Atharvaveda 4.6
Atharvavedasaṃhitā 4.6
- Language
- Sanskrit
4.6.1
brāhmaṇó jajñe prathamó dáśaśīrṣo dáśāsyaḥ |
sá sómaṃ prathamáḥ papau sá cakārārasáṃ viṣám ||1||
The Brahman was born first, with ten heads, with ten mouths; he first drank the soma; he made the poison sapless.
4.6.2
yā́vatī dyā́vāpr̥thivī́ varimṇā́ yā́vat saptá síndhavo vitaṣṭhiré |
vā́caṃ viṣásya dū́ṣaṇīṃ tā́m itó nír avādiṣam ||2||
As great as [are] heaven-and-earth by their width, as much as the seven rivers spread out (vi-sthā), [so far] have I spoken out from here these words (vā́c), spoilers of poison.
4.6.3
suparṇás tvā garútmān víṣa prathamám āvayat |
nā́mīmado nā́rūrupa utā́smā abhavaḥ pitúḥ ||3||
The winged (garutmant) eagle consumed (av) thee first, O poison; thou hast not intoxicated (mad), thou hast not racked (rup) [him]; and thou becamest drink for him.
4.6.4
yás ta ā́syat páñcāṅgurir vakrā́c cid ádhi dhánvanaḥ |
apaskambhásya śalyā́n nír avocam aháṃ viṣám ||4||
He of five fingers that hurled at thee from some crooked bow—from the tip (çalyá) of the apaskambhá have I exorcised (nir-vac) the poison.
4.6.5
śalyā́d viṣáṃ nír avocam prā́ñjanād utá parṇadhéḥ |
apāṣṭhā́c chŕ̥ṅgāt kúlmalān nír avocam ahám viṣám ||5||
From the tip have I exorcised the poison, from the anointing and from the feather-socket; from the barb (apāṣṭhá), the horn, the neck have I exorcised the poison.
4.6.6
arasás ta iṣo śalyó 'tho te arasáṃ viṣám |
utā́rasásya vr̥kṣásya dhánuṣ ṭe arasārasám ||6||
Sapless, O arrow, is thy tip; likewise thy poison is sapless; also thy bow, of a sapless tree, O sapless one, is sapless.
4.6.7
yé ápīṣan yé ádihan yá ā́syan yé avā́sr̥jan |
sárve te vádhrayaḥ kr̥tā́ vádhrir viṣagiríḥ kr̥táḥ ||7||
They who mashed, who smeared, who hurled, who let loose—they [are] all made impotent; impotent is made the poison-mountain.
4.6.8
vádhrayas te khanitā́ro vádhris tvám asy oṣadhe |
vádhriḥ sá párvato girír yáto jātám idáṃ viṣám ||8||
Impotent [are] thy diggers; impotent art thou, O herb; impotent [is] that rugged (párvata) mountain whence was born this poison.
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 (10)
- Atharvaveda — Sanskrit
- A Vedic Concordance — Maurice Bloomfield, English
- Vedic Index of Names and Subjects — Arthur A. Macdonell & A. Berriedale Keith, English
- Aṅgirasī — Sanskrit
- Original Sanskrit Texts on the Origin and History of the People of India, their Religion and Institutions — John Muir, English
- Altindische Grammatik — Jacob Wackernagel & Albert Debrunner, German
- Die Kosmographie der Inder nach den Quellen dargestellt — Willibald Kirfel, German
- History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) — P. V. Kane, English
- La religion védique d'après les hymnes du Rig-Véda — Abel Bergaigne, French
- The Arctic Home in the Vedas — Bal Gangadhar Tilak, English