Atharvaveda 19.36
Atharvavedasaṃhitā 19.36
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- Sanskrit
19.36.1
śatávāro anīnaśad yákṣmān rákṣāṃsi téjasā |
āróhan várcasā sahá maṇír durṇāmacā́tanaḥ ||1||
The çatávāra hath by its keenness (téjas) made to vanish the yákṣmas, the demons, mounting together with splendor, an amulet that expels the ill-named.
19.36.2
śŕ̥ṅgābhyāṃ rákṣo nudate mū́lena yātudhānyàḥ |
mádhyena yákṣmaṃ bādhate náinaṃ pāpmā́ti tatrati ||2||
With its two horns it thrusts away the demon, with its root the sorceresses; with its middle it drives off (bādh) the yákṣma; no evil overpasses it.
19.36.3
yé yákṣmāso arbhakā́ mahā́nto yé ca śabdínaḥ |
sárvāṃ durṇāmahā́ maṇíḥ śatávāro anīnaśat ||3||
The yákṣmas that are petty, and they that are great, noisy—all of them the çatávāra amulet, slayer of the ill-named, hath made vanish.
19.36.4
śatáṃ vīrā́n ajanayac chatáṃ yákṣmān ápāvapat |
durṇā́mnaḥ sárvān hatvā́va rákṣāṃsi dhūnute ||4||
A hundred heroes it generated; a hundred yákṣmas it scattered away; having slain all the ill-named ones, it shakes down the demons.
19.36.5
híraṇyaśr̥ṅga r̥ṣabháḥ śātavāró ayáṃ maṇíḥ |
durṇā́mnaḥ sárvāṃs tr̥dhvā́va rákṣāṃsy akramīt ||5||
A golden-horned bull [is] this amulet of çatávāra; having shattered (tṛh) all the ill-named ones, it hath trodden down the demons.
19.36.6
śatám aháṃ durṇā́mnīnāṃ gandharvāpsarásāṃ śatám |
śatám śaśvanvátīnāṃ śatávāreṇa vāraye ||6||
With the çatávāra I ward off (vāraya-) a hundred of the ill-named ones (f.), a hundred of the Gandharvas-and-Apsarases, and a hundred of the doglike ones (f.).
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 (2)
- Aṅgirasī — Sanskrit
- Vedārthaprakāśa (Mādhavācārya alias Sāyaṇācārya) — Mādhavācārya alias Sāyaṇācārya, Sanskrit
Discussed in (3)
- A Vedic Concordance — Bloomfield 1906, English
- Vedic Index of Names and Subjects — Macdonell & Keith 1912, English
- Altindische Grammatik — Wackernagel & Debrunner 1896, German