Atharvaveda 3.9
Atharvavedasaṃhitā 3.9
- Language
- Sanskrit
3.9.1
karśáphasya viśaphásya dyáuḥ pitā́ pr̥thivī́ mātā́ |
yáthābhicakrá devā́s táthā́pa kr̥ṇutā púnaḥ ||1||
Of the karçápha, of the viçaphá, heaven [is] father, earth mother: as, O gods, ye have inflicted (abhi-kṛ), so do ye remove (apa-kṛ) again.
3.9.2
aśreṣmā́ṇo adhārayan táthā tán mánunā kr̥tám |
kr̥ṇómi vádhri víṣkandhaṃ muṣkābarhó gávām iva ||2||
Without claspers they held fast (dhāraya); that was so done by Manu; I make the víṣkandha impotent, like a castrater of bulls.
3.9.3
piśáṅge sū́tre khŕ̥galaṃ tád ā́ badhnanti vedhásaḥ |
śravasyúṃ śúṣmaṃ kābaváṃ vádhriṃ kr̥ṇvantu bandhúraḥ ||3||
On a reddish string a khṛ́gala—that the pious (vedhás) bind on; let the binders (?) make impotent the flowing (?), puffing (?) kābavá.
3.9.4
yénā śravasyavaś cáratha devā́ ivāsuramāyáyā |
śúnāṃ kapír iva dū́ṣaṇo bándhurā kābavásya ca ||4||
Wherewith, O flowing ones, ye go about (car), like gods with Asura-magic (-māyā), like the ape, spoiler of dogs, and with the binder (?) of the kābavá.
3.9.5
dúṣṭyai hí tvā bhatsyā́mi dūṣayiṣyā́mi kābavám |
úd āśávo ráthā iva śapáthebhiḥ sariṣyatha ||5||
Since I shall bind thee [on] for spoiling, I shall spoil the kābavá; ye shall go up with curses, like swift chariots.
3.9.6
ékaśataṃ víṣkandhāni víṣṭhitā pr̥thivī́m ánu |
téṣāṃ tvā́m ágre új jaharur maṇíṃ viṣkandhadū́ṣaṇam ||6||
A hundred and one víṣkandhas [are] distributed over the earth; thee have they first taken up, of them the víṣkandha-spoiling amulet.
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
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
- A History of Indian Philosophy — Surendranath Dasgupta, English
- Die Religion des Veda — Hermann Oldenberg, German