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Atharvaveda 2.14

Atharvavedasaṃhitā 2.14

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Sanskrit

2.14.1

niḥsālā́ṃ dhr̥ṣṇúṃ dhiṣáṇam ekavādyā́m jighatsvàm |
sárvāś cáṇḍasya naptyò nāśáyāmaḥ sadā́nvāḥ ||1||

The expeller, the bold, the container, the one-toned, the voracious—all the daughters (naptī́) of the wrathful one, the sadā́nvās, we make to disappear.

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

2.14.2

nír vo goṣṭhā́d ajāmasi nír ákṣān nír upānaśā́t |
nír vo magundyā duhitaro gr̥hébhyaś cātayāmahe ||2||

Out of the cow-stall we drive you, out of the axle, out of the wagon-body (?); out of the houses we expel you, ye daughters (duhitṛ́) of magundī.

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

2.14.3

asáu yó adharā́d gr̥hás tátra santv arāyyàḥ |
tátra sédir ny ùcyatu sárvāś ca yātudhānyàḥ ||3||

Yon house that is below—there let the hags be; there let debility (sedí) make its home (ni-uc), and all the sorceresses.

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

2.14.4

bhūtapátir nír ajatv índraś cetáḥ sadā́nvāḥ |
gr̥hásya budhná ā́sīnās tā índro vájreṇā́dhi tiṣṭhatu ||4||

Let the lord of beings drive out, also Indra, from here the sadā́nvās, sitting on the bottom of the house; let Indra subdue them with the thunderbolt.

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

2.14.5

yádi sthá kṣetriyā́ṇāṃ yádi vā púruṣeṣitāḥ |
yádi sthá dásyubhyo jātā́ náśyatetáḥ sadā́nvāḥ ||5||

If ye are of the endemic (? kṣetriyá) ones, or if sent by men; if ye are born from the barbarians (dásyu)—disappear from here, O sadā́nvās.

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

2.14.6

pári dhā́māny āsām āśúr gā́ṣṭhām ivāsaram |
ájaiṣaṃ sárvān ājī́n vo náśyatetáḥ sadānvāḥ ||6||

I have gone around the abodes (dhāman) of them as a swift [steed about] a race-course; I have won (ji) all your races (ājí); disappear from here, O sadā́nvās.

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

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