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# Atharvaveda 11.4

Atharvavedasaṃhitā 11.4

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [11.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.atharva.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.  
> — William Dwight Whitney 1905, Atharva-Veda Saṃhitā (HOS 7–8)

> Homage, O breath, to thy roaring, homage to thy thunder; homage, O breath, to thy lightning, homage to thee raining, O breath.  
> — William Dwight Whitney 1905, Atharva-Veda Saṃhitā (HOS 7–8)

> When breath with thunder roars at the herbs, they are impregnated (pra-vī), they receive embryos, then they are born many.  
> — William Dwight Whitney 1905, Atharva-Veda Saṃhitā (HOS 7–8)

> When, the season having come, breath roars at the herbs, then all is delighted, whatever is upon the earth.  
> — William Dwight Whitney 1905, Atharva-Veda Saṃhitā (HOS 7–8)

> When breath hath rained with rain upon the great earth, then the cattle are delighted: "verily there will be greatness for us."  
> — William Dwight Whitney 1905, Atharva-Veda Saṃhitā (HOS 7–8)

> The herbs, being rained on, have talked with breath: "verily thou hast extended our life-time; thou hast made us all fragrant."  
> — William Dwight Whitney 1905, Atharva-Veda Saṃhitā (HOS 7–8)

> Homage be to thee coming, homage be to \[thee\] going away; homage to thee, O breath, standing; to thee sitting also \[be\] homage.  
> — William Dwight Whitney 1905, Atharva-Veda Saṃhitā (HOS 7–8)

> 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.  
> — William Dwight Whitney 1905, Atharva-Veda Saṃhitā (HOS 7–8)

> 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).  
> — William Dwight Whitney 1905, Atharva-Veda Saṃhitā (HOS 7–8)

> 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.  
> — William Dwight Whitney 1905, Atharva-Veda Saṃhitā (HOS 7–8)

> Breath \[is\] death, breath takmán; breath the gods worship (upa-ās); breath may set the truth-speaker in the highest world.  
> — William Dwight Whitney 1905, Atharva-Veda Saṃhitā (HOS 7–8)

> Breath is virā́j, breath the directress; breath all worship; breath is the sun, the moon; breath they call Prajāpati.  
> — William Dwight Whitney 1905, Atharva-Veda Saṃhitā (HOS 7–8)

> Breath-and-expiration are rice-and-barley; breath is called the draft-ox; breath is set in barley; expiration is called rice.  
> — William Dwight Whitney 1905, Atharva-Veda Saṃhitā (HOS 7–8)

> A man breathes out (ápānati), breathes (prā́ṇati) within the womb; when, O breath, thou quickenest, then he is born again.  
> — William Dwight Whitney 1905, Atharva-Veda Saṃhitā (HOS 7–8)

> Breath they call Mātariçvan; breath is called the wind; in breath what has been and what will be, in breath is all established (prátiṣṭhita).  
> — William Dwight Whitney 1905, Atharva-Veda Saṃhitā (HOS 7–8)

> 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.  
> — William Dwight Whitney 1905, Atharva-Veda Saṃhitā (HOS 7–8)

> When breath hath rained with rain on the great earth, the herbs are generated, likewise whatever plants \[there are\].  
> — William Dwight Whitney 1905, Atharva-Veda Saṃhitā (HOS 7–8)

> He who knoweth this of thee, O breath, and in whom thou art established—to him shall all bring tribute in yon highest world.  
> — William Dwight Whitney 1905, Atharva-Veda Saṃhitā (HOS 7–8)

> 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).  
> — William Dwight Whitney 1905, Atharva-Veda Saṃhitā (HOS 7–8)

> 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.  
> — William Dwight Whitney 1905, Atharva-Veda Saṃhitā (HOS 7–8)

> 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).  
> — William Dwight Whitney 1905, Atharva-Veda Saṃhitā (HOS 7–8)

> 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?  
> — William Dwight Whitney 1905, Atharva-Veda Saṃhitā (HOS 7–8)

> 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.  
> — William Dwight Whitney 1905, Atharva-Veda Saṃhitā (HOS 7–8)

> 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.  
> — William Dwight Whitney 1905, Atharva-Veda Saṃhitā (HOS 7–8)

> 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.  
> — William Dwight Whitney 1905, Atharva-Veda Saṃhitā (HOS 7–8)

> 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.  
> — William Dwight Whitney 1905, Atharva-Veda Saṃhitā (HOS 7–8)

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## Translations (3)

- [Atharva-Veda Saṃhitā (HOS 7–8)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.atharva*saunaka~en-whitney.11.4.1) — William Dwight Whitney 1905, English
- [The Hymns of the Atharvaveda](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.atharva*saunaka~en-griffith.11.4) — Ralph T. H. Griffith 1895, English
- [Hymns of the Atharva-Veda (SBE 42)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.atharva*saunaka~en-bloomfield.11.4) — Maurice Bloomfield 1897, English

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- [Atharvavedasaṃhitābhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.atharva!madhavacarya) — Mādhavācārya, Sanskrit

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