Atharvaveda 3.28
Atharvavedasaṃhitā 3.28
- Language
- Sanskrit
3.28.1
ékaikayaiṣā́ sŕ̥ṣṭyā sáṃ babhūva yátra gā́ ásr̥janta bhūtakŕ̥to viśvárūpāḥ |
yátra vijā́yate yamíny apartúḥ sā́ paśū́n kṣiṇāti riphatī́ rúśatī ||1||
She herself came into being by a one-by-one creation, where the being-makers created the kine of all forms; where the twinning [cow] gives birth, out of season, she destroys the cattle, snarling, angry.
3.28.2
eṣā́ paśū́nt sáṃ kṣiṇāti kravyā́d bhūtvā́ vyádvarī |
utáināṃ brahmáṇe dadyāt táthā syonā́ śivā́ syāt ||2||
She quite destroys the cattle, becoming a flesh-eater, devourer (? vy-ádvarī); also one should give her to a priest (brahmán); so would she be pleasant, propitious.
3.28.3
śivā́ bhava púruṣebhyo góbhyo áśvebhyaḥ śivā́ |
śivā́smái sárvasmai kṣétrāya śivā́ na iháidhi ||3||
Be thou propitious to men (púruṣa), propitious to kine, to horses, propitious to all this field (kṣétra); be propitious to us here.
3.28.4
ihá púṣṭir ihá rása ihá sahasrasā́tamā bhava |
paśū́n yamini poṣaya ||4||
Here prosperity, here sap—here be thou best winner of a thousand; make the cattle prosper, O twinning one.
3.28.5
yátrā suhā́rdaḥ sukŕ̥to mádanti vihā́ya rógaṃ tanvàḥ svā́yāḥ |
táṃ lokáṃ yamíny abhisáṃbabhūva sā́ no mā́ hiṃsīt púruṣān paśū́ṃś ca ||5||
Where the good-hearted [and] well-doing revel, quitting disease of their own body—into that world hath the twinning one come into being; let her not injure our men and cattle.
3.28.6
yátrā suhā́rdāṃ sukŕ̥tām agnihotrahútām yátra lokáḥ |
táṃ lokáṃ yamíny abhisáṃbabhūva sā́ no mā́ hiṃsīt púruṣān paśū́ṃś ca ||6||
Where is the world of the good-hearted, of the well-doing, where of them that offer the fire-offering (agnihotrá-)—into that world hath the twinning one come into being; let her not injure our men and cattle.
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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- Atharvaveda — Sanskrit
- A Vedic Concordance — Maurice Bloomfield, English
- Aṅgirasī — Sanskrit
- Altindische Grammatik — Jacob Wackernagel & Albert Debrunner, German
- History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) — P. V. Kane, English
- The History and Culture of the Indian People — R. C. Majumdar & A. D. Pusalker, English
- Vedic Index of Names and Subjects — Arthur A. Macdonell & A. Berriedale Keith, English
- Original Sanskrit Texts on the Origin and History of the People of India, their Religion and Institutions — John Muir, English
- The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads — Arthur Berriedale Keith, English
- Die Religion des Veda — Hermann Oldenberg, German
- The Philosophy of the Upanishads — Paul Deussen & A. S. Geden, English
- Vedic Mythology — Arthur Anthony Macdonell, English
- The Religion of the Veda: The Ancient Religion of India (from Rig-Veda to Upanishads) — Maurice Bloomfield, English