Atharvaveda 6.76
Atharvavedasaṃhitā 6.76
- Language
- Sanskrit
6.76.1
yá enaṃ pariṣī́danti samādádhati cákṣase |
saṃpréddho agnír jihvā́bhir úd etu hŕ̥dayād ádhi ||1||
They who sit about him, who pile on [fuel] in order to beholding [him]—let Agni, fully kindled, with his tongues arise out of [their] heart.
6.76.2
agnéḥ sāmtapanásyāhám ā́yuṣe padám ā́ rabhe |
addhātír yásya páśyati dhūmám udyántam āsyatáḥ ||2||
Of the heating (? sāṁtapaná) Agni I take hold of the track (? padá), in order to length of life (ā́yus)—out of whose mouth the soothsayer (addhātí) sees the smoke arising.
6.76.3
yó asya samídhaṃ véda kṣatríyeṇa samā́hitām |
nā́bhihvāré padáṃ ní dadhāti sá mr̥tyáve ||3||
He who knoweth the fuel of him, piled on by the kṣatríya—he setteth not the foot (padá) in detriment unto death.
6.76.4
náinaṃ ghnanti paryāyíṇo ná sannā́m̐ áva gachati |
agnér yáḥ kṣatríyo vidvā́n nā́ma gr̥hnā́ti ā́yuṣe ||4||
They that go about (paryāyín) do not slay him, he goes not down to the dead (? sanná)—the kṣatríya who, knowing, takes the name of Agni unto length of life.
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 (4)
- Atharvaveda — Sanskrit
- Aṅgirasī — Sanskrit
- A Vedic Concordance — Maurice Bloomfield, English
- Vedic Index of Names and Subjects — Arthur A. Macdonell & A. Berriedale Keith, English