Atharvaveda 1.11
Atharvavedasaṃhitā 1.11
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- Sanskrit
1.11.1
váṣaṭ te pūṣann asmínt sū́tāv aryamā́ hótā kr̥ṇotu vedhā́ḥ |
sísratāṃ nā́ry r̥táprajātā ví párvāṇi jihatāṃ sūtavā́ u ||1||
At this birth, O Pūshan, let Aryaman [as] efficient (vedhás) invoker utter váṣaṭ for thee; let the woman, rightly engendered, be relaxed; let her joints go apart in order to birth.
1.11.2
cátasro diváḥ pradíśaś cátasro bhū́myā utá |
devā́ gárbhaṃ sám airayan táṃ vy ū̀rṇuvantu sū́tave ||2||
Four [are] the directions of the sky, four also of the earth: the gods sent together the fœtus; let them unclose her in order to birth.
1.11.3
sūṣā́ vy ūrṇotu ví yóniṃ hāpayāmasi |
śratháyā sūṣaṇe tvám áva tváṃ biṣkale sr̥ja ||3||
Let Pūshan (?) unclose [her or it]; we make the yóni go apart; do thou, sūṣaṇā, loosen; do thou, biṣkalā, let go.
1.11.4
néva māṃsé ná pī́vasi néva majjásv ā́hatam |
ávaitu pŕ̥śni śévalaṃ śúne jarā́yv áttavé 'va jarā́yu padyatām ||4||
Not as it were stuck (ā́hata) in the flesh, not in the fat, not as it were in the marrows, let the spotted slimy (?) afterbirth come down, for the dog to eat; let the afterbirth descend.
1.11.5
ví te bhinadmi méhanaṃ ví yóniṃ ví gavī́nike |
ví mātáraṃ ca putráṃ ca ví kumāráṃ jarā́yuṇā́va jarā́yu padyatām ||5||
I split apart thy urinator, apart the yóni, apart the [two] groins, apart both the mother and the child, apart the boy from the afterbirth; let the afterbirth descend.
1.11.6
yáthā vā́to yáthā máno yáthā pátanti pakṣíṇaḥ |
evā́ tváṃ daśamāsya sākáṃ jarā́yuṇā patā́va jarā́yu padyatām ||6||
As the wind, as the mind, as fly the birds, so do thou, O ten months' [child], fly along with the afterbirth; let the afterbirth descend.
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 (2)
- Ṛgvedakhilāni — Sanskrit
- Aṅgirasī — Sanskrit
Discussed in (9)
- A Vedic Concordance — Bloomfield 1906, English
- Vedic Index of Names and Subjects — Macdonell & Keith 1912, English
- Altindische Grammatik — Wackernagel & Debrunner 1896, German
- A History of Indian Philosophy — Dasgupta 1922, English
- History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) — Kane 1930, English
- A History of Indian Medical Literature — Meulenbeld 1999, English
- The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads — Keith 1925, English
- A Concise History of Science in India — Bose et al. 1971, English
- India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī — Agrawala 1953, English