Atharvaveda 4.4
Atharvavedasaṃhitā 4.4
- Language
- Sanskrit
4.4.1
yā́ṃ tvā gandharvó ákhanad váruṇāya mr̥tábhraje |
tā́ṃ tvā vayáṃ khanāmasy óṣadhiṃ śepahárṣaṇīm ||1||
Thee that the Gandharva dug for Varuṇa whose virility (? -bhráj) was dead, thee here do we dig, a penis-erecting herb.
4.4.2
úd uṣā́ úd u sū́rya úd idáṃ māmakáṃ vácaḥ |
úd ejatu prajā́patir vŕ̥ṣā śúṣmeṇa vājínā ||2||
Up, the dawn; up, too, the sun; up, these words (vácas) of mine; up be Prajāpati stirring, the bull, with vigorous (vājín) energy (çúṣma).
4.4.3
yáthā sma te viróhato 'bhítaptam ivā́nati |
tátas te śúṣmavattaram iyáṃ kr̥ṇotv óṣadhiḥ ||3||
As forsooth of thee growing up (? vi-ruh) it breathes as if heated (? abhi-tap)—more full of energy than that let this herb make for thee.
4.4.4
úc chúṣmáuṣadhīnāṃ sā́rā r̥ṣabhā́ṇām |
sáṃ puṃsā́m indra vŕ̥ṣṇyam asmín dhehi tanūvaśin ||4||
Up, the energies (çúṣma) of herbs, the essences (sā́ra) of bulls; the virility (vṛ́ṣṇya) of men (púṁs) do thou put together in him, O Indra, self-controller.
4.4.5
apā́ṃ rásaḥ prathamajó 'tho vánaspátīnām |
utá sómasya bhrā́tāsy utā́rśám asi vŕ̥ṣṇyam ||5||
Of the waters the first-born sap, likewise of the forest-trees; also Soma's brother art thou; also virility art thou of the stag.
4.4.6
adyā́gne adyá savitar adyá devi sarasvati |
adyā́syá brahmaṇas pate dhánur ivā́ tānayā pásaḥ ||6||
Now, Agni! now, Savitar! now, goddess Sarasvatī! now, Brahmaṇaspati, make his member taut like a bow.
4.4.7
ā́háṃ tanomi te páso ádhi jyā́m iva dhánvani |
krámasvárśa iva rohítam ánavaglāyatā sádā ||7||
I make thy member taut, like a bowstring on a bow; mount (kram), as it were a stag a doe, unrelaxingly always (?).
4.4.8
áśvasyāśvatarásyājásya pétvasya ca |
átha r̥ṣabhásya yé vā́jās tā́n asmín dhehi tanūvaśin ||8||
Of the horse, of the mule, of the he-goat and of the ram, also of the bull what vigors there are—them do thou put in him, O self-controller.
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 (9)
- Atharvaveda — Sanskrit
- A Vedic Concordance — Maurice Bloomfield, English
- Vedic Index of Names and Subjects — Arthur A. Macdonell & A. Berriedale Keith, English
- Aṅgirasī — Sanskrit
- Altindische Grammatik — Jacob Wackernagel & Albert Debrunner, German
- A History of Indian Philosophy — Surendranath Dasgupta, English
- History of Indian Medicine, containing Notices, Biographical and Bibliographical, of the Āyurvedic Physicians and their Works on Medicine — Girindranath Mukhopadhyaya, English
- Die Religion des Veda — Hermann Oldenberg, German
- Vanaspati: Plants and Plant-Life as in Indian Treatises and Traditions — Girija Prasanna Majumdar, English