Atharvaveda 19.44
Atharvavedasaṃhitā 19.44
- Language
- Sanskrit
19.44.1
ā́yuṣo 'si pratáraṇaṃ vípraṃ bheṣajám ucyase |
tád āñjana tváṃ śaṃtāte śám ā́po ábhayaṃ kr̥tam ||1||
Thou art an extender of life-time; all-healing art thou called; so, O ointment, do thou [make] wealfulness; make, O ye waters, weal [and] fearlessness.
19.44.2
yó harimā́ jāyā́nyo 'ṅgabhedó viṣálpakaḥ |
sárvaṃ te yákṣmam áṅgebhyo bahír nír hantv ā́ñjanam ||2||
What the jaundice is, the jāyā́nya, the limb-splitter, the visálpaka—all yákṣma from thy limbs let the ointment expel (nir-han) out.
19.44.3
ā́ñjanaṃ pr̥thivyā́ṃ jātáṃ bhadráṃ puruṣajī́vanam |
kr̥ṇótv ápramāyukaṃ ráthajūtim ánāgasam ||3||
The ointment, born on the earth, excellent, giving life to men—let it make [me] unperishing, of chariot-swiftness, free from offense.
19.44.4
prā́ṇa prāṇáṃ trāyasvāso ásave mr̥ḍa |
nírr̥te nírr̥tyā naḥ pā́śebhyo muñca ||4||
O breath, rescue thou breath; O life-breath (ásu), be gracious to life-breath; O destruction, free us from the fetters of destruction.
19.44.5
síndhor gárbho 'si vidyútāṃ púṣpam |
vātaḥ prāṇáḥ sū́ryaś cákṣur divás páyaḥ ||5||
Embryo of the river art thou, flower of the lightnings; the wind [thy] breath, the sun [thine] eye, from the sky [thy] milk.
19.44.6
dévāñjana tráikakuda pári mā pāhi viśvátaḥ |
ná tvā taranty óṣadhayo bā́hyāḥ parvatī́yā utá ||6||
O divine ointment, thou from the three-peaked [mountain], do thou protect me all about; the herbs do not surpass (tṛ) thee—those from abroad and those from the mountains.
19.44.7
vī́dáṃ mádhyam ávāsr̥pad rakṣohā́mīvacā́tanaḥ |
ámīvāḥ sárvāś cātáyan nāśáyad abhibhā́ itáḥ ||7||
The demon-slayer, disease-expeller, hath crept down over the middle here, expelling all diseases, making portents vanish from here.
19.44.8
bahv ìdáṃ rājan varuṇā́nr̥tam āha pū́ruṣaḥ |
tásmāt sahasravīrya muñcá naḥ páry áṃhasaḥ ||8||
Much untruth, O king Varuṇa, doth man (pū́ruṣa) say here; from that sin (áṅhas) do thou free us, O thou of thousand-fold heroism.
19.44.9
yád āpo aghnyā́ íti váruṇéti yád ūcimá |
tásmāt sahasravīrya muñcá naḥ páry áṃhasaḥ ||9||
In that we have said O waters, O inviolable [kine], O Varuṇa, from that sin do thou free us, O thou of thousand-fold heroism.
19.44.10
mitráś ca tvā váruṇaś cānupréyatur āñjana |
táu tvānugátya dūráṃ bhogā́ya púnar óhatuḥ ||10||
Both Mitra and Varuṇa went forth after thee, O ointment; they, having gone far after thee, brought thee back for enjoyment (bhogá).
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
- Vedārthaprakāśa (Mādhavācārya alias Sāyaṇācārya) — Mādhavācārya alias Sāyaṇācārya, Sanskrit
- Aṅgirasī — Sanskrit
- Vedic Index of Names and Subjects — Arthur A. Macdonell & A. Berriedale Keith, English
- The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads — Arthur Berriedale Keith, English
- Die Religion des Veda — Hermann Oldenberg, German
- Die Hymnen des Rigveda, Bd. I: Metrische und textgeschichtliche Prolegomena — Hermann Oldenberg, German