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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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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).

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

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