Atharvaveda 5.12.8
Atharvavedasaṃhitā 5.12.8
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- Sanskrit
5.12.8
ā́ no yajñáṃ bhā́ratī tū́yam etv íḍā manuṣvád ihá cetáyantī |
tisró devī́r barhír édáṃ syonáṃ sárasvatīḥ svápasaḥ sadantām ||8||
Unto our sacrifice let Bhāratī come quickly, let Iḍā, taking note here in human fashion; let the three goddesses, well-working, sit upon this pleasant barhís—[also] Sarasvatī.
The translation implies in d the reading sárasvatī, given by RV.VS.MS.; TB. ⌊both ed's, Bibl. Ind. and Poona⌋ supports AV. in reading -tīḥ, which, however, can hardly be anything but a blunder. The four other texts have at the end sadantu. All our mss. have manuṣyát in b ⌊and so have all SPP's authorities⌋, and this form is authenticated by Prāt. iv. 65, the comment explaining how it is derived from manuṣyavat. As being, therefore, the indubitable AV. reading, it should not have been altered in our edition to -ṣvát, to conform with the four other texts, even though doubtless a corruption of -ṣvát. ⌊SPP. also alters it.⌋ ⌊In c, correct davī́r to devī́r.⌋
Translations (2)
- Atharva-Veda Saṃhitā (HOS 7–8) — William Dwight Whitney 1905, English
- The Hymns of the Atharvaveda — Ralph T. H. Griffith 1895, English
Commentaries (2)
- Atharvavedabhāṣya (Sāyaṇa) — Sāyaṇa, Sanskrit
- Atharvavedasaṃhitābhāṣya — Mādhavācārya, Sanskrit
Linked texts (1)
- A Vedic Concordance — Maurice Bloomfield, English