Atharvaveda 19.55
Atharvavedasaṃhitā 19.55
- Language
- Sanskrit
19.55.1
rā́triṃrātrim áprayātaṃ bhárantó 'śvāyeva tíṣṭhate ghāsám asmái |
rāyás póṣeṇa sám iṣā́ mádanto mā́ te agne prátiveśā riṣāma ||1||
Night after night bringing to him without mixture, as fodder to a horse that stands, let not us, O Agni, thy neighbors, receive harm, reveling with abundance of wealth, with food (íṣ).
19.55.2
yā́ te vásor vā́ta íṣuḥ sā́ ta eṣā́ táyā no mr̥ḍa |
rāyás póṣeṇa sám iṣā́ mádanto mā́ te agne prátiveśā riṣāma ||2||
Of thee that art good what arrow [is] in the wind, this is that of thine; therewith be gracious to us. Let not us, O Agni, thy neighbors, receive harm, reveling with abundance of wealth, with food.
19.55.3
sāyáṃsāyaṃ gr̥hápatir no agníḥ prātáḥprātaḥ saumanasásya dātā́ |
vásorvasor vasudā́na edhi vayáṃ tvéndhānās tanvàṃ puṣema ||3||
Evening after evening [is] Agni our house-lord; morning after morning [is he] giver of well-willing; be thou giver of good to us of every kind; may we, kindling thee, adorn (puṣ) ourselves.
19.55.4
prātáḥprātar gr̥hápatir no agníḥ sāyáṃsāyaṃ saumanasásya dātā́ |
vásorvasor vasudā́na edhī́ndhānās tvā śatáṃhimā r̥dhema ||4||
Morning after morning [is] Agni our house-lord; evening after evening [is he] giver of well-willing; be thou giver of good to us of every kind; kindling thee, may we thrive (ṛdh) a hundred winters.
19.55.5
ápaścā dagdhā́nnasya bhūyāsam |
annādā́yānnapataye rudrā́ya námo agnáye |
sabhyáḥ sabhā́ṃ me pāhi yé ca sabhyā́ḥ sabhāsádaḥ ||5||
May I be one not falling short of food; to the food-eating lord of food, to Agni [as] Rudra be homage.
O thou of the assembly, protect my assembly (sabhā́), and [them] who are of the assembly, sitters in the assembly; having much invoked thee, O Indra, may they attain their whole life-time.
19.55.6
tvām indrā puruhūta víśvam ā́yur vy àśnavan |
áharahar balím ít te hárantó 'śvāyeva tíṣṭhate ghāsám agne ||6||
Day after day taking tribute to thee, O Agni, as fodder to a horse that stands [, let not us, O Agni, thy neighbors, receive harm, reveling with abundance of wealth, with food (íṣ)].
O thou of the assembly, protect my assembly (sabhā́), and [them] who are of the assembly, sitters in the assembly; having much invoked thee, O Indra, may they attain their whole life-time.
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 (4)
- Aṅgirasī — Sanskrit
- Vedārthaprakāśa (Mādhavācārya alias Sāyaṇācārya) — Mādhavācārya alias Sāyaṇācārya, Sanskrit
- Dhyānayogaprakāśa — Lakṣmaṇānandasvāmin, Sanskrit
- Rudrapāṭha — Sanskrit
Discussed in (7)
- A Vedic Concordance — Bloomfield 1906, English
- Mānasāra Series (I. A Dictionary of Hindu Architecture; II. Indian Architecture according to Mānasāra-Śilpaśāstra; III. Mānasāra on Architecture and Sculpture: Sanskrit Text; IV. Architecture of Mānasāra: Translation; V. Architecture of Mānasāra: Illustrations; VI. Hindu Architecture in India and Abroad; VII. An Encyclopaedia of Hindu Architecture) — Acharya 1927, English
- Vedic Index of Names and Subjects — Macdonell & Keith 1912, English
- The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads — Keith 1925, English
- Republics in Ancient India, c. 1500 B.C.–500 B.C. — Sharma 1968, English
- Die Hymnen des Rigveda, Bd. I: Metrische und textgeschichtliche Prolegomena — Oldenberg 1888, German
- Corporate Life in Ancient India — Majumdar 1920, English