Atharvaveda 5.30
Atharvavedasaṃhitā 5.30
- Language
- Sanskrit
5.30.1
āvátas ta āvátaḥ parāvátas ta āvátaḥ |
iháivá bhava mā́ nú gā mā́ pū́rvān ánu gāḥ pitr̥̄́n ásuṃ badhnāmi te dr̥ḍhám ||1||
Thy nearnesses [are] nearnesses, thy distances nearnesses; be just here; go not now; go not after the former Fathers; thy life (ásu) I bind fast.
5.30.2
yát tvābhicerúḥ púruṣaḥ svó yád áraṇo jánaḥ |
unmocanapramocané ubhé vācā́ vadāmi te ||2||
In that men have bewitched thee, one of thine own people [or] a strange person—deliverance and release, both I speak for thee with my voice.
5.30.3
yád dudróhitha śepiṣé striyái puṃsé ácittyā |
unmocanapramocané ubhé vācā́ vadāmi te ||3||
In that thou hast shown malice (druh), hast cursed at woman [or] at man through thoughtlessness, deliverance and etc. etc.
5.30.4
yát énaso mātŕ̥kr̥tāc chéṣe pitŕ̥kr̥tāc ca yát |
unmocanapramocané ubhé vācā́ vadāmi te ||4||
In that thou art prostrate (çī) from sin that is mother-committed and that is father-committed, deliverance and etc. etc.
5.30.5
yát te mātā́ yát te pitā́ jamír bhrā́tā ca sárjataḥ |
pratyák sevasva bheṣajáṃ jarádaṣṭiṃ kr̥ṇomi tvā ||5||
What thy mother, what thy father, sister (jāmí), and brother shall infuse (? sárjatas)—heed (sev) thou the opposing remedy; I make thee one who reaches old age.
5.30.6
iháidhi puruṣa sárveṇa mánasā sahá |
dūtáu yamásya mā́nu gā ádhi jīvapurā́ ihi ||6||
Be thou here, O man, together with thy whole mind; go not after Yama's (two) messengers; go unto the strongholds of the living.
5.30.7
ánuhūtaḥ púnar éhi vidvā́n udáyanaṃ patháḥ |
āróhaṇam ākrámaṇaṃ jī́vatojīvató 'yanam ||7||
Being called after, come thou again, knowing the up-going of the road, the ascent, the climb (ākrámaṇa), the course (áyana) of every living man.
5.30.8
mā́ bibher ná mariṣyasi jarádaṣṭiṃ kr̥ṇomi tvā |
nír avocam aháṃ yákṣmam áṅgebhyo aṅgajvaráṃ táva ||8||
Be not afraid; thou shalt not die; I make thee one who reaches old age; I have exorcised (nir-vac) the yákṣma, the waster of limbs, from thy limbs.
5.30.9
aṅgabhedó aṅgajvaró yáś ca te hr̥dayāmayáḥ |
yákṣmaḥ śyená iva prā́paptad vacā́ sāḍháḥ parastarā́m ||9||
The splitter of limbs, the waster of limbs, and the heart-ache that is thine, the yákṣma hath flown forth like a falcon, forced (sah) very far away by [my] voice.
5.30.10
ŕ̥ṣī bodhapratībodhā́v asvapnó yáś ca jā́gr̥viḥ |
táu te prāṇásya goptā́rau dívā náktaṃ ca jāgr̥tām ||10||
The two seers, Wakeful-and- Vigilant, sleepless and he that is watchful—let them, the guardians of thy breath, watch by day and by night.
5.30.11
ayám agnír upasádya ihá sū́rya úd etu te |
udéhi mr̥tyór gambhīrā́t kr̥ṣṇā́c cit támasas pári ||11||
This Agni [is] to be waited on; here let the sun arise for thee; come up out of death's profound black darkness.
5.30.12
námo yamā́ya námo astu mr̥tyáve námaḥ pitŕ̥bhya utá yé náyanti |
utpā́raṇasya yó véda tám agníṃ puró dadhe 'smā́ ariṣṭátātaye ||12||
Homage to Yama, homage be to Death; homage to the Fathers, and [to them] who conduct [away]; that Agni who understands (vid) deliverance (utpáraṇa) do I put forward (puro-dhā), in order to this man's being unharmed.
5.30.13
áitu prāṇá áitu mána áitu cákṣur átho bálam |
śárīram asya sám vidāṃ tát padbhyā́ṃ práti tiṣṭhatu ||13||
Let breath come, let mind come, let sight come, then strength; let his body assemble (? sam-vid); let that stand firm with its (two) feet.
5.30.14
prāṇénāgne cákṣuṣā sáṃ sr̥jemáṃ sám īraya tanvā̀ sáṃ bálena |
vétthāmŕ̥tasya mā́ nú gān mā́ nú bhū́migr̥ho bhuvat ||14||
With breath, O Agni, with sight unite him; associate (sam-īray) him with body, with strength; thou understandest immortality (amṛ́ta): let him not now go; let him not now become one housing in the earth.
5.30.15
mā́ te prāṇá úpa dasan mó apānó 'pi dhāyi te |
sū́ryas tvā́dhipatir mr̥tyór udā́yachatu raśmíbhiḥ ||15||
Let not thy breath give out, nor let thine expiration be shut up; let the sun, the over-lord, hold thee up out of death by his rays.
5.30.16
iyám antár vadati jihvā́ baddhā́ paniṣpadā́ |
tváyā yákṣmam nír avocaṃ śatáṃ rópīś ca takmánaḥ ||16||
This much-quivering tongue, bound, speaks within; by it I have exorcised the yákṣma and the hundred pangs of the fever.
5.30.17
ayáṃ lokáḥ priyátamo devā́nām áparājitaḥ |
yásmai tvám ihá mr̥tyáve diṣṭáḥ puruṣa jajñiṣé |
sá ca tvā́nu hvayāmasi mā́ purā́ jaráso mr̥thāḥ ||17||
This [is] the dearest world of the gods, unconquered. Unto what death appointed, O man, thou wast born here, we and it call after thee: do not die before old age.
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
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- A Vedic Concordance — Maurice Bloomfield, English
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- Vedic Index of Names and Subjects — Arthur A. Macdonell & A. Berriedale Keith, English
- Vedic Mythology — Arthur Anthony Macdonell, English
- History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) — P. V. Kane, 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
- Altindische Grammatik — Jacob Wackernagel & Albert Debrunner, German
- Die Kosmographie der Inder nach den Quellen dargestellt — Willibald Kirfel, German
- Die Hymnen des Rigveda, Bd. I: Metrische und textgeschichtliche Prolegomena — Hermann Oldenberg, German