Atharvaveda 6.21
Atharvavedasaṃhitā 6.21
- Language
- Sanskrit
6.21.1
imā́ yā́s tisráḥ pr̥thivī́s tā́sāṃ ha bhū́mir uttamā́ |
tā́sām ádhi tvacó aháṃ bheṣajáṃ sám u jagrabham ||1||
These three earths (pṛthivī́) that there are—of them earth (bhū́mi) is the highest; from off their skin have I seized a remedy.
6.21.2
śréṣṭham asi bheṣajā́nāṃ vásiṣṭhaṃ vī́rudhānām |
sómo bhága iva yā́meṣu devéṣu váruṇo yáthā ||2||
Thou art the most excellent of remedies, the best of plants; as Soma, lord (? bhága) in the night-watches (yā́ma), like Varuṇa among the gods.
6.21.3
révatīr ánādhr̥ṣaḥ siṣāsávaḥ siṣāsatha |
utá sthá keśadŕ̥mhaṇīr átho ha keśavárdhanīḥ ||3||
O ye wealthy (revánt) ones, doing no violence, desirous to bestow ye desire to bestow; both are ye hair-fasteners, and also hair-increasers.
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
- Original Sanskrit Texts on the Origin and History of the People of India, their Religion and Institutions — Muir 1858, English
- A History of Indian Philosophy — Dasgupta 1922, English
- The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads — Keith 1925, English
- Die Kosmographie der Inder nach den Quellen dargestellt — Kirfel 1920, German