Atharvaveda 19.2
Atharvavedasaṃhitā 19.2
- Language
- Sanskrit
19.2.1
śáṃ ta ā́po haimavatī́ḥ śám u te santūtsyā̀ḥ |
śáṃ te saniṣyadā́ ā́paḥ śám u te santu varṣyā̀ḥ ||1||
Weal to thee [be] the waters from the snowy mountains (hāimavatá), and weal be to thee those from the fountains; weal to thee the running waters, and weal to thee be those of the rain.
19.2.2
śáṃ ta ā́po dhanvanyā̀ḥ śáṃ te santv anūpyā̀ḥ |
śáṃ te khanitrímā ā́paḥ śáṃ yā́ḥ kumbhébhir ā́bhr̥tāḥ ||2||
Weal to thee [be] the waters of the wastes, weal be to thee those of the marshes; weal to thee the waters of the canals (khanitríma), weal those brought with vessels.
19.2.3
anabhráyaḥ khánamānā víprā gambhīré apásaḥ |
bhiṣágbhyo bhiṣáktarā ā́po áchā vadāmasi ||3||
Digging for themselves without shovels, keen (vípra), working in the deep (gambhīrá), more healing than the healers (bhiṣáj), the waters we address.
19.2.4
apā́m áha divyā́nām apā́ṃ srotasyā̀nām |
apā́m áha praṇéjané 'śvā bhavatha vājínaḥ ||4||
Of the waters indeed from the sky, of the waters from the streams (srotasyà)—in the forth-washing indeed of the waters, ye become vigorous (vājín) horses.
19.2.5
tā́ apáḥ śivā́ apó 'yakṣmaṃkáraṇīr apáḥ |
yáthaivá tr̥pyate máyas tā́s ta ā́ datta bhesajī́ḥ ||5||
Weal [be] to thee the waters, propitious the waters, effecting freedom from yákṣma the waters; just as joy to one who thirsts, [be] they for thee healers of dislocation.
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
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- Atharvaveda — Sanskrit
- A Vedic Concordance — Maurice Bloomfield, English
- Vedic Index of Names and Subjects — Arthur A. Macdonell & A. Berriedale Keith, English
- Aṅgirasī — Sanskrit
- Vedārthaprakāśa (Mādhavācārya alias Sāyaṇācārya) — Mādhavācārya alias Sāyaṇācārya, Sanskrit
- Altindische Grammatik — Jacob Wackernagel & Albert Debrunner, German
- History of Technology in India, Vol. I: From Antiquity to c. 1200 A.D. — A. K. Bag, English