Atharvaveda 15.1
Atharvavedasaṃhitā 15.1
- Language
- Sanskrit
15.1.1
vrā́tya āsīd ī́yamāna evá sá prajā́patiṃ sám airayat ||1||
A Vrātya there was, just going about; he stirred up Prajāpati.
15.1.2
sá prajā́patiḥ suvárṇam ātmánn apaśyat tát prā́janayat ||2||
He, Prajāpati, saw in himself gold (suvárṇa); he generated that.
15.1.3
tád ékam abhavat tál lalā́mam abhavat tán mahád abhavat táj jyeṣṭhám abhavat tád bráhmābhavat tát tápo 'bhavat tát satyám abhavat téna prā́jāyata ||3||
That became one; that became star-marked (lalā́ma); that became great; that became chief; that became bráhman; that became fervor; that became truth; therewith he had progeny.
15.1.4
sò 'vardhata sá mahā́n abhavat sá mahādevò 'bhavat ||4||
He increased; he became great; he became the great god (mahādevá).
15.1.5
sá devā́nām īśā́ṃ páry ait sá ī́śāno 'bhavat ||5||
He compassed the lordship of the gods; he became the Lord (ī́çāna).
15.1.6
sá ekavrātyò 'bhavat sá dhánur ā́datta tád evéndradhanúḥ ||6||
He became the sole Vrātya; he took to himself a bow; that was Indra's bow.
15.1.7
nī́lam asyodáraṃ lóhitaṃ pr̥ṣṭhám ||7||
Blue its belly, red [its] back.
15.1.8
nī́lenaivā́priyaṃ bhrā́tr̥vyaṃ prórṇoti lóhitena dviṣántaṃ vidhyatī́ti brahmavādíno vadanti ||8||
With the blue he envelops (pra-vṛ) a hostile cousin, with the red he pierces one hating him [—he who knows thus]: so say the theologians (brahmavādín).
Translations (2)
- Atharva-Veda Saṃhitā (HOS 7–8) — William Dwight Whitney 1905, English
- The Hymns of the Atharvaveda — Ralph T. H. Griffith 1895, English
Commentaries (2)
- Atharvavedabhāṣya (Sāyaṇa) — Sāyaṇa, Sanskrit
- Atharvavedasaṃhitābhāṣya — Mādhavācārya, Sanskrit
Linked texts (6)
- Atharvaveda — Sanskrit
- Aṅgirasī — Sanskrit
- The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads — Arthur Berriedale Keith, English
- Die Religion des Veda — Hermann Oldenberg, German
- History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) — P. V. Kane, English
- The Hindu Temple — Stella Kramrisch, English