bhāgam oṣadhīnāṃ jayantām ||16|| 17. saṃvatsarīṇaṃ paya usriyāyās tasya māśīd yātudhāno nṛcakṣaḥ | pīyūṣam agne yatamas titṛpsāt taṃ pratyañcam arciṣā vidhya marmaṇi ||17|| 18. sanād agne mṛṇasi yātudhānān na tvā rakṣāṃsi pṛtanāsu jigyuḥ | sahamūrān anu daha kravyādo mā te hetyā mukṣata daivyāyāḥ ||18|| 19. tvaṃ no agne adharād udaktas tvaṃ paścād uta rakṣā purastāt | prati tye te ajarāsas tapiṣṭhā aghaśaṃsaṃ śośucato dahantu ||19|| 20. paścāt purastād adharād utottarāt kaviḥ kāvyena pari pāhy agne | sakhā sakhāyam ajaro jarimne agne martāṃ amartyas tvaṃ naḥ ||20|| {7} 21. tad agne cakṣuḥ prati dhehi rebhe śaphārujo yena paśyasi yātudhānān | atharvavaj jyotiṣā daivyena satyaṃ dhūrvantam acitaṃ nyoṣa ||21|| 22. pari tvāgne puraṃ vayaṃ vipraṃ sahasya dhīmahi | dhṛṣadvarṇaṃ divedive hantāraṃ bhaṅgurāvataḥ ||22|| 23. viṣeṇa bhaṅgurāvataḥ prati sma rakṣaso jahi | agne tigmena śociṣā tapuragrābhir arcibhiḥ ||23|| 24. vi jyotiṣā bṛhatā bhāty agnir āvir viśvāni kṛṇute mahitvā | prādevīr māyāḥ sahate durevāḥ śiśīte śṛṅge rakṣobhyo vinikṣe ||24|| 25. ye te śṛṅge ajare jātavedas tigmahetī brahmasaṃśite | tābhyāṃ durhārdam abhidāsantaṃ kimīdinaṃ | pratyañcam arciṣā jātavedo vi nikṣva ||25|| 26. agnī rakṣāṃsi sedhati śukraśocir amartyaḥ | śuciḥ pāvaka īḍyaḥ ||26|| {8}
Unaccented IAST transliteration from GRETIL's Atharvaveda-Samhita, Shaunaka recension. Devanagari is generated from that IAST text.
Atharvaveda 8.4 — Hymn 4. Imprecations on demons
1. Indra and Soma, burn, destroy the demon foe! Send downward, O ye Bulls, those who add gloom to gloom. Annihilate the fools, slay them and burn them up: chase them away from us, pierce the voracious fiends.
2. Let sin, Indra and Soma! round the wicked boil, like as a cald- ron set amid the flames of fire. Against the foe of prayer, eater of gory flesh, the fearful-eyed Kimidin, keep perpetual hate.
3. Indra and Soma, plunge the wicked in the depth, yea, cast them into darkness that hath no support, So that not one of them may ever thence return: so may your wrathful might prevail and conquer them.
4. Indra and Soma, hurl your deadly crushing bolt down on the wicked fiend from heaven and from the earth. Yea, fashion from the big clouds your celestial dart wherewith ye burn to death the waxing demon race.
5. Indra and Soma, cast ye downward from the sky your deadly bolts of stone burning with fiery flame, Eternal, scorching darts. Plunge the voracious fiends within the depth, and let them pass without a sound.
6. Indra and Soma, let this hymn control you both, even as the girth encompasses two vigorous steeds The song of praise which I with wisdom offer you. Do ye, as Lords of men, animate these my prayers.
7. In your impetuous manner think ye both thereon: destroy those evil spirits, kill the treacherous fiends. Indra and Soma, let the wicked have no bliss whoso at any time- attacks and injures us.
8. Whoso accuses me with words of falsehood when I pursue my way with guileless spirit, May he, the speaker of untruth, be, Indra! like water which the hollowed hand compresses.
9. Those who destroy, as is their wont, the simple, and with their evil natures harm the righteous, May Soma give them over to the serpent, or to the lap of Nirriti consign them.
10. O Agni, whosoever seeks to injure the essence of our food, kine, steeds, or bodies, May he, the adversary, thief, and robber, sink to destruction,. both himself and offspring.
11. May he be swept away, himself and children; may all the three earths press him down beneath them. May his fair glory, O ye Gods, be blighted, who in the day or night would fain destroy us.
12. The prudent finds it easy to distinguish the true and false: their words oppose each other. Of these two that which is the true and honest Soma protects, and brings the false to nothing.
13. Never doth Soma aid and guide the wicked or him who falsely claims the Warrior's title. He slays the fiend and him who speaks untruly: both lie entan- gled in the noose of Indra.
14. As if I worshipped deities of falsehood, or thought vain thoughts about the Gods, O Agni! Why art thou angry with us, Jātavedas? Destruction fall on those who lie against thee!
15. So may I die this day if I have harassed any man's life, or if I be a demon. Yea, may he lose all his ten sons together who with false tongue hath called me Yātudhāna.
16. May Indra slay him with a mighty weapon, and let the vilest of all creatures perish, The fiend who says that he is pure, who calls me a demon though devoid of demon nature.
17. She too who wanders like an owl at night-time, hiding her body in her guile and malice, May she fall downward into endless caverns. May press-stones with loud ring destroy the demons.
18. Spread out, ye Maruts, search among the people: seize ye and grind the Rākshasas to pieces, Who fly abroad, transformed to birds, at night-time, and sully and pollute our holy worship.
19. Hurl down from heaven thy bolt of stone, O Indra: sharpen it, Maghavan, made keen by Soma. Forward, behind, and from above and under, smite down the demons with thy rocky weapon.
20. They fly, the demon dogs, and, bent on mischief, fain would they harm indomitable Indra. Sakra makes sharp his weapon for the wicked: now let him cast his bolt at fiendish wizards.
21. Indra hath ever been the fiends' destroyer who spoil oblations of the Gods' invokers. Yea, Sakra, like an axe that splits the timber, assails and sma- shes them like earthen vessels.
22. Destroy the fiend shaped like an owl or owlet, destroy him in. the form of dog or cuckoo. Destroy him shaped as eagle or as vulture: as with a stone, O Indra, crush the demon.
23. Let not the fiend of witchcraft-workers reach us: may Dawn. drive off the couples of Kimidins. Earth keep us safe from earthly woe and trouble! From grief that comes from heaven Mid-air preserve us!
24. Indra destroy the demon, male and female, joying and triumph- ing in arts of magic! Let the fools' gods with bent necks fall and perish, and see no. more the Sun when he arises.
25. Look, each one, hither, look around. Indra and Soma, watch ye well. Cast forth your weapon at the fiends: against the sorcerers hurl your bolt.
Sanskrit and transliteration
Sanskrit
1. इन्द्रासोमा तपतं रक्ष उब्जतं न्य् अर्पयतं वृषणा तमोवृधः । परा शृणीतम् अचितो न्य् ओषतं हतं नुदेथां नि शिशीतम् अत्त्रिणः ॥1॥ 2. इन्द्रासोमा सम् अघशंसम् अभ्य् अघं तपुर् ययस्तु चरुर् अग्निमां इव । ब्रह्मद्विषे क्रव्यादे घोरचक्षसे द्वेषो धत्तम् अनवायं किमीदिने ॥2॥ 3. इन्द्रासोमा दुष्कृतो वव्रे अन्तर् अनारम्भणे तमसि प्र विध्यतम् । यतो नैषां पुनर् एकश् चनोदयत् तद् वाम् अस्तु सहसे मन्युमच् छवः ॥3॥ 4. इन्द्रासोमा वर्तयतं दिवो वधं सं पृथिव्या अघशंसाय तर्हणम् । उत् तक्षतं स्वर्यं1 पर्वतेभ्यो येन रक्षो वावृधानं निजूर्वथः ॥4॥ 5. इन्द्रासोमा वर्तयतं दिवस् पर्य् अग्नितप्तेभिर् युवम् अश्महन्मभिः । तपुर्वधेभिर् अजरेभिर् अत्त्रिणो नि पर्शाने विध्यतं यन्तु निस्वरम् ॥5॥ 6. इन्द्रासोमा परि वां भूतु विश्वत इयं मतिः कक्ष्याश्वेव वाजिना । यां वां होत्रां परिहिनोमि मेधयेमा ब्रह्माणि नृपती इव जिन्वतम् ॥6॥ 7. प्रति स्मरेथां तुजयद्भिर् एवैर् हतं द्रुहो रक्षसो भङ्गुरावतः । इन्द्रासोमा दुष्कृते मा सुगं भूद् यो मा कदा चिद् अभिदासति द्रुहुः ॥7॥ 8. यो मा पाकेन मनसा चरन्तम् अभिचष्टे अनृतेभिर् वचोभिः । आप इव काशिना सम्गृभीता असन्न् अस्त्व् असतः इन्द्र वक्ता ॥8॥ 9. ये पाकशंसं विहरन्त एवैर् ये वा भद्रं दूषयन्ति स्वधाभिः । अहये वा तान् प्रददातु सोम आ वा दधातु निरृतेर् उपष्ठे ॥9॥ 10. यो नो रसं दिप्सति पित्वो अग्ने अश्वानां गवां यस् तनूनाम् । रिपु स्तेन स्तेयकृद् दभ्रम् एतु नि ष हीयतां तन्वा तना च ॥10॥ {9} 11. परः सो अस्तु तन्वा तना च तिस्रः पृथिवीर् अधो अस्तु विश्वाः । प्रति शुष्यतु यशो अस्य देवा यो मा दिवा दिप्सति यश् च नक्तम् ॥11॥ 12. सुविज्ञानं चिकितुषे जनाय सच् चासच् च वचसी पस्पृधाते । तस्योर् यत् सत्यं यतरद् ऋजीयस् तद् इत् सोमो ऽवति हन्त्य् असत् ॥12॥ 13. न वा उ सोमो वृजिनं हिनोति न क्षत्रियम् मिथुया धारयन्तम् । हन्ति रक्षो हन्त्य् आसद् वदन्तम् उभाव् इन्द्रस्य प्रसितौ शयाते ॥13॥ 14. यदि वाहम् अनृतदेवो अस्मि मोघं वा देवां अप्यूहे अग्ने । किम् अस्मभ्यं जातवेदो हृणीषे द्रोघवाचस् ते निरृथं सचन्ताम् ॥14॥ 15. अद्या मुरीय यदि यातुधानो अस्मि यदि वायुस् ततप पुरुषस्य । अधा स वीरैर् दशभिर् वि यूया यो मा मोघं यातुधानेत्य् आह ॥15॥ 16. यो मायातुं यातुधानेत्य् आह यो वा रक्षाः शिचिर् अस्मीत्य् आह । इन्द्रस् तं हन्तु महता वधेन विश्वस्य जन्तोर् अधमस् पदीष्ट ॥16॥ 17. प्र या जिगाति खर्गलेव नक्तम् अप द्रुहुस् तन्वं1 गूहमाना । वव्रम् अनन्तम् अव सा पदीष्टिअ ग्रावाणो घ्नन्तु रक्षस उपब्दैः ॥17॥ 18. वि तिष्ठध्वम् मरुतो विक्ष्व् इछत गृभायत रक्षसः सं पिनष्टन् । वयो ये भूत्वा पतयन्ति नक्तभिर् ये वा रिपो दधिरे देवे अध्वरे ॥18॥ 19. प्र वर्तय दिवो ऽश्मानम् इन्द्र सोमशितं मघवन्त् सं शिशाधि । प्राक्तो अपाक्तो अधराद् उदक्तो ऽभि जहि रक्षसः पर्वतेन ॥19॥ 20. एत उ त्ये पतयन्ति श्वयातव इन्द्रं दिप्सन्ति दिप्सवो ऽदाभ्यम् । शिशीते शक्रः पिशुनेभ्यो वधं नुनं सृजद् अशनिं यातुमद्भ्यः ॥20॥ {10} 21. इन्द्रो यातूनाम् अभवत् पराशरो हविर्मथीनाम् अभ्य् आविवासताम् । अभीद् उ शक्रः परशुर् यथा वनं पात्रेव भिन्दन्त् सत एतु रक्षसः ॥21॥ 22. उलूकयातुं शुशुलूकयातुं जहि श्वयातुम् उत कोकयातुम् । सुपर्णयातुम् उत गृध्रयातुं दृषदेव प्र मृण रक्ष इन्द्र ॥22॥ 23. मा नो रक्षो अभि नड् यातुमावद् अपोछन्तु मिथुना ये किमीदिनः । पृथिवी नः पार्थिवात् पात्व् अंहसो ऽन्तरिक्षं दिव्यात् पात्व् अस्मान् ॥23॥ 24. इन्द्र जहि पुमांसं यातुधानम् उत स्त्रियं मायया शाशदानाम् । विग्रीवासो मूरदेवा ऋदन्तु मा ते दृशन्त् सूर्यम् उच्चरन्तम् ॥24॥ 25. प्रति चक्ष्व वि चक्ष्वेन्द्रश् च सोम जागृतम् । रक्षोभ्यो वधम् अस्यतम् अशनिं यातुमद्भ्यः ॥25॥ {11}
Transliteration
1. indrāsomā tapataṃ rakṣa ubjataṃ ny arpayataṃ vṛṣaṇā tamovṛdhaḥ | parā śṛṇītam acito ny oṣataṃ hataṃ nudethāṃ ni śiśītam attriṇaḥ ||1|| 2. indrāsomā sam aghaśaṃsam abhy aghaṃ tapur yayastu carur agnimāṃ iva | brahmadviṣe kravyāde ghoracakṣase dveṣo dhattam anavāyaṃ kimīdine ||2|| 3. indrāsomā duṣkṛto vavre antar anārambhaṇe tamasi pra vidhyatam | yato naiṣāṃ punar ekaś canodayat tad vām astu sahase manyumac chavaḥ ||3|| 4. indrāsomā vartayataṃ divo vadhaṃ saṃ pṛthivyā aghaśaṃsāya tarhaṇam | ut takṣataṃ svaryaṃ1 parvatebhyo yena rakṣo vāvṛdhānaṃ nijūrvathaḥ ||4|| 5. indrāsomā vartayataṃ divas pary agnitaptebhir yuvam aśmahanmabhiḥ | tapurvadhebhir ajarebhir attriṇo ni parśāne vidhyataṃ yantu nisvaram ||5|| 6. indrāsomā pari vāṃ bhūtu viśvata iyaṃ matiḥ kakṣyāśveva vājinā | yāṃ vāṃ hotrāṃ parihinomi medhayemā brahmāṇi nṛpatī iva jinvatam ||6|| 7. prati smarethāṃ tujayadbhir evair hataṃ druho rakṣaso bhaṅgurāvataḥ | indrāsomā duṣkṛte mā sugaṃ bhūd yo mā kadā cid abhidāsati druhuḥ ||7|| 8. yo mā pākena manasā carantam abhicaṣṭe anṛtebhir vacobhiḥ | āpa iva kāśinā samgṛbhītā asann astv asataḥ indra vaktā ||8|| 9. ye pākaśaṃsaṃ viharanta evair ye vā bhadraṃ dūṣayanti svadhābhiḥ | ahaye vā tān pradadātu soma ā vā dadhātu nirṛter upaṣṭhe ||9|| 10. yo no rasaṃ dipsati pitvo agne aśvānāṃ gavāṃ yas tanūnām | ripu stena steyakṛd dabhram etu ni ṣa hīyatāṃ tanvā tanā ca ||10|| {9} 11. paraḥ so astu tanvā tanā ca tisraḥ pṛthivīr adho astu viśvāḥ | prati śuṣyatu yaśo asya devā yo mā divā dipsati yaś ca naktam ||11|| 12. suvijñānaṃ cikituṣe janāya sac cāsac ca vacasī paspṛdhāte | tasyor yat satyaṃ yatarad ṛjīyas tad it somo 'vati hanty asat ||12|| 13. na vā u somo vṛjinaṃ hinoti na kṣatriyam mithuyā dhārayantam | hanti rakṣo hanty āsad vadantam ubhāv indrasya prasitau śayāte ||13|| 14. yadi vāham anṛtadevo asmi moghaṃ vā devāṃ apyūhe agne | kim asmabhyaṃ jātavedo hṛṇīṣe droghavācas te nirṛthaṃ sacantām ||14|| 15. adyā murīya yadi yātudhāno asmi yadi vāyus tatapa puruṣasya | adhā sa vīrair daśabhir vi yūyā yo mā moghaṃ yātudhānety āha ||15|| 16. yo māyātuṃ yātudhānety āha yo vā rakṣāḥ śicir asmīty āha | indras taṃ hantu mahatā vadhena viśvasya jantor adhamas padīṣṭa ||16|| 17. pra yā jigāti khargaleva naktam apa druhus tanvaṃ1 gūhamānā | vavram anantam ava sā padīṣṭia grāvāṇo ghnantu rakṣasa upabdaiḥ ||17|| 18. vi tiṣṭhadhvam maruto vikṣv ichata gṛbhāyata rakṣasaḥ saṃ pinaṣṭan | vayo ye bhūtvā patayanti naktabhir ye vā ripo dadhire deve adhvare ||18|| 19. pra vartaya divo 'śmānam indra somaśitaṃ maghavant saṃ śiśādhi | prākto apākto adharād udakto 'bhi jahi rakṣasaḥ parvatena ||19|| 20. eta u tye patayanti śvayātava indraṃ dipsanti dipsavo 'dābhyam | śiśīte śakraḥ piśunebhyo vadhaṃ nunaṃ sṛjad aśaniṃ yātumadbhyaḥ ||20|| {10} 21. indro yātūnām abhavat parāśaro havirmathīnām abhy āvivāsatām | abhīd u śakraḥ paraśur yathā vanaṃ pātreva bhindant sata etu rakṣasaḥ ||21|| 22. ulūkayātuṃ śuśulūkayātuṃ jahi śvayātum uta kokayātum | suparṇayātum uta gṛdhrayātuṃ dṛṣadeva pra mṛṇa rakṣa indra ||22|| 23. mā no rakṣo abhi naḍ yātumāvad apochantu mithunā ye kimīdinaḥ | pṛthivī naḥ pārthivāt pātv aṃhaso 'ntarikṣaṃ divyāt pātv asmān ||23|| 24. indra jahi pumāṃsaṃ yātudhānam uta striyaṃ māyayā śāśadānām | vigrīvāso mūradevā ṛdantu mā te dṛśant sūryam uccarantam ||24|| 25. prati cakṣva vi cakṣvendraś ca soma jāgṛtam | rakṣobhyo vadham asyatam aśaniṃ yātumadbhyaḥ ||25|| {11}
Unaccented IAST transliteration from GRETIL's Atharvaveda-Samhita, Shaunaka recension. Devanagari is generated from that IAST text.
Atharvaveda 8.5 — Hymn 5. A charm accompanying investiture with an amulet
1. Upon the strong is bound the strong, this magic cord, this Amu- let, Potent, foe-slayer, served by valiant heroes, happy and fortu- nate defence.
2. This Charm, foe-slayer, served by many heroes, strong, power- ful, victorious, and mighty, goes bravely forth to meet and ruin witchcraft.
3. With this same Amulet wise Indra routed the Asuras, with this he slaughtered Vritra, With this he won this pair, both Earth and Heaven, and made the sky's four regions his possession.
4. May this encircling magic cord, this Amulet of Srāktya wood, Mighty, subduing enemies, keep us secure on every side.
5. This Agni hath declared, Soma declared it, Brihaspati, and Savitar, and Indra. So may these Gods whom I have set before me oppose with saving charms and banish witchcraft.
6. I have obscured the heaven and earth, yea, and the daylight and the sun. So may these Gods whom I have set before me oppose with saving charms and banish witchcraft.
7. Whoever for his armour takes an amulet of the Srāktya tree, Like the Sun risen up to heaven, quells witchcraft with superior might.
8. With Amulet of Srāktya wood, as with a thoughtful Rishi's aid, In every fight have I prevailed; I smite the foes and Rākshasas.
9. All witchcraft of Angirases,"all witchcraft wrought by Asuras, All witchcraft self-originate, and all that others have prepared, May these depart to both remotest spaces, past ninety ample water-floods.
10. May the Gods bind the Charm on him for armour, Indra, and Vishnu, Savitar Rudra, Agni, Prajāpati, sublimest Parameshlhin, Virāj, Vaisvānara, and all the Rishis.
11. Thou art the chief of all the plants, even as a bull among the beasts. A tiger of the beasts of prey. Him whom we sought for have we found, him lying near in wait for us.
12. A tiger verily is he, he is a lion, and a bull, Subduer of his foes is he, the man who wears this Amulet.
13. No mortal beings slay him, no Gāndharvas, no Apsarases; O'er all the regions he is king, the man who wears this Amulet.
14. Kasyapa formed and fashioned thee, Kasyapa raised and sent thee forth. Indra wore thee, and, wearing thee, won in the wrestling-match with man. The Amulet of boundless might the Gods have made a coat of mail.
15. Whoever would destroy thee with Dikshā-rites, sacrifices, spells, Meet him and smite him, Indra! with thy hundred-knotted thunderbolt.
16. Verily let this Amulet, circular, potent, conquering, Happy and fortunate defence, preserve thy children and thy wealth.
17. Brave Indra, set before us light, peace and security from below, Peace and security from above, peace and security from behind.
18. My coat of mail is Heaven and Earth, my coat of mail is Day and Sun: A coat of mail may Indra and Agni and Dhātar grant to me.
19. Not all the Gods may pierce, all leagued together, the vast strong shield which Indra gives, and Agni. May that great shield on all sides guard my body, that to full old my life may be extended.
20. Let the Gods' Charm be bound on me to keep me safe from every ill. Come ye and enter all within this pillar, the safe-guard of the body, thrice-defended.
21. In this let Indra lay a store of valour: approach ye Gods, and enter it together, For his long life, to last a hundred autumns, that to full age his days may be extended.
22. Lord of the clan who brings, us bliss, fiend-slayer, queller of the foe, May he, the conqueror, ne'er subdued, may Indra bind the Charm on thee, Bull, Soma-drinker, he who gives us peace. May he protect thee round about, by night and day on every, side.
Sanskrit and transliteration
Sanskrit
1. अयं प्रतिसरो मणिर् वीरो वीराय बध्यते । वीर्यवान्त् सपत्नहा शूरवीरः परिपाणः सुमङ्गलः ॥1॥ 2. अयं मणिः सपत्नहा सुवीरः सहस्वान् वाजी सहमान उग्रः । प्रत्यक् कृत्या दूषयन्न् एति वीरः ॥2॥ 3. अनेनेन्द्रो मणिना वृत्रम् अहन्न् अनेनासुरान् पराभावयन् मनीषी । अनेनाजयद् द्यावापृथिवी उभे इमे अनेनाजयत् प्रदिशश् चतस्रः ॥3॥ 4. अयं स्राक्त्यो मणिः प्रतीवर्तः प्रतिसरः । ओजस्वान् विमृधो वशी सो अस्मान् पातु सर्वतः ॥4॥ 5. तद् अग्निर् आह तद् उ सोम आह बृहस्पतिः सविता तद् इन्द्रः । ते मे देवाः पुरोहिताः प्रतीचीः कृत्याः प्रतिसरैर् अजन्तु ॥5॥ 6. अन्तर् दधे द्यावापृथिवी उताहर् उत सूर्यम् । ते मे देवाः पुरोहिताः प्रतीचीः कृत्याः प्रतिसरैर् अजन्तु ॥6॥ 7. ये स्राक्त्यं मणिं जना वर्माणि कृण्वते । सूर्य इव दिवम् आरुह्य वि कृत्या बाधते वशी ॥7॥ 8. स्राक्त्येन मणिना ऋषिणेव मनीषिणा । अजैषं सर्वाः पृतना वि मृधो हन्मि रक्षसः ॥8॥ 9. याः कृत्या आङ्गिरसीर् याः कृत्या आसुरीर् याः । कृत्याः स्वयंकृता या उ चान्येभिर् आभृताः । उभयीस् ताः परा यन्तु परावतो नवतिं नाव्या अति ॥9॥ 10. अस्मै मणिं वर्म बध्नन्तु देवा इन्द्रो विष्णुः सविता रुद्रो अग्निः । प्रजापतिः परमेष्ठी विराड् वैश्वानर ऋषयश् च सर्वे ॥10॥ {12} 11. उत्तमो अस्य् ओषधीनाम् अनड्वान् जगताम् इव व्याघ्रः श्वपदाम् इव । 12. स इद् व्याघ्रो भवत्य् अथो सिंहो अथो वृषा । अथो सपत्नकर्शनो यो बिभर्तीमं मणिम् ॥12॥ 13. नैनं घ्नन्त्य् अप्सरसो न गन्धर्वा न मर्त्याः । सर्वा दिशो वि राजति यो बिभर्तीमं मणिम् ॥13॥ 14. कश्यपस् त्वाम् असृजत कश्यपस् त्वा सम् ऐरयत् । अबिभस् त्वेन्द्रो मानुषे बिभ्रत् संश्रेषिणे ऽजयत् । मणिं सहस्रवीर्यं वर्म देवा अकृण्वत ॥14॥ 15. यस् त्वा कृत्याभिर् यस् त्वा दीक्षाभिर् यज्ञैर् यस् त्वा जिघांसति । प्रत्यक् त्वम् इन्द्र तं जहि वज्रेण शतपर्वणा ॥15॥ 16. अयम् इद् वै प्रतीवर्त ओजस्वान् संजयो मणिः । प्रजां धनं च रक्षतु परिपाणः सुमङ्गलः ॥16॥ 17. असपत्नं नो अधराद् असपत्नं न उत्तरात् । इन्द्रासपत्नं नः पश्चाज् ज्योतिः शूर पुरस् कृधि ॥17॥ 18. वर्म मे द्यावापृथिवी वर्माहर् वर्म सूर्यः । वर्म म इन्द्रश् चाग्निश् च वर्म धाता दधातु मे ॥18॥ 19. ऐन्द्राग्नं वर्म बहुलं यद् उग्रं विश्वे देवा नातिविध्यन्ति सर्वे । तन् मे तन्वं त्रायतां सर्वतो बृहद् आयुष्मां जरदष्टिर् यथासानि ॥19॥ 20. आ मारुक्षद् देवमणिर् मह्या अरिष्टतातये । इमं मेथिम् अभिसंविशध्वं तनूपानं त्रिवरूथम् ओजसे ॥20॥ 21. अस्मिन्न् इन्द्रो नि दधातु नृम्णम् इमं देवासो अभिसंविशध्वम् । दीर्घायुत्वाय शतशारदायायुष्मान् जरदष्टिर् यथासत् ॥21॥ 22. स्वस्तिदा विशां पतिर् वृत्रहा विमृधो वशी । इन्द्रो बध्नातु ते मणिं जिगीवां अपराजितः । सोमपा अभयङ्करो वृषा ।
Transliteration
1. ayaṃ pratisaro maṇir vīro vīrāya badhyate | vīryavānt sapatnahā śūravīraḥ paripāṇaḥ sumaṅgalaḥ ||1|| 2. ayaṃ maṇiḥ sapatnahā suvīraḥ sahasvān vājī sahamāna ugraḥ | pratyak kṛtyā dūṣayann eti vīraḥ ||2|| 3. anenendro maṇinā vṛtram ahann anenāsurān parābhāvayan manīṣī | anenājayad dyāvāpṛthivī ubhe ime anenājayat pradiśaś catasraḥ ||3|| 4. ayaṃ srāktyo maṇiḥ pratīvartaḥ pratisaraḥ | ojasvān vimṛdho vaśī so asmān pātu sarvataḥ ||4|| 5. tad agnir āha tad u soma āha bṛhaspatiḥ savitā tad indraḥ | te me devāḥ purohitāḥ pratīcīḥ kṛtyāḥ pratisarair ajantu ||5|| 6. antar dadhe dyāvāpṛthivī utāhar uta sūryam | te me devāḥ purohitāḥ pratīcīḥ kṛtyāḥ pratisarair ajantu ||6|| 7. ye srāktyaṃ maṇiṃ janā varmāṇi kṛṇvate | sūrya iva divam āruhya vi kṛtyā bādhate vaśī ||7|| 8. srāktyena maṇinā ṛṣiṇeva manīṣiṇā | ajaiṣaṃ sarvāḥ pṛtanā vi mṛdho hanmi rakṣasaḥ ||8|| 9. yāḥ kṛtyā āṅgirasīr yāḥ kṛtyā āsurīr yāḥ | kṛtyāḥ svayaṃkṛtā yā u cānyebhir ābhṛtāḥ | ubhayīs tāḥ parā yantu parāvato navatiṃ nāvyā ati ||9|| 10. asmai maṇiṃ varma badhnantu devā indro viṣṇuḥ savitā rudro agniḥ | prajāpatiḥ parameṣṭhī virāḍ vaiśvānara ṛṣayaś ca sarve ||10|| {12} 11. uttamo asy oṣadhīnām anaḍvān jagatām iva vyāghraḥ śvapadām iva | 12. sa id vyāghro bhavaty atho siṃho atho vṛṣā | atho sapatnakarśano yo bibhartīmaṃ maṇim ||12|| 13. nainaṃ ghnanty apsaraso na gandharvā na martyāḥ | sarvā diśo vi rājati yo bibhartīmaṃ maṇim ||13|| 14. kaśyapas tvām asṛjata kaśyapas tvā sam airayat | abibhas tvendro mānuṣe bibhrat saṃśreṣiṇe 'jayat | maṇiṃ sahasravīryaṃ varma devā akṛṇvata ||14|| 15. yas tvā kṛtyābhir yas tvā dīkṣābhir yajñair yas tvā jighāṃsati | pratyak tvam indra taṃ jahi vajreṇa śataparvaṇā ||15|| 16. ayam id vai pratīvarta ojasvān saṃjayo maṇiḥ | prajāṃ dhanaṃ ca rakṣatu paripāṇaḥ sumaṅgalaḥ ||16|| 17. asapatnaṃ no adharād asapatnaṃ na uttarāt | indrāsapatnaṃ naḥ paścāj jyotiḥ śūra puras kṛdhi ||17|| 18. varma me dyāvāpṛthivī varmāhar varma sūryaḥ | varma ma indraś cāgniś ca varma dhātā dadhātu me ||18|| 19. aindrāgnaṃ varma bahulaṃ yad ugraṃ viśve devā nātividhyanti sarve | tan me tanvaṃ trāyatāṃ sarvato bṛhad āyuṣmāṃ jaradaṣṭir yathāsāni ||19|| 20. ā mārukṣad devamaṇir mahyā ariṣṭatātaye | imaṃ methim abhisaṃviśadhvaṃ tanūpānaṃ trivarūtham ojase ||20|| 21. asminn indro ni dadhātu nṛmṇam imaṃ devāso abhisaṃviśadhvam | dīrghāyutvāya śataśāradāyāyuṣmān jaradaṣṭir yathāsat ||21|| 22. svastidā viśāṃ patir vṛtrahā vimṛdho vaśī | indro badhnātu te maṇiṃ jigīvāṃ aparājitaḥ | somapā abhayaṅkaro vṛṣā |
Unaccented IAST transliteration from GRETIL's Atharvaveda-Samhita, Shaunaka recension. Devanagari is generated from that IAST text.
Atharvaveda 8.6 — Hymn 6. A charm to exercise evil spirits who beset women
1. Let neither fiend of evil name, Alinsa, Vatsapa, desire Thy pair of husband-wooers which thy mother cleansed when, thou wast born.
2. Palala, Anupalala, Sarku, Koka, Malimlucha, Palijaka Vavri- vāsas and Asresha, Rikshagriva and Pramilin.
3. Approach not, come not hitherward: creep not thou in-between her thighs. I set, to guard her, Baja, that which chases him of evil name.
4. Durnāmā and Sunāmā both are eager to converse with her. We drive away Arāyas: let Sunāmā seek the women-folk,
5. The black and hairy Asura, and Stambaja and Tundika, Arāyas from this girl we drive, from bosom, waist, and parts below.
6. Sniffer, and Feeler, him who eats raw flesh, and him who licks his lips, Arāyas with the tails of dogs, the yellow Baja hath destroyed.
7. Whoever, in thy brother's shape or father's comes to thee in sleep, Let Baja rout and chase them like eunuchs with woman's head- dress on.
8. Whoever steals to thee asleep or thinks to harm thee when awake,— These hath it banished, as the Sun travelling round drives shade away.
9. Whoever causeth her to lose her child or bear untimely fruit,— Destroy him, O thou Plant, destroy the slippery fiend who lusts for her.
10. Those who at evening, with the bray of asses, dance around the house, Kukshilas, and Kusfilas, and Kakubhas, Srimas, Karumas, These with thine odour, O thou Plant, drive far away to every side.
11. Kukundhas and Kukūrabhas who dress themselves in hides and skins, Who dance about like eunuchs, who raise a wild clamour in the wood, all these we banish far away.
12. All those who cannot bear the Sun who warms us yonder from the sky, Arāyas with the smell of goats, malodorous, with bloody mouths, the Makakas we drive afar.
13. All those who on their shoulders bear a head of monstrous magnitude, Who pierce the women's loins with pain,—those demons, Indra drive away!
14. Those, bearing horns upon their hands, who first of all approach the brides; Standing in ovens, laughing loud, those who in bushes flash forth light, all these we banish hence away.
15. Those who have retroverted toes, and heels and faces in the front, Khalajas, Sakadhūmajas, Urundas, all the Matmatas, impotent Kumbhamushkas, these, Drive thou, O Brāhmanaspati, far from this girl with vigilance.
16. Sightless and with distorted eyes, impotent. woman less be they. O Healing Plant, cast each away who, not her husband, would approach this woman wedded to her lord.
17. The Bristly-haired, the Maniac-haired, the Biter, and the Groper-fiend, The Creeper-near, the Copper-hued, the Snouty, and the Saluda, With foot and heel kick over, as a hasty cow her milking-pan.
18. If one should touch thy coming babe or kill thine infant newly born, The yellow Plant with mighty bow shall pierce him even to the heart.
19. Those who kill infants unawares, and near the new-made mothers lie, Let Pinga chase the amorous Gandharvas as wind chases cloud.
20. Let it maintain the genial seed: let the laid embryo rest secure. Let both strong Healers, to be worn within the girdle, guard the babe.
21. From the Kimīdin, for thy lord and children, Pinga shield thee well, From Sāyaka, and Nagnaka, Tangalva, and Pavīnasa.
22. From the five-footed, fingerless, from the four-eyed, the double- faced, From the Close-creeper, from the Worm, from the Quick-roller guard her well.
23. Those who eat flesh uncooked, and those who eat the bleeding flesh of men, Feeders on babes unborn, long-haired, far from this place we banish these.
24. Shy slinkers from the Sun, as slinks a woman from her husband's sire, Deep down into the heart of these let Baja and let Pinga pierce.
25. Pinga, preserve the babe at birth, make not the boy a female child. Let not Egg-eaters mar the germs: drive the Kimidins far away.
26. Sterility, and infants' death, and weeping that announceth woe, Dear! lay them on the fiend as thou wouldst pluck a garland from a tree.
Sanskrit and transliteration
Sanskrit
1. यौ ते मातोन्ममार्ज जातायाः पतिवेदनौ । दुर्णामा तत्र मा गृधद् अलिंश उत वत्सपः ॥1॥ 2. पलालानुपलालौ शर्कुं कोकं मलिम्लुचं पलीजकम् । आश्रेषं वव्रिवाससम् ऋक्षग्रीवं प्रमीलिनम् ॥2॥ 3. मा सं वृतो मोप सृप ऊरू माव सृपो ऽन्तरा । कृणोम्य् अस्यै भेषजं बजं दुर्णामचातनम् ॥3॥ 4. दुर्णामा च सुनामा चोभा सम्वृतम् इछतः । अरायान् अप हन्मः सुनामा स्त्रैणम् इछताम् ॥4॥ 5. यः कृष्णः केश्य् असुर स्तम्बज उत तुण्डिकः । अरायान् अस्या मुष्काभ्यां भंससो ऽप हन्मसि ॥5॥ 6. अनुजिघ्रं प्रमृशन्तं क्रव्यादम् उत रेरिहम् । अरायां छ्वकिष्किणो बजः पिङ्गो अनीनशत् ॥6॥ 7. यस् त्वा स्वप्ने निपद्यते भ्राता भूत्वा पितेव च । बजस् तान्त् सहताम् इतः क्लीबरूपांस् तिरीटिनः ॥7॥ 8. यस् त्वा स्वपन्तीं त्सरति यस् त्वा दिप्सति जाग्रतीम् । छायाम् इव प्र तान्त् सूर्यः परिक्रामन्न् अनीनशत् ॥8॥ 9. यः कृणोति मृतवत्साम् अवतोकाम् इमां स्त्रियम् । तम् ओषधे त्वं नाशयास्याः कमलम् अञ्जिवम् ॥9॥ 10. ये शालाः परिनृत्यन्ति सायं गर्दभनादिनः । कुसूला ये च कुक्षिलाः ककुभाः करुमाः स्रिमाः । तान् ओषधे त्वं गन्धेन विषूचीनान् वि नाशय ॥10॥ {14} 11. ये कुकुन्धाः कुकिरभाः कृत्तीर् दूर्शानि बिभ्रति । क्लीबा इव प्रनृत्यन्तो वने ये कुर्वते घोषं तान् इतो नाशयामसि ॥11॥ 12. ये सूर्यं न तितिक्षन्त आतपन्तम् अमुं दिवः । अरायान् बस्तवासिनो दुर्गन्धींल् लोहितास्यान् मककान् नाशयामसि ॥12॥ 13. य आत्मानम् अतिमात्रम् अंस आधाय बिभ्रति । स्त्रीणां श्रोणिप्रतोदिन इन्द्र रक्षांसि नाशय ॥13॥ 14. ये पूर्वे बध्वो यन्ति हस्ते शृङ्गानि बिभ्रतः । आपाकेस्थाः प्रहासिन स्तम्बे ये कुर्वते ज्योतिस् तान् इतो नाशयामसि ॥14॥ 15. येषाम् पश्चात् प्रपदानि पुरः पार्ष्णीः पुरो मुखा । खलजाः शकधूमजा उरुण्डा ये च मट्मटाः कुम्भमुष्का अयाशवः । तान् अस्या ब्रह्मणस् पते प्रतीबोधेन नाशय ॥15॥ 16. पर्यस्ताक्षा अप्रचङ्कशा अस्त्रैणाः सन्तु पण्डगाः । अव भेषज पादय य इमां संविवृत्सत्य् अपतिः स्वपतिं स्त्रियम् ॥16॥ 17. उद्धर्षिणं मुनिकेशं जम्भयन्तं मरीमृशम् । उपेषन्तम् उदुम्बलं तुण्डेलम् उत शालुडम् । पदा प्र विध्य पार्ष्ण्या स्थालीं गौर् इव स्पन्दना ॥17॥ 18. यस् ते गर्भं प्रतिमृशाज् जातं वा मारयाति ते । पिङ्गस् तम् उग्रधन्वा कृणोतु हृदयाविधम् ॥18॥ 19. ये अम्नो जतान् मारयन्ति सूतिका अनुशेरते । स्त्रीभागान् पिङ्गो गन्धर्वान् वातो अभ्रम् इवाजतु ॥19॥ 20. परिसृष्टं धरयतु यद् धितं माव पादि तत् । गर्भं त उग्रौ रक्षताम् भेषजौ नीविभार्यौ ॥20॥ {15} 21. पवीनसात् तङ्गल्वाच् छायकाद् उत नग्नकात् । प्रजायै पत्ये त्वा पिङ्गः परि पातु किमीदिनः ॥21॥ 22. द्व्यास्याच् चतुरक्षात् पञ्चपदाद् अनङ्गुरेः । वृन्ताद् अभि प्रसर्पतः परि पाहि वरीवृतात् ॥22॥ 23. य आमं मांसम् अदन्ति पौरुषेयं च ये क्रविः । गर्भान् खादन्ति केशवास् तान् इतो नाशयामसि ॥23॥ 24. ये सूर्यात् परिसर्पन्ति स्नुषेव श्वशुराद् अधि । बजश् च तेषां पिङ्गश् च हृदये ऽधि नि विध्यताम् ॥24॥ 25. पिङ्ग रक्ष जायमानं मा पुमांसं स्त्रियं क्रन् । आण्डादो गर्भान् मा दभन् बाधस्वेतः किमीदिनः ॥25॥ 26. अप्रजास्त्वं मार्तवत्सम् आद् रोदम् अघम् आवयम् । वृक्षाद् इव स्रजम् कृत्वाप्रिये प्रति मुञ्च तत् ॥26॥ {16}
Transliteration
1. yau te mātonmamārja jātāyāḥ pativedanau | durṇāmā tatra mā gṛdhad aliṃśa uta vatsapaḥ ||1|| 2. palālānupalālau śarkuṃ kokaṃ malimlucaṃ palījakam | āśreṣaṃ vavrivāsasam ṛkṣagrīvaṃ pramīlinam ||2|| 3. mā saṃ vṛto mopa sṛpa ūrū māva sṛpo 'ntarā | kṛṇomy asyai bheṣajaṃ bajaṃ durṇāmacātanam ||3|| 4. durṇāmā ca sunāmā cobhā samvṛtam ichataḥ | arāyān apa hanmaḥ sunāmā straiṇam ichatām ||4|| 5. yaḥ kṛṣṇaḥ keśy asura stambaja uta tuṇḍikaḥ | arāyān asyā muṣkābhyāṃ bhaṃsaso 'pa hanmasi ||5|| 6. anujighraṃ pramṛśantaṃ kravyādam uta reriham | arāyāṃ chvakiṣkiṇo bajaḥ piṅgo anīnaśat ||6|| 7. yas tvā svapne nipadyate bhrātā bhūtvā piteva ca | bajas tānt sahatām itaḥ klībarūpāṃs tirīṭinaḥ ||7|| 8. yas tvā svapantīṃ tsarati yas tvā dipsati jāgratīm | chāyām iva pra tānt sūryaḥ parikrāmann anīnaśat ||8|| 9. yaḥ kṛṇoti mṛtavatsām avatokām imāṃ striyam | tam oṣadhe tvaṃ nāśayāsyāḥ kamalam añjivam ||9|| 10. ye śālāḥ parinṛtyanti sāyaṃ gardabhanādinaḥ | kusūlā ye ca kukṣilāḥ kakubhāḥ karumāḥ srimāḥ | tān oṣadhe tvaṃ gandhena viṣūcīnān vi nāśaya ||10|| {14} 11. ye kukundhāḥ kukirabhāḥ kṛttīr dūrśāni bibhrati | klībā iva pranṛtyanto vane ye kurvate ghoṣaṃ tān ito nāśayāmasi ||11|| 12. ye sūryaṃ na titikṣanta ātapantam amuṃ divaḥ | arāyān bastavāsino durgandhīṃl lohitāsyān makakān nāśayāmasi ||12|| 13. ya ātmānam atimātram aṃsa ādhāya bibhrati | strīṇāṃ śroṇipratodina indra rakṣāṃsi nāśaya ||13|| 14. ye pūrve badhvo yanti haste śṛṅgāni bibhrataḥ | āpākesthāḥ prahāsina stambe ye kurvate jyotis tān ito nāśayāmasi ||14|| 15. yeṣām paścāt prapadāni puraḥ pārṣṇīḥ puro mukhā | khalajāḥ śakadhūmajā uruṇḍā ye ca maṭmaṭāḥ kumbhamuṣkā ayāśavaḥ | tān asyā brahmaṇas pate pratībodhena nāśaya ||15|| 16. paryastākṣā apracaṅkaśā astraiṇāḥ santu paṇḍagāḥ | ava bheṣaja pādaya ya imāṃ saṃvivṛtsaty apatiḥ svapatiṃ striyam ||16|| 17. uddharṣiṇaṃ munikeśaṃ jambhayantaṃ marīmṛśam | upeṣantam udumbalaṃ tuṇḍelam uta śāluḍam | padā pra vidhya pārṣṇyā sthālīṃ gaur iva spandanā ||17|| 18. yas te garbhaṃ pratimṛśāj jātaṃ vā mārayāti te | piṅgas tam ugradhanvā kṛṇotu hṛdayāvidham ||18|| 19. ye amno jatān mārayanti sūtikā anuśerate | strībhāgān piṅgo gandharvān vāto abhram ivājatu ||19|| 20. parisṛṣṭaṃ dharayatu yad dhitaṃ māva pādi tat | garbhaṃ ta ugrau rakṣatām bheṣajau nīvibhāryau ||20|| {15} 21. pavīnasāt taṅgalvāc chāyakād uta nagnakāt | prajāyai patye tvā piṅgaḥ pari pātu kimīdinaḥ ||21|| 22. dvyāsyāc caturakṣāt pañcapadād anaṅgureḥ | vṛntād abhi prasarpataḥ pari pāhi varīvṛtāt ||22|| 23. ya āmaṃ māṃsam adanti pauruṣeyaṃ ca ye kraviḥ | garbhān khādanti keśavās tān ito nāśayāmasi ||23|| 24. ye sūryāt parisarpanti snuṣeva śvaśurād adhi | bajaś ca teṣāṃ piṅgaś ca hṛdaye 'dhi ni vidhyatām ||24|| 25. piṅga rakṣa jāyamānaṃ mā pumāṃsaṃ striyaṃ kran | āṇḍādo garbhān mā dabhan bādhasvetaḥ kimīdinaḥ ||25|| 26. aprajāstvaṃ mārtavatsam ād rodam agham āvayam | vṛkṣād iva srajam kṛtvāpriye prati muñca tat ||26|| {16}
Unaccented IAST transliteration from GRETIL's Atharvaveda-Samhita, Shaunaka recension. Devanagari is generated from that IAST text.
Atharvaveda 8.7 — Hymn 7. A charm to restore a sick man to health
1. The tawny-coloured, and the pale, the variegated and the red, The dusky-tinted, and the black,—all Plants we summon hither- ward.
2. This man let them deliver from Consumption which the Gods have sent. The father of these Herbs was Heaven, their mother Earth, the Sea their root.
3. The Waters are the best, and heavenly Plants. From every limb of thine have they removed Consumption caused by sin.
4. I speak to Healing Herbs spreading, and bushy, to creepers, and to those whose sheath is single, I call for thee the fibrous and the reed-like, and branching. Plants, dear to the Visve Devas, powerful, giving life to men.
5. The conquering strength, the power and might which ye, victo- rious Plants, possess, Therewith deliver this man here from this Consumption, O ye Plants: so I prepare the remedy.
6. The living Plant that giveth life, that driveth malady away, Arundhatr, the rescuer, strengthening, rich a sweets I call, to free this man from scath and harm.
7. Hitherward let the sapient come, the friendly sharers o f my speech. That we may give this man relief and raise him from his evil plight.
8. Germ of the Waters, Agni's food, Plants ever growing fresh and new, Sure, healing, bearing thousand names, let them be all collected here.
9. Let Plants whose soul is water, girt with Avakās, piercing with their sharp horns expel the malady.
10. Strong, antidotes of poison, those releasers, free from Varuna, And those that drive away Catarrh, and those that frustrate magic arts, let all those Plants come hitherward.
11. Let purchased Plants of mightier power, Plants that are praised for excellence. Here in this village safely keep cattle and horses, man and beast.
12. Sweet is their root, sweet are these Plants' top branches, sweet also is their intermediate portion; Sweet is their foliage, and sweet their blossom, combined with sweetness is their taste of Amrit: food, fatness let them yield, with kine preceding.
13. These Plants that grow upon the earth, whate'er their number and their size, Let these with all their thousand leaves free me from Death and misery.
14. May the Plants' Tiger-amulet, protective, guardian from the curse, Beat off the brood of demons, drive all maladies afar from us.
15. Before the gathered Plants they fly and scatter, as though a lion's roar or fire dismayed them. Expelled by Plants, let men's and kine's Consumption pass from us to the navigable rivers.
16. Emancipated from the sway of Agni, of Vaisvānara, go, covering the earth, ye Plants whose ruler is Vanaspati.
17. May these be pleasant to our heart, auspicious, rich in store of milk, These Plants of the Angirases which grow on mountains and on plains.
18. The Plants I know myself, the plants that with mine eye I look upon, Plants yet unknown, and those we know, wherein we find that power is stored,
19. Let all the congregated Plants attend and mark mine utterance, That we may rescue this man here and save him from severe distress.
20. Asvattha, Darbha, King of Plants, is Soma, deathless sacrifice Barley and Rice are healing balms, the sons of Heaven who never die.
21. Lift yourselves up, ye Healing Plants, loud is the thunder's crash and roar. When with full flow Parjanya, ye Children of Prisni! blesseth; you.
22. We give the essence of that stream of nectar of this man to drink: So I prepare a remedy that he may live a hundred years.
23. Well doth the wild boar know a Plant, the mungoose knows the Healing Herb. I call, to aid this man, the Plants which Serpents and Gandhar- vas know.
24. Plants of Angirases which hawks, celestial Plants which eagles. know; Plants known to swans and lesser fowl, Plants known to all the birds that fly. Plants that are known to sylvan beasts,—I call them all to aid this man.
25. The multitude of herbs whereon the Cows whom none may slaughter feed, all that are food for goats and sheep, So many Plants, brought hitherward, give shelter and defence to thee!
26. Hitherward unto thee I bring the Plants that cure all maladies, All Plants wherein physicians have discovered health-bestowing power.
27. Let Plants with flower and Plants with bud, the fruitful and the fruitless, all, Like children of one mother, yield their stores for this man's perfeet health.
28. From the Five-arrowed, from the Ten-arrowed have I delivered thee, Freed thee from Yama's fetter and from all offence against the Gods,
Sanskrit and transliteration
Sanskrit
1. या बभ्रवो याश् च शुक्रा रोहिणीर् उत पृश्नयः । असिक्नीः कृष्णा ओषधीः सर्वा अछावदामसि ॥1॥ 2. त्रायन्ताम् इमं पुरुसं यक्ष्माद् देवेषिताद् अधि । यासाम् द्यौः पिता पृथिवी माता समुद्रो मूलं वीरुधां बभूव ॥2॥ 3. आपो अग्रं दिव्या ओषधयः । तास् ते यक्ष्मम् एनस्यम् अङ्गादङ्गाद् अनीनशन् ॥3॥ 4. प्रस्तृणती स्तम्बिनीर् एकशुङ्गाः प्रतन्वतीर् ओषधीर् आ वदामि । अंशुमतीः कण्डिनीर् या विशाखा ह्वयामि ते वीरुधो वैश्वदेवीर् उग्राः पुरुषजीवनीः ॥4॥ 5. यद् वः सहः सहमाना वीर्यं1 यच् च वो बलम् । तेनेमम् अस्माद् यक्ष्मात् पुरुषं मुञ्चतौषधीर् अथो कृणोमि भेषजम् ॥5॥ 6. जीवलां नघारिषां जीवन्तीम् ओषधीम् अहम् । अरुन्धतीम् उन्नयन्तीं पुष्पाम् मधुमतीम् इह हुवे ऽस्मा अरिष्टतातये ॥6॥ 7. इहा यन्तु प्रचेतसो मेदिनीर् वचसो मम । यथेमं पारयामसि पुरुषं दुरिताद् अधि ॥7॥ 8. अग्नेर् घासो अपां गर्भो या रोहन्ति पुनर्णवाः । ध्रुवाः सहस्रनाम्नीर् भेषजीः सन्त्व् आभृताः ॥8॥ 9. अवकोल्बा उदकात्मान ओषधयः । व्यृषन्तु दुरितं तीक्ष्णशृङ्ग्यः ॥9॥ 10. उन्मुञ्चन्तीर् विवरुणा उग्रा या विषदूषनीः । अथो बलासनाशनीः कृत्यादूषणीश् च यास् ता इहा यन्त्व् ओषधीः ॥10॥ {17} 11. अपक्रीताः सहीयसीर् वीरुधो या अभिष्टुताः । त्रायन्ताम् अस्मिन् ग्रामे गाम् अश्वं पुरुषं पशुम् ॥11॥ 12. मधुमन् मूलं मधुमद् अग्रम् आसाम् मधुमन् मध्यं वीरुधां बभूव । मधुमत् पर्णं मधुमत् पुष्पम् आसां मधोः सम्भक्ता अमृतस्य भक्षो घृतम् अन्नं दुह्रतां गोपुरोगवम् ॥12॥ 13. यावतीः कियतीश् चेमाः पृथिव्याम् अध्य् ओषधीः । ता मा सहस्रपर्ण्यो मृत्योर् मुञ्चन्त्व् अंहसः ॥13॥ 14. वैयाघ्रो मणिर् वीरुधां त्रायमानो ऽभिशस्तिपाः । अमीवाः सर्वा रक्षांस्य् अप हन्त्व् अधि दूरम् अस्मत् ॥14॥ 15. सिंहस्येव स्तनथोः सं विजन्ते ऽग्नेर् इव विजन्ते आभृताभ्यः । गवां यक्ष्मः पुरुषाणां वीरुद्भिर् अतिनुत्तो नाव्या एतु स्रोत्याः ॥15॥ 16. मुमुचाना ओषधयो ऽग्नेर् वैश्वानराद् अधि । भूमिं संतन्वतीर् इत यासां राजा वनस्पतिः ॥16॥ 17. या रोहन्त्य् आङ्गिरसीः पर्वतेषु समेषु च । ता नः पयस्वतीः शिवा ओषधीः सन्तु शं हृदे ॥17॥ 18. याश् चाहं वेद वीरुधो याश् च पश्यामि चक्षुषा । अज्ञाता जानीमश् च या यासु विद्म च संभृतम् ॥18॥ 19. सर्वाः समग्रा ओषधीर् बोधन्तु वचसो मम । यथेमं पारयामसि पुरुषम् दुरिताद् अधि ॥19॥ 20. अश्वत्थो दर्भो वीरुधां सोमो राजामृतं हविः । व्रीहिर् यवश् च भेषजौ दिवसि पुत्राव् अमर्त्यौ ॥20॥ {18} 21. उज् जिहीध्वे स्तनयत्य् अभिक्रन्दत्य् ओषधीः । यदा वः पृश्निमातरः पर्जन्यो रेतसावति ॥21॥ 22. तस्यामृतस्येमं बलं पुरुषं पययामसि । अथो कृणोमि भेषजं यथासच् छतहायनः ॥22॥ 23. वराहो वेद वीरुधं नकुलो वेद भेषजीम् । सर्पा गन्धर्वा या विदुस् ता अस्मा अवसे हुवे ॥23॥ 24. याः सुपर्णा आङ्गिरसीर् दिव्या या रघतो विदुः । वयांसि हंसा या विदुर् यास् च सर्वे पतत्रिणः । मृगा या विदुर् ओषधीस् ता अस्मा अवसे हुवे ॥24॥ 25. यावतीनाम् ओषधीनां गावः प्राश्नन्त्य् अघ्न्या यवतीनाम् अजावयः । तावतीस् तुभ्यम् ओषधीः शर्म यछन्त्व् आभृताः ॥25॥ 26. यावतीषु मनुष्या भेषजं भिषजो विदुः । तावतीर् विश्वभेषजीर् आ भरामि त्वाम् अभि ॥26॥ 27. पुष्पवतीः प्रसूमतीः फलिनीर् अफला उत । संमातर इव दुह्राम् अस्मा अरिष्टतातये ॥27॥ 28. उत् त्वाहार्षं पञ्चशलाद् अथो दशशलाद् उत । अथो यमस्य पड्वीशाद् विश्वस्माद् देवकिल्बिषात् ॥28॥ {19}
Transliteration
1. yā babhravo yāś ca śukrā rohiṇīr uta pṛśnayaḥ | asiknīḥ kṛṣṇā oṣadhīḥ sarvā achāvadāmasi ||1|| 2. trāyantām imaṃ purusaṃ yakṣmād deveṣitād adhi | yāsām dyauḥ pitā pṛthivī mātā samudro mūlaṃ vīrudhāṃ babhūva ||2|| 3. āpo agraṃ divyā oṣadhayaḥ | tās te yakṣmam enasyam aṅgādaṅgād anīnaśan ||3|| 4. prastṛṇatī stambinīr ekaśuṅgāḥ pratanvatīr oṣadhīr ā vadāmi | aṃśumatīḥ kaṇḍinīr yā viśākhā hvayāmi te vīrudho vaiśvadevīr ugrāḥ puruṣajīvanīḥ ||4|| 5. yad vaḥ sahaḥ sahamānā vīryaṃ1 yac ca vo balam | tenemam asmād yakṣmāt puruṣaṃ muñcatauṣadhīr atho kṛṇomi bheṣajam ||5|| 6. jīvalāṃ naghāriṣāṃ jīvantīm oṣadhīm aham | arundhatīm unnayantīṃ puṣpām madhumatīm iha huve 'smā ariṣṭatātaye ||6|| 7. ihā yantu pracetaso medinīr vacaso mama | yathemaṃ pārayāmasi puruṣaṃ duritād adhi ||7|| 8. agner ghāso apāṃ garbho yā rohanti punarṇavāḥ | dhruvāḥ sahasranāmnīr bheṣajīḥ santv ābhṛtāḥ ||8|| 9. avakolbā udakātmāna oṣadhayaḥ | vyṛṣantu duritaṃ tīkṣṇaśṛṅgyaḥ ||9|| 10. unmuñcantīr vivaruṇā ugrā yā viṣadūṣanīḥ | atho balāsanāśanīḥ kṛtyādūṣaṇīś ca yās tā ihā yantv oṣadhīḥ ||10|| {17} 11. apakrītāḥ sahīyasīr vīrudho yā abhiṣṭutāḥ | trāyantām asmin grāme gām aśvaṃ puruṣaṃ paśum ||11|| 12. madhuman mūlaṃ madhumad agram āsām madhuman madhyaṃ vīrudhāṃ babhūva | madhumat parṇaṃ madhumat puṣpam āsāṃ madhoḥ sambhaktā amṛtasya bhakṣo ghṛtam annaṃ duhratāṃ gopurogavam ||12|| 13. yāvatīḥ kiyatīś cemāḥ pṛthivyām adhy oṣadhīḥ | tā mā sahasraparṇyo mṛtyor muñcantv aṃhasaḥ ||13|| 14. vaiyāghro maṇir vīrudhāṃ trāyamāno 'bhiśastipāḥ | amīvāḥ sarvā rakṣāṃsy apa hantv adhi dūram asmat ||14|| 15. siṃhasyeva stanathoḥ saṃ vijante 'gner iva vijante ābhṛtābhyaḥ | gavāṃ yakṣmaḥ puruṣāṇāṃ vīrudbhir atinutto nāvyā etu srotyāḥ ||15|| 16. mumucānā oṣadhayo 'gner vaiśvānarād adhi | bhūmiṃ saṃtanvatīr ita yāsāṃ rājā vanaspatiḥ ||16|| 17. yā rohanty āṅgirasīḥ parvateṣu sameṣu ca | tā naḥ payasvatīḥ śivā oṣadhīḥ santu śaṃ hṛde ||17|| 18. yāś cāhaṃ veda vīrudho yāś ca paśyāmi cakṣuṣā | ajñātā jānīmaś ca yā yāsu vidma ca saṃbhṛtam ||18|| 19. sarvāḥ samagrā oṣadhīr bodhantu vacaso mama | yathemaṃ pārayāmasi puruṣam duritād adhi ||19|| 20. aśvattho darbho vīrudhāṃ somo rājāmṛtaṃ haviḥ | vrīhir yavaś ca bheṣajau divasi putrāv amartyau ||20|| {18} 21. uj jihīdhve stanayaty abhikrandaty oṣadhīḥ | yadā vaḥ pṛśnimātaraḥ parjanyo retasāvati ||21|| 22. tasyāmṛtasyemaṃ balaṃ puruṣaṃ payayāmasi | atho kṛṇomi bheṣajaṃ yathāsac chatahāyanaḥ ||22|| 23. varāho veda vīrudhaṃ nakulo veda bheṣajīm | sarpā gandharvā yā vidus tā asmā avase huve ||23|| 24. yāḥ suparṇā āṅgirasīr divyā yā raghato viduḥ | vayāṃsi haṃsā yā vidur yās ca sarve patatriṇaḥ | mṛgā yā vidur oṣadhīs tā asmā avase huve ||24|| 25. yāvatīnām oṣadhīnāṃ gāvaḥ prāśnanty aghnyā yavatīnām ajāvayaḥ | tāvatīs tubhyam oṣadhīḥ śarma yachantv ābhṛtāḥ ||25|| 26. yāvatīṣu manuṣyā bheṣajaṃ bhiṣajo viduḥ | tāvatīr viśvabheṣajīr ā bharāmi tvām abhi ||26|| 27. puṣpavatīḥ prasūmatīḥ phalinīr aphalā uta | saṃmātara iva duhrām asmā ariṣṭatātaye ||27|| 28. ut tvāhārṣaṃ pañcaśalād atho daśaśalād uta | atho yamasya paḍvīśād viśvasmād devakilbiṣāt ||28|| {19}
Unaccented IAST transliteration from GRETIL's Atharvaveda-Samhita, Shaunaka recension. Devanagari is generated from that IAST text.
Atharvaveda 8.8 — Hymn 8. Imprecations directed against a hostile army
1. Indra the Shaker shake them up, brave, hero, fortdemolisher, That into thousand fragments we may strike the armies of our foes!
2. Let Pūtirajju with her breath corrupt and putrefy that host, And terror smite our foemen's heart when fire and smoke are seen afar.
3. Asvattha, rend those men; do thou devour them quickly, Khadira! Like reeds let them be broken through, down-smitten by a lifted rush.
4. Let Parushāhva make them reeds, and let the bulrush strike them down: Bound in a mighty net let them break quickly like an arrow's shaft.
5. Air was the net; the poles thereof were the great quarters of the sky: Sakra therewith enveloped and cast on the ground the Dasyus' host.
6. Verily mighty is the net of mighty Sakra rich in wealth: Therewith press all the foemen down so that not one of them escape!
7. Great is thy net, brave Indra, thine the mighty match for a thousand, Lord of Hundred Powers! Holding them, with his host, therewith hath Indra slaughtered Dasyus a hundred, thousand, myriad, hundred millions.
8. This world so mighty was the net of Sakra, of the Mighty One: With this, the net of Indra, I envelop all those men with gloom.
9. Great weakness and misfortune, pain which words can never charm away, Languor, fatigue, bewilderment, with these I compass all the foes.
10. I give those foemen up to Death: bound in the bonds of Death are they. I bind and carry them away to meet Death's wicked messengers.
11. Bear them away, Death's messengers! envoys of Yama! bind them fast. More than a thousand be their slain: the club of Bhava pierce them through!
12. Forth go the Sādhyas in their might bearing one netpole raised aloft. One pole the Rudras carry, one the Vasus, and the Ādityas one.
13. The Visve Devas from above shall come depressing it with might, And in the midst the Angirases, slaying the mighty host, shall go.
14. Trees of the forest, trees that bear flower and fruit, and herbs and plants, Quadruped, biped send I forth that they may strike this army dead,
15. Gandharvas, and Apsarases, Gods, Serpents, Fathers, Holy Men, Seen and unseen, I send them forth that they may strike this army dead.
16. Here spread are snares of Death wherefrom thou, once within them, ne'er art freed: Full many a thousand of the host yonder this horn shall smite and slay.
17. The Gharma hath been warmed with fire: this Homa slays a thousand men. Let Bhava, Prisnibāhu, and Sarva destroy that armament.
18. Their portion be the fire of Death, hunger, exhaustion, slaughter, fear. With your entangling snares and nets, Sarva and Indra! slay that host.
19. Fly, conquered, in alarm, ye foes, run driven by the spell away! Let not one man escape of those when routed by Brihaspati.
20. Down fall their weapons on the ground: no strength be theirs to point a shaft: Then in their dreadful terror let their arrows wound their vital parts.
21. Let Heaven and Earth roar out in wrath against them, and Air with all the Deities in concert, Let them not find a surety or a refuge, but torn away go down to Death together.
22. The mules of the Gods' car are heaven's four quarters; their hooves are sacred cakes, the air its body. Its sides are Heaven and Earth, its reins the Seasons, Voice is its hood, its grooms are sky's mid-regions.
23. Year is the car, Full Year the seat for driving, Virāj the pole, the chariot's front is Agni, Indra the warrior, and the Moon the driver.
24. Hence conquer, conquer, Hail! be thou the victor! Let these be conquerors and those be conquered. Good luck to these, ill luck to those men yonder! With the dark-blue-and-red our foes I cover.
Sanskrit and transliteration
Sanskrit
1. इन्द्रो मन्थतु मन्थिता शक्रः शूरः पुरंदरः । यथा हनाम सेना अमित्राणां सहस्रशः ॥1॥ 2. पूतिरज्जुर् उपध्मानी पूतिं सेनां कृणोत्व् अमूम् । धूमम् अग्निम् परादृश्या ऽमित्रा हृत्स्व् आ दधतां भयम् ॥2॥ 3. अमून् अश्वत्थ निः शृणीहि खादामून् खदिराजिरम् । ताजद्भङ्ग इव भजन्तां हन्त्व् एनान् वधको वधैः ॥3॥ 4. परुषान् अमून् परुषाह्वः कृणोतु हन्त्व् एनान् वधको वधैः । क्षिप्रं शर इव भजन्तां बृहज्जालेन संदिताः ॥4॥ 5. अन्तरिक्षं जालम् आसीज् जालदण्डा दिशो महीः । तेनाभिधाय दस्यूनां शक्रः सेनाम् अपावपत् ॥5॥ 6. बृहद् धि जालं बृहतः शक्रस्य वाजिनीवतः । तेन शत्रून् अभि सर्वान् न्य् उब्ज यथा न मुच्यातै कतमश् चनैषाम् ॥6॥ 7. बृहत् ते जालं बृहत इन्द्र शूर सहस्रार्घस्य शतवीर्यस्य । तेन शतं सहस्रम् अयुतं न्यर्बुदं जघान शक्रो दस्यूनाम् अभिधाय सेनया ॥7॥ 8. अयं लोको जालम् आसीच् छक्रस्य महतो महान् । तेनाहम् इन्द्रजालेनामूंस् तमसाभि दधामि सर्वान् ॥8॥ 9. सेदिर् उग्रा व्यृद्धिर् आर्तिश् चानपवाचना । श्रमस् तन्द्रीश् च मोहश् च तैर् अमून् अभि दधामि सर्वान् ॥9॥ 10. मृत्यवे ऽमून् प्र यछामि मृत्युपाशैर् अमी सिताः । मृत्योर् ये अघला दूतास् तेभ्य एनान् प्रति नयामि बद्ध्वा ॥10॥ {20} 11. नयतामून् मृत्युदूता यमदूता अपोम्भत । परःसहस्रा हन्यन्तां तृणेढ्व् एनान् मत्यं भवस्य ॥11॥ 12. साध्या एकं जालदण्डम् उद्यत्य यन्त्य् ओजसा । रुद्रा एकं वसव एकम् आदित्यैर् एक उद्यतः ॥12॥ 13. विश्वे देवाः उपरिष्टाद् उब्जन्तो यन्त्व् ओजसा । मध्येन घ्नन्तो यन्तु सेनाम् अङ्गिरसो महीम् ॥13॥ 14. वनस्पतीन् वानस्पत्यान् ओषधीर् उत वीरुधः । द्विपाच् चतुष्पाद् इष्णामि यथा सेनाम् अमूं हनन् ॥14॥ 15. गन्धर्वाप्सरसः सर्पान् देवान् पुण्यजनान् पितॄन् । दृष्टान् अदृष्टान् इष्णामि यथा सेनाम् अमूं हनन् ॥15॥ 16. इम उप्ता मृत्युपाशा यान् आक्रम्य न मुच्यसे । अमुष्या हन्तु सेनाया इदं कूटं सहस्रशः ॥16॥ 17. घर्मः समिद्धो अग्निनायं होमः सहस्रहः । भवश् च पृश्निबाहुश् च शर्व सेनाम् अमूं हतम् ॥17॥ 18. मृत्योर् आषम् आ पद्यन्तां क्षुधं सेदिं वधम् भयम् । इन्द्रश् चाक्षुजालाभ्यां शर्व सेनाम् अमूं हतम् ॥18॥ 19. पराजिताः प्र त्रसतामित्रा नुत्ता धावत ब्रह्मणा । बृहस्पतिप्रनुत्तानां मामीषां मोचि कश् चन ॥19॥ 20. अव पद्यन्ताम् एषाम् आयुधानि मा शकन् प्रतिधाम् इषुम् । अथैषां बहु बिभ्यताम् इषवः घ्नन्तु मर्मणि ॥20॥ 21. सं क्रोशताम् एनान् द्यावापृथिवी सम् अन्तरिक्षं सह देवताभिः । मा ज्ञातारं मा प्रतिष्ठां विदन्त मिथो विघ्नाना उप यन्तु मृत्युम् ॥21॥ 22. दिशश् चतस्रो ऽश्वतर्यो देवरथस्य पुरोदाशाः शफा अन्तरिक्षम् उद्धिः । द्यावापृथिवी पक्षसी ऋतवो ऽभीशवो ऽन्तर्देशाः किम्करा वाक् परिरथ्यम् ॥22॥ 23. संवत्सरो रथः परिवत्सरो रथोपस्थो विराड् ईषाग्नी रथमुखम् । इन्द्रः सव्यष्ठाश् चन्द्रमाः सारथिः ॥23॥ 24. इतो जयेतो वि जय सं जय जय स्वाहा । इमे जयन्तु परामी जयन्तां स्वाहैभ्यो दुराहामीभ्यः । नीललोहितेनामून् अभ्यवतनोमि ॥24॥ {21}
Transliteration
1. indro manthatu manthitā śakraḥ śūraḥ puraṃdaraḥ | yathā hanāma senā amitrāṇāṃ sahasraśaḥ ||1|| 2. pūtirajjur upadhmānī pūtiṃ senāṃ kṛṇotv amūm | dhūmam agnim parādṛśyā 'mitrā hṛtsv ā dadhatāṃ bhayam ||2|| 3. amūn aśvattha niḥ śṛṇīhi khādāmūn khadirājiram | tājadbhaṅga iva bhajantāṃ hantv enān vadhako vadhaiḥ ||3|| 4. paruṣān amūn paruṣāhvaḥ kṛṇotu hantv enān vadhako vadhaiḥ | kṣipraṃ śara iva bhajantāṃ bṛhajjālena saṃditāḥ ||4|| 5. antarikṣaṃ jālam āsīj jāladaṇḍā diśo mahīḥ | tenābhidhāya dasyūnāṃ śakraḥ senām apāvapat ||5|| 6. bṛhad dhi jālaṃ bṛhataḥ śakrasya vājinīvataḥ | tena śatrūn abhi sarvān ny ubja yathā na mucyātai katamaś canaiṣām ||6|| 7. bṛhat te jālaṃ bṛhata indra śūra sahasrārghasya śatavīryasya | tena śataṃ sahasram ayutaṃ nyarbudaṃ jaghāna śakro dasyūnām abhidhāya senayā ||7|| 8. ayaṃ loko jālam āsīc chakrasya mahato mahān | tenāham indrajālenāmūṃs tamasābhi dadhāmi sarvān ||8|| 9. sedir ugrā vyṛddhir ārtiś cānapavācanā | śramas tandrīś ca mohaś ca tair amūn abhi dadhāmi sarvān ||9|| 10. mṛtyave 'mūn pra yachāmi mṛtyupāśair amī sitāḥ | mṛtyor ye aghalā dūtās tebhya enān prati nayāmi baddhvā ||10|| {20} 11. nayatāmūn mṛtyudūtā yamadūtā apombhata | paraḥsahasrā hanyantāṃ tṛṇeḍhv enān matyaṃ bhavasya ||11|| 12. sādhyā ekaṃ jāladaṇḍam udyatya yanty ojasā | rudrā ekaṃ vasava ekam ādityair eka udyataḥ ||12|| 13. viśve devāḥ upariṣṭād ubjanto yantv ojasā | madhyena ghnanto yantu senām aṅgiraso mahīm ||13|| 14. vanaspatīn vānaspatyān oṣadhīr uta vīrudhaḥ | dvipāc catuṣpād iṣṇāmi yathā senām amūṃ hanan ||14|| 15. gandharvāpsarasaḥ sarpān devān puṇyajanān pitṝn | dṛṣṭān adṛṣṭān iṣṇāmi yathā senām amūṃ hanan ||15|| 16. ima uptā mṛtyupāśā yān ākramya na mucyase | amuṣyā hantu senāyā idaṃ kūṭaṃ sahasraśaḥ ||16|| 17. gharmaḥ samiddho agnināyaṃ homaḥ sahasrahaḥ | bhavaś ca pṛśnibāhuś ca śarva senām amūṃ hatam ||17|| 18. mṛtyor āṣam ā padyantāṃ kṣudhaṃ sediṃ vadham bhayam | indraś cākṣujālābhyāṃ śarva senām amūṃ hatam ||18|| 19. parājitāḥ pra trasatāmitrā nuttā dhāvata brahmaṇā | bṛhaspatipranuttānāṃ māmīṣāṃ moci kaś cana ||19|| 20. ava padyantām eṣām āyudhāni mā śakan pratidhām iṣum | athaiṣāṃ bahu bibhyatām iṣavaḥ ghnantu marmaṇi ||20|| 21. saṃ krośatām enān dyāvāpṛthivī sam antarikṣaṃ saha devatābhiḥ | mā jñātāraṃ mā pratiṣṭhāṃ vidanta mitho vighnānā upa yantu mṛtyum ||21|| 22. diśaś catasro 'śvataryo devarathasya purodāśāḥ śaphā antarikṣam uddhiḥ | dyāvāpṛthivī pakṣasī ṛtavo 'bhīśavo 'ntardeśāḥ kimkarā vāk parirathyam ||22|| 23. saṃvatsaro rathaḥ parivatsaro rathopastho virāḍ īṣāgnī rathamukham | indraḥ savyaṣṭhāś candramāḥ sārathiḥ ||23|| 24. ito jayeto vi jaya saṃ jaya jaya svāhā | ime jayantu parāmī jayantāṃ svāhaibhyo durāhāmībhyaḥ | nīlalohitenāmūn abhyavatanomi ||24|| {21}
Unaccented IAST transliteration from GRETIL's Atharvaveda-Samhita, Shaunaka recension. Devanagari is generated from that IAST text.
Atharvaveda 8.9 — Hymn 9. An enunciation of cosmogonical, ritual, and metrical doctrine
1. Whence were these two produced? which was that region?' From what world, from which earth had they their being? Calves of Virāj, these two arose from water. I ask thee of these twain, who was their milker.
2. He who prepared a threefold home, and lying there made the water bellow through his greatness, Calf of Virāj, giving each wish fulfilment, made bodies for him- self far off, in secret.
3. Which are the three, the mighty three, whereof the fourth divides the voice, This may the Brāhman know by prayer and fervour, whereto belongs the one, whereto the other.
4. Out of the Brihat as the sixth five Salmons have been fashioned forth: From Brihatī was Brihat formed: whence was the Brihatī com- posed?
5. On measure Brihatī is based, and measure on the measurer: From magic might came magic might, from magic might came Mātali.
6. Vaisvānara's image is the sky above us, so far as Agni forced both spheres asunder. Thence from that region as the sixth come praise-songs, and every sixth day hence again go upward.
7. We, Kagyapa! six present Rishis, ask thee—for thou hast prov- ed things tried and meet for trial They call Virāj the Father of Devotion: tell her to us thy friends in all her figures.
8. She whom, advancing, sacrifices follow, and when she takes her station stand beside her, By whose control and hest the spirit moveth, she is Virāj, in highest heaven, O Rishis.
9. Breathless, she moves by breath of living creatures, Svarāj pre- cedes, Virāj comes closely after. Some men behold her not, and some behold her, Virāj meet- shaped, who thinks of all existence.
10. Who hath perceived Virāj's duplication, perceived her seasons and her rule and practice? Who knows her steps, how oft, how far extended, who knows her home and number of her dawnings?
11. She here who first of all sent forth her lustre moves onward resting on these lower creatures. Exalted power and might are stored within her: the woman hath prevailed, the new-come mother.
12. Both Dawns on wings of song, with rich adornment, move on together to their common dwelling. Sūrya's two wives, unwasting, most prolific, knowing their way, move, rich in light, together.
13. The three have passed along the path of Order—three warm libations have regarded offspring One quickens progeny, one strengthens vigour, and one protects the kingdom of the pious.
14. She who was fourth was made by Agni, Soma, and Rishis as. they formed both halves of worship, Gāyatrī, Trishtup, Jagatī, Anushtup, Brihadarki lightening the sacrificer.
15. Five milkings answer to the fivefold dawning, five seasons to the cow who bears five titles. The five sky-regions made fifteen in number, one head have these to one sole world directed.
16. Six Elements arose, first-born of Order: the six-day time is carried by six Sāmans. Six-yoked the plough is, as each trace is numbered: they call both broad ones six; six, Earth and Heaven.
17. They call the cold months six, and six the hot ones. Which, tell us, of the seasons is redundant? Seven sages, eagles, have sat down together: seven metres match the seven Consecrations.
18. Seven are the Homas, seven the logs for burning, seven are the streams of mead, and seven the seasons. Into the world have come seven streams of butter; those we have heard of as the Seven Vultures.
19. Seven metres, by four syllables increasing, each of the seven founded upon another How are the hymns of praise on these supported, and how are these imposed upon the praise-songs?
20. How hath the Gāyatri filled out three triads? On the fifteen how is the Trishtup moulded, Jagatī fashioned on the three-and-thirty? How is Anushtup formed? how Ekavinsa?
21. Eight Elements sprang up, first born of Order: the Priests divine are eight in number, Indra! Eight are the wombs of Aditi, eight her children; for the eighth night is the libation destined.
22. So planning bliss for you have I come hither to win your friendship: kind am I, and gracious. Born from one source, propitious is your wisdom: knowing full well to all of you it cometh.
23. To Indra eight, to Yama six, seven to the Rishis, seven to each: The number five accompanies waters and men and healing herbs.
24. The Heifer, all his own, poured forth for Indra control and milk at her first time of milking; And he then satisfied the four divisions, the Gods and men and Asuras and Rishis.
25. Who is the Cow? Who is the Single Rishi? What is the law, what are the benedictions? What on the earth is the one only Spirit? Which of the number is the Single Season?
26. One is the Cow, one is the Single Spirit, one is the law, single are benedictions. The Spirit dwelling on the earth is single: the Single Season never is transcended.
Sanskrit and transliteration
Sanskrit
1. कुतस् तौ जातौ कतमः सो अर्धः कस्माल् लोकात् कतमस्याः पृथिव्याः । वत्सौ विराजः सलिलाद् उद् ऐतां तौ त्वा पृछामि कतरेण दुग्धा ॥1॥ 2. यो अक्रन्दयत् सलिलं महित्वा योनिं कृत्वा त्रिभुजं शयानः । वत्सः कामदुघो विराजः स गुहा चक्रे तन्वः पराचैः ॥2॥ 3. यानि त्रीणि बृहन्ति येषां चतुर्थं वियुनक्ति वाचम् । ब्रह्मैनद् विद्यात् तपसा विपश्चिद् यस्मिन्न् एकं युज्यते यस्मिन्न् एकम् ॥3॥ 4. बृहतः परि सामानि षष्ठात् पञ्चाधि निर्मिता । बृहद् बृहत्या निर्मितं कुतो ऽधि बृहती मिता ॥4॥ 5. बृहती परि मात्राया मातुर् मात्राधि निर्मिता । माया ह जज्ञे मायाया मायाया मातली परि ॥5॥ 6. वैश्वानरस्य प्रतिमोपरि द्यौर् यावद् रोदसी विबबाधे अग्निः । ततः षष्ठाद् आमुतो यन्ति स्तोमा उद् इतो यन्त्य् अभि षष्ठम् अह्नः ॥6॥ 7. षट् त्वा पृछाम ऋषयः कश्यपेमे त्वं हि युक्तं युयुक्षे योग्यं च । विराजम् आहुर् ब्रह्मणः पितरं तां नो वि धेहि यतिधा सखिभ्यः ॥7॥ 8. यां प्रच्युताम् अनु यज्ञाः प्रच्यवन्त उपतिष्ठन्त उपतिष्ठमानाम् । यस्या व्रते प्रसवे यक्षम् एजति सा विराट् ऋषयः परमे व्योमन् ॥8॥ 9. अप्राणैति प्राणेन प्राणतीनां विराट् स्वराजम् अभ्य् एति पश्चात् । विश्वं मृशन्तीम् अभिरूपां विराजं पश्यन्ति त्वे न त्वे पश्यन्त्य् एनाम् ॥9॥ 10. को विराजो मिथुनत्वं प्र वेद क ऋतून् क उ कल्पम् अस्याः । क्रमान् को अस्याः कतिधा विदुग्धान् को अस्या धाम कतिधा व्युष्टीः ॥10॥ {22} 11. इयम् एव सा या प्रथमा व्यौछद् आस्व् इतरासु चरति प्रविष्टा । महान्तो अस्यां महिमानो अन्तर् वधूर् जिगाय नवगज् जनित्री ॥11॥ 12. छन्दःपक्षे उषसा पेपिशाने समानं योनिम् अनु सं चरेमे । सूर्यपत्नी सं चरतः प्रजानती केतुमती अजरे भूरिरेतसा ॥12॥ 13. ऋतस्य पन्थाम् अनु तिस्र आगुस् त्रयो घर्मा अनु रेत आगुः । प्रजाम् एका जिन्वत्य् ऊर्जम् एका राष्ट्रम् एका रक्षति देवयूनाम् ॥13॥ 14. अग्नीषोमाव् अदधुर् या तुरीयासीद् यज्ञस्य पक्षाव् ऋषयः कल्पयन्तः । गायत्रीं त्रिष्टुभं जगतीम् अनुष्टुभं बृहदर्कीं यजमानाय स्वर् आभरन्तीम् ॥14॥ 15. पञ्च व्युष्टीर् अनु पञ्च दोहा गां पञ्चनाम्नीम् ऋतवो ऽनु पञ्च । पञ्च दिशः पञ्चदशेन कॢप्तास् ता एकमूर्ध्नीर् अभि लोकम् एकम् ॥15॥ 16. षट् जाता भूता प्रथमजा ऋतस्य षट् उ सामानि षटहं वहन्ति । षट्योगं सीरम् अनु सामसाम षट् आहुर् द्यावापृथिवीः षट् उर्वीः ॥16॥ 17. षड् आहुः शीतान् षड् उ मास उष्णान् ऋतुं नो ब्रूत यतमो ऽतिरिक्तः । सप्त सुपर्णाः कवयो नि षेदुः सप्त छन्दांस्य् अनु सप्त दीक्षाः ॥17॥ 18. सप्त होमाः समिधो ह सप्त मधूनि सप्त ऋतवो ह सप्त । सप्ताज्यानि परि भूतम् आयन् ताः सप्तगृध्रा इति शुश्रुमा वयम् ॥18॥ 19. सप्त छन्दांसि चतुरुत्तराण्य् अन्यो अन्यस्मिन्न् अध्य् आर्पितानि । कथं स्तोमाः प्रति तिष्ठन्ति तेषु तानि स्तोमेषु कथम् आर्पितानि ॥19॥ 20. कथं गायत्री त्रिवृतं व्य् आप कथं त्रिष्टुप् पञ्चदशेन कल्पते । त्रयस्त्रिंशेन जगती कथम् अनुष्टुप् कथम् एकविंशः ॥20॥ {23} 21. अष्ट जाता भूता प्रथमजा ऋतस्याष्टेन्द्र ऋत्विजो दैव्या ये । अष्टयोनिर् अदितिर् अष्टपुत्रास्तमीं रात्रिम् अभि हव्यम् एति ॥21॥ 22. इत्थं श्रेयो मन्यमानेदम् आगमं युष्माकं सख्ये अहम् अस्मि शेवा । समानजन्मा क्रतुर् अस्ति वः शिवः स वः सर्वाः सं चरति प्रजानन् ॥22॥ 23. अष्टेन्द्रस्य षड् यमस्य ऋषीणां सप्त सप्तधा । अपो मनुष्यान् ओषधीस् तां उ पञ्चानु सेचिरे ॥23॥ 24. केवलीन्द्राय दुदुहे हि गृष्टिर् वशम् पीयूषं प्रथमं दुहाना । अथातर्पयच् चतुरश् चतुर्धा देवान् मनुष्यां असुरान् उत ऋषीन् ॥24॥ 25. को नु गौः क एकऋषिः किम् उ धाम का आशिषः । यक्षम् पृथिव्याम् एकवृद् एकर्तुः कतमो नु सः ॥25॥ 26. एको गौर् एक एकऋषिर् एकं धामैकधाशिषः । यक्षं पृथिव्याम् एकवृद् एकर्तुर् नाति रिच्यते ॥26॥ {24}
Transliteration
1. kutas tau jātau katamaḥ so ardhaḥ kasmāl lokāt katamasyāḥ pṛthivyāḥ | vatsau virājaḥ salilād ud aitāṃ tau tvā pṛchāmi katareṇa dugdhā ||1|| 2. yo akrandayat salilaṃ mahitvā yoniṃ kṛtvā tribhujaṃ śayānaḥ | vatsaḥ kāmadugho virājaḥ sa guhā cakre tanvaḥ parācaiḥ ||2|| 3. yāni trīṇi bṛhanti yeṣāṃ caturthaṃ viyunakti vācam | brahmainad vidyāt tapasā vipaścid yasminn ekaṃ yujyate yasminn ekam ||3|| 4. bṛhataḥ pari sāmāni ṣaṣṭhāt pañcādhi nirmitā | bṛhad bṛhatyā nirmitaṃ kuto 'dhi bṛhatī mitā ||4|| 5. bṛhatī pari mātrāyā mātur mātrādhi nirmitā | māyā ha jajñe māyāyā māyāyā mātalī pari ||5|| 6. vaiśvānarasya pratimopari dyaur yāvad rodasī vibabādhe agniḥ | tataḥ ṣaṣṭhād āmuto yanti stomā ud ito yanty abhi ṣaṣṭham ahnaḥ ||6|| 7. ṣaṭ tvā pṛchāma ṛṣayaḥ kaśyapeme tvaṃ hi yuktaṃ yuyukṣe yogyaṃ ca | virājam āhur brahmaṇaḥ pitaraṃ tāṃ no vi dhehi yatidhā sakhibhyaḥ ||7|| 8. yāṃ pracyutām anu yajñāḥ pracyavanta upatiṣṭhanta upatiṣṭhamānām | yasyā vrate prasave yakṣam ejati sā virāṭ ṛṣayaḥ parame vyoman ||8|| 9. aprāṇaiti prāṇena prāṇatīnāṃ virāṭ svarājam abhy eti paścāt | viśvaṃ mṛśantīm abhirūpāṃ virājaṃ paśyanti tve na tve paśyanty enām ||9|| 10. ko virājo mithunatvaṃ pra veda ka ṛtūn ka u kalpam asyāḥ | kramān ko asyāḥ katidhā vidugdhān ko asyā dhāma katidhā vyuṣṭīḥ ||10|| {22} 11. iyam eva sā yā prathamā vyauchad āsv itarāsu carati praviṣṭā | mahānto asyāṃ mahimāno antar vadhūr jigāya navagaj janitrī ||11|| 12. chandaḥpakṣe uṣasā pepiśāne samānaṃ yonim anu saṃ careme | sūryapatnī saṃ carataḥ prajānatī ketumatī ajare bhūriretasā ||12|| 13. ṛtasya panthām anu tisra āgus trayo gharmā anu reta āguḥ | prajām ekā jinvaty ūrjam ekā rāṣṭram ekā rakṣati devayūnām ||13|| 14. agnīṣomāv adadhur yā turīyāsīd yajñasya pakṣāv ṛṣayaḥ kalpayantaḥ | gāyatrīṃ triṣṭubhaṃ jagatīm anuṣṭubhaṃ bṛhadarkīṃ yajamānāya svar ābharantīm ||14|| 15. pañca vyuṣṭīr anu pañca dohā gāṃ pañcanāmnīm ṛtavo 'nu pañca | pañca diśaḥ pañcadaśena kḷptās tā ekamūrdhnīr abhi lokam ekam ||15|| 16. ṣaṭ jātā bhūtā prathamajā ṛtasya ṣaṭ u sāmāni ṣaṭahaṃ vahanti | ṣaṭyogaṃ sīram anu sāmasāma ṣaṭ āhur dyāvāpṛthivīḥ ṣaṭ urvīḥ ||16|| 17. ṣaḍ āhuḥ śītān ṣaḍ u māsa uṣṇān ṛtuṃ no brūta yatamo 'tiriktaḥ | sapta suparṇāḥ kavayo ni ṣeduḥ sapta chandāṃsy anu sapta dīkṣāḥ ||17|| 18. sapta homāḥ samidho ha sapta madhūni sapta ṛtavo ha sapta | saptājyāni pari bhūtam āyan tāḥ saptagṛdhrā iti śuśrumā vayam ||18|| 19. sapta chandāṃsi caturuttarāṇy anyo anyasminn adhy ārpitāni | kathaṃ stomāḥ prati tiṣṭhanti teṣu tāni stomeṣu katham ārpitāni ||19|| 20. kathaṃ gāyatrī trivṛtaṃ vy āpa kathaṃ triṣṭup pañcadaśena kalpate | trayastriṃśena jagatī katham anuṣṭup katham ekaviṃśaḥ ||20|| {23} 21. aṣṭa jātā bhūtā prathamajā ṛtasyāṣṭendra ṛtvijo daivyā ye | aṣṭayonir aditir aṣṭaputrāstamīṃ rātrim abhi havyam eti ||21|| 22. itthaṃ śreyo manyamānedam āgamaṃ yuṣmākaṃ sakhye aham asmi śevā | samānajanmā kratur asti vaḥ śivaḥ sa vaḥ sarvāḥ saṃ carati prajānan ||22|| 23. aṣṭendrasya ṣaḍ yamasya ṛṣīṇāṃ sapta saptadhā | apo manuṣyān oṣadhīs tāṃ u pañcānu secire ||23|| 24. kevalīndrāya duduhe hi gṛṣṭir vaśam pīyūṣaṃ prathamaṃ duhānā | athātarpayac caturaś caturdhā devān manuṣyāṃ asurān uta ṛṣīn ||24|| 25. ko nu gauḥ ka ekaṛṣiḥ kim u dhāma kā āśiṣaḥ | yakṣam pṛthivyām ekavṛd ekartuḥ katamo nu saḥ ||25|| 26. eko gaur eka ekaṛṣir ekaṃ dhāmaikadhāśiṣaḥ | yakṣaṃ pṛthivyām ekavṛd ekartur nāti ricyate ||26|| {24}
Unaccented IAST transliteration from GRETIL's Atharvaveda-Samhita, Shaunaka recension. Devanagari is generated from that IAST text.
Atharvaveda 8.10 — Hymn 10. A glorification of the mystical abstraction Virāj
1. Viraj at first was This. At birth all feared her; the thought, She will become this All, struck terror.
2. She rose, the Gārhapatya fire she entered. He who knows this becomes lord of a household, performer of domestic sacri- fices.
3. She mounted up, the Eastward fire she entered. He who knows this becomes the Gods' beloved, and to his call they come when she invokes them.
4. She mounted up, the Southward fire she entered. He who knows this becomes a fit performer of sacrifice, meet for honour, shelter-giver.
5. She mounted up, she entered the Assembly. He who knows this becomes polite and courtly, and people come as guests to his assembly.
6. She mounted up, she passed within the meeting. He who knows this becomes fit for the meeting, and to his hall of meeting come the people.
7. She mounted up, she entered Consultation. Whoso knows this is fit to be consulted, and to his consultation come the people.
8. She mounted up, and, into four divided, she took her station in the air's mid-region.
9. Of her the Gods and men said, This she knoweth. That we may both have life let us invoke her.
10. Thus did they cry to her:
11. Come, Strength! come, Food! come, Charmer! come, Free- giver!
12. Her calf, her well-beloved calf, was Indra: Gāyatri was her rope, the cloud her udder.
13. Two teats she had, Rathantara and Brihat, two, Yajnāyajniya and Vāmadevya.
14. With the Rathantara the Gods milked from her the Plants, and all the wide expanse with Brihat.
15. They drew the Waters forth with Vāmadevya, with Yajnayaj- niya they milked out worship.
16. For him who knoweth this, Rathantara poureth out Plants, and Brihat yieldeth wide expansion.
17. Waters from Vāmdevya come, from Yajnāyajniya sacrifice.
18. She rose, she came unto the tress: they killed her. A year went by and she again existed. Hence in a year the wounds of trees heal over. He who knows this sees his loathed rival wounded.
19. She mounted up, she came unto the Fathers: they killed her: in a month she re-existed. Hence men give monthly offerings to the Fathers: who knows this, knows the path which they have trodden.
20. She rose, she came unto the Gods: they killed her: but in a fortnight she again was living. Fortnightly, hence, men serve the Gods with Vasat! Who knows this knows the way which Gods pass over.
21. She mounted up, she came to men: they killed her Presently she regained her life and being. Hence on both days to men they bring and offer—who knows this—near-seated in the dwelling.
22. She rose, approached the Asuras: they called her: their cry was, Come, O Māyā, come thou hither. Her dear calf was Virochana Prāhrādi: her milking vessel was a. pan of iron. Dvimūrdhā Ārtvya milked her, yea, this Māyā, The Asuras depend for life on Māyā. He who knows this becomes a fit supporter.
23. She mounted up, she came unto the Fathers. The Fathers called. to her, O Food, come hither. King Yama was her calf, her pail was silvern. Antaka, Mrityu's. son, milked her, this Svadhā. This Food the Fathers make their lives' sustainer. He who• knows this becomes a meet supporter.
24. She mounted up, she came to men. They called her, Come unto- us, come hither thou Free-giver! Earth was her milking-pail, the calf beside her Manu Vaivasvata, Vivasvān's offspring. Prithi the son of Vena was her milker: he milked forth hus- bandry and grain for sowing. These men depend for life on corn and tillage. He who knows this becomes a meet supporter, successful in the culture of his corn-land.
25. She rose, she came unto the Seven Rishis. They called her,. Come, Rich in Devotion! hither. King Soma was her calf. the Moon her milk-pail. Brihaspati. Āngirasa, her milker, Drew from her udder Prayer and Holy Fervour. Fervour and Prayer maintain the Seven Rishis. He who knows this becomes a meet supporter, a priest illustri- ous for his sacred knowledge.
26. She rose, she came unto the Gods. They called her, crying, O Vigour, come to us, come hither! God Savitar milked her, he milked forth Vigour. The Gods depend for life upon that Vigour. He who knows this becomes
a meet supporter.
27. She rose approached the Apsarases and Gandharvas. They called her, Come to us, O Fragrant-scented! The son of Sūryavarchas, Chitraratha, was her dear calf, her pail.
a lotus-petal. The son of Sūryavarchas, Vasuruchi, milked and drew from her most delightful fragrance. That scent supports Apsarases and Gandharvas. He who knows this becomes a meet supporter, and round him ever breathes delicious odour.
28. She mounted up, she came to Other People. They called her, crying, Come, Concealment! hither. Her dear calf was Vaisravana Kubera, a vessel never tempered was her milk-pail. Rajatanābhi, offspring of Kubera, milked her, and from her udder drew concealment. By that concealment live the Other People. He who knows this becomes a meet supporter, and makes all evil disappear and vanish.
29. She mounted up, she came unto the Serpents. The Serpents called her, Venomous! come hither. Her calf was Takshaka, Visāla's offspring: a bottlegourd suppli- ed a milking-vessel. Irāvān's offspring, Dhritarāshtra milked her, and from her udder drew forth only poison. That poison quickens and supports the Serpents: He who knows this becomes a meet supporter.
30. One would ward off, for him who hath this knowledge, if with a bottle-gourd he sprinkled water.
31. And did he not repel, if in his spirit he said, I drive thee back, he would repel it.
32. The poison that it drives away, that poison verily repels.
33. The man who hath this knowledge pours its venom on his hated foe.
Sanskrit and transliteration
Sanskrit
1. विराड् वा इदम् अग्र आसीत् तस्या जातायाः सर्वम् अबिभेद् इयम् एवेदं भविष्यतीति ॥1॥ 2. सोद् अक्रामत् सा गार्हपत्ये न्य् अक्रामत् । गृहमेधी गृहपतिर् भवति य एवं वेद ॥2॥ 3. सोद् अक्रामत् साहवनीये न्य् अक्रामत् । यन्त्य् अस्य देवा देवहूतिं प्रियो देवानां भवति य एवं वेद ॥3॥ 4. सोद् अक्रामत् सा दक्षिणाग्नौ न्य् अक्रामत् । यज्ञर्तो दक्षिणीयो वासतेयो भवति य एवं वेद ॥4॥ 5. सोद् अक्रामत् सा सभायां न्य् अक्रामत् । यन्त्य् अस्य सभां सभ्यो भवति य एवं वेद ॥5॥ 6. सोद् अक्रामत् सा समितौ न्य् अक्रामत् । यन्त्य् अस्य समितिं सामित्यो भवति य एवं वेद ॥6॥ 7. सोद् अक्रामत् सामन्त्रणे न्य् अक्रामत् । यन्त्य् अस्यामन्त्रणम् आमन्त्रणीयो भवति य एवं वेद ॥7॥ {25} 8. सोद् अक्रामत् सान्तरिक्षे चतुर्धा विक्रान्तातिष्ठत् ॥8॥ 9. तां देवमनुष्या अब्रुवन्न् इयम् एव तद् वेद यद् उभय उपजीवेमेमाम् उप ह्वयामहा इति ॥9॥ 10. ताम् उपाह्वयन्त ॥10॥ 11. ऊर्ज एहि स्वध एहि सूनृत एहीरावत्य् एहीति ॥11॥ 12. तस्या इन्द्रो वत्स आसीद् गायत्र्य् अभिधान्य् अभ्रम् ऊधः ॥12॥ 13. बृहच् च रथंतरं च द्वौ स्तनाव् आस्तां यज्ञायज्ञियं च वामदेव्यं च द्वौ ॥13॥ 14. ओषधीर् एव रथंतरेण देवा अदुह्रन् व्यचो बृहता ॥14॥ 15. अपो वामदेव्येन यज्ञं यज्ञायज्ञियेन ॥15॥ 16. ओषधीर् एवास्मै रथंतरं दुहे व्यचो बृहत् ॥16॥ 17. अपो वामदेव्यं यज्ञं यज्ञायज्ञियं य वेद ॥17॥ {26} 18. सोद् अक्रामत् सा वनस्पतीन् आगछत् तां वनस्पतयो ऽघ्नत सा संवत्सरे सम् अभवत् । तस्माद् वनस्पतीनां संवत्सरे वृक्णम् अपि रोहति वृश्चते ऽस्याप्रियो भ्रातृव्यो य एवं वेद ॥18॥ 19. सोद् अक्रामत् सा पितॄन् आगछत् तां पितरो ऽघ्नत सा मासि सम् अभवत् । तस्मात् पितृभ्यो मास्य् उपमास्यं ददति प्र पितृयाणं पन्थां जानाति य एवं वेद ॥19॥ 20. सोद् अक्रामत् सा देवान् आगछत् तां देवा अघ्नत सार्धमासे सम् अभवत् । तस्माद् देवेभ्यो ऽर्धमासे वषट् कुर्वन्ति प्र देवयानं पन्थां जानाति य एवं वेद ॥20॥ 21. सोद् अक्रामत् सा मनुष्यान् आगछत् तां मनुष्या अघ्नत सा सद्यः सम् अभवत् । तस्मान् मनुष्येभ्य उभयद्युर् उप हरन्त्य् उपास्य गृहे हरन्ति य एवं वेद ॥21॥ {27} 22. सोद् अक्रामत् सासुरान् आगछत् ताम् असुरा उपाह्वयन्त माय एहीति । तस्या विरोचनः प्राह्रादिर् वत्स आसीद् अयस्पात्रं पात्रम् । तां द्विमूर्धार्त्व्यो ऽधोक् तां मायाम् एवाधोक् ॥ तां मायाम् असुरा उप जीवन्त्य् उपजीवनीयो भवति य एवं वेद ॥22॥ 23. सोद् अक्रामत् सा पितॄन् आगछत् तां पितर उपाह्वयन्त स्वध एहीति । तस्या यमो राजा वत्स आसीद् रजतपात्रं पात्रम् । ताम् अन्तको मार्त्यवो ऽधोक् तां स्वधाम् एवाधोक् । तां स्वधां पितर उप जीवन्त्य् उपजीवनीयो भवति य एवं वेद ॥23॥ 24. सोद् अक्रामत् सा मनुष्यान् आगछत् तां मनुष्या उपाह्वयन्तेरावत्य् एहीति । तस्या मनुर् वैवस्वतो वत्स आसीत् पृथिवी पात्रम् । तां पृथी वैन्यो ऽधोक् तां कृषिं च सस्यं चाधोक् । ते स्वधां कृषिं च सस्यं च मनुष्या उप जीवन्ति कृष्टराधिर् उपजीवनीयो भवति य एवं वेद ॥24॥ 25. सोद् अक्रामत् सा सप्तऋषीन् आगछत् तां सप्तऋषय उपाह्वयन्त ब्रह्मण्वत्य् एहीति । तस्याः सोमो राजा वत्स आसीच् छन्दः पात्रम् । तां बृहस्पतिर् आङ्गिरसो ऽधोक् तां ब्रह्म च तपश् चाधोक् । तद् ब्रह्म च तपश् च सप्तऋषय उप जीवन्ति ब्रह्मवर्चस्य् उपजीवनीयो भवति य एवं वेद ॥25॥ {28} 26. सोद् अक्रामत् सा देवान् आगछत् तां देवा उपाह्वयन्तोर्ज एहीति । तस्या इन्द्रो वत्स आसीच् चमसः पात्रम् । तां देवः सविताधोक् ताम् ऊर्जाम् एवाधोक् । तां ऊर्जां देवा उप जीवन्त्य् उपजीवनीयो भवति य एवं वेद ॥26॥ 27. सोद् अक्रामत् सा गन्धर्वाप्सरस आगछत् तां गन्धर्वाप्सरस उपाह्वयन्त पुण्यगन्ध एहीति । तस्याश् चित्ररथः सौर्यवर्चसो वत्स आसीत् पुष्करपर्णं पात्रम् । तां वसुरुचिः सौर्यवर्चसो ऽधोक् तां पुण्यम् एव गन्धम् अधोक् । तं पुण्यं गन्धं गन्धर्वाप्सरस उप जीवन्ति पुण्यगन्धिर् उपजीवनीयो भवति य एवं वेद ॥27॥ 28. सोद् अक्रामत् सेतरजनान् आगछत् ताम् इतरजना उपाह्वयन्त तिरोध एहीति । तस्याः कुबेरो वैश्रवणो वत्स आसीद् आमपात्रं पात्रम् । तां रजतनाभिः कबेरको ऽधोक् तां तिरोधाम् एवाधोक् । तां तिरोधाम् अतिरजना पितर उप जीवन्ति तिरो धत्ते सर्वं पाप्मानम् उपजीवनीयो भवति य एवं वेद ॥28॥ 29. सोद् अक्रामत् सा सर्पान् आगछत् तां सर्पा उपाह्वयन्त विषवत्य् एहीति । तस्यास् तक्षको वैशलेयो वत्स आसीद् अलाबुपात्रं पात्रं । तां धृतराष्ट्र ऐरावतो ऽधोक् तां विषम् एवाधोक् । तद् विषं सर्वा उप जीवन्त्य् उपजीवनीयो भवति य एवं वेद ॥29॥ {29} 30. तद् यस्मा एवं विदुषे ऽलाबुनाभिषिञ्चेत् प्रत्याहन्यात् ॥30॥ 31. न च प्रत्याहन्यान् मनसा त्वा प्रत्याहन्मीति प्रत्याहन्यात् ॥31॥ 32. यत् प्रत्याहन्ति विषम् एव तत् प्रत्याहन्ति ॥32॥ 33. विषम् एवास्याप्रियं भ्रातृव्यम् अनुविषिच्यते य एवं वेद ॥33॥ {30}
Transliteration
1. virāḍ vā idam agra āsīt tasyā jātāyāḥ sarvam abibhed iyam evedaṃ bhaviṣyatīti ||1|| 2. sod akrāmat sā gārhapatye ny akrāmat | gṛhamedhī gṛhapatir bhavati ya evaṃ veda ||2|| 3. sod akrāmat sāhavanīye ny akrāmat | yanty asya devā devahūtiṃ priyo devānāṃ bhavati ya evaṃ veda ||3|| 4. sod akrāmat sā dakṣiṇāgnau ny akrāmat | yajñarto dakṣiṇīyo vāsateyo bhavati ya evaṃ veda ||4|| 5. sod akrāmat sā sabhāyāṃ ny akrāmat | yanty asya sabhāṃ sabhyo bhavati ya evaṃ veda ||5|| 6. sod akrāmat sā samitau ny akrāmat | yanty asya samitiṃ sāmityo bhavati ya evaṃ veda ||6|| 7. sod akrāmat sāmantraṇe ny akrāmat | yanty asyāmantraṇam āmantraṇīyo bhavati ya evaṃ veda ||7|| {25} 8. sod akrāmat sāntarikṣe caturdhā vikrāntātiṣṭhat ||8|| 9. tāṃ devamanuṣyā abruvann iyam eva tad veda yad ubhaya upajīvememām upa hvayāmahā iti ||9|| 10. tām upāhvayanta ||10|| 11. ūrja ehi svadha ehi sūnṛta ehīrāvaty ehīti ||11|| 12. tasyā indro vatsa āsīd gāyatry abhidhāny abhram ūdhaḥ ||12|| 13. bṛhac ca rathaṃtaraṃ ca dvau stanāv āstāṃ yajñāyajñiyaṃ ca vāmadevyaṃ ca dvau ||13|| 14. oṣadhīr eva rathaṃtareṇa devā aduhran vyaco bṛhatā ||14|| 15. apo vāmadevyena yajñaṃ yajñāyajñiyena ||15|| 16. oṣadhīr evāsmai rathaṃtaraṃ duhe vyaco bṛhat ||16|| 17. apo vāmadevyaṃ yajñaṃ yajñāyajñiyaṃ ya veda ||17|| {26} 18. sod akrāmat sā vanaspatīn āgachat tāṃ vanaspatayo 'ghnata sā saṃvatsare sam abhavat | tasmād vanaspatīnāṃ saṃvatsare vṛkṇam api rohati vṛścate 'syāpriyo bhrātṛvyo ya evaṃ veda ||18|| 19. sod akrāmat sā pitṝn āgachat tāṃ pitaro 'ghnata sā māsi sam abhavat | tasmāt pitṛbhyo māsy upamāsyaṃ dadati pra pitṛyāṇaṃ panthāṃ jānāti ya evaṃ veda ||19|| 20. sod akrāmat sā devān āgachat tāṃ devā aghnata sārdhamāse sam abhavat | tasmād devebhyo 'rdhamāse vaṣaṭ kurvanti pra devayānaṃ panthāṃ jānāti ya evaṃ veda ||20|| 21. sod akrāmat sā manuṣyān āgachat tāṃ manuṣyā aghnata sā sadyaḥ sam abhavat | tasmān manuṣyebhya ubhayadyur upa haranty upāsya gṛhe haranti ya evaṃ veda ||21|| {27} 22. sod akrāmat sāsurān āgachat tām asurā upāhvayanta māya ehīti | tasyā virocanaḥ prāhrādir vatsa āsīd ayaspātraṃ pātram | tāṃ dvimūrdhārtvyo 'dhok tāṃ māyām evādhok || tāṃ māyām asurā upa jīvanty upajīvanīyo bhavati ya evaṃ veda ||22|| 23. sod akrāmat sā pitṝn āgachat tāṃ pitara upāhvayanta svadha ehīti | tasyā yamo rājā vatsa āsīd rajatapātraṃ pātram | tām antako mārtyavo 'dhok tāṃ svadhām evādhok | tāṃ svadhāṃ pitara upa jīvanty upajīvanīyo bhavati ya evaṃ veda ||23|| 24. sod akrāmat sā manuṣyān āgachat tāṃ manuṣyā upāhvayanterāvaty ehīti | tasyā manur vaivasvato vatsa āsīt pṛthivī pātram | tāṃ pṛthī vainyo 'dhok tāṃ kṛṣiṃ ca sasyaṃ cādhok | te svadhāṃ kṛṣiṃ ca sasyaṃ ca manuṣyā upa jīvanti kṛṣṭarādhir upajīvanīyo bhavati ya evaṃ veda ||24|| 25. sod akrāmat sā saptaṛṣīn āgachat tāṃ saptaṛṣaya upāhvayanta brahmaṇvaty ehīti | tasyāḥ somo rājā vatsa āsīc chandaḥ pātram | tāṃ bṛhaspatir āṅgiraso 'dhok tāṃ brahma ca tapaś cādhok | tad brahma ca tapaś ca saptaṛṣaya upa jīvanti brahmavarcasy upajīvanīyo bhavati ya evaṃ veda ||25|| {28} 26. sod akrāmat sā devān āgachat tāṃ devā upāhvayantorja ehīti | tasyā indro vatsa āsīc camasaḥ pātram | tāṃ devaḥ savitādhok tām ūrjām evādhok | tāṃ ūrjāṃ devā upa jīvanty upajīvanīyo bhavati ya evaṃ veda ||26|| 27. sod akrāmat sā gandharvāpsarasa āgachat tāṃ gandharvāpsarasa upāhvayanta puṇyagandha ehīti | tasyāś citrarathaḥ sauryavarcaso vatsa āsīt puṣkaraparṇaṃ pātram | tāṃ vasuruciḥ sauryavarcaso 'dhok tāṃ puṇyam eva gandham adhok | taṃ puṇyaṃ gandhaṃ gandharvāpsarasa upa jīvanti puṇyagandhir upajīvanīyo bhavati ya evaṃ veda ||27|| 28. sod akrāmat setarajanān āgachat tām itarajanā upāhvayanta tirodha ehīti | tasyāḥ kubero vaiśravaṇo vatsa āsīd āmapātraṃ pātram | tāṃ rajatanābhiḥ kaberako 'dhok tāṃ tirodhām evādhok | tāṃ tirodhām atirajanā pitara upa jīvanti tiro dhatte sarvaṃ pāpmānam upajīvanīyo bhavati ya evaṃ veda ||28|| 29. sod akrāmat sā sarpān āgachat tāṃ sarpā upāhvayanta viṣavaty ehīti | tasyās takṣako vaiśaleyo vatsa āsīd alābupātraṃ pātraṃ | tāṃ dhṛtarāṣṭra airāvato 'dhok tāṃ viṣam evādhok | tad viṣaṃ sarvā upa jīvanty upajīvanīyo bhavati ya evaṃ veda ||29|| {29} 30. tad yasmā evaṃ viduṣe 'lābunābhiṣiñcet pratyāhanyāt ||30|| 31. na ca pratyāhanyān manasā tvā pratyāhanmīti pratyāhanyāt ||31|| 32. yat pratyāhanti viṣam eva tat pratyāhanti ||32|| 33. viṣam evāsyāpriyaṃ bhrātṛvyam anuviṣicyate ya evaṃ veda ||33|| {30}
Unaccented IAST transliteration from GRETIL's Atharvaveda-Samhita, Shaunaka recension. Devanagari is generated from that IAST text.