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Atharvaveda 19.53

Atharvavedasaṃhitā 19.53

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Sanskrit

19.53.1

kāló áśvo vahati saptáraśmiḥ sahasrākṣó ajáro bhū́riretāḥ |
tám ā́ rohanti kaváyo vipaścítas tásya cakrā́ bhúvanāni víśvā ||1||

Time (kālá) drives (vah) [as] a horse with seven reins, thousand-eyed, unaging, possessing much seed; him the inspired poets mount; his wheels are all beings (bhúvana).

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

19.53.2

saptá cakrā́n vahati kālá eṣá saptā́sya nā́bhīr amŕ̥taṃ nv ákṣaḥ |
sá imā́ víśvā bhúvanāny añjat kāláḥ sá īyate prathamó nú deváḥ ||2||

Seven wheels doth this time drive; seven [are] his naves, immortality (amṛ́ta) forsooth [his] axle; he, time, including (?) all these beings, goes on as first god.

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

19.53.3

pūrṇáḥ kumbhó 'dhi kālá ā́hitas táṃ vái páśyāmo bahudhā́ nú sántam |
sá imā́ víśvā bhúvanāni pratyáṅ kāláṃ tám āhúḥ paramé vyòman ||3||

A full vessel is set upon time; we indeed see it, being now manifoldly; it [is] in front of all these beings; it call they time in the highest firmament (vyòman).

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

19.53.4

sá evá sáṃ bhúvanāny ā́bharat sá evá sáṃ bhúvanāni páry ait |
pitā́ sánn abhavat putrá eṣāṃ tásmād vái nā́nyát páram asti téjaḥ ||4||

He indeed together brought beings; he indeed together went about (pari-i) beings; being father, he became son of them; than him verily there is no other brilliancy that is higher (pára).

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

19.53.5

kāló 'mū́ṃ dívam ajanayat kālá imā́ḥ pr̥thivī́r utá |
kālé ha bhūtáṃ bhávyaṃ ceṣitáṃ ha ví tiṣṭhate ||5||

Time generated yonder sky, time also these earths; what is and what is to be stands out sent forth by time.

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

19.53.6

kāló bhūtím asr̥jata kālé tápati sū́ryaḥ |
kālé ha víśvā bhūtā́ni kālé cákṣur ví paśyati ||6||

Time created the earth; in time burns (tap) the sun; in time [are] all existences; in time the eye looks abroad.

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

19.53.7

kālé mánaḥ kālé prāṇáḥ kālé nā́ma samā́hitam |
kāléna sárvā nandanty ā́gatena prajā́ imā́ḥ ||7||

In time is mind, in time is breath, in time is name collected (sam-ā-dhā); by time, when arrived, all these creatures (prajā́) are glad (nand).

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

19.53.8

kālé tápaḥ kālé jyéṣṭham kālé bráhma samā́hitam |
kāló ha sárvasyeśvaró yáḥ pitā́sīt prajā́pateḥ ||8||

In time is fervor, in time is what is chief, in time is the bráhman collected; time is the lord (īçvará) of all, who was father of Prajāpati.

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

19.53.9

téneṣitáṃ téna jātáṃ tád u tásmin prátiṣṭhitam |
kāló ha bráhma bhūtvā́ bíbharti parameṣṭhínam ||9||

Sent by it, born by it, in it is this (tát) set firm; time, becoming the bráhman, bears the most exalted one.

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

19.53.10

kāláḥ prajā́ asr̥jata kāló ágre prajā́patim |
svayaṃbhū́ḥ kaśyápaḥ kālā́t tápaḥ kālā́d ajāyata ||10||

Time generated progeny, time in the beginning Prajāpati; the self-existent Kaçyapa from time, fervor from time was born.

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

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