Atharvaveda 3.24
Atharvavedasaṃhitā 3.24
- Language
- Sanskrit
3.24.1
páyasvatīr óṣadhayaḥ páyasvan māmakáṃ vácaḥ |
átho páyasvatīnām ā́ bhare 'háṃ sahasraśáḥ ||1||
Rich in milk [are] the herbs, rich in milk my utterance (vácas); accordingly, of them that are rich in milk I bring by thousands.
3.24.2
védāháṃ páyasvantaṃ cakā́ra dhānyàm bahú |
saṃbhŕ̥tvā nā́ma yó devás táṃ vayáṃ havāmahe yóyo áyajvano gr̥hé ||2||
I know him that is rich in milk; he hath made the grain much; the god that is "collector" by name, him do we call, whichever is in the house of one who sacrifices not.
3.24.3
imā́ yā́ḥ páñca pradíśo mānavī́ḥ páñca kr̥ṣṭáyaḥ |
vr̥ṣṭé śā́paṃ nadī́r ivehá sphātíṃ samā́vahān ||3||
These five directions that there are, the five races (kṛṣṭí) descended from Manu (mānavī́)—may they bring fatness (sphātí) together here, as streams [bring] drift when it has rained.
3.24.4
úd útsaṃ śatádhāraṃ sahásradhāram ákṣitam |
evā́smā́kedáṃ dhānyàṃ sahásradhāram ákṣitam ||4||
As a fountain of a hundred streams, of a thousand streams, unexhausted, so this grain of ours, in a thousand streams, unexhausted.
3.24.5
śátahasta samā́hara sáhasrahasta sáṃ kira |
kr̥tásya kāryàsya cehá sphātíṃ samā́vaha ||5||
O hundred-handed one, bring together; O thousand-handed one, pile together; of what is made and of what is to be made do thou convey together the fatness here.
3.24.6
tisró mā́trā gandharvā́ṇāṃ cátasro gr̥hápatnyāḥ |
tā́sāṃ yā́ sphātimáttamā táyā tvābhí mr̥śāmasi ||6||
Three measures of the Gandharvas, four of the house-mistress; of them whichever is richest in fatness, with that one we touch thee.
3.24.7
upoháś ca samūháś ca kṣattā́rau te prajāpate |
tā́v ihā́ vahatāṃ sphātíṃ bahúṃ bhūmā́nam ákṣitam ||7||
Bringer (upohá) and gatherer (samūhá) [are] thy (two) distributors, O Prajāpati; let them convey hither fatness, much unexhausted plenty.
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 (7)
- Atharvaveda — Sanskrit
- A Vedic Concordance — Maurice Bloomfield, English
- Vedic Index of Names and Subjects — Arthur A. Macdonell & A. Berriedale Keith, English
- Aṅgirasī — Sanskrit
- Altindische Grammatik — Jacob Wackernagel & Albert Debrunner, German
- Original Sanskrit Texts on the Origin and History of the People of India, their Religion and Institutions — John Muir, English
- Die Kosmographie der Inder nach den Quellen dargestellt — Willibald Kirfel, German