Atharvaveda 5.23
Atharvavedasaṃhitā 5.23
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- Sanskrit
5.23.1
óte me dyā́vāpr̥thivī́ ótā devī́ sárasvatī |
ótau ma índraś cāgníś ca krímiṃ jambhayatām íti ||1||
Worked in (óta) for me [are] heaven-and-earth; worked in [is] divine Sarasvatī; worked in for me [are] both Indra and Agni: to the effect "let them (dual) grind up the worm."
5.23.2
asyéndra kumārásya krímīn dhanapate jahi |
hatā́ víśvā árātaya ugréṇa vácasā máma ||2||
O Indra, lord of riches, smite thou the worms of this boy; smitten are all the niggards by my formidable spell (vácas).
5.23.3
yó akṣyàu parisárpati yó nā́se parisárpati |
datā́ṃ yó mádhyaṃ gáchati táṃ krímiṃ jambhayāmasi ||3||
What one creeps about his eyes, what one creeps about his nostrils, what one goes to the midst of his teeth—that worm do we grind up.
5.23.4
sárūpau dváu vírūpau dváu kr̥ṣṇáu dváu róhitau dváu |
babhrúś ca babhrúkarṇaś ca gŕ̥dhraḥ kókaś ca té hatā́ḥ ||4||
Of like form two, of various form two, black two, red two; both the brown and the brown-eared, the vulture and the cuckoo (kóka)—they are slain.
5.23.5
yé krímayaḥ śitikákṣā yé kr̥ṣṇā́ḥ śitibā́havaḥ |
yé ké ca viśvárūpās tā́n krímīn jambhayāmasi ||5||
The worms that are white-sided, that are black with white arms, and whatever ones are of all forms—those worms we grind up.
5.23.6
út purástāt sū́rya eti viśvádr̥ṣṭo adr̥ṣṭahā́ |
dr̥ṣṭā́ṃś ca ghnánn adŕ̥ṣṭāṃś ca sárvāṃś ca pramr̥ṇán krímīn ||6||
Up in the east goes the sun, seen of all, slayer of the unseen, slaying both those seen and those unseen, and slaughtering all worms.
5.23.7
yévāṣāsaḥ káṣkaṣāsa ejatkā́ḥ śipavitnukā́ḥ |
dr̥ṣṭáś ca hanyátāṃ krímir utā́dŕ̥ṣṭaś ca hanyatām ||7||
The yévāshas, the káshkashas, the stirrers, the çipavitnukás—both let the seen worm be slain, and let the unseen be slain.
5.23.8
ható yévāṣaḥ krímīṇāṃ ható nadanimótá |
sárvān ní maṣmaṣā́karaṃ dr̥ṣádā khálvām̐ iva ||8||
Slain is the yévāsha of the worms, slain also the nadanimán; I have put them all down, smash (? maṣmaṣā́) like khálva-grains with a millstone.
5.23.9
triśīrṣā́ṇaṃ trikakúdaṃ krímiṃ sāráṅgam árjunam |
śr̥ṇā́my asya pr̥ṣṭī́r ápi vr̥ścāmi yác chíraḥ ||9||
The three-headed, the three-humped (-kakúd), the variegated, the whitish worm—I crush the ribs of it; I hew at what is its head.
5.23.10
atrivád vaḥ krimayo hanmi kaṇvaváj jamadagnivát |
agástyasya bráhmaṇā sáṃ pinaṣmy aháṃ krímīn ||10||
Like Atri I slay you, O worms, like Kaṇva, like Jamadagni; with the incantation of Agastya I mash together the worms.
5.23.11
ható rā́jā krímīṇām utáiṣāṃ sthapátir hatáḥ |
ható hatámātā krímir hatábhrātā hatásvasā ||11||
Slain is the king of the worms, also the chief of them is slain; slain is the worm, having its mother slain, its brother slain, its sister slain.
5.23.12
hatā́so asya veśáso hatā́saḥ páriveśasaḥ |
átho yé kṣullakā́ iva sárve té krímayo hatā́ḥ ||12||
Slain are its neighbors, slain its further neighbors, also those that are petty, as it were—all those worms are slain.
5.23.13
sárveṣāṃ ca krímīṇāṃ sárvāsāṃ ca krimī́nām |
bhinádmy áśmanā śíro dáhāmy agnínā múkham ||13||
Both of all worms and of all she-worms I split the head with a stone, I burn the mouth with fire.
Translations (3)
- Atharva-Veda Saṃhitā (HOS 7–8) — William Dwight Whitney 1905, English
- Hymns of the Atharva-Veda (SBE 42) — Maurice Bloomfield 1897, 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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