Atharvaveda 19.56
Atharvavedasaṃhitā 19.56
- Language
- 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 (2)
- Aṅgirasī — Sanskrit
- Vedārthaprakāśa (Mādhavācārya alias Sāyaṇācārya) — Mādhavācārya alias Sāyaṇācārya, Sanskrit
Discussed in (4)
- A Vedic Concordance — Bloomfield 1906, English
- The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads — Keith 1925, English
- Die Religion des Veda — Oldenberg 1894, German
- Vedic Mythology — Macdonell 1897, English