Atharvaveda 1.17
Atharvavedasaṃhitā 1.17
- Language
- Sanskrit
1.17.1
amū́r yā́ yánti yoṣíto hirā́ lóhitavāsasaḥ |
abhrā́tara iva jāmáyas tíṣṭhantu hatávarcasaḥ ||1||
Yon women (yoṣít) that go, veins with red garments, like brotherless sisters (jāmí)—let them stop (sthā), with their splendor smitten.
1.17.2
tíṣṭhāvare tíṣṭha para utá tváṃ tiṣṭha madhyame |
kaniṣṭhikā́ ca tíṣṭhati tiṣṭhād íd dhamánir mahī́ ||2||
Stop, lower one! stop, upper one! do thou too stop, midmost one! if the smallest stops, shall stop forsooth the great tube (dhamáni).
1.17.3
śatásya dhamánīnāṃ sahásrasya hirā́ṇām |
ásthur ín madhyamā́ imā́ḥ sākám ántā araṃsata ||3||
Of the hundred tubes, of the thousand veins, have stopped forsooth these midmost ones; the ends have rested (ram) together.
1.17.4
pári vaḥ síkatāvatī dhanū́r br̥haty àkramīt |
tíṣṭhateláyatā sú kam ||4||
About you hath gone (kram) a great gravelly sandbank (dhanū́); stop [and] be quiet, I pray (sú kam).
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 (10)
- Atharvaveda — Sanskrit
- A History of Indian Philosophy — Surendranath Dasgupta, English
- A Vedic Concordance — Maurice Bloomfield, English
- Aṅgirasī — Sanskrit
- A History of Indian Medical Literature — G. Jan Meulenbeld, English
- Vedic Index of Names and Subjects — Arthur A. Macdonell & A. Berriedale Keith, English
- History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) — P. V. Kane, English
- Altindische Grammatik — Jacob Wackernagel & Albert Debrunner, German
- A Concise History of Science in India — D. M. Bose & Surendra Nath Sen, English
- The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels — Jean Filliozat, English