Atharvaveda 6.23
Atharvavedasaṃhitā 6.23
- Language
- Sanskrit
6.23.1
sasrúṣīs tád apáso dívā náktaṃ ca sasrúṣīḥ |
váreṇyakratur ahám apó devī́r úpa hvaye ||1||
Flowing on, devoted to it; by day and by night flowing on; I, of desirable activity, call upon the heavenly waters.
6.23.2
ótā ā́paḥ karmaṇyā̀ muñcántv itáḥ práṇītaye |
sadyáḥ kr̥ṇvantv étave ||2||
Let them release here the worked-in waters of the ceremony for conducting forward; let them at once make [them] to go.
6.23.3
devásya savitúḥ savé kárma kr̥ṇvantu mā́nuṣāḥ |
śáṃ no bhavantv apá óṣadhīḥ śivā́ḥ ||3||
In the impulse (savá) of the divine impeller (savitár) let men do their [sacred] work; weal to us be the waters, the herbs propitious.
Translations (2)
- Atharva-Veda Saṃhitā (HOS 7–8) — William Dwight Whitney 1905, English
- The Hymns of the Atharvaveda — Ralph T. H. Griffith 1895, English
Commentaries (2)
- Atharvavedabhāṣya (Sāyaṇa) — Sāyaṇa, Sanskrit
- Atharvavedasaṃhitābhāṣya — Mādhavācārya, Sanskrit
Linked texts (1)
- Aṅgirasī — Sanskrit
Discussed in (3)
- A Vedic Concordance — Bloomfield 1906, English
- Altindische Grammatik — Wackernagel & Debrunner 1896, German
- A History of Indian Philosophy — Dasgupta 1922, English