Atharvaveda 11.5

11.5

[7].1a) brahmacārī́ṣṇáṃś carati ródasī ubhé tásmin devā́ḥ sáṃmanaso bhavanti |
[7].1c) sá dādhāra pr̥thivī́ṃ dívaṃ ca sá ācāryàṃ tápasā piparti ||1||
[7].2a) brahmacāríṇaṃ pitáro devajanā́ḥ pŕ̥thag devā́ anusáṃyanti sárve |
[7].2c) gandharvā́ enam ánv āyan tráyastriṃśat triśatā́ḥ ṣaṭsahasrā́ḥ sárvānt sá devā́ṃs tápasā piparti ||2||
[7].3a) ācāryà upanáyamāno brahmacāríṇaṃ kr̥ṇute gárbham antáḥ |
[7].3c) táṃ rā́trīs tisrá udáre bibharti táṃ jātáṃ dráṣṭum abhisáṃyanti devā́ḥ ||3||
[7].4a) iyáṃ samít pr̥thivī́ dyáur dvitī́yotā́ntárikṣaṃ samídhā pr̥ṇāti |
[7].4c) brahmacārī́ samídhā mékhalayā śrámeṇa lokā́ṃs tápasā piparti ||4||
[7].5a) pū́rvo jātó bráhmaṇo brahmacārī́ gharmáṃ vásānas tápasód atiṣṭhat |
[7].5c) tásmāj jātáṃ brā́hmaṇaṃ bráhma jyeṣṭháṃ devā́ś ca sárve amŕ̥tena sākám ||5||
[7].6a) brahmacāry èti samídhā sámiddhaḥ kā́rṣṇaṃ vásāno dīkṣitó dīrgháśmaśruḥ |
[7].6c) sá sadyá eti pū́rvasmād úttaraṃ samudráṃ lokā́nt saṃgŕ̥bhya múhur ācárikrat ||6||
[7].7a) brahmacārī́ janáyan bráhmāpó lokáṃ prajā́patiṃ parameṣṭhínaṃ virā́jam |
[7].7c) gárbho bhūtvā́mŕ̥tasya yónāv índro ha bhūtvā́surāṃs tatarha ||7||
[7].8a) ācāryàs tatakṣa nábhasī ubhé imé urvī́ gambhīré pr̥thivī́ṃ dívaṃ ca |
[7].8c) té rakṣati tápasā brahmacārī́ tásmin devā́ḥ sáṃmanaso bhavanti ||8||
[7].9a) imā́ṃ bhū́miṃ pr̥thivī́ṃ brahmacārī́ bhikṣā́m ā́ jabhāra prathamó dívaṃ ca |
[7].9c) té kr̥tvā́ samídhāv úpāste táyor ā́rpitā bhúvanāni víśvā ||9||
[7].10a) arvā́g anyáḥ paró anyó divás pr̥ṣṭhā́d gúhā nidhī́ níhitau brā́hmaṇasya |
[7].10c) táu rakṣati tápasā brahmacārī́ tát kévalaṃ kr̥ṇute bráhma vidvā́n ||10||
[7].11a) arvā́g anyá itó anyáḥ pr̥thivyā́ agnī́ saméto nábhasī antarémé |
[7].11c) táyoḥ śrayante raśmáyó 'dhi dr̥ḍhā́s tā́n ā́ tiṣṭhati tápasā brahmacārī́ ||11||
[7].12a) abhikrándan stanáyann aruṇáḥ śitiṅgó br̥hác chépó 'nu bhū́mau jabhāra |
[7].12c) brahmacārī́ siñcati sā́nau rétaḥ pr̥thivyā́ṃ téna jīvanti pradíśaś cátasraḥ ||12||
[7].13a) agnáu sū́rye candrámasi mātaríśvan brahmacāry àpsú samídham ā́ dadhāti |
[7].13c) tā́sām arcī́ṃṣi pŕ̥thag abhré caranti tā́sām ā́jyaṃ púruṣo varṣám ā́paḥ ||13||
[7].14a) ācāryò mr̥tyúr váruṇaḥ sóma óṣadhayaḥ páyaḥ |
[7].14c) jīmū́tā āsant sátvānas táir idáṃ svàr ā́bhr̥tam ||14||
[7].15a) amā́ ghr̥táṃ kr̥ṇute kévalam ācāryò bhūtvā́ váruṇaḥ |
[7].15c) yádyad áichat prajā́patau tád brahmacārī́ prā́yachat svā́n mitró ádhy ātmánaḥ ||15||
[7].16a) ācāryò brahmacārī́ brahmacārī́ prajā́patiḥ |
[7].16c) prajā́patir ví rājati virā́ḍ índro 'bhavad vaśī́ ||16||
[7].17a) brahmacáryeṇa tápasā rā́jā rāṣṭráṃ ví rakṣati |
[7].17c) ācāryò brahmacáryeṇa brahmacāríṇam ichate ||17||
[7].18a) brahmacáryeṇa kanyā̀ yúvānaṃ vindate pátim |
[7].18c) anaḍvā́n brahmacáryeṇā́śvo ghāsáṃ jigīṣati ||18||
[7].19a) brahmacáryeṇa tápasā devā́ mr̥tyúm ápāghnata |
[7].19c) índro ha brahmacáryeṇa devébhyaḥ svàr ā́bharat ||19||
[7].20a) óṣadhayo bhūtabhavyám ahorātré vánaspátiḥ |
[7].20c) saṃvatsaráḥ sahá r̥túbhis té jātā́ brahmacāríṇaḥ ||20||
[7].21a) pā́rthivā divyā́ḥ paśáva āraṇyā́ grāmyā́ś ca yé |
[7].21c) apakṣā́ḥ pakṣíṇaś ca yé té jātā́ brahmacāríṇaḥ ||21||
[7].22a) pŕ̥thak sárve prājāpatyā́ḥ prāṇā́n ātmásu bibhrati |
[7].22c) tā́nt sárvān bráhma rakṣati brahmacāríṇy ā́bhr̥tam ||22||
[7].23a) devā́nām etát pariṣūtám ánabhyārūḍhaṃ carati rócamānam |
[7].23c) tásmāj jātáṃ brā́hmaṇaṃ bráhma jyeṣṭháṃ devā́ś ca sárve amŕ̥tena sākám ||23||
[7].24a) brahmacārī́ bráhma bhrā́jad bibharti tásmin devā́ ádhi víśve samótāḥ |
[7].24c) prāṇāpānáu janáyann ā́d vyānáṃ vā́caṃ máno hŕ̥dayaṃ bráhma medhā́m ||24||
[7].25a) cákṣuḥ śrótraṃ yáśo asmā́su dhehy ánnaṃ réto lóhitam udáram ||25||
[7].26a) tā́ni kálpan brahmacārī́ salilásya pr̥ṣṭhé tápo 'tiṣṭhat tapyámānaḥ samudré |
[7].26c) sá snātó babhrúḥ piṅgaláḥ pr̥thivyā́ṃ bahú rocate ||26||

The Vedic student goes on setting in motion (iṣ) both firmaments; in him the gods become like-minded; he maintains earth and heaven; he fills his teacher with fervor (tápas).

The Fathers, the god-folk, all the gods individually assemble after the Vedic student; the Gandharvas went after him, thirty-three, three hundred, six thousand; he fills all the gods with fervor.

The teacher, taking [him] in charge (upa-nī), makes the Vedic student an embryo within; he bears him in his belly three nights; the gods gather unto him to see him when born.

This piece of fuel [is] earth, sky the second; also the atmosphere he fills with fuel; the Vedic student fills the worlds with fuel, girdle, toil, fervor.

Prior born of the bráhman, the Vedic student, clothing himself with heat (gharmá), stood up with fervor; from him [was] born the brā́hmaṇa, the chief bráhman, and all the gods, together with immortality (amṛ́ta).

The Vedic student goes kindled with fuel, clothing himself in the black-antelope-skin, consecrated, long-bearded; he goes at once from the eastern to the northern ocean, having grasped the worlds, again and again violently shaping (? ācarikṛ) [them].

The Vedic student, generating the bráhman, the waters, the world, Prajāpati, the most exalted one, the virāj, having become an embryo in the womb of immortality; having become Indra, he has shattered (tṛh) the Asuras.

The teacher fabricated both these envelops (nábhas), the wide, profound, [namely] earth and sky; them the Vedic student defends by fervor; in him the gods become like-minded.

This broad (pṛthivī́) earth, and the sky, the Vedic student first brought [as] alms (bhikṣā́); having made them [both] fuel, he worships; in them are set (ā́rpita) all beings.

The one this side, the other beyond, the back of the sky, in secret [are] deposited ⌊ni-dhā⌋ the two treasures (nidhí) of the brā́hmaṇa; them the Vedic student defends by fervor; the whole of that he, knowing, makes bráhman for himself.

The one this side, the other hence, from earth, the two fires come together between these two envelops; upon them are set (çri) the firm rays; these the Vedic student stands upon by fervor.

Roaring on, thundering, the ruddy white-goer has introduced (? anu-bhṛ) in the earth a great virile member; the Vedic student pours seed upon the surface (sā́nu), on the earth; by that live the four directions.

In the fire, in the sun, in the moon, in Mātariçvan, in the waters, the Vedic student puts fuel; their gleams (arcís) go about separately in the cloud; their sacrificial butter (ā́jya) is man, rain, waters.

The teacher [was] death, Varuṇa, Soma, the herbs, milk; the thunder-clouds were warriors; by them [was] this heaven (svàr) brought.

Varuṇa, having become teacher, makes his own (? amā́) the entire ghee; whatever he sought of Prajāpati, that the Vedic student furnished, a friend (mitrá) from his own self.

The teacher [is] the Vedic student; the Vedic student [is] Prajāpati; Prajāpati bears rule (vi-rāj); the virā́j became the controlling Indra.

By Vedic-studentship, by fervor, a king defends his kingdom; a teacher by Vedic-studentship (brahmacárya) seeks a Vedic student.

By Vedic-studentship a girl wins (vid) a young husband; by Vedic-studentship a draft-ox, a horse strives to gain (ji) food.

By Vedic-studentship, by fervor, the gods smote away death; Indra by Vedic-studentship brought heaven (svàr) for the gods.

The herbs, past and future, day and night, the forest tree, the year together with the seasons—they are born of the Vedic student.

The earthly, the heavenly cattle, they of the forest, and they that are of the village, the wingless and they that are winged—they are born of the Vedic student.

Individually do all that are of Prajāpati bear breaths in their bodies (ātmán); all these the bráhman defends, brought in the Vedic student.

That, sent forth (? pariṣūtá) of the gods, not mounted onto, goes about shining; from that [was] born the brā́hmana, the chief bráhman, and all the gods, together with immortality.

The Vedic student bears a shining bráhman; in that [are] woven together all the gods; [he] generating breath-and-expiration, then out-breathing (vyāná), speech, mind, heart, bráhman, wisdom.

Sight, hearing, glory put thou in us; food, seed, blood (lóhita), belly.

Shaping (?) these things, the Vedic student stood performing penance (tapas tapya-) on the back of the sea (salilá), in the ocean; he, bathed, brown, ruddy (pin̄galá), shines much on the earth.