Atharvaveda 6.109
Atharvavedasaṃhitā 6.109
- Language
- Sanskrit
6.109.1
pippalī́ kṣiptabheṣajy ùtā́tividdhabheṣajī́ |
tā́ṃ devā́ḥ sám akalpayann iyáṃ jī́vitavā́ álam ||1||
The berry (pippalī́), remedy for what is bruised (? kṣiptá), and remedy for what is pierced—that did the gods prepare (sam-kalpay-) that is sufficient for life.
6.109.2
pippalyàḥ sám avadantāyatī́r jánanād ádhi |
yáṃ jīvám aśnávāmahai ná sá riṣyāti pū́ruṣaḥ ||2||
The berries talked together, coming from their birth: whomever we shall reach living, that man shall not be harmed.
6.109.3
ásurās tvā ny àkhanan devā́s tvód avapan púnaḥ |
vātī́kr̥tasya bheṣajī́m átho kṣiptásya bheṣajī́m ||3||
The Asuras dug thee in; the gods cast thee up again, a remedy for the vātī́kṛta, likewise a remedy for what is bruised.
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 (1)
- Aṅgirasī — Sanskrit
Discussed in (5)
- A Vedic Concordance — Bloomfield 1906, English
- Vedic Index of Names and Subjects — Macdonell & Keith 1912, English
- A History of Indian Philosophy — Dasgupta 1922, English
- Vanaspati: Plants and Plant-Life as in Indian Treatises and Traditions — Majumdar 1927, English
- The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels — Filliozat 1949, English