Atharvaveda 6.78
Atharvavedasaṃhitā 6.78
- Language
- Sanskrit
6.78.1
téna bhūténa havíṣāyám ā́ pyāyatāṃ púnaḥ |
jāyā́m yā́m asmā ā́vākṣus tā́m rásenābhí vardhatām ||1||
By this actual (? bhūtá) oblation let this man be filled up again; the wife that they have brought to him, let him grow superior (abhi-vṛdh) to her by essence (rása).
6.78.2
abhí vardhatāṃ páyasābhi rāṣṭréṇa vardhatām |
rayyā́ sahásravarcasemáu stām ánupakṣitau ||2||
Let him grow superior to [her] by fatness (páyas), let him grow superior to [her] by royalty; by wealth of thousand-fold splendor let these two be unexhausted.
6.78.3
tváṣṭā jāyā́m ajanayat tváṣṭāsyai tvā́ṃ pátim |
tváṣṭā sahásram ā́yuṃṣi dīrghám ā́yuḥ kr̥ṇotu vām ||3||
Tvashṭar generated the wife, Tvashṭar [generated] thee as husband for her; let Tvashṭar make for you two a thousand life-times (ā́yus), a long life-time.
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
- Original Sanskrit Texts on the Origin and History of the People of India, their Religion and Institutions — John Muir, English
- Aṅgirasī — Sanskrit
- The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads — Arthur Berriedale Keith, English
- Vedic Mythology — Arthur Anthony Macdonell, English