Atharvaveda 19.58
Atharvavedasaṃhitā 19.58
- Language
- Sanskrit
19.58.1
ghr̥tásya jūtíḥ sámanā sádevā saṃvatsaráṃ havíṣā vardháyantī |
śrótraṃ cákṣuḥ prāṇó 'chinno no astv áchinnā vayám ā́yuṣo várcasaḥ ||1||
The swiftness of ghee evenly always increasing the year with oblation—be our hearing, sight, breath unsevered; unsevered be we from life-time, from splendor.
19.58.2
úpāsmā́n prāṇó hvayatām úpa prāṇáṃ havāmahe |
várco jagrāha pr̥thivy àntárikṣaṃ várcaḥ sómo bŕ̥haspátir vidhattā́ ||2||
Let breath call unto us; we call unto breath; the earth, the atmosphere hath seized (grah) splendor; splendor [also] Soma, Bṛihaspati, the maintainer.
19.58.3
várcaso dyāvāpr̥thivī́ saṃgráhaṇī babhūváthur várco gr̥hītvā pr̥thivī́m ánu sáṃ carema |
yaśásam gā́vo gópatim úpa tiṣṭhanty āyatī́r yáśo gr̥hītvā́ pr̥thivī́m ánu sáṃ carema ||3||
Heaven-and-earth have become joint-seizers of splendor; seizing splendor may we go about upon the earth; with glory the kine, coming, wait upon (upa-sthā) the lord of kine; seizing glory may we go about upon the earth.
19.58.4
vrajáṃ kr̥ṇudhvaṃ sá hí vo nr̥pā́ṇo vármā sīvyadhvaṃ bahulā́ pr̥thū́ni |
púraḥ kr̥ṇudhvam ā́yasīr ádhr̥ṣṭā mā́ vaḥ susroc camasó dr̥ṃhata tám ||4||
Make ye a pen (vrajá), for that is men-protecting for you; sew ye coats-of-mail (várman), abundant, broad; make ye strongholds of metal, unattackable (ádhṛṣṭā); let not your bowl leak (sru); make it strong.
19.58.5
yajñásya cákṣuḥ prábhr̥tir múkhaṃ ca vācā́ śrótreṇa mánasā juhomi |
imáṃ yajñáṃ vítataṃ viśvákarmaṇā́ devā́ yantu sumanasyámānāḥ ||5||
Of the sacrifice the eye, beginning, and face; with voice, with hearing, with mind do I make oblation; to this sacrifice, extended by the all-working one, let the gods come ⌊ā-i⌋, with favoring minds.
19.58.6
yé devā́nām r̥tvíjo yé ca yajñíyā yébhyo havyáṃ kriyáte bhāgadhéyam |
imáṃ yajñáṃ sahá pátnībhir étya yā́vanto devā́s taviṣā́ mādayantām ||6||
They that are priests (ṛtvíj) of the gods, and that are worshipful, for whom the oblation (havyá) is made the portion—coming to this sacrifice together with their spouses, let the gods, as many as they are (yā́vant), revel on the oblation.
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)
- Merutantra — Gommaṭa, Sanskrit
- Aṅgirasī — Sanskrit
- Vedārthaprakāśa (Mādhavācārya alias Sāyaṇācārya) — Mādhavācārya alias Sāyaṇācārya, Sanskrit
- Merutantra (Śiva) — Śiva, Sanskrit
Discussed in (1)
- A Vedic Concordance — Bloomfield 1906, English