Atharvaveda 6.31
Atharvavedasaṃhitā 6.31
- Language
- Sanskrit
6.31.1
ā́yáṃ gáuḥ pŕ̥śnir akramīd ásadan mātáram puráḥ |
pitáram ca prayánt svàḥ ||1||
Hither hath stridden this spotted steer, hath sat upon his mother in the east, and going forward to his father, the heaven (svàr).
6.31.2
antáś carati rocanā́ asyá prāṇā́d apānatáḥ |
vy àkhyan mahiṣáḥ svàḥ ||2||
He moves between the shining spaces, from the breath of this outbreathing [universe]; the bull (mahiṣá) hath looked forth unto the heaven (svàr).
6.31.3
triṃśád dhā́mā ví rājati vā́k pataṅgó aśiśríyat |
práti vástor áhar dyúbhiḥ ||3||
Thirty domains (dhā́man) he rules over; voice, the bird, hath set up, to meet the day with the lights of morning.
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 (3)
- A Vedic Concordance — Maurice Bloomfield, English
- Altindische Grammatik — Jacob Wackernagel & Albert Debrunner, German
- Die Kosmographie der Inder nach den Quellen dargestellt — Willibald Kirfel, German