Atharvaveda 12.3.13
Atharvavedasaṃhitā 12.3.13
- Language
- Sanskrit
12.3.13
yádyad kr̥ṣṇáḥ śakuná éhá gatvā́ tsáran víṣaktaṃ bíla āsasā́da |
yád vā dāsy ā̀rdráhastā samaṅktá ulū́khalaṃ músalaṃ śumbhatāpaḥ ||13||
Whenever the black bird, coming hither, hath sat upon the orifice, surprising (tsar) what is resolved (vi-sañj), or when the barbarian woman (dāsī́) with wet hands smears over—cleanse, ye waters, the mortar [and] pestle.
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
Discussed in (4)
- Vedic Index of Names and Subjects — Macdonell & Keith 1912, English
- A Vedic Concordance — Bloomfield 1906, English
- Social and Rural Economy of Northern India, cir. 600 B.C.–200 A.D. — Bose 1942, English
- Śūdras in Ancient India: A Social History of the Lower Order down to circa A.D. 600 — Sharma 1958, English