Atharvaveda 6.99
Atharvavedasaṃhitā 6.99
- Language
- Sanskrit
6.99.1
abhí tvendra várimataḥ purā́ tvāṃhūraṇā́d dhuve |
hváyāmy ugráṃ cettā́raṃ purúṇāmānam ekajám ||1||
Unto thee, O Indra, on account of width, thee against (purā́) distress I call; I call on the stern corrector, the many-named, sole-born.
6.99.2
yó adyá sényo vadhó jíghāṃsan na udī́rate |
índrasya tátra bāhū́ samantáṃ pári dadmaḥ ||2||
The hostile (? sénya) weapon that goes up today, desiring to slay us—in that case we put completely about us Indra's two arms.
6.99.3
pári dadma índrasya bāhū́ samantáṃ trātús trā́yatāṃ naḥ |
déva savitaḥ sóma rājant sumánasaṃ mā kr̥ṇu svastáye ||3||
We put completely about the two arms of Indra the savior; let him save us. God Savitar! king Soma! make thou me well-willing, in order to well-being.
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 (4)
- Atharvaveda — Sanskrit
- Aṅgirasī — Sanskrit
- A Vedic Concordance — Maurice Bloomfield, English
- Altindische Grammatik — Jacob Wackernagel & Albert Debrunner, German