Atharvaveda 5.13
Atharvavedasaṃhitā 5.13
- Language
- Sanskrit
5.13.1
dadír hí máhyaṃ váruṇo diváḥ kavír vácobhir ugráir ní riṇāmi te viṣám |
khātám ákhātam utá saktám agrabham íreva dhánvan ní jajāsa te viṣám ||1||
Since Varuṇa, poet of heaven, hath given [them] to me, with formidable spells (vácas) do I dissolve thy poison; what is dug, undug, and attached (saktá) have I seized; like drink (írā) on a waste hath thy poison been wasted (ni-jas).
5.13.2
yát te ápodakaṃ viṣáṃ tát ta etā́sv agrabham |
gr̥hṇā́mi te madhyamám uttamáṃ rásam utā́vamám bhiyásā neśad ā́d u te ||2||
What waterless poison is thine, that of thine have I seized in these; I seize thy midmost, thine upmost juice (rása); also may thy lowest then disappear for fright.
5.13.3
vŕ̥ṣā me rávo nábhasā ná tanyatúr ugréṇa te vácasā bādha ā́d u te |
aháṃ tám asya nŕ̥bhir agrabham rásaṃ támasa iva jyótir úd etu sū́ryaḥ ||3||
A bull [is] my cry, like thunder through the cloud (nábhas); with thy formidable spell do I then drive it off (bādh) for thee; I have seized that juice of his with men ⌊?⌋; like light out of darkness let the sun arise.
5.13.4
cákṣuṣā te cákṣur hanmi viṣéṇa hanmi te viṣám |
áhe mriyásva mā́ jīvīḥ pratyág abhy ètu tvā viṣám ||4||
With sight I smite thy sight; with poison I smite thy poison; die, O snake, do not live; let thy poison go back against thee.
5.13.5
káirāta pŕ̥śna úpatr̥ṇya bábhra ā́ me śr̥ṇutā́sitā álīkāḥ |
mā́ me sákhyuḥ stāmā́nam ápi ṣṭhātāśrāváyanto ní viṣé ramadhvam ||5||
O Kirātan, O spotted one, O grass-haunter (?), O brown one! listen ye to me, O black serpents, offensive ones! stand ye not upon the track (? stāmán) of my comrade; calling out (ā-çrāvay), rest quiet in poison.
5.13.6
asitásya taimātásya babhrór ápodakasya ca |
sātrāsāhásyāháṃ manyór áva jyā́m iva dhánvano ví muñcāmi ráthām̐ iva ||6||
Of the Timātan (?) black serpent, of the brown, and of the waterless, of the altogether powerful (?), I relax the fury, as the bow-string of a bow; I release as it were chariots.
5.13.7
ā́ligī ca víligī ca pitā́ ca matā́ ca |
vidmá vaḥ sarváto bándhv árasāḥ kíṃ kariṣyatha ||7||
Both ā́ligī and víligī, both father and mother—we know your connection (bándhu) completely; sapless ones, what will ye do?
5.13.8
urugū́lāyā duhitā́ jātā́ dāsy ásiknyā |
pratáṅkaṃ dadrúṣīṇāṃ sárvāsām arasám viṣám ||8||
Daughter of the broad-knobbed one (?), born of the black barbarian (f.)—of all them (f.) that have pierced defiantly (?) the poison [is] sapless.
5.13.9
karṇā́ śvāvít tád abravīd girér avacarantikā́ |
yā́ḥ kā́ś cemā́ḥ khanitrímās tā́sām arasátamaṃ viṣám ||9||
The eared hedgehog said this, coming down from the mountain: whichsoever of these (f.) are produced by digging, of them the poison is most sapless.
5.13.10
tābúvaṃ ná tābúvaṃ ná ghét tvám asi tābúvam |
tābúvenārasáṃ viṣám ||10||
Tābúva, not tābúva; verily thou art not tābúva; by tābúva [is] the poison sapless.
5.13.11
tastúvaṃ ná tastúvaṃ ná ghét tvám asi tastúvam |
tastúvenārasáṃ viṣám ||11||
Tastúva, not tastúva; verily thou art not tastúva; by tastúva [is] the poison sapless.
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
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