Atharvaveda 6.136
Atharvavedasaṃhitā 6.136
- Language
- Sanskrit
6.136.1
devī́ devyā́m ádhi jātā́ pr̥thivyā́m asy oṣadhe |
tā́ṃ tvā nitatni kéśebhyo dŕ̥ṃhaṇāya khanāmasi ||1||
Thou art born divine on the divine one, [namely] the earth, O herb; thee here, O down-stretcher, we dig in order to fix the hair.
6.136.2
dŕ̥ṃha pratnā́n janáyā́jātān jātā́n u várṣīyasas kr̥dhi ||2||
Fix thou the old ones, generate those unborn, and make longer those born.
6.136.3
yás te kéśo 'vapádyate sámūlo yáś ca vr̥ścáte |
idáṃ táṃ viśvábheṣajyābhí ṣiñcāmi vīrúdhā ||3||
What hair of thine falls down, and what one is hewn off with its root, upon it I now pour with the all-healing plant.
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 (9)
- Atharvaveda — Sanskrit
- A Vedic Concordance — Maurice Bloomfield, English
- Aṅgirasī — Sanskrit
- Vanaspati: Plants and Plant-Life as in Indian Treatises and Traditions — Girija Prasanna Majumdar, English
- Vedic Index of Names and Subjects — Arthur A. Macdonell & A. Berriedale Keith, English
- Altindische Grammatik — Jacob Wackernagel & Albert Debrunner, German
- The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads — Arthur Berriedale Keith, English
- Die Religion des Veda — Hermann Oldenberg, German
- The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels — Jean Filliozat, English