Atharvaveda 1.24
Atharvavedasaṃhitā 1.24
- Language
- Sanskrit
1.24.1
suparṇó jātáḥ prathamás tásya tváṃ pittám āsitha |
tád āsurī́ yudhā́ jitā́ rūpáṃ cakre vánaspátīn ||1||
The eagle (suparṇá) was born first; of it thou wast the gall; then the Asura-woman, conquered by fight (yúdh), took shape as forest-trees.
1.24.2
āsurī́ cakre prathamédáṃ kilāsabheṣajám idáṃ kilāsanā́śanam |
ánīnaśat kilā́saṃ sárūpām akarat tvácam ||2||
The Asura-woman first made this remedy for leprous spot, this effacer of leprous spot; it has made the leprous spot disappear, has made the skin uniform (sárūpa).
1.24.3
sárūpā nā́ma te mātā́ sárūpo nā́ma te pitā́ |
sarūpakŕ̥t tvám oṣadhe sā́ sárūpam idáṃ kr̥dhi ||3||
Uniform by name is thy mother; uniform by name is thy father; uniform-making art thou, O herb; ⌊so⌋ do thou make this uniform.
1.24.4
śyāmā́ sarūpaṃkáraṇī pr̥thivyā́ ádhy údbhr̥tā |
idám ū ṣu prá sādhaya púnā rūpā́ṇi kalpaya ||4||
The swarthy, uniform-making one [is] brought up off the earth; do thou accomplish this, we pray; make the forms right again.
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 (5)
- Atharvaveda — Sanskrit
- Aṅgirasī — Sanskrit
- A Vedic Concordance — Maurice Bloomfield, English
- Die Kosmographie der Inder nach den Quellen dargestellt — Willibald Kirfel, German
- Vanaspati: Plants and Plant-Life as in Indian Treatises and Traditions — Girija Prasanna Majumdar, English