Atharvaveda 6.71
Atharvavedasaṃhitā 6.71
- Language
- Sanskrit
6.71.1
yád ánnam ádmi bahudhā́ vírūpaṃ híraṇyam áśvam utá gā́m ajā́m ávim |
yád evá kíṃ ca pratijagráhāhám agníṣ ṭád dhótā súhutaṃ kr̥notu ||1||
What food of various form I eat oftentimes (bahudhā́)—gold, horse, also cow, she-goat, sheep, just whatsoever I have accepted—let Agni the offerer (hótar) make that well-offered.
6.71.2
yán mā hutám áhutam ājagā́ma dattáṃ pitŕ̥bhir ánumataṃ manuṣyáiḥ |
yásmān me mána úd iva rā́rajīty agníṣ ṭád dhótā súhutaṃ kr̥ṇotu ||2||
Whatever, offered [or] unoffered, hath come to me, given by the Fathers, assented to by human beings (manuṣyà), what my mind is as it were excited at—let Agni the offerer make that well-offered.
6.71.3
yád ánnam ádmy ánr̥tena devā dāsyánn ádāsyann utá saṃgr̥ṇā́mi |
vaiśvānarásya maható mahimnā́ śiváṃ máhyaṃ mádhumad astv ánnam ||3||
What food I eat unrighteously, O gods, and promise, intending to give [or] not intending to give—by the greatness of the great Vāiçvānara let [it] be propitious honeyed food for me.
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 (6)
- Atharvaveda — Sanskrit
- A Vedic Concordance — Maurice Bloomfield, English
- Aṅgirasī — Sanskrit
- History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) — P. V. Kane, English
- Vedic Index of Names and Subjects — Arthur A. Macdonell & A. Berriedale Keith, English
- The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels — Jean Filliozat, English