Atharvaveda 19.23
Atharvavedasaṃhitā 19.23
- Language
- Sanskrit
19.23.1
ātharvaṇā́nāṃ caturr̥cébhyaḥ svā́hā ||1||
To them of four verses of the Ātharvaṇas, hail!
19.23.2
pañcarcébhyaḥ svā́hā ||2||
To them of five verses, hail!
19.23.3
ṣaḷr̥cébhyaḥ svā́hā ||3||
To them of six verses, hail!
19.23.4
saptarcébhyaḥ svā́hā ||4||
To them of seven verses, hail!
19.23.5
aṣṭarcébhyaḥ svā́hā ||5||
To them of eight verses, hail!
19.23.6
navarcébhyaḥ svā́hā ||6||
To them of nine verses, hail!
19.23.7
daśarcébhyaḥ svā́hā ||7||
To them of ten verses, hail!
19.23.8
ekādaśarcébhyaḥ svā́hā ||8||
To them of eleven verses, hail!
19.23.9
dvādaśarcébhyaḥ svā́hā ||9||
To them of twelve verses, hail!
19.23.10
trayodaśarcébhyaḥ svā́hā ||10||
To them of thirteen verses, hail!
19.23.11
caturdaśarcébhyaḥ svā́hā ||11||
To them of fourteen verses, hail!
19.23.12
pañcadaśarcébhyaḥ svā́hā ||12||
To them of fifteen verses, hail!
19.23.13
ṣoḍaśarcébhyaḥ svā́hā ||13||
To them of sixteen verses, hail!
19.23.14
saptadaśarcébhyaḥ svā́hā ||14||
To them of seventeen verses, hail!
19.23.15
aṣṭādaśarcébhyaḥ svā́hā ||15||
To them of eighteen verses, hail!
19.23.16
ekonaviṃśatíḥ svā́hā ||16||
Nineteen: hail!
19.23.17
viṃśatíḥ svā́hā ||17||
Twenty: hail!
19.23.18
mahatkāṇḍā́ya svā́hā ||18||
To the great book (mahat-kāṇḍá), hail!
19.23.19
tr̥cébhyaḥ svā́hā ||19||
To them of three verses, hail!
19.23.20
ekarcébhyaḥ svā́hā ||20||
To them of one verse, hail!
19.23.21
kṣudrébhyaḥ svā́hā ||21||
To the petty ones, hail! ⌊See page clviii top.⌋
19.23.22
ekānr̥cébhyaḥ svā́hā ||22||
To them of a half-verse, hail!
19.23.23
rohitébhyaḥ svā́hā ||23||
To the ruddy ones (rohita), hail!
19.23.24
sūryā́bhyāṃ svā́hā ||24||
To the two Sūryās, hail!
19.23.25
vrātyā́bhyāṃ svā́hā ||25||
To the two Vrātyas, hail!
19.23.26
prājāpatyā́bhyāṃ svā́hā ||26||
To the two of Prajāpati, hail!
19.23.27
viṣāsahyái svā́hā ||27||
To the viṣāsahí, hail!
19.23.28
maṅgalikébhyaḥ svā́hā ||28||
To them of good omen (man̄galiká), hail!
19.23.29
brahmáṇe svā́hā ||29||
To the bráhman, hail!
19.23.30
bráhmajyeṣṭhā sáṃbhr̥tā vīryā̀ṇi bráhmā́gre jyéṣṭhaṃ dívam ā́ tatāna |
bhūtā́nāṃ brahmā́ prathamótá jajñe ténārhati bráhmaṇā spárdhituṃ káḥ ||30||
Heroisms were gathered with the bráhman as chief; the bráhman as chief in the beginning stretched the sky; the Brahmán was born as first of creatures; therefore who is fit to contend with the Brahmán?
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
Discussed in (6)
- A Vedic Concordance — Bloomfield 1906, English
- Vedic Index of Names and Subjects — Macdonell & Keith 1912, English
- Original Sanskrit Texts on the Origin and History of the People of India, their Religion and Institutions — Muir 1858, English
- Altindische Grammatik — Wackernagel & Debrunner 1896, German
- Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. — Agrawala 1965, English
- The History of Indian Literature — Weber 1852, English