Atharvaveda 1.3
Atharvavedasaṃhitā 1.3
- Language
- Sanskrit
1.3.1
vidmā́ śarásya pitáraṃ parjányaṃ śatávr̥ṣṇyaṃ |
ténā te tanvè śáṃ karaṃ pr̥thivyā́ṃ te niṣécanaṃ bahíṣ ṭe astu bā́l íti ||1||
We know the reed's father, Parjanya of hundredfold virility; with that will I make weal (çám) for thy body; on the earth [be] thine outpouring, out of thee, with a splash!
1.3.2
vidmā́ śarásya pitáraṃ mitráṃ śatávr̥ṣṇyaṃ |
ténā te tanvè śáṃ karaṃ pr̥thivyā́ṃ te niṣécanaṃ bahíṣ ṭe astu bā́l íti ||2||
We know the reed's father, Mitra of hundredfold virility; with that will etc. etc.
1.3.3
vidmā́ śarásya pitáraṃ váruṇaṃ śatávr̥ṣṇyaṃ |
ténā te tanvè śáṃ karaṃ pr̥thivyā́ṃ te niṣécanaṃ bahíṣ ṭe astu bā́l íti ||3||
We know the reed's father, Varuṇa of etc. etc.
1.3.4
vidmā́ śarásya pitáraṃ candráṃ śatávr̥ṣṇyaṃ |
ténā te tanvè śáṃ karaṃ pr̥thivyā́ṃ te niṣécanaṃ bahíṣ ṭe astu bā́l íti ||4||
We know the reed's father, the moon of etc. etc.
1.3.5
vidmā́ śarásya pitáraṃ sū́ryaṃ śatávr̥ṣṇyaṃ |
ténā te tanvè śáṃ karaṃ pr̥thivyā́ṃ te niṣécanaṃ bahíṣ ṭe astu bā́l íti ||5||
We know the reed's father, the sun of etc. etc.
1.3.6
yád āntréṣu gavīnyór yád vastā́v ádhi sáṃśritam |
evā́ te mū́traṃ mucyatāṃ bahír bā́l íti sarvakám ||6||
What in thine entrails, thy (two) groins (? gavīnī́), what in thy bladder has flowed together—so be thy urine released, out of thee, with a splash! all of it.
1.3.7
prá te bhinadmi méhanaṃ vártraṃ veśantyā́ iva |
evā́ te mū́traṃ mucyatāṃ bahír bā́l íti sarvakám ||7||
I split up thy urinator, like the weir of a tank—so be thy etc. etc.
1.3.8
víṣitaṃ te vastibiláṃ samudrásyodadhér iva |
evā́ te mū́traṃ mucyatāṃ bahír bā́l íti sarvakám ||8||
Unfastened [be] thy bladder-orifice, like [that] of a water-holding sea—so be thy etc. etc.
1.3.9
yátheṣukā́ parā́patad ávasr̥ṣṭā́dhi dhánvanaḥ |
evā́ te mū́traṃ mucyatāṃ bahir bā́l íti sarvakám ||9||
As the arrow flew forth, let loose from the bow—so be thy etc. etc.
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 (9)
- Atharvaveda — Sanskrit
- A Vedic Concordance — Maurice Bloomfield, English
- Aṅgirasī — Sanskrit
- Vedic Index of Names and Subjects — Arthur A. Macdonell & A. Berriedale Keith, English
- A History of Indian Philosophy — Surendranath Dasgupta, English
- Die Kosmographie der Inder nach den Quellen dargestellt — Willibald Kirfel, German
- Altindische Grammatik — Jacob Wackernagel & Albert Debrunner, German
- Vedic Mythology — Arthur Anthony Macdonell, English
- The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels — Jean Filliozat, English