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Atharvaveda 4.16

Atharvavedasaṃhitā 4.16

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Sanskrit

4.16.1

br̥hánn eṣām adhiṣṭhātā́ antikā́d iva paśyati |
yá stāyán mányate cárant sárvaṃ devā́ idáṃ viduḥ ||1||

The great superintendent of them sees, as it were, from close by; whoever thinks to be going on in secret, all this the gods know.

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

4.16.2

yás tíṣṭhati cárati yáś ca vañcati yó nilā́yaṃ cárati yáḥ pratáṅkam |
dváu saṃniṣádya yán mantráyete rā́jā tád veda váruṇas tr̥tī́yaḥ ||2||

Whoso stands, goes about, and whoso goes crookedly (vañc), whoso goes about hiddenly, who defiantly (? pratán̄kam)—what two, sitting down together, talk, king Varuṇa, as third, knows that.

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

4.16.3

utéyáṃ bhū́mir váruṇasya rā́jña utā́sáu dyáur br̥hatī́ dūréantā |
utó samudráu váruṇasya kukṣī́ utā́smínn álpa udaké nílīnaḥ ||3||

Both this earth is king Varuṇa's, and yonder great sky with distant margins (-ánta); also the two oceans are Varuṇa's paunches; also in this petty water is he hidden.

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

4.16.4

utá yó dyā́m atisárpāt parástān ná sá mucyātai váruṇasya rā́jñaḥ |
divá spáśaḥ prá carantīdám asya sahasrākṣā́ áti paśyanti bhū́mim ||4||

Also whoso should creep far off beyond the sky, he should not be released from king Varuṇa; from the sky his spies go forth hither; thousand-eyed, they look over the earth.

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

4.16.5

sárvaṃ tád rā́jā váruṇo ví caṣṭe yád antarā́ ródasī yát parástāt |
sáṃkhyātā asya nimíṣo jánānām akṣā́n iva śvaghnī́ ní minoti tā́ni ||5||

All this king Varuna beholds (vi-cakṣ)—what is between the two firmaments (ródasī), what beyond; numbered of him are the winkings of people; as a gambler the dice, [so] does he fix (? ni-mi) these things.

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

4.16.6

yé te pā́śā varuṇa saptásapta tredhā́ tíṣṭhanti víṣitā rúṣantaḥ |
chinántu sárve ánr̥taṃ vádantaṃ yáḥ satyavādy áti táṃ sr̥jantu ||6||

What fetters (pā́ça) of thine, O Varuṇa, seven by seven, stand triply relaxed (vi-si), shining—let them all bind him that speaks untruth; whoso is truth-speaking, let them let him go.

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

4.16.7

śaténa pā́śair abhí dhehi varuṇainaṃ mā́ te mocy anr̥tavā́ṅ nr̥cakṣaḥ |
ā́stāṃ jālmá udáraṃ śraṃśayitvā́ kóśa ivābandháḥ parikr̥tyámānaḥ ||7||

With a hundred fetters, O Varuṇa, do thou bridle (abhi-dhā) him; let not the speaker of untruth escape thee, O men-watcher; let the villain sit letting his belly fall [apart], like a hoopless vessel, being cut round about.

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

4.16.8

yáḥ samābhyò váruṇo yó vyābhyò yáḥ saṃdeśyò váruṇo yó videśyò |
yó daivó váruṇo yáś ca mā́nuṣaḥ ||8||

The Varuṇa that is lengthwise (samāmyà), that is crosswise (vyāmyà); the Varuṇa that is of the same region (saṁdeçyà), that is of a different region (videçyà); the Varuṇa that is of the gods, and that is of men—

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

4.16.9

táis tvā sárvair abhí ṣyāmi pā́śair asāv āmuṣyāyaṇāmuṣyāḥ putra |
tā́n u te sárvān anusáṃdiśāmi ||9||

With all those fetters I fasten (abhi-sā) thee, O so-and-so, of such-and-such a family, son of such-and-such a mother; and all of them I successively appoint for thee.

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

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