Atharvaveda 16.1
Atharvavedasaṃhitā 16.1
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- Sanskrit
16.1.1
átisr̥ṣṭo apā́ṃ vr̥ṣabhó 'tisr̥ṣṭā agnáyo divyā́ḥ ||1||
Let go [is] the bull of the waters; let go [are] the heavenly fires.
16.1.2
ruján pariruján mr̥ṇán pramr̥ṇán ||2||
Breaking, breaking about, killing, slaughtering;—
16.1.3
mrokó manohā́ khanó nirdāhá ātmadū́ṣis tanūdū́ṣiḥ ||3||
Dimming ⌊mroká⌋, mind-slaying, digging, out-burning, self-spoiling, body-spoiling.
16.1.4
idáṃ tám áti sr̥jāmi táṃ mā́bhyávanikṣi ||4||
That one now I let go; that one let me not wash down against myself;—
16.1.5
téna tám abhyátisr̥jāmo yò 'smā́n dveṣṭi yáṃ vayáṃ dviṣmáḥ ||5||
That one do we let go against him who hates us, whom we hate.
16.1.6
apā́m ágram asi samudráṃ vo 'bhyávasr̥jāmi ||6||
Thou art tip (ágra) of the waters; I let you go down unto the ocean.
16.1.7
yò 'psv àgnír áti táṃ sr̥jāmi mrokáṃ khaníṃ tanūdū́ṣim ||7||
The fire that is in the waters, it do I let go, the dimming, digging, body-spoiling one.
16.1.8
yó va āpo 'gnír āvivéśa sá eṣá yád vo ghoráṃ tád etát ||8||
The fire that entered into you, O waters, this is that; what of you is terrible, this is that.
16.1.9
índrasya va indriyéṇābhí ṣiñcet ||9||
May [it] pour upon you with Indra's Indra-power (indriyá).
16.1.10
ariprā́ ā́po ápa riprám asmát ||10||
Free from defilement (-riprá) [are] the waters; let them [carry] away from us defilement;—
16.1.11
prā́smád éno vahantu prá duṣvápnyaṃ vahantu ||11||
Let them carry forth from us sin; let them carry forth evil-dreaming.
16.1.12
śivéna mā cákṣuṣā paśyatāpaḥ śiváyā tanvópa spr̥śata tvácaṃ me ||12||
With propitious eye look at me, O waters; with propitious body touch my skin.
16.1.13
śivā́n agnī́n apsuṣádo havāmahe máyi kṣatráṃ várca ā́ dhatta devī́ḥ ||13||
We call the propitious fires that sit in the waters. Put in me dominion [and] splendor, O divine [waters].
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 (3)
- A Vedic Concordance — Maurice Bloomfield, English
- Aṅgirasī — Sanskrit
- Altindische Grammatik — Jacob Wackernagel & Albert Debrunner, German