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Atharvaveda 19.2

Atharvavedasaṃhitā 19.2

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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.

William Dwight Whitney 1905, Atharva-Veda Saṃhitā (HOS 7–8)

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.

William Dwight Whitney 1905, Atharva-Veda Saṃhitā (HOS 7–8)

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.

William Dwight Whitney 1905, Atharva-Veda Saṃhitā (HOS 7–8)

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.

William Dwight Whitney 1905, Atharva-Veda Saṃhitā (HOS 7–8)

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.

William Dwight Whitney 1905, Atharva-Veda Saṃhitā (HOS 7–8)

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