Atharvaveda 1.2
Atharvavedasaṃhitā 1.2
- Language
- Sanskrit
1.2.1
vidmā́ śarásya pitáraṃ parjányaṃ bhū́ridhāyasam |
vidmó ṣv àsya mātáraṃ pr̥thivī́ṃ bhū́rivarpasam ||1||
We know the reed's father, Parjanya the much-nourishing; and we know well its mother, the earth of many aspects.
1.2.2
jyā̀ke pári ṇo namā́śmānaṃ tanvàṃ kr̥dhi |
vīḍúr várīyó 'rātīr ápa dvéṣāṃsy ā́ kr̥dhi ||2||
O bow-string, bend about us; make thyself a stone; being hard, put very far away niggards [and] haters.
1.2.3
vr̥kṣáṃ yád gā́vaḥ pariṣasvajānā́ anusphuráṃ śaráṃ árcanty r̥bhúm |
śárum asmád yāvaya didyúm indra ||3||
When the kine, embracing the tree, sing the quivering dexterous (ṝ ṛbhú) reed, keep away from us, O Indra, the shaft, the missile.
1.2.4
yáthā dyā́ṃ ca pr̥thivī́ṃ cāntás tíṣṭhati téjanam |
evā́ rógaṃ cāsrāváṃ cāntás tiṣṭhatu múñja ít ||4||
As between both heaven and earth stands the bamboo (? téjana), so let the reed-stalk (múñja) stand between both the disease and the flux (āsrāvá).
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 (12)
- Atharvaveda — Sanskrit
- A Vedic Concordance — Maurice Bloomfield, English
- Vedic Index of Names and Subjects — Arthur A. Macdonell & A. Berriedale Keith, English
- Aṅgirasī — Sanskrit
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- Altindische Grammatik — Jacob Wackernagel & Albert Debrunner, German
- La religion védique d'après les hymnes du Rig-Véda — Abel Bergaigne, French
- The Bodhisattva Doctrine in Buddhist Sanskrit Literature — Har Dayal, English
- India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī — V. S. Agrawala, English
- Vanaspati: Plants and Plant-Life as in Indian Treatises and Traditions — Girija Prasanna Majumdar, English
- Vedic Mythology — Arthur Anthony Macdonell, English
- Vedāmṛta — Śrīpāda Dāmodara Sātavalekara, Sanskrit