Atharvaveda 1.16
Atharvavedasaṃhitā 1.16
- Language
- Sanskrit
1.16.1
yé 'māvāsyā̀ṃ rā́trim udásthur vrājám attríṇaḥ |
agnís turī́yo yātuhā́ só asmábhyam ádhi bravat ||1||
What devourers, on the night of new moon, have arisen troop-wise (?)—the fourth Agni is the demon-slayer; he shall bless us.
1.16.2
sī́sāyā́dhy āha váruṇaḥ sī́sāyāgnír úpāvati |
sī́saṃ ma índraḥ prā́yachat tád aṅgá yātucā́tanam ||2||
The lead Varuṇa blesses; the lead Agni favors; Indra bestowed on me the lead; it, surely, is a dispeller of familiar demons.
1.16.3
idáṃ víṣkandhaṃ sahata idáṃ bādhate attríṇaḥ |
anéna víśvā sasahe yā́ jātā́ni piśācyā́ḥ ||3||
This overpowers the víṣkandha; this drives off (bādh) the devourers; with this I overpower all the races (jātá) that are the piçācī́'s.
1.16.4
yádi no gā́ṃ háṃsi yády áśvaṃ yádi pū́ruṣam |
táṃ tvā sī́sena vidhyāmo yáthā nó 'so ávīrahā ||4||
If our cow thou slayest, if [our] horse, if [our] man (púruṣa), we pierce thee there with lead, that thou be no slayer of our heroes.
Translations (3)
- Atharva-Veda Saṃhitā (HOS 7–8) — William Dwight Whitney 1905, English
- The Hymns of the Atharvaveda — Ralph T. H. Griffith 1895, English
- Hymns of the Atharva-Veda (SBE 42) — Maurice Bloomfield 1897, English
Commentaries (2)
- Atharvavedabhāṣya (Sāyaṇa) — Sāyaṇa, Sanskrit
- Atharvavedasaṃhitābhāṣya — Mādhavācārya, Sanskrit
Linked texts (7)
- Atharvaveda — Sanskrit
- Aṅgirasī — Sanskrit
- A Vedic Concordance — Maurice Bloomfield, English
- History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) — P. V. Kane, English
- Altindische Grammatik — Jacob Wackernagel & Albert Debrunner, German
- Die Religion des Veda — Hermann Oldenberg, German
- Vedic Mythology — Arthur Anthony Macdonell, English