Atharvaveda 1.23
Atharvavedasaṃhitā 1.23
- Language
- Sanskrit
1.23.1
naktaṃjātā́si oṣadhe rā́me kŕ̥ṣṇe ásikni ca |
idáṃ rajani rajaya kilā́saṃ palitáṃ ca yát ||1||
Night-born art thou, O herb, O dark, black, [and] dusky one; O colorer (rajanī), do thou color this leprous spot and what is pale (palitá).
1.23.2
kilā́saṃ ca palitáṃ ca nír itó nāśayā pŕ̥ṣat |
ā́ tvā svó viśatāṃ várṇaḥ párā śuklā́ni pātaya ||2||
The leprous spot, what is pale, do thou cause to disappear from hence, the speckled; let thine own color enter thee; make white things (çuklá) fly away.
1.23.3
ásitaṃ te praláyanam āsthā́nam ásitaṃ táva |
ásiknī asy oṣadhe nír itó nāśayā pŕ̥ṣat ||3||
Dusky is thy hiding-place, dusky thy station (āsthā́na); dusky art thou, O herb; make the speckled disappear from hence.
1.23.4
asthijásya kilā́sasya tanūjásya ca yát tvací |
dū́ṣyā kr̥tásya bráhmaṇā lákṣma śvetám anīnaśam ||4||
Of the bone-born leprous spot, and of the body-born that is in the skin, of that made by the spoiler (dū́ṣi)—by incantation have I made the white (çvetá) mark disappear.
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 (6)
- Atharvaveda — Sanskrit
- A Vedic Concordance — Maurice Bloomfield, English
- Aṅgirasī — Sanskrit
- Vanaspati: Plants and Plant-Life as in Indian Treatises and Traditions — Girija Prasanna Majumdar, English
- A History of Hindu Chemistry from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the Sixteenth Century A.D. — Praphulla Chandra Ray, English
- A History of Sanskrit Literature — Arthur A. Macdonell, English