Atharvaveda 2.32
Atharvavedasaṃhitā 2.32
- Language
- Sanskrit
2.32.1
udyánn ādityáḥ krímīn hantu nimrócan hantu raśmíbhiḥ |
yé antáḥ krímayo gávi ||1||
Let the sun (ādityá), rising, smite the worms; setting, let him smite [them] with his rays—the worms that are within the cow.
2.32.2
viśvárūpaṃ caturakṣáṃ krímiṃ sāráṅgam árjunam |
śr̥ṇā́my asya pr̥ṣṭī́r ápi vr̥ścāmi yác chíraḥ ||2||
The worm of all forms, the four-eyed, the variegated, the whitish—I crush (çṛ) the ribs of it; I hew at (api-vraçc) what is its head.
2.32.3
atrivád vaḥ krimayo hanmi kaṇvaváj jamadagnivát |
agástyasya bráhmaṇā sáṃ pinaṣmy aháṃ krímīn ||3||
Like Atri I slay you, O worms, like Kaṇva, like Jamadagni; with the incantation of Agastya I mash together the worms.
2.32.4
ható rā́jā krímīṇām utáiṣāṃ sthapátir hatáḥ |
ható hatámātā krímir hatábhrātā hatásvasā ||4||
Slain is the king of the worms, also the chief (sthapáti) of them is slain; slain is the worm, having its mother slain, its brother slain, its sister slain.
2.32.5
hatā́so asya veśáso hatā́saḥ páriveśasaḥ |
átho yé kṣullakā́ iva sárve té krímayo hatā́ḥ ||5||
Slain are its neighbors (? veçás), slain its further neighbors (? páriveças), also those that are petty (kṣullaká), as it were—all those worms are slain.
2.32.6
prá te śr̥ṇāmi śŕ̥ṅge yā́bhyāṃ vitudāyási |
bhinā́dmi te kuṣúmbhaṃ yás te viṣadhā́naḥ ||6||
I crush up (pra-çṛ) thy (two) horns, with which thou thrustest; I split thy receptacle (?), which is thy poison-holder.
Translations (3)
- Atharva-Veda Saṃhitā (HOS 7–8) — William Dwight Whitney 1905, English
- The Hymns of the Atharvaveda — Ralph T. H. Griffith 1895, English
- Hymns of the Atharva-Veda (SBE 42) — Maurice Bloomfield 1897, English
Commentaries (2)
- Atharvavedabhāṣya (Sāyaṇa) — Sāyaṇa, Sanskrit
- Atharvavedasaṃhitābhāṣya — Mādhavācārya, Sanskrit
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- A Vedic Concordance — Maurice Bloomfield, English
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- Altindische Grammatik — Jacob Wackernagel & Albert Debrunner, German
- A History of Indian Medical Literature — G. Jan Meulenbeld, English
- Śūdras in Ancient India: A Social History of the Lower Order down to circa A.D. 600 — R. S. Sharma, English
- Die Kosmographie der Inder nach den Quellen dargestellt — Willibald Kirfel, German
- The Development of Hindu Iconography — Jitendra Nath Banerjea, English