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Atharvaveda 4.3

Atharvavedasaṃhitā 4.3

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Sanskrit

4.3.1

úd itás tráyo akraman vyāghráḥ púruṣo vŕ̥kaḥ |
hírug ghí yánti síndhavo hírug devó vánaspátir híruṅ namantu śátravaḥ ||1||

Up from here have stridden three—tiger, man (púruṣa), wolf; since hey! go the rivers, hey! the divine forest-tree, hey! let the foes bow.

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

4.3.2

páreṇaitu pathā́ vŕ̥kaḥ paraméṇotá táskaraḥ |
páreṇa datvátī rájjuḥ páreṇāghāyúr arṣatu ||2||

By a distant (pára) road let the wolf go, by a most distant also the thief; by a distant one the toothed rope, by a distant one let the malignant hasten (ṛṣ).

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

4.3.3

akṣyàu ca te múkhaṃ ca te vyā́ghra jambhayāmasi |
ā́t sárvān viṃśatíṃ nakhā́n ||3||

Both thy (two) eyes and thy mouth, O tiger, we grind up; then all thy twenty claws (nakhá).

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

4.3.4

vyāghráṃ datvátāṃ vayáṃ prathamáṃ jambhayāmasi |
ā́d u ṣṭenám átho áhiṃ yātudhā́nam átho vŕ̥kam ||4||

The tiger first of [creatures] with teeth do we grind up, upon that also the thief, then the snake, the sorcerer, then the wolf.

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

4.3.5

yó adyá stená ā́yati sá sáṃpiṣṭo ápāyati |
pathā́m apadhvaṃsénaitv índro vájreṇa hantu tám ||5||

What thief shall come today, he shall go away smashed; let him go by the falling-off (apadhvaṅsá) of roads; let Indra smite him with the thunderbolt.

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

4.3.6

mūrṇā́ mr̥gásya dántā ápiśīrṇā u pr̥ṣṭáyaḥ |
nimrúk te godhā́ bhavatu nīcā́yac chaśayúr mr̥gáḥ ||6||

Ruined (mūrṇá) [are] the teeth of the beast (mṛgá); crushed in also [are its] ribs; disappearing be for thee the godhā́; downward go (ayat) the lurking (? çaçayú) beast.

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

4.3.7

yát saṃyámo ná ví yamo ví yamo yán ná saṃyámaḥ |
indrajā́ḥ somajā́ ātharvaṇám asi vyāghrajámbhanam ||7||

What thou contractest (sam-yam) mayest thou not protract (vi-yam); mayest thou protract what thou dost not contract; Indra-born, soma-born art thou, an Atharvan tiger-crusher (-jámbhana).

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

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