Atharvaveda 7.76
Atharvavedasaṃhitā 7.76
- Language
- Sanskrit
7.76.1
ā́ susrásaḥ susráso ásatībhyo ásattarāḥ |
séhor arasátarā havaṇā́d víkledīyasīḥ ||1||
More deciduous (pl.) than the deciduous one, more non-existent than the non-existent ones, more sapless than the séhu, more dissolving than salt.
7.76.2
yā́ gráivyā apacító 'tho yā́ upapakṣyā̀ḥ |
vijā́mni yā́ apacítaḥ svayaṃsrásaḥ ||2||
The apacíts that are on the neck, likewise those that are along the sides, the apacíts that are on the perineum (? vijā́man), self-deciduous.
7.76.3
yáḥ kī́kasāḥ praśr̥ṇā́ti talīdyàm avatíṣṭhati |
nír hās táṃ sárvaṃ jāyā́nyam yáḥ káś ca kakúdi śritáḥ ||3||
He that crushes up the breast-bone (? kī́kasās), [that] descends to the sole (?)—the whole jāyánya have I cast out, also whatever one is set in the top.
7.76.4
pakṣī́ jāyā́nyaḥ patati sá ā́ viśati pū́ruṣam |
tád ákṣitasya bheṣajám ubháyoḥ súkṣatasya ca ||4||
Having wings, the jāyánya flies; it enters into a man; this is the remedy of both, of the ákṣita and of the súkṣata.
7.76.5
vidmá vái te jāyānya jā́naṃ yáto jāyānya jā́yase |
katháṃ ha tátra tvám hano yásya kr̥ṇmó havír gr̥hé ||1||
We know, indeed, O jāyā́nya, thine origin (jā́na), whence, O jāyā́nya, thou art born ⌊jā́yase⌋; how shouldst thou smite there, in whose house we perform oblation?
7.76.6
dhr̥ṣát piba kaláśe sómam indra vr̥trahā́ śūra samaré vásūnām |
mā́dhyandine sávana ā́ vr̥ṣasva rayiṣṭhā́no rayím asmā́su dhehi ||2||
Daringly drink the soma in the mug, O Indra, being a Vritra-slayer, O hero, in the contest for good things; at the midday libation pour [it] down; a dépôt of wealth, assign wealth to us.
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 (8)
- Atharvaveda — Sanskrit
- A Vedic Concordance — Maurice Bloomfield, English
- Aṅgirasī — Sanskrit
- 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
- The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads — Arthur Berriedale Keith, English
- Die Religion des Veda — Hermann Oldenberg, German
- Vedic Mythology — Arthur Anthony Macdonell, English