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Atharvaveda 4.2

Atharvavedasaṃhitā 4.2

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Sanskrit

4.2.1

yá ātmadā́ baladā́ yásya víśva upā́sate praśíṣaṃ yásya devā́ḥ |
yò 'syéśe dvipádo yáś cátuṣpadaḥ kásmai devā́ya havíṣā vidhema ||1||

He who is soul-giving, strength-giving; of whom all, of whom [even] the gods, wait upon the instruction; who is lord (īç) of these bipeds, who of quadrupeds—to what god may we pay worship (vidh) with oblation?

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

4.2.2

yáḥ prāṇató nimiṣató mahitváiko rā́jā jágato babhū́va |
yásya chāyā́mŕ̥taṃ yásya mr̥tyúḥ kásmai devā́ya havíṣā vidhema ||2||

He who by his greatness became sole king of the breathing, winking animal creation (jágat); of whom immortality (amṛ́tam), of whom death [is] the shadow—to what god may we pay worship with oblation?

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

4.2.3

yáṃ krándasī ávataś caskabhāné bhiyásāne ródasī áhvayethām |
yásyāsáu pánthā rájaso vimā́naḥ kásmai devā́ya havíṣā vidhema ||3||

He whom the (two) spheres (krándasī) favor when fixed; whom the terrified firmaments (rodasī) called upon; whose is yon road, traverser of the welkin (rájas)—to what god may we pay worship with oblation?

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

4.2.4

yásya dyáur urvī́ pr̥thivī́ ca mahī́ yásyādá urv àntárikṣam |
yásyāsáu sū́ro vítato mahitvā́ kásmai devā́ya havíṣā vidhema ||4||

[By the greatness] of whom the wide heaven and the great earth, [by the greatness] of whom yon wide atmosphere, by the greatness of whom yon sun [is] extended—to what god may we pay worship with oblation?

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

4.2.5

yásya víśve himávanto mahitvā́ samudré yásya rasā́m íd āhúḥ |
imā́ś ca pradíśo yásya bāhū́ kásmai devā́ya havíṣā vidhema ||5||

Whose [are] all the snowy mountains by [his] greatness; whose, verily, they call Rasā in the ocean; and of whom these directions are the (two) arms—to what god may we pay worship with oblation?

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

4.2.6

ā́po ágre víśvam āvan gárbhaṃ dádhānā amŕ̥tā r̥tajñā́ḥ |
yā́su devī́ṣv ádhi devá ā́sīt kásmai devā́ya havíṣā vidhema ||6||

The waters in the beginning favored (av) the all, assuming an embryo, they the immortal, order-knowing ones, over whom, divine ones, the god was—to what god may we pay worship with oblation?

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

4.2.7

hiraṇyagarbháḥ sám avartatā́gre bhūtásya jātáḥ pátir éka āsīt |
sá dādhāra pr̥thivī́m utá dyā́ṃ kásmai devā́ya havíṣā vidhema ||7||

The golden embryo was evolved (sam-vṛt) in the beginning; it was, when born, the sole lord of existence (bhūtá); it maintained earth and heaven—to what god may we pay worship with oblation?

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

4.2.8

ā́po vatsáṃ janáyantīr gárbham ágre sám airayan |
tásyotá jā́yamānasyólba āsīd dhiraṇyáyaḥ kásmai devā́ya havíṣā vidhema ||8||

The waters, generating a young (vatsá), set in motion (sam-īray) in the beginning an embryo; and of that, when born, the fœtal envelop (úlba) was of gold—to what god may we pay worship with oblation?

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

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