Atharvaveda 16.7
Atharvavedasaṃhitā 16.7
- Language
- Sanskrit
16.7.1
ténainaṃ vidhyāmy ábhūtyainaṃ vidhyāmi nírbhūtyainaṃ vidhyāmi párābhūtyainaṃ vidhyāmi grā́hyainaṃ vidhyāmi támasainaṃ vidhyāmi ||1||
With that I pierce him; with ill-success I pierce him; with extermination I pierce him; with calamity I pierce him; with seizure I pierce him; with darkness I pierce him.
16.7.2
devā́nām enaṃ ghoráiḥ krūráiḥ praiṣáir abhipréṣyāmi ||2||
I demand against him with the terrible, cruel demands (prāiṣá) of the gods.
16.7.3
vaiśvānarásyainaṃ dáṃṣṭrayor ápi dadhāmi ||3||
I set him in the two tusks of Vāiçvānara.
16.7.4
evā́nevā́va sā́ garat ||4||
So, not so, may she swallow down.
16.7.5
yò 'smā́n dvéṣṭi tám ātmā́ dveṣṭu yáṃ vayáṃ dviṣmáḥ sá ātmā́naṃ dveṣṭu ||5||
Whoso hates us, him let [his] self (ātmán) hate; whomso we hate, let him hate [his] self.
16.7.6
nír dviṣántaṃ divó níḥ pr̥thivyā́ nír antárikṣād bhajāma ||6||
Let us disportion our hater from heaven, from earth, from atmosphere.
16.7.7
súyāmaṃś cākṣuṣa ||7||
O thou of good ways (suyāman), of sight (cākṣuṣá).
16.7.8
idám ahám āmuṣyāyaṇè 'múṣyāḥ putré duṣvápnyaṃ mr̥je ||8||
Now (idám) do I wipe off evil-dreaming on him of such-and-such lineage, son of such-and-such a mother.
16.7.9
yád adóado abhyágachaṃ yád dóṣā́ yát pū́rvāṃ rā́trim ||9||
What I went at on such-and-such an occasion, what at evening, what in early night;—
16.7.10
yáj jā́grad yát suptó yád dívā yán náktam ||10||
What when awake, what when asleep, what by day, what by night;—
16.7.11
yád áharahar abhigáchāmi tásmād enam áva daye ||11||
What day by day I go at, from that do I cut him off (ava-day).
16.7.12
táṃ jahi téna mandasva tásya pr̥ṣṭī́r ápi śr̥ṇīhi ||12||
Him do thou smite, with him amuse thyself (? mand), his ribs do thou crush in.
16.7.13
sá mā́ jīvīt táṃ prāṇó jahātu ||13||
Let him not live; him let breath quit.
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 (8)
- Atharvaveda — Sanskrit
- A Vedic Concordance — Maurice Bloomfield, English
- Aṅgirasī — Sanskrit
- Vedic Index of Names and Subjects — Arthur A. Macdonell & A. Berriedale Keith, English
- History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) — P. V. Kane, English
- Original Sanskrit Texts on the Origin and History of the People of India, their Religion and Institutions — John Muir, English
- Altindische Grammatik — Jacob Wackernagel & Albert Debrunner, German
- Die Religion des Veda — Hermann Oldenberg, German