Atharvaveda 6.16
Atharvavedasaṃhitā 6.16
- Language
- Sanskrit
6.16.1
ā́bayo ánābayo rásas ta ugrá ābayo |
ā́ te karambhám admasi ||1||
O ābayu, non-ābayu! thy juice is sharp (ugrá), O ābayu! unto thy broth do we eat.
6.16.2
viháhlo nā́ma te pitā́ madā́vatī nā́ma te mātā́ |
sá hina tvám asi yás tvám ātmā́nam ā́vayaḥ ||2||
Vihálha by name is thy father, madávatī ('intoxicated') by name is thy mother; for thou art he, not thyself, thou that didst consume thyself.
6.16.3
táuviliké 'velayā́vāyám ailabá ailayīt |
babhrúś ca babhrúkarṇaś cā́pehi nír āla ||3||
O tāuvilikā, quiet down; this racket hath quieted down; both the brown and the brown-eared one: go away, O nirāla!
6.16.4
alasā́lāsi pū́rva silā́ñjālāsy úttarā |
nīlāgalasā́la ||4||
Alasálā art thou first; silā́njālā art thou after; nīlāgalasálā.
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
Linked texts (6)
- Atharvaveda — Sanskrit
- A Vedic Concordance — Maurice Bloomfield, English
- Vedic Index of Names and Subjects — Arthur A. Macdonell & A. Berriedale Keith, English
- Aṅgirasī — Sanskrit
- India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī — V. S. Agrawala, English
- The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels — Jean Filliozat, English