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Atharvaveda 4.11

Atharvavedasaṃhitā 4.11

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Sanskrit

4.11.1

anaḍvā́n dādhāra pr̥thivī́m utá dyā́m anaḍvā́n dādhārorv àntárikṣam |
anaḍvā́n dādhāra pradíśaḥ ṣáḍ urvī́r anaḍvā́n víśvaṃ bhúvanam ā́ viveśa ||1||

The draft-ox sustains earth and sky; the draft-ox sustains the wide atmosphere; the draft-ox sustains the six wide directions; the draft-ox hath entered into all existence.

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

4.11.2

anaḍvā́n índraḥ sá paśúbhyo ví caṣṭe trayā́ṃ chakró ví mimīte ádhvanaḥ |
bhūtáṃ bhaviṣyád bhúvanā dúhānaḥ sárvā devā́nām carati vratā́ni ||2||

The draft-ox [is] Indra; he looks out from (for?) the cattle; triple ways the mighty one (çakrá) measures out (traverses?); yielding (duh) the past (? bhūtá), the future, existing things (bhúvana), he goes upon (car) all the courses (vratá) of the gods.

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

4.11.3

índro jātó manuṣyèṣv antár gharmás taptáś carati śóśucānaḥ |
suprajā́ḥ sánt sá udāré ná sarṣad yó nā́śnīyā́d anaḍúho vijānán ||3||

Born an Indra among human beings (manuṣyà), he goes about (car) shining brightly, a heated hot-drink (gharmá); he, being one of good offspring, shall not go in mist (? udārá) who, understanding [it], shall not partake of (aç) the draft-ox.

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

4.11.4

anaḍvā́n duhe sukr̥tásya loká áinaṃ pyāyayati pávamānaḥ purástāt |
parjányo dhā́rā marúta ū́dho asya yajñáḥ páyo dákṣiṇā dóho asya ||4||

The draft-ox yields milk (duh) in the world of the well-done; the purifying one fills him up from in front; Parjanya [is] his streams, the Maruts his udder, the sacrifice his milk, the sacrificial gift the milking of him.

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

4.11.5

yásya neśe yajñápatir ná yajñó nā́sya dāteśe ná pratigrahītā́ |
yó viśvajíd viśvabhŕ̥d viśvákarmā gharmáṃ no brūta yatamáś cátuṣpāt ||5||

Of whom the lord of the sacrifice is not master (īç), nor the sacrifice; not the giver is master of him, nor the acceptor; who is all-conquering, all-bearing, all-working—tell ye us the hot-drink which [is] four-footed.

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

4.11.6

yéna devā́ḥ svàr āruruhúr hitvā́ śárīram amŕ̥tasya nā́bhim |
téna geṣma sukr̥tásya lokáṃ gharmásya vraténa tápasā yaśasyávaḥ ||6||

By whom the gods ascended to heaven (svàr), quitting the body, to the navel of the immortal, by him may we go to the world of the well-done, desiring glory, by the vow (vratá) of the hot-drink, by penance.

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

4.11.7

índro rūpéṇāgnír váhena prajā́patiḥ parameṣṭhī́ virā́ṭ |
viśvā́nare akramata vaiśvānaré akramatānadúhy akramata |
só 'dr̥ṃhayata só 'dhārayata ||7||

Indra by form, Agni by carrying (váha), Prajāpati, Parameshṭhin, Virāj; in Viçvānara he strode, in Vāiçvānara he strode, in the draft-ox he strode; he made firm, he sustained.

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

4.11.8

mádhyam etád anaḍúho yátraiṣá váha ā́hitaḥ |
etā́vad asya prācī́naṃ yā́vān pratyáṅ samā́hitaḥ ||8||

That is the middle of the draft-ox, where this carrying (váha) is set; so much of him is in front (prācī́na) as he is put all together on the opposite side.

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

4.11.9

yó védānadúho dóhān saptā́nupadasvataḥ |
prajā́ṃ ca lokáṃ cāpnoti táthā saptar̥ṣáyo viduḥ ||9||

Whoso knows the milkings of the draft-ox, seven, unfailing, both progeny and world he obtains: so the seven seers know.

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

4.11.10

padbhíḥ sedím avakrā́mann írāṃ jáṅghābhir utkhidán |
srámeṇānaḍvā́n kīlā́laṃ kīnā́śaś cābhí gachataḥ ||10||

With his feet treading down debility (sedí), with his thighs (ján̄ghā) extracting (ut-khid) refreshing drink—with weariness go the draft-ox and the plowman unto sweet drink (kīlála).

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

4.11.11

dvā́daśa vā́ etā́ rā́trīr vrátyā āhuḥ prajā́pateḥ |
tátrópa bráhma yó véda tád vā́ anaḍúho vratám ||11||

Twelve, indeed, they declare those nights of the vow (vrátya) of Prajāpati; whoso knows the bráhman within them (tátro ’pa)—that verily is the vow of the draft-ox.

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

4.11.12

duhé sāyáṃ duhé prātár duhé madhyáṃdinaṃ pári |
dóhā yé asya saṃyánti tā́n vidmā́nupadasvataḥ ||12||

He milks (duh) at evening, he milks in the morning, he milks about midday; the milkings of him that come together, those unfailing ones we know.

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

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