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Atharvaveda 19.56

Atharvavedasaṃhitā 19.56

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Sanskrit

19.56.1

yamásya lokā́d ádhy ā́ babhūvitha prámadā mártyān prá yunakṣi dhī́raḥ |
ekākínā saráthaṃ yāsi vidvā́nt svápnaṃ mímāno ásurasya yónau ||1||

Out of Yama's world hast thou come hither (ā-bhū); with mirth (?) dost thou, wise, make use of (pra-yuj) mortals; knowing, thou goest in alliance (sarátham) with the solitary one, fashioning (mā) sleep in the lair (yóni) of the Asura.

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

19.56.2

bandhás tvā́gre viśvácayā apaśyat purā́ rā́tryā jánitor éke áhni |
tátaḥ svapnedám ádhy ā́ babhūvitha bhiṣágbhyo rūpám apagū́hamānaḥ ||2||

The all-vigorous bond saw thee in the beginning, in the one day before the birth of night; from thence, O sleep, didst thou come (ā-bhū) hither, hiding thy form from the physicians.

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

19.56.3

br̥hadgā́vā́surebhyó 'dhi devā́n úpāvartata mahimā́nam ichán |
tásmai svápnāya dadhur ā́dhipatyaṃ trayastriṃśā́saḥ svàr ānaśānā́ḥ ||3||

He of great kine (?) turned unto the gods away from the Asuras, seeking greatness; to that sleep the three-and-thirty ones, having attained the sky, imparted over-lordship.

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

19.56.4

náitā́ṃ viduḥ pitáro nótá devā́ yéṣāṃ jálpiś cáraty antarédám |
trité svápnam adadhur āptyé nára ādityā́so váruṇenā́nuśiṣṭāḥ ||4||

Not the Fathers, and not the gods, know it, whose (pl.) murmur goes about within here; in Trita Āptya did the men (nṛ́), the Ādityas, taught by Varuṇa, set sleep.

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

19.56.5

yásya krūrám ábhajanta duṣkŕ̥to 'svápnena sukŕ̥taḥ púṇyam ā́yuḥ |
svàr madasi paraméṇa bandhúnā tapyámānasya mánasó 'dhi jajñiṣe ||5||

Of whom the evil-doers shared ⌊bhaj⌋ the cruelty, the well-doers, by non-sleep, [shared] the pure (púṇya) life-time—thou revelest in the sky (svàr) with the highest relative; thou wast born out of the mind of one practising fervor.

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

19.56.6

vidmá te sárvāḥ parijā́ḥ purástād vidmá svapna yó adhipā́ ihā́ te |
yaśaśvíno no yáśasehá pāhy ārā́d dviṣébhir ápa yāhi dūrám ||6||

We know all thine attendants (?) in front; we know, O sleep, who is thine over-ruler here; protect us here with the glory of the glorious one; go thou away far off with poisons.

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

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