Atharvaveda 11.4

11.4

[6].1a) prāṇā́ya námo yásya sárvam idáṃ váśe |
[6].1c) yó bhūtáḥ sárvasyeśvaró yásmint sárvaṃ prátiṣṭhitam ||1||
[6].2a) námas te prāṇa krándāya námas te stanayitnáve |
[6].2c) námas te prāṇa vidyúte námas te prāṇa várṣate ||2||
[6].3a) yát prāṇá stanayitnúnābhikrándaty óṣadhīḥ |
[6].3c) prá vīyante gárbhān dadhaté 'tho bahvī́r ví jāyante ||3||
[6].4a) yát prāṇá r̥tā́v ā́gate 'bhikrándaty óṣadhīḥ |
[6].4c) sárvaṃ tadā́ prá modate yát kíṃ ca bhū́myām ádhi ||4||
[6].5a) yadā́ prāṇó abhyávarṣīd varṣéṇa pr̥thivī́ṃ mahī́m |
[6].5c) paśávas tát prá modante máho vái no bhaviṣyati ||5||
[6].6a) abhívr̥ṣṭā óṣadhayaḥ prāṇéna sám avādiran |
[6].6c) ā́yur vái naḥ prā́tītaraḥ sárvā naḥ surabhī́r akaḥ ||6||
[6].7a) námas te astv āyaté námo astu parāyaté |
[6].7c) námas te prāṇa tíṣṭhata ā́sīnāyotá te námaḥ ||7||
[6].8a) námas te prāṇa prāṇaté námo astv apānaté |
[6].8c) parācī́nāya te námaḥ pratīcī́nāya te námaḥ sárvasmai ta idáṃ námaḥ ||8||
[6].9a) yā́ te prāṇa priyā́ tanū́r yó te prāṇa préyasī |
[6].9c) átho yád bheṣajáṃ táva tásya no dhehi jīváse ||9||
[6].10a) prāṇáḥ prajā́ ánu vaste pitā́ putrám iva priyám |
[6].10c) prāṇó ha sárvasyeśvaró yác ca prāṇáti yác ca ná ||10||
[6].11a) prāṇó mr̥tyúḥ prāṇás takmā́ prāṇáṃ devā́ úpāsate |
[6].11c) prāṇó ha satyavādínam uttamé loká ā́ dadhat ||11||
[6].12a) prāṇó virā́ṭ prāṇó déṣṭrī prāṇáṃ sárva úpāsate |
[6].12c) prāṇó ha sū́ryaś candrámāḥ prāṇám āhuḥ prajā́patim ||12||
[6].13a) prāṇāpānáu vrīhiyavā́v anaḍvā́n prāṇá ucyate |
[6].13c) yáve ha prāṇá ā́hito 'pānó vrīhír ucyate ||13||
[6].14a) ápānati prā́ṇati púruṣo gárbhe antarā́ |
[6].14c) yadā́ tváṃ prāṇa jínvasy átha sá jāyate púnaḥ ||14||
[6].15a) prāṇám āhur mātaríśvānaṃ vā́to ha prāṇá ucyate |
[6].15c) prāṇé ha bhūtáṃ bhávyaṃ ca prāṇé sárvaṃ prátiṣṭhitam ||15||
[6].16a) ātharvaṇī́r āṅgirasī́r dáivīr manuṣyajā́ utá |
[6].16c) óṣadhayaḥ prá jāyante yadā́ tváṃ prāṇa jínvasi ||16||
[6].17a) yadā́ prāṇó abhyávarṣīd varṣéṇa pr̥thivī́ṃ mahī́m |
[6].17c) óṣadhayaḥ prá jāyanté 'tho yā́ḥ kā́ś ca vīrúdhaḥ ||17||
[6].18a) yás te prāṇedáṃ véda yásmiṃś cāsi prátiṣṭhitaḥ |
[6].18c) sárve tásmai balíṃ harān amúṣmiṃl loká uttamé ||18||
[6].19a) yáthā prāṇa balihŕ̥tas túbhyaṃ sárvāḥ prajā́ imā́ḥ |
[6].19c) evā́ tásmai balíṃ harān yás tvā śr̥ṇávat suśravaḥ ||19||
[6].20a) antár gárbhaś carati devátāsv ā́bhūto bhūtáḥ sá u jāyate púnaḥ |
[6].20c) sá bhūtó bhávyaṃ bhaviṣyát pitā́ putráṃ prá viveśā śácībhiḥ ||20||
[6].21a) ékaṃ pā́daṃ nót khidati salilā́d dhaṃsá uccáran |
[6].21c) yád aṅgá sá tám utkhidén náivā́dyá ná śváḥ syāt |
[6].21e) ná rā́trī nā́haḥ syān ná vy ùchet kadā́ caná ||21||
[6].22a) aṣṭā́cakraṃ vartata ékanemi sahásrākṣaraṃ prá puró ní paścā́ |
[6].22c) ardhéna víśvaṃ bhúvanaṃ jajā́na yád asyārdháṃ katamáḥ sá ketúḥ ||22||
[6].23a) yó asyá viśvájanmana ī́śe víśvasya céṣṭataḥ |
[6].23c) ányeṣu kṣiprádhanvane tásmai prāṇa námo 'stu te ||23||
[6].24a) yó asyá sarvájanmana ī́śe sárvasya céṣṭataḥ |
[6].24c) átandro bráhmaṇā dhī́raḥ prāṇó mā́nu tiṣṭhatu ||24||
[6].25a) ūrdhváḥ suptéṣu jāgāra nanú tiryáṅ ní padyate |
[6].25c) ná suptám asya suptéṣv ánu śuśrāva káś caná ||25||
[6].26a) prā́ṇa mā́ mát paryā́vr̥to ná mád anyó bhaviṣyasi |
[6].26c) apā́ṃ gárbham iva jīváse prā́ṇa badhnā́mi tvā máyi ||26||

Homage to breath (prāṇá) in whose control is this All, who hath been lord of all, in whom all stands firm.

Homage, O breath, to thy roaring, homage to thy thunder; homage, O breath, to thy lightning, homage to thee raining, O breath.

When breath with thunder roars at the herbs, they are impregnated (pra-vī), they receive embryos, then they are born many.

When, the season having come, breath roars at the herbs, then all is delighted, whatever is upon the earth.

When breath hath rained with rain upon the great earth, then the cattle are delighted: "verily there will be greatness for us."

The herbs, being rained on, have talked with breath: "verily thou hast extended our life-time; thou hast made us all fragrant."

Homage be to thee coming, homage be to [thee] going away; homage to thee, O breath, standing; to thee sitting also [be] homage.

Homage to thee breathing, O breath; homage be to [thee] making expiration; homage to thee turned away, homage to thee turned toward [us]; to the whole of thee [be] this homage.

The dear body that is thine, O breath, and the dearer one that is thine, O breath, likewise what remedy is thine, assign thou of it to us in order to life (jīvás).

Breath clothes (anu-vas) human beings (prajā́), as a father a dear son; breath is lord of all, both what breathes and what does not.

Breath [is] death, breath takmán; breath the gods worship (upa-ās); breath may set the truth-speaker in the highest world.

Breath is virā́j, breath the directress; breath all worship; breath is the sun, the moon; breath they call Prajāpati.

Breath-and-expiration are rice-and-barley; breath is called the draft-ox; breath is set in barley; expiration is called rice.

A man breathes out (ápānati), breathes (prā́ṇati) within the womb; when, O breath, thou quickenest, then he is born again.

Breath they call Mātariçvan; breath is called the wind; in breath what has been and what will be, in breath is all established (prátiṣṭhita).

They of the Atharvans, they of the An̄girases, they of the gods, also those born of men—the herbs are generated (pra-jā), when thou, O breath, quickenest.

When breath hath rained with rain on the great earth, the herbs are generated, likewise whatever plants [there are].

He who knoweth this of thee, O breath, and in whom thou art established—to him shall all bring tribute in yon highest world.

As, O breath, all these human beings (prajā́) are tribute-bearers to thee, so shall they bring tribute to him who shall hear thee, O thou of good report (suçrávas).

He moves, an embryo, within the divinities; having come into being (? ā́bhūta), having been (bhūtá), he is born again; he, having been, entered with might (çácībhis) what is to be, what will be, [as] a father a son.

The swan (haṅsá), ascending, does not extract (ut-khid) one foot from the sea; verily, if he should extract that, there would not be today nor tomorrow; there would not be night nor day; at no time soever would it dawn (vi-vas).

The eight-wheeled [thing, neut.] rolls, having one rim, thousand-syllabled, forth in front, down behind; with a half it has generated all existence; what its [other] half [is]—which sign is that?

He who is lord of this that has every (víçva) [kind of] birth, of every stirring thing—to thee being such, O breath, having a quick bow among the unexhausted (? ánya), be homage.

He who is lord of this that has all (sárva) [kinds of] birth, of all that stirs, unwearied, wise by bráhman—let breath go after (anu-sthā) me.

Upright among the sleeping he wakes; by no means (nanú) does he fall down horizontal (tiryán̄); no one soever has heard of his sleeping among the sleeping.

O breath, turn not about from me; not another than I shalt thou be; like the embryo of the waters, in order to life (jīvás), I bind thee to me, O breath.