Atharvaveda 4.12
Atharvavedasaṃhitā 4.12
- Language
- Sanskrit
4.12.1
róhaṇy asi róhaṇy asthnáś chinnásya róhaṇī |
roháyedám arundhati ||1||
Grower art thou, grower; grower of severed bone; make this grow, O arundhatī́.
4.12.2
yát te riṣṭáṃ yát te dyuttám ásti péṣṭraṃ ta ātmáni |
dhātā́ tád bhadráyā púnaḥ sáṃ dadhat páruṣā páruḥ ||2||
What of thee is torn (riç), what of thee is inflamed (? dyut), is crushed (? péṣṭra) in thyself—may Dhātar excellently put that together again, joint with joint.
4.12.3
sáṃ te majjā́ majjñā́ bhavatu sám u te páruṣā páruḥ |
sáṃ te māṃsásya vísrastaṃ sám ásthy ápi rohatu ||3||
Let thy marrow come together with marrow, and thy joint together with joint; together let what of thy flesh has fallen apart, together let thy bone grow over.
4.12.4
majjā́ majñā́ sáṃ dhīyatāṃ cármaṇā cárma rohatu |
ásr̥k te ásthi rohatu māṃsáṃ māṃséna rohatu ||4||
Let marrow be put together with marrow; let skin (cárman) grow (ruh) with skin; let thy blood, bone grow; let flesh grow with flesh.
4.12.5
lóma lómnā sáṃ kalpayā tvacā́ sáṃ kalpayā tvácam |
ásr̥k te ásthi rohatu chinnáṃ sáṃ dhehy oṣadhe ||5||
Fit thou together hair with hair; fit together skin (tvác) with skin; let thy blood, bone grow; put together what is severed, O herb.
4.12.6
sá út tiṣṭha préhi prá drava ráthaḥ sucakráḥ |
supavíḥ sunā́bhiḥ práti tiṣṭhordhváḥ ||6||
Do thou here stand up, go forth, run forth, a chariot well-wheeled, well-tired, well-naved; stand firm upright.
4.12.7
yádi kartáṃ patitvā́ saṃśaśré yádi vā́śmā práhr̥to jaghā́na |
r̥bhū́ ráthasyevā́ṅgāni sáṃ dadhat páruṣā páruḥ ||7||
If, falling into a pit, he hath been crushed (sam-çṛ), or if a stone hurled (pra-kṛ) hath smitten [him]—as a Ṛbhu the parts of a chariot, may it put together joint with joint.
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
- Aṅgirasī — Sanskrit
- Vedic Index of Names and Subjects — Arthur A. Macdonell & A. Berriedale Keith, English
- A Concise History of Science in India — D. M. Bose & Surendra Nath Sen, English
- Vanaspati: Plants and Plant-Life as in Indian Treatises and Traditions — Girija Prasanna Majumdar, English
- The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels — Jean Filliozat, English