4. Kāṇḍa 4 — Nature, healing and the divine

Atharvaveda 4.1 · 7 mantras

4.1.1

ब्रह्म जज्ञानं प्रथमं पुरस्ताद् वि सीमतः सुरुचो वेन आवः ।
स बुध्न्या उपमा अस्य विष्ठाः सतश् च योनिम् असतश् च वि वः ॥

brahma jajñānaṃ prathamaṃ purastād vi sīmataḥ suruco vena āvaḥ ।
sa budhnyā upamā asya viṣṭhāḥ sataś ca yonim asataś ca vi vaḥ ॥

The loving, faithful, visionary sage visualizes the infinite spirit of the universe, first, eternal, and directly manifested from the bounds of brilliant stars. Various stars and planets abiding in space are reflections of the presence of the Spirit. It is that Spirit which brings into existence Prakrti, mother cause of what is in nature and what is yet to be.

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4.1.2

इयं पित्र्या राष्ट्र्य् एत्व् अग्रे प्रथमाय जनुषे भुवनेष्ठाः ।
तस्मा एतं सुरुचं ह्वारम् अह्यं घर्मं श्रीणन्तु प्रथमाय धास्यवे ॥

iyaṃ pitryā rāṣṭry etv agre prathamāya januṣe bhuvaneṣṭhāḥ ।
tasmā etaṃ surucaṃ hvāram ahyaṃ gharmaṃ śrīṇantu prathamāya dhāsyave ॥

May this holy light of intelligence, received from the universal creative Spirit and shining across the regions of the universe and her children, move forward and rise higher in the service of the first and original cause of the birth of the world. In honour of that Lord, first creator and sustainer, may all people inculcate and advance this brilliant, redoubtable and inspiring vision and passion for enlightenment.

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4.1.3

प्र यो जज्ञे विद्वान् अस्य बन्धुर् विश्वा देवानां जनिमा विवक्ति ।
ब्रह्म ब्रह्मण उज् जभार मध्यान् निचैर् उच्चैः स्वधा अभि प्र तस्थौ ॥

pra yo jajñe vidvān asya bandhur viśvā devānāṃ janimā vivakti ।
brahma brahmaṇa uj jabhāra madhyān nicair uccaiḥ svadhā abhi pra tasthau ॥

That omnipresent and omniscient Spirit which binds and holds this universe together, evolves the specific forms and functions of all divine powers of the universe and proclaims its own existence. That Spirit, Brahma, raises Prakrti from its own self, raises its own voice of the Veda loud and bold, and abides by its Prakrti Shakti everywhere from the centre up and down all round.

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4.1.4

स हि विदः स पृथिव्या ऋतस्था मही क्षेमं रोदसी अस्कभायत् ।
महान् मही अस्कभायद् वि जातो द्यां सद्म पार्थिवं च रजः ॥

sa hi vidaḥ sa pṛthivyā ṛtasthā mahī kṣemaṃ rodasī askabhāyat ।
mahān mahī askabhāyad vi jāto dyāṃ sadma pārthivaṃ ca rajaḥ ॥

He alone sustains heaven and earth, the great firmament and expansive space in order through the divine law of nature. He alone sustains the mighty universe. Omnipresent, self-manifested, he pervades the heaven and earth and all particles of matter and energy like a very home of divinity.

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4.1.5

स भुध्न्याद् आष्ट्र जनुषो ऽभ्य् अग्रम् बृहस्पतिर् देवता तस्य सम्राट् ।
अहर् यच् छुक्रं ज्योतिषो जनिष्टाथ द्युमन्तो वि वसन्तु विप्राः ॥

sa bhudhnyād āṣṭra januṣo 'bhy agram bṛhaspatir devatā tasya samrāṭ ।
ahar yac chukraṃ jyotiṣo janiṣṭātha dyumanto vi vasantu viprāḥ ॥

He, Brhaspati, mighty lord of Infinity, is the first and foremost self refulgent power and ruler of all that is in existence, from the centre to the circumference, pure immaculate spirit of the cosmic day born of light divine in which brilliant and vibrant sages abide through meditation and yajnic action.

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4.1.6

नूनं तद् अस्य काव्यो हिनोति महो देवस्य पूर्व्यस्य धाम ।
एष जज्ञे बहुभिः साकम् इत्था पूर्वे अर्धे विषिते ससन् नु ॥

nūnaṃ tad asya kāvyo hinoti maho devasya pūrvyasya dhāma ।
eṣa jajñe bahubhiḥ sākam itthā pūrve ardhe viṣite sasan nu ॥

For sure, that poetry of this lord, Veda, and the beautiful world, celebrates the glory of this omnipotent, self-refulgent, eternal Brahma which arises thus at the dawn of cosmic day along with the infinite variety that it is now, which in the earlier half lay dormant in the state of sleep.

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4.1.7

यो ऽथर्वाणं पितरं देवबन्धुं बृहस्पतिं नमसाव च गछात् ।
त्वं विश्वेषां जनिता यथासः कविर् देवो न दभायत् स्वधावान् ॥

yo 'tharvāṇaṃ pitaraṃ devabandhuṃ bṛhaspatiṃ namasāva ca gachāt ।
tvaṃ viśveṣāṃ janitā yathāsaḥ kavir devo na dabhāyat svadhāvān ॥

Whoever with homage and humility approaches Brhaspati, lord of Infinity, eternal immutable, kind as a parent, ordainer and sustainer of the noble, as brother, saying: “You, O lord, are the sole creator and protector of all that is in the universe”, that poetic visionary would rise to a state of essential strength of mind and spirit where no one can possibly deceive, suppress or subdue him.

Atharvaveda 4.2 · 8 mantras

4.2.1

य आत्मदा बलदा यस्य विश्व उपासते प्रशिषं यस्य देवाः ।
यो ऽस्येशे द्विपदो यश् चतुष्पदः कस्मै देवाय हविषा विधेम ॥

ya ātmadā baladā yasya viśva upāsate praśiṣaṃ yasya devāḥ ।
yo 'syeśe dvipado yaś catuṣpadaḥ kasmai devāya haviṣā vidhema ॥

Which lord divine shall we worship with homage and havi? He that is the giver of spiritual courage and vision of the soul, strength of body and mind, whose order and command all enlightened persons and divinities of nature obey all over the world, who rules over the entire world of humanity, animals and birds, that lord of peace and bliss shall we worship with homage and havi.

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4.2.2

यः प्राणतो निमिषतो महित्वैको राजा जगतो बभूव ।
यस्य छायामृतं यस्य मृत्युः कस्मै देवाय हविषा विधेम ॥

yaḥ prāṇato nimiṣato mahitvaiko rājā jagato babhūva ।
yasya chāyāmṛtaṃ yasya mṛtyuḥ kasmai devāya haviṣā vidhema ॥

Which lord divine shall we worship with homage of havi? Who by his might is the sole one ruler of the world of sense and pranic energy, whose shade of protection means nectar joy and immortality, and off-the-shade means death, that lord of peace and bliss shall we worship with homage and havi.

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4.2.3

यं क्रन्दसी अवतश् चस्कभाने भियसाने रोदसी अह्वयेथाम् ।
यस्यासौ पन्था रजसो विमानः कस्मै देवाय हविषा विधेम ॥

yaṃ krandasī avataś caskabhāne bhiyasāne rodasī ahvayethām ।
yasyāsau panthā rajaso vimānaḥ kasmai devāya haviṣā vidhema ॥

Which lord divine shall we worship with homage of havi? On whom mutually sustained heaven and earth seek for support, whom sun and earth moving in orbit under cosmic force call upon for balance, who creates and comprehends that extensive path of space for the particles of matter and energy, that lord of peace and power shall we serve and worship with homage and havi.

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4.2.4

यस्य द्यौर् उर्वी पृथिवी च मही यस्याद उर्व् अन्तरिक्षम् ।
यस्यासौ सूरो विततो महित्वा कस्मै देवाय हविषा विधेम ॥

yasya dyaur urvī pṛthivī ca mahī yasyāda urv antarikṣam ।
yasyāsau sūro vitato mahitvā kasmai devāya haviṣā vidhema ॥

Which lord divine shall we worship with homage of havi? By whose power and law the wide heavens, the great earth, the extensive skies and the sun all abide and sojourn far and wide in space, that lord of peace, power and bliss shall we serve and worship with homage and havi.

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4.2.5

यस्य विश्वे हिमवन्तो महित्वा समुद्रे यस्य रसाम् इद् आहुः ।
इमाश् च प्रदिशो यस्य बाहू कस्मै देवाय हविषा विधेम ॥

yasya viśve himavanto mahitvā samudre yasya rasām id āhuḥ ।
imāś ca pradiśo yasya bāhū kasmai devāya haviṣā vidhema ॥

Which lord divine shall we worship with homage of havi? By whose power and glory all mountains of the world capped with snow stand and rise in majesty, the stream of universal waters flows in space and the sea, whose voice, they say, resounds in space, whose arms extend as these quarters of space, that lord of peace and majesty shall we worship with homage and havi.

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4.2.6

आपो अग्रे विश्वम् आवन् गर्भं दधाना अमृता ऋतज्ञाः ।
यासु देवीष्व् अधि देव आसीत् कस्मै देवाय हविषा विधेम ॥

āpo agre viśvam āvan garbhaṃ dadhānā amṛtā ṛtajñāḥ ।
yāsu devīṣv adhi deva āsīt kasmai devāya haviṣā vidhema ॥

Which lord divine shall we worship with havi? By whose power and presence, before the re-emergence of the state of objective existence, the potential dynamics of Prakrti bearing the blue-print of the universe in its womb, and the immortal souls, all under the state of eternal law, abide, over which, i.e., over all these divinities the One Supreme Lord who presided, that One Supreme Lord of peace, power and immortal bliss, we worship and serve with homage and havi.

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4.2.7

हिरण्यगर्भः सम् अवर्तताग्रे भूतस्य जातः पतिर् एक आसीत् ।
स दाधार पृथिवीम् उत द्यां कस्मै देवाय हविषा विधेम ॥

hiraṇyagarbhaḥ sam avartatāgre bhūtasya jātaḥ patir eka āsīt ।
sa dādhāra pṛthivīm uta dyāṃ kasmai devāya haviṣā vidhema ॥

Which lord divine do we worship with homage of havi? The golden seed of the universe, before the state of its emergence into objective form, lay in the womb of potential Prakrti. Of that Prakrti, as of the forms of existence later born, the one and only lord was Hiranyagarbha, golden father and mother both, of things now in existence. That one lord of golden glory who sustained the potential universe and who sustains the heavens and earths now, we worship with homage and havi.

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4.2.8

आपो वत्सं जनयन्तीर् गर्भम् अग्रे सम् ऐरयन् ।
तस्योत जायमानस्योल्ब आसीद् धिरण्ययः कस्मै देवाय हविषा विधेम ॥

āpo vatsaṃ janayantīr garbham agre sam airayan ।
tasyota jāyamānasyolba āsīd dhiraṇyayaḥ kasmai devāya haviṣā vidhema ॥

Which lord divine do we worship with homage of havi? Apah, living vitalities of potential Prakrti, mother powers of the universe-in-embryo, moved and animated the embryo and gave birth to the baby universe. Of that embryo and of the universe born, the first and ultimate womb was and is the one lord of golden glory. That One Lord of golden glory and immortal bliss we worship with homage of havi.

Atharvaveda 4.3 · 7 mantras

4.3.1

उद् इतस् त्रयो अक्रमन् व्याघ्रः पुरुषो वृकः ।
हिरुग् घि यन्ति सिन्धवो हिरुग् देवो वनस्पतिर् हिरुङ् नमन्तु शत्रवः ॥

ud itas trayo akraman vyāghraḥ puruṣo vṛkaḥ ।
hirug ghi yanti sindhavo hirug devo vanaspatir hiruṅ namantu śatravaḥ ॥

Let these three be off from here: the tiger, the thief and the wolf. Generous rivers flow downwards, generous fruit bearing branches bend down. Let the enemies be forced to bend down and keep low (so that they may be positive).

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4.3.2

परेणैतु पथा वृकः परमेणोत तस्करः ।
परेण दत्वती रज्जुः परेणाघायुर् अर्षतु ॥

pareṇaitu pathā vṛkaḥ parameṇota taskaraḥ ।
pareṇa datvatī rajjuḥ pareṇāghāyur arṣatu ॥

Let the wolf go away by far off path. Let the thief and smuggler go away by the farthest path. Let the rope-like snake with fangs go off by far off path. And let the sinner, the robber, go away by the path that is far away.

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4.3.3

अक्ष्यौ च ते मुखं च ते व्याघ्र जम्भयामसि ।
आत् सर्वान् विंशतिं नखान् ॥

akṣyau ca te mukhaṃ ca te vyāghra jambhayāmasi ।
āt sarvān viṃśatiṃ nakhān ॥

O tiger, we disable your eyes, deface your mouth, and we destroy all your twenty nails of the claws.

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4.3.4

व्याघ्रं दत्वतां वयं प्रथमं जम्भयामसि ।
आद् उ ष्टेनम् अथो अहिं यातुधानम् अथो वृकम् ॥

vyāghraṃ datvatāṃ vayaṃ prathamaṃ jambhayāmasi ।
ād u ṣṭenam atho ahiṃ yātudhānam atho vṛkam ॥

Of the beasts of deadly teeth, we first crush the tiger, then the thief and the robber, then the snake, then the terrorist and saboteur, then the wolf.

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4.3.5

यो अद्य स्तेन आयति स संपिष्टो अपायति ।
पथाम् अपध्वंसेनैत्व् इन्द्रो वज्रेण हन्तु तम् ॥

yo adya stena āyati sa saṃpiṣṭo apāyati ।
pathām apadhvaṃsenaitv indro vajreṇa hantu tam ॥

The thief that comes up today must go, totally disabled and crushed, by a lost (distant) path. Let Indra, the ruler, punish and correct him by the thunderbolt of justice and dispensation.

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4.3.6

मूर्णा मृगस्य दन्ता अपिशीर्णा उ पृष्टयः ।
निम्रुक् ते गोधा भवतु नीचायच् छशयुर् मृगः ॥

mūrṇā mṛgasya dantā apiśīrṇā u pṛṣṭayaḥ ।
nimruk te godhā bhavatu nīcāyac chaśayur mṛgaḥ ॥

The teeth of violent beasts are broken, their back too is broken. Let the crocodile be down. Let the sleeping tiger too stay down, allow it not to prowl around.

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4.3.7

यत् संयमो न वि यमो वि यमो यन् न संयमः ।
इन्द्रजाः सोमजा आथर्वणम् असि व्याघ्रजम्भनम् ॥

yat saṃyamo na vi yamo vi yamo yan na saṃyamaḥ ।
indrajāḥ somajā ātharvaṇam asi vyāghrajambhanam ॥

Control, discipline, law, this is Sanyama. The opposite of Sanyama is neither control, nor discipline, nor law. Control of violence is the gift of Indra, power. Freedom is the gift of Soma, peace. Discipline and law is the condition of freedom. And such freedom-and-law is the gift of Atharvan, power and peace at the optimum: ‘equilibrium, the tiger at peace under law’.

Atharvaveda 4.4 · 8 mantras

4.4.1

यां त्वा गन्धर्वो अखनद् वरुणाय मृतभ्रजे ।
तां त्वा वयं खनामस्य् ओषधिं शेपहर्षणीम् ॥

yāṃ tvā gandharvo akhanad varuṇāya mṛtabhraje ।
tāṃ tvā vayaṃ khanāmasy oṣadhiṃ śepaharṣaṇīm ॥

We dig you up, potent herb for virility, which Gandharva, the physician, dug up for Varuna, judicious husband who had lost his potency. (The herb is called Vajakarani.)

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4.4.2

उद् उषा उद् उ सूर्य उद् इदं मामकं वचः ।
उद् एजतु प्रजापतिर् वृषा शुष्मेण वाजिना ॥

ud uṣā ud u sūrya ud idaṃ māmakaṃ vacaḥ ।
ud ejatu prajāpatir vṛṣā śuṣmeṇa vājinā ॥

Let the dawn arise, let the sun ascend, let my word and wish be high and effective, let the herb, giver of freshness and energy to people, rise and inspire with showers of potent virility and vibrancy of spirit.

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4.4.3

यथा स्म ते विरोहतो ऽभितप्तम् इवानति ।
ततस् ते शुष्मवत्तरम् इयं कृणोत्व् ओषधिः ॥

yathā sma te virohato 'bhitaptam ivānati ।
tatas te śuṣmavattaram iyaṃ kṛṇotv oṣadhiḥ ॥

O man, when you rise in passion and your body vibrate with heat and desire, then may this herb inspire you with greater energy.

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4.4.4

उच् छुष्मौषधीनां सारा ऋषभाणाम् ।
सं पुंसाम् इन्द्र वृष्ण्यम् अस्मिन् धेहि तनूवशिन् ॥

uc chuṣmauṣadhīnāṃ sārā ṛṣabhāṇām ।
saṃ puṃsām indra vṛṣṇyam asmin dhehi tanūvaśin ॥

Best and real essence of the herbs of high potential, O herb, O Indra, controlling spirit of the body system, O physician, vest exuberant energy of virile potency in this man. (The herb probably is Rshabha’.)

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4.4.5

अपां रसः प्रथमजो ऽथो वनस्पतीनाम् ।
उत सोमस्य भ्रातास्य् उतार्शम् असि वृष्ण्यम् ॥

apāṃ rasaḥ prathamajo 'tho vanaspatīnām ।
uta somasya bhrātāsy utārśam asi vṛṣṇyam ॥

Best and most efficacious essence of the herbs of high potential, O herb, O Indra, controlling spirit of the body system, in this patient, pray, vest that exuberant energy of potent virility which is worthy of the brave, complementary protector and stimulator as you are, equal of Soma, nature’s original.

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4.4.6

अद्याग्ने अद्य सवितर् अद्य देवि सरस्वति ।
अद्यास्य ब्रह्मणस् पते धनुर् इवा तानया पसः ॥

adyāgne adya savitar adya devi sarasvati ।
adyāsya brahmaṇas pate dhanur ivā tānayā pasaḥ ॥

Hey Agni, physician giver of fiery energy, O Savita, inspiring warmth of the sun, O divine Sarasvati, perennial stream of knowledge and intellectual energy, O Brahmanaspati, master of Vedic knowledge of health, energise this man’s generative system to the maximum degree of power and procreativity like a bow at the optimum stretch.

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4.4.7

आहं तनोमि ते पसो अधि ज्याम् इव धन्वनि ।
क्रमस्वर्श इव रोहितम् अनवग्लायता सदा ॥

āhaṃ tanomi te paso adhi jyām iva dhanvani ।
kramasvarśa iva rohitam anavaglāyatā sadā ॥

I cure and energise your generative system to the optimum like the string on the bow stretched to the maximum degree. Always with eagerness and enthusiasm, advance upon your object and aim as a tiger pounces upon the ruddy antelope.

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4.4.8

अश्वस्याश्वतरस्याजस्य पेत्वस्य च ।
अथ ऋषभस्य ये वाजास् तान् अस्मिन् धेहि तनूवशिन् ॥

aśvasyāśvatarasyājasya petvasya ca ।
atha ṛṣabhasya ye vājās tān asmin dhehi tanūvaśin ॥

Whatever virile potencies there be of the horse, the mule, the he-goat, the ram, and of the bull, all those potencies, O controller and reordainer of the body system, vest into the generative system of this man.

Atharvaveda 4.5 · 7 mantras

4.5.1

सहस्रशृङ्गो वृषभो यः समुद्राद् उदाचरत् ।
तेना सहस्येना वयं नि जनान्त् स्वापयामसि ॥

sahasraśṛṅgo vṛṣabho yaḥ samudrād udācarat ।
tenā sahasyenā vayaṃ ni janānt svāpayāmasi ॥

The sun or the moon of a thousand rays of warmth of light and soothing peace rises from the depth of space and retires into silence. With the power and patience of that degree of the Vrshabha herb of thousandfold efficacy which grows on cloudy mountains and relieves people from deep agitation, we help people go to deep sleep and undisturbed rest.

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4.5.2

न भूमिं वातो अति वाति नाति पश्यति कश् चन ।
स्त्रियश् च सर्वाः स्वापय शुनश् चेन्द्रसखा चरन् ॥

na bhūmiṃ vāto ati vāti nāti paśyati kaś cana ।
striyaś ca sarvāḥ svāpaya śunaś cendrasakhā caran ॥

The wind does not disturb the air with gusts, nor does any one prowl around and break into privacies. O herb, O peace, let the women go to sleep while the alert security people of the ruler watch and move around for peace.

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4.5.3

प्रोष्ठेशयास् तल्पेशया नारीर् या वह्यशीवरीः ।
स्त्रियो याः पुण्यगन्धयस् ताः सर्वाः स्वापयामसि ॥

proṣṭheśayās talpeśayā nārīr yā vahyaśīvarīḥ ।
striyo yāḥ puṇyagandhayas tāḥ sarvāḥ svāpayāmasi ॥

Whether a woman is to sleep on an open platform or in an out house, or they sleep on the top storey in a comfortable bed, or they are moving and have to sleep in the vehicle itself, or they are women used to perfumes of high quality, we help them all to sleep well.

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4.5.4

एजदेजद् अजग्रभं चक्षुः प्राणम् अजग्रभम् ।
अङ्गान्य् अजग्रभं सर्वा रात्रीणाम् अतिशर्वरे ॥

ejadejad ajagrabhaṃ cakṣuḥ prāṇam ajagrabham ।
aṅgāny ajagrabhaṃ sarvā rātrīṇām atiśarvare ॥

I have controlled and closed the agitated eye. I have controlled the breath to peace. I have controlled and withdrawn all parts and senses of the body and mind inward into the deep peace of the night. (That is the state of sleep in peace.)

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4.5.5

य आस्ते यश् चरति यश् च तिष्ठन् विपश्यति ।
तेषां सं दध्मो अक्षीणि यथेदं हर्म्यं तथा ॥

ya āste yaś carati yaś ca tiṣṭhan vipaśyati ।
teṣāṃ saṃ dadhmo akṣīṇi yathedaṃ harmyaṃ tathā ॥

Whoever sits, whoever moves, whoever stays still but looks around, the eyes of all of these we close and hold at peace as the doors of this temple of peace are closed, into the state of void within.

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4.5.6

स्वप्तु माता स्वप्तु पिता स्वप्तु श्वा स्वप्तु विश्पतिः ।
स्वपन्त्व् अस्यै ज्ञातयः स्वप्त्व् अयम् अभितो जनः ॥

svaptu mātā svaptu pitā svaptu śvā svaptu viśpatiḥ ।
svapantv asyai jñātayaḥ svaptv ayam abhito janaḥ ॥

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4.5.7

स्वप्न स्वप्नाभिकरणेन सर्वं नि स्वापया जनम् ।
ओत्सूर्यम् अन्यान्त् स्वापयाव्युषं जागृताद् अहम् इन्द्र इवारिष्टो अक्षितः ॥

svapna svapnābhikaraṇena sarvaṃ ni svāpayā janam ।
otsūryam anyānt svāpayāvyuṣaṃ jāgṛtād aham indra ivāriṣṭo akṣitaḥ ॥

Atharvaveda 4.6 · 8 mantras

4.6.1

ब्राह्मणो जज्ञे प्रथमो दशशीर्षो दशास्यः ।
स सोमं प्रथमः पपौ स चकारारसं विषम् ॥

brāhmaṇo jajñe prathamo daśaśīrṣo daśāsyaḥ ।
sa somaṃ prathamaḥ papau sa cakārārasaṃ viṣam ॥

The one first and foremost among anti-poison herbs is known as Brahmana (also known as Grshti) which is ten times more effective and ten times more preventive than others against poison. It absorbs the soma energy of living vitality from earth and renders the poison ineffective throwing it out of ten parts of the body.

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4.6.2

यावती द्यावापृथिवी वरिम्णा यावत् सप्त सिन्धवो वितष्ठिरे ।
वाचं विषस्य दूषणीं ताम् इतो निर् अवादिषम् ॥

yāvatī dyāvāpṛthivī varimṇā yāvat sapta sindhavo vitaṣṭhire ।
vācaṃ viṣasya dūṣaṇīṃ tām ito nir avādiṣam ॥

As far as heaven and earth extend, as far as the seven seas roll, that far effective from here have I spoken of the word of remedy against poison.

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4.6.3

सुपर्णस् त्वा गरुत्मान् विष प्रथमम् आवयत् ।
नामीमदो नारूरुप उतास्मा अभवः पितुः ॥

suparṇas tvā garutmān viṣa prathamam āvayat ।
nāmīmado nārūrupa utāsmā abhavaḥ pituḥ ॥

O poison, the eagle of mighty beautiful wings eats you up. You neither intoxicate nor rack it, you just become usual food for it.

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4.6.4

यस् त आस्यत् पञ्चाङ्गुरिर् वक्राच् चिद् अधि धन्वनः ।
अपस्कम्भस्य शल्यान् निर् अवोचम् अहं विषम् ॥

yas ta āsyat pañcāṅgurir vakrāc cid adhi dhanvanaḥ ।
apaskambhasya śalyān nir avocam ahaṃ viṣam ॥

Whoever with trained hand and five fingers shoots at you a shaft of poison from his crooked bow, I promise I would take off the shaft of poison by the leaf of Apaskambha (also known as Bhillataru, Shambara, Lodhra, Rodhra and Kramuka).

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4.6.5

शल्याद् विषं निर् अवोचम् प्राञ्जनाद् उत पर्णधेः ।
अपाष्ठाच् छृङ्गात् कुल्मलान् निर् अवोचम् अहम् विषम् ॥

śalyād viṣaṃ nir avocam prāñjanād uta parṇadheḥ ।
apāṣṭhāc chṛṅgāt kulmalān nir avocam aham viṣam ॥

I remove the poison by the leaf and plaster of parnadhi, by Ajashrngi brought from far, or by Kulmala also called Padma.

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4.6.6

अरसस् त इषो शल्यो ऽथो ते अरसं विषम् ।
उतारसस्य वृक्षस्य धनुष् टे अरसारसम् ॥

arasas ta iṣo śalyo 'tho te arasaṃ viṣam ।
utārasasya vṛkṣasya dhanuṣ ṭe arasārasam ॥

O poison arrow, let your dart be ineffective, let your poison be ineffective, and let even the bow of the ineffectual tree be ineffective in the hand of the hunter.

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4.6.7

ये अपीषन् ये अदिहन् य आस्यन् ये अवासृजन् ।
सर्वे ते वध्रयः कृता वध्रिर् विषगिरिः कृतः ॥

ye apīṣan ye adihan ya āsyan ye avāsṛjan ।
sarve te vadhrayaḥ kṛtā vadhrir viṣagiriḥ kṛtaḥ ॥

Those who grind the poisonous substances, those who apply, those who shoot and those who release it among the people, all these should be made ineffective, even the sources of poison should be rendered ineffectice.

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4.6.8

वध्रयस् ते खनितारो वध्रिस् त्वम् अस्य् ओषधे ।
वध्रिः स पर्वतो गिरिर् यतो जातम् इदं विषम् ॥

vadhrayas te khanitāro vadhris tvam asy oṣadhe ।
vadhriḥ sa parvato girir yato jātam idaṃ viṣam ॥

O poison and poisonous intoxicant, those who dig and collect you have been made ineffective. O poisonous herb, you have been made ineffective. And that hill and mountain from which this poison has been dug out is made ineffectual. (The point is that there should be no free availability of intoxicant and poisonous substances, they must be strictly under the control of the government for special and specific purposes.)

Atharvaveda 4.7 · 7 mantras

4.7.1

वार् इदम् वारयातै वरणावत्याम् अधि ।
तत्रामृतस्यासिक्तं तेना ते वारये विषम् ॥

vār idam vārayātai varaṇāvatyām adhi ।
tatrāmṛtasyāsiktaṃ tenā te vāraye viṣam ॥

This juice which flows through the herb called ‘Vara’ or ‘varana’ is full of nectar for the removal of poison. By this juice I remove the poison from your body system.

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4.7.2

अरसं प्राच्यं विषम् अरसं यद् उदीच्यम् ।
अथेदम् अधराच्यं करम्भेण वि कल्पते ॥

arasaṃ prācyaṃ viṣam arasaṃ yad udīcyam ।
athedam adharācyaṃ karambheṇa vi kalpate ॥

The poison caused by insects and other creatures of the eastern quarter, that caused by insects and other creatures of the northern quarter, and this which is caused by insects and other creatures here on or below the ground becomes ineffectual by the herbal mixture of Karambha and curds with oats.

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4.7.3

करम्भं कृत्वा तिर्यं पीबस्पाकम् उदारथिम् ।
क्षुधा किल त्वा दुष्टनो जक्षिवान्त् स न रूरुपः ॥

karambhaṃ kṛtvā tiryaṃ pībaspākam udārathim ।
kṣudhā kila tvā duṣṭano jakṣivānt sa na rūrupaḥ ॥

Having prepared karambha pudding with sesame and a lot of ghrta to stabilise and strengthen the stomach, if the patient eats the pudding according to appetite, then the poison spreading all over the body would not cause unconsciousness.

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4.7.4

वि ते मदं मदावति शरम् इव पातयामसि ।
प्र त्वा चरुम् इव येषन्तं वचसा स्थापयामसि ॥

vi te madaṃ madāvati śaram iva pātayāmasi ।
pra tvā carum iva yeṣantaṃ vacasā sthāpayāmasi ॥

O intoxicating racking poison, we throw off your intoxication and make it fly away as we shoot an arrow, and with Vachas herb according to the right formula stop you from affecting the patient as we stop a boiling pot (by stopping the fire).

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4.7.5

परि ग्रामम् इवाचितं वचसा स्थापयामसि ।
तिष्ठा वृक्ष इव स्थाम्न्य् अभ्रिखाते न रूरुपः ॥

pari grāmam ivācitaṃ vacasā sthāpayāmasi ।
tiṣṭhā vṛkṣa iva sthāmny abhrikhāte na rūrupaḥ ॥

we Stop and disperse you with a word. O patient, stand you upright like a tree in its rooted spot. O herb properly dug out, allow not the patient to fall unconscious.

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4.7.6

पवस्तैस् त्वा पर्य् अक्रीणन् दूर्शेभिर् अजिनैर् उत ।
प्रक्रीर् असि त्वम् ओषधे ऽभ्रिखाते न रूरुपः ॥

pavastais tvā pary akrīṇan dūrśebhir ajinair uta ।
prakrīr asi tvam oṣadhe 'bhrikhāte na rūrupaḥ ॥

People buy you with garments, shawls and deer skins. Therefore you are ‘Prakri’, purchasable, in ready form. O herb well dug out, allow not the patient to fall unconscious. (The name of ‘Prakri’ in dhanvantari, says Pandit Jayadeva Sharma, is ‘Prakirya’, with five varieties: Karanja, Udakirya, Angaravalli, Guchhakaranja, Rithakaranja.)

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4.7.7

अनाप्ता ये वः प्रथमा यानि कर्माणि चक्रिरे ।
वीरान् नो अत्र मा दभन् तद् व एतत् पुरो दधे ॥

anāptā ye vaḥ prathamā yāni karmāṇi cakrire ।
vīrān no atra mā dabhan tad va etat puro dadhe ॥

O men, there are those among you who are not yet mature experts, and those that are beginners. Whatever acts of medication they do, see that they do not maltreat our people, young or old. thus I say to you by way of caution.

Atharvaveda 4.8 · 7 mantras

4.8.1

भूतो भूतेषु पय आ दधाति स भूतानाम् अधिपतिर् बभूव ।
तस्य मृत्युश् चरति राजसूयं स राजा अनु मन्यताम् इदं ॥

bhūto bhūteṣu paya ā dadhāti sa bhūtānām adhipatir babhūva ।
tasya mṛtyuś carati rājasūyaṃ sa rājā anu manyatām idaṃ ॥

The person of merit, having risen to the prominence worthy of a ruler, brings peace and prosperity among the people and becomes ruler, protector and provider for the people. At his/her anointment and coronation, Yama itself, i.e., law and justice, time and mutability, collective Destiny, presides as well as provides everything. Being a ruler in this meritorous way, the incumbent should accept and take over the governance of the people and this republic of living beings and the environment. (Note that the ruler is the ruler, protector and provider for the Bhutas, all those, including humans, that are in existence.)

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4.8.2

अभि प्रेहि माप वेन उग्रश् चेत्ता सपत्नहा ।
आ तिष्ठ मित्रवर्धन तुभ्यम् देवा अधि ब्रुवन् ॥

abhi prehi māpa vena ugraś cettā sapatnahā ।
ā tiṣṭha mitravardhana tubhyam devā adhi bruvan ॥

O ruler, go forward, do not hesitate, you are blazing illustrious, giver of enlightenment, subduer of adversaries and enemies. Come, take over and be firm, bright as sun, advance the friendly powers and be exalted by friendly powers. The brilliant and most generous enlightened people exhort you.

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4.8.3

आतिष्ठन्तं परि विश्वे अभूषं छ्रियं वसानश् चरति स्वरोचिः ।
महत् तद् वृष्णो असुरस्य नामा विश्वरूपो अमृतानि तस्थौ ॥

ātiṣṭhantaṃ pari viśve abhūṣaṃ chriyaṃ vasānaś carati svarociḥ ।
mahat tad vṛṣṇo asurasya nāmā viśvarūpo amṛtāni tasthau ॥

Seated in position, let all the best people attend and exalt you who, vested with glory, refulgent with your essential merit and power, move on with your royal powers and obligations across the dominion. It is truly the glory of the great and generous lord of life that he, of universal form and purpose, stands by all the immortals of existence. (Similarly, it is the power and obligation of the ruler that his presence be felt everywhere and he stand by all the immortal values of life in the dominion. This very divine obligation of the ruler was interpreted as the divine right of the king in history.)

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4.8.4

व्याघ्रो अधि वैयाघ्रे वि क्रमस्व दिशो महीः ।
विशस् त्वा सर्वा वाञ्छन्त्व् आपो दिव्याः पयस्वतीः ॥

vyāghro adhi vaiyāghre vi kramasva diśo mahīḥ ।
viśas tvā sarvā vāñchantv āpo divyāḥ payasvatīḥ ॥

A very lion among men, harbinger of profuse showers of prosperity, go forward in royal dignity and regality over all quarters of the great earth. Let all citizens of the land love and welcome you, let all communities dynamic at works of divine value be happy and exuberant, their home overflowing with milk and honey.

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4.8.5

या आपो दिव्याः पयसा मदन्त्य् अन्तरिक्ष उत वा पृथिव्याम् ।
तासां त्वा सर्वासाम् अपाम् अभि षिञ्चामि वर्चसा ॥

yā āpo divyāḥ payasā madanty antarikṣa uta vā pṛthivyām ।
tāsāṃ tvā sarvāsām apām abhi ṣiñcāmi varcasā ॥

The showers of water and grace which rejoice and celebrate Divinity in the skies divinely bless and exalt humanity with milk and honey on earth. With the glory and regality of all those waters I anoint and consecrate you.

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4.8.6

अभि त्वा वर्चसासिचन्न् आपो दिव्याः पयस्वतीः ।
यथासो मित्रवर्धनस् तथा त्वा सविता करत् ॥

abhi tvā varcasāsicann āpo divyāḥ payasvatīḥ ।
yathāso mitravardhanas tathā tvā savitā karat ॥

Let divine showers of the milk and honey of glory bless and sanctify you with illustrious royalty. Let the showers of people’s profuse praise and exhortation raise you high with earthly grandeur. And as you advance the merit and dignity of friendly powers, so may Savita, divine lord of inspiration and creativity, bless you with regal honour and grace.

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4.8.7

एना व्याघ्रं परिषस्वजानाः सिंहं हिन्वन्ति महते सौभगाय ।
समुद्रं न सुभुवस् तस्थिवांसं मर्मृज्यन्ते द्वीपिनम् अप्स्व् अन्तः ॥

enā vyāghraṃ pariṣasvajānāḥ siṃhaṃ hinvanti mahate saubhagāya ।
samudraṃ na subhuvas tasthivāṃsaṃ marmṛjyante dvīpinam apsv antaḥ ॥

Showers of divine grace and human praise replete with love and admiration consecrate and inspire the ruler, regal harbinger of milk and honey and generous streams of water for human fulfilment, so that he may rise and win high glory and good fortune for himself and his people. And just as blessed streams of holy lands do homage to the deep sea, so noble people do homage of consecration and loyalty to the ruler abiding firmly, holding the earth in the midst of the seas and seated at the centre of social dynamics.

Atharvaveda 4.9 · 10 mantras

4.9.1

एहि जीवं त्रायमाणं पर्वतस्यास्य् अक्ष्यम् ।
विश्वेभिर् देवैर् दत्तं परिधिर् जीवनाय कम् ॥

ehi jīvaṃ trāyamāṇaṃ parvatasyāsy akṣyam ।
viśvebhir devair dattaṃ paridhir jīvanāya kam ॥

Come Anjana, protective grace of life, beauty of the eye, gift of the clouds and mountain of veteran heights, given by all brilliancies of nature and humanity, beatific perfection at the borders of life’s possibilities.

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4.9.2

परिपाणं पुरुषाणां परिपाणं गवां असि ।
अश्वानाम् अर्वताम् परिपाणाय तस्थिषे ॥

paripāṇaṃ puruṣāṇāṃ paripāṇaṃ gavāṃ asi ।
aśvānām arvatām paripāṇāya tasthiṣe ॥

Protective care and advancement of men. enhancement and refinement of senses and mind for cultural sensitivity, progressive achievement of daring pioneers, you are the universal distinction of life’s nature and nurture for the grace of progressive evolution.

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4.9.3

उतासि परिपाणम् यातुजम्भनम् आञ्जन ।
उतामृतस्य त्वं वेत्थाथो असि जीवभोजनम् अथो हरितभेषजम् ॥

utāsi paripāṇam yātujambhanam āñjana ।
utāmṛtasya tvaṃ vetthātho asi jīvabhojanam atho haritabheṣajam ॥

Anjana, beauty and grace of life, you are the protective fulfilment of life, standing on guard against the mundane ailments of the world. You are the knowledgeable spirit of the beauty and bliss of immortality and freedom. You are the real and ultimate food of the human spirit and the guarding angel against the jaundiced eye, the highest saviour sanative for the soul.

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4.9.4

यस्याञ्जन प्रसर्पस्य् अङ्गमङ्गम् परुष्परुः ।
ततो यक्ष्मं वि बाधस उग्रो मध्यमशीर् इव ॥

yasyāñjana prasarpasy aṅgamaṅgam paruṣparuḥ ।
tato yakṣmaṃ vi bādhasa ugro madhyamaśīr iva ॥

O saviour beatific, Anjana, whoever the person high or low, when you seep into his body, mind and soul part by part, joint by joint, cell by cell, you stop the cancerous consumption and stand as a blazing bulwark the lower demons and the higher vision.

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4.9.5

नैनं प्राप्नोति शपथो न कृत्या नाभिशोचनम् ।
नैनं विष्कन्धम् अश्नुते यस् त्वा बिभर्त्य् आञ्जन ॥

nainaṃ prāpnoti śapatho na kṛtyā nābhiśocanam ।
nainaṃ viṣkandham aśnute yas tvā bibharty āñjana ॥

O vision and love of beauty and grace, Anjana, whoever the person that internalizes and holds on to you in faith with courage, malignity and curse approach him not, no black magic, no imprecation or burning hate can affect him, no evil design can ever touch him. (You are the spiritual mark of security on the forehead.)

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4.9.6

असन्मन्त्राद् दुष्वप्न्याद् दुष्कृताच् छमलाद् उत ।
दुर्हार्दश् चक्षुषो घोरात् तस्मान् नः पाह्य् आञ्जन ॥

asanmantrād duṣvapnyād duṣkṛtāc chamalād uta ।
durhārdaś cakṣuṣo ghorāt tasmān naḥ pāhy āñjana ॥

O love of real beauty and faith in divine grace, Anjana, knowledge and dedication to truth, protect us against imprecation and evil chant, save us from evil dream and negative ambition, guard us against evil will and action, and save us from heinous sin. Protect us against the evil eye and the devilish heart. Save us from all this evil and damaging negativity.

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4.9.7

इदं विद्वान् आञ्जन सत्यं वक्ष्यामि नानृतम् ।
सनेयम् अश्वं गाम् अहम् आत्मानं तव पूरुष ॥

idaṃ vidvān āñjana satyaṃ vakṣyāmi nānṛtam ।
saneyam aśvaṃ gām aham ātmānaṃ tava pūruṣa ॥

O light of the inner eye, Anjana, beatific beauty of divinity, knowing full well and having attained full faith, I pledge: I shall speak the truth, no untruth ever. Cows and horses, lands and acquisitions, senses and mind, will and action, education and culture, knowledge and grace, all this is your gift. O Spirit of the Universe, pray let me live by these and ultimately serve the soul to be what I am for you as yours.

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4.9.8

त्रयो दासा आञ्जनस्य तक्मा बलास आद् अहिः ।
वर्षिष्ठः पर्वतानां त्रिककुन् नाम ते पिता ॥

trayo dāsā āñjanasya takmā balāsa ād ahiḥ ।
varṣiṣṭhaḥ parvatānāṃ trikakun nāma te pitā ॥

Three are the negativities against Anjana, enemies of the beauty and grace of life divine: These are: feverish ambition for the material world, depressive delusion of the mind against clairvoyance, and serpentine suppression of the spirit by passion and instinct. O Anjana, your father and protector is the most generous and highest gracious Spirit of the highest possibilities of life, his name being Kakut, master controller of the three modes of Nature: Sattva, clairvoyance of intelligence. Rajas, energy, and Tamas, inertia or matter. This protector and master of the three motherly materials of Prakrti is Tryambakam, fragrant promoter of the real life.

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4.9.9

यद् आञ्जनं त्रैककुदम् जातं हिमवतस् परि ।
यातूंश् च सर्वाञ् जम्भयत् सर्वाश् च यातुधान्यः ॥

yad āñjanaṃ traikakudam jātaṃ himavatas pari ।
yātūṃś ca sarvāñ jambhayat sarvāś ca yātudhānyaḥ ॥

That ‘Anjana’, collyrium of the real, clairvoyant eye born of the triple master and father beyond the mountains of the moon, Tryambakam, destroys all the sufferings of the body, mind and soul and eliminates all the evil distractors of the life divine.

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4.9.10

यदि वासि त्रैककुदं यदि यामुनम् उच्यसे ।
उभे ते भद्रे नाम्नी ताभ्यां नः पाह्य् आञ्जन ॥

yadi vāsi traikakudaṃ yadi yāmunam ucyase ।
ubhe te bhadre nāmnī tābhyāṃ naḥ pāhy āñjana ॥

O vision of clairvoyance, Anjana, whether you are Traikakuda, i.e., born of the Triple Master through the threefold divine vision of knowledge, action and meditation, or, whether you are called Yamuna, i.e., meditative guide through the social and personal ethics of Yama and Niyama, both ways your names are noble. By both of these, pray, protect and guide us through life to the beauty and grace of life divine.

Atharvaveda 4.10 · 7 mantras

4.10.1

वाताज् जातो अन्तरिक्षाद् विद्युतो ज्योतिषस् परि ।
स नो हिरण्यजाः शङ्खः कृशनः पात्व् अंहसः ॥

vātāj jāto antarikṣād vidyuto jyotiṣas pari ।
sa no hiraṇyajāḥ śaṅkhaḥ kṛśanaḥ pātv aṃhasaḥ ॥

Bom of wind, lightning and light of the sun, across the middle regions, risen from gold, may the fine golden Shankha shell protect us against sin and suffering.

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4.10.2

यो अग्रतो रोचनानां समुद्राद् अधि जज्ञिषे ।
शङ्खेन हत्वा रक्षांस्य् अत्त्रिणो वि षहामहे ॥

yo agrato rocanānāṃ samudrād adhi jajñiṣe ।
śaṅkhena hatvā rakṣāṃsy attriṇo vi ṣahāmahe ॥

By Shankha which arises from the sea in advance of the brilliant ones in quality, we destroy life-consuming evil elements of nature in the body system.

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4.10.3

शङ्खेनामीवाम् अमतिं शङ्खेनोत सदान्वाः ।
शङ्खो नो विश्वभेषजः कृशनः पात्व् अंहसः ॥

śaṅkhenāmīvām amatiṃ śaṅkhenota sadānvāḥ ।
śaṅkho no viśvabheṣajaḥ kṛśanaḥ pātv aṃhasaḥ ॥

By Shankha we challenge and destroy digestive ailments, weakness of mind and memory, and all other life-consuming weaknesses of health. May Shankha which is a universal golden remedy of ill health save us from sin and suffering.

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4.10.4

दिवि जातः समुद्रजः सिन्धुतस् पर्य् आभृतः ।
स नो हिरण्यजाः शङ्ख आयुष्प्रतरणो मणिः ॥

divi jātaḥ samudrajaḥ sindhutas pary ābhṛtaḥ ।
sa no hiraṇyajāḥ śaṅkha āyuṣprataraṇo maṇiḥ ॥

Arisen in the light of the solar region, born of the deep sea, collected from rivers and the seas, may the Shankha shell, of jewel value and golden quality, be the life-saving ark for us to cross the ocean-floods of life.

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4.10.5

समुद्राज् जातो मणिर् वृत्राज् जातो दिवाकरः ।
सो अस्मान्त् सर्वतः पातु हेत्या देवासुरेभ्यः ॥

samudrāj jāto maṇir vṛtrāj jāto divākaraḥ ।
so asmānt sarvataḥ pātu hetyā devāsurebhyaḥ ॥

Just as the sun appears from the depth of the clouds of darkness, so the Shankha is bom of the sea. May the Shankha so born and collected with its action and efficacy protect us against the blazing heat and onslaughts of the violence of natural and human forces.

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4.10.6

हिरण्यानाम् एको ऽसि सोमात् त्वम् अधि जज्ञिषे ।
रथे त्वम् असि दर्शत इषुधौ रोचनस् त्वं प्र ण आयूंषि तारिषत् ॥

hiraṇyānām eko 'si somāt tvam adhi jajñiṣe ।
rathe tvam asi darśata iṣudhau rocanas tvaṃ pra ṇa āyūṃṣi tāriṣat ॥

Of the golden gifts of nature you are the one unique bom with the soothing golden beauty of Soma, the moon. You are the glorious hero of the chariot and shine blazing in the quiver. Pray give us a long life of good health and joyous fulfilment.

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4.10.7

देवानाम् अस्थि कृशनं बभूव तद् आत्मन्वच् चरत्य् अप्स्व् अन्तः ।
तत् ते बध्नाम्य् आयुषे वर्चसे बलाय दीर्घायुत्वाय शतशारदाय कार्शनस् त्वाभि रक्षतु ॥

devānām asthi kṛśanaṃ babhūva tad ātmanvac caraty apsv antaḥ ।
tat te badhnāmy āyuṣe varcase balāya dīrghāyutvāya śataśāradāya kārśanas tvābhi rakṣatu ॥

The Shankha is the golden body bone of pearl with divine elements of the forces of nature, and with its own body and soul it moves around in waters of the seas and rivers. That Shankha of elemental efficacies, O man, I bind on you for good health, lustrous courage, strength of body and mind, and a long life of full hundred years and more. May this golden gift of nature’s own

Atharvaveda 4.11 · 12 mantras

4.11.1

अनड्वान् दाधार पृथिवीम् उत द्याम् अनड्वान् दाधारोर्व् अन्तरिक्षम् ।
अनड्वान् दाधार प्रदिशः षड् उर्वीर् अनड्वान् विश्वं भुवनम् आ विवेश ॥

anaḍvān dādhāra pṛthivīm uta dyām anaḍvān dādhārorv antarikṣam ।
anaḍvān dādhāra pradiśaḥ ṣaḍ urvīr anaḍvān viśvaṃ bhuvanam ā viveśa ॥

The cosmic burden bearer of the universe holds and sustains the earth, the heaven and the vast intervening space. He bears all the extensive six quarters of space and indeed it is Anadvan, the burden-bearer, who pervades the entire worlds of the universe in existence, and it is he who holds and sustains them.

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4.11.2

अनड्वान् इन्द्रः स पशुभ्यो वि चष्टे त्रयां छक्रो वि मिमीते अध्वनः ।
भूतं भविष्यद् भुवना दुहानः सर्वा देवानाम् चरति व्रतानि ॥

anaḍvān indraḥ sa paśubhyo vi caṣṭe trayāṃ chakro vi mimīte adhvanaḥ ।
bhūtaṃ bhaviṣyad bhuvanā duhānaḥ sarvā devānām carati vratāni ॥

Indra, lord omnipotent is the Anadvan who looks after all the living beings of the world. He traverses, comprehends and orders the three modes and dimensions of the universe of thought, energy and matter. Creating, sustaining and dispensing the context of cause and effect of natural dynamics across three dimensions of time he observes and ordains the laws and disciplines of all the divine forces of nature and humanity.

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4.11.3

इन्द्रो जातो मनुष्येष्व् अन्तर् घर्मस् तप्तश् चरति शोशुचानः ।
सुप्रजाः सन्त् स उदारे न सर्षद् यो नाश्नीयाद् अनडुहो विजानन् ॥

indro jāto manuṣyeṣv antar gharmas taptaś carati śośucānaḥ ।
suprajāḥ sant sa udāre na sarṣad yo nāśnīyād anaḍuho vijānan ॥

Indra, pervasive presence manifest among humanity vibrates omnipresent as the light and heat of the sun, refulgent and illuminant. The man blest with noble progeny, knowing Indra as such, univolved in material pleasures, would not wander around far away from the divine presence.

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4.11.4

अनड्वान् दुहे सुकृतस्य लोक ऐनं प्याययति पवमानः पुरस्तात् ।
पर्जन्यो धारा मरुत ऊधो अस्य यज्ञः पयो दक्षिणा दोहो अस्य ॥

anaḍvān duhe sukṛtasya loka ainaṃ pyāyayati pavamānaḥ purastāt ।
parjanyo dhārā maruta ūdho asya yajñaḥ payo dakṣiṇā doho asya ॥

Anadvan, the burden bearer Indra, showers this soul with the milk of life’s joy in the land of bliss and, purifying and sanctifying it straight, without any mediation, gives it fulfilment. The cloud is the lord’s shower of grace, the winds are treasures of favours, yajna is the milk and divine nectar, and dakshina is the divine gift.

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4.11.5

यस्य नेशे यज्ञपतिर् न यज्ञो नास्य दातेशे न प्रतिग्रहीता ।
यो विश्वजिद् विश्वभृद् विश्वकर्मा घर्मं नो ब्रूत यतमश् चतुष्पात् ॥

yasya neśe yajñapatir na yajño nāsya dāteśe na pratigrahītā ।
yo viśvajid viśvabhṛd viśvakarmā gharmaṃ no brūta yatamaś catuṣpāt ॥

The master institutor and performer of yajna governs it not, nor does he govern its gifts. Neither yajna, nor giver, nor receiver governs it. O sages speak to us of the refulgent illuminant lord, ruler, sustainer and maker of the universe, how great is he, the lord of four phases in terms of our experience and possibilities of Being.

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4.11.6

येन देवाः स्वर् आरुरुहुर् हित्वा शरीरम् अमृतस्य नाभिम् ।
तेन गेष्म सुकृतस्य लोकं घर्मस्य व्रतेन तपसा यशस्यवः ॥

yena devāḥ svar āruruhur hitvā śarīram amṛtasya nābhim ।
tena geṣma sukṛtasya lokaṃ gharmasya vratena tapasā yaśasyavaḥ ॥

By whose grace noble sages arose to the regions of bliss, having given up their material body, and attained to the centre of the nectar of immortality, by the same lord’s grace, let us too, seekers of honour and bliss, rise to the same regions of piety and bliss through meditative practice and discipline of the lord self-refulgent and all illuminant. Indro rupendgnirvahena prajdpatih paramesthi virdt. Visvdnare akramata vaisvdnare akramatdnaduhyakramata. So drmhayata so 'dhdrayata. Indra, lord omnipotent, in terms of existential form is Agni, light and fire, in terms of sustenance he is Prajapati, father of his children, Parameshthi, lord supreme transcendant, and Virat, infinite and self-refulgent. He pervades in universal humanity, he pervades in universal vital energy, he pervades in life sustaining energies of nature, he strengthens and expands existence, and he bears and sustains the world of his creation.

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4.11.7

इन्द्रो रूपेणाग्निर् वहेन प्रजापतिः परमेष्ठी विराट् ।
विश्वानरे अक्रमत वैश्वानरे अक्रमतानदुह्य् अक्रमत ।
सो ऽदृंहयत सो ऽधारयत ॥

indro rūpeṇāgnir vahena prajāpatiḥ parameṣṭhī virāṭ ।
viśvānare akramata vaiśvānare akramatānaduhy akramata ।
so 'dṛṃhayata so 'dhārayata ॥

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4.11.8

मध्यम् एतद् अनडुहो यत्रैष वह आहितः ।
एतावद् अस्य प्राचीनं यावान् प्रत्यङ् समाहितः ॥

madhyam etad anaḍuho yatraiṣa vaha āhitaḥ ।
etāvad asya prācīnaṃ yāvān pratyaṅ samāhitaḥ ॥

This is the centre of this burden bearer wherein this burden of the universe is collected and concentrated. As much is the part of it gone by as is the part coming up front, both the past and the future concentrated in the centre point. (This is the mystery as well as the reality of the infinite burden bearer and, consequentially, of the burden.)

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4.11.9

यो वेदानदुहो दोहान् सप्तानुपदस्वतः ।
प्रजां च लोकं चाप्नोति तथा सप्तऋषयो विदुः ॥

yo vedānaduho dohān saptānupadasvataḥ ।
prajāṃ ca lokaṃ cāpnoti tathā saptaṛṣayo viduḥ ॥

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4.11.10

पद्भिः सेदिम् अवक्रामन्न् इरां जङ्घाभिर् उत्खिदन् ।
स्रमेणानड्वान् कीलालं कीनाशश् चाभि गछतः ॥

padbhiḥ sedim avakrāmann irāṃ jaṅghābhir utkhidan ।
srameṇānaḍvān kīlālaṃ kīnāśaś cābhi gachataḥ ॥

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4.11.11

द्वादश वा एता रात्रीर् व्रत्या आहुः प्रजापतेः ।
तत्रोप ब्रह्म यो वेद तद् वा अनडुहो व्रतम् ॥

dvādaśa vā etā rātrīr vratyā āhuḥ prajāpateḥ ।
tatropa brahma yo veda tad vā anaḍuho vratam ॥

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4.11.12

दुहे सायं दुहे प्रातर् दुहे मध्यंदिनं परि ।
दोहा ये अस्य संयन्ति तान् विद्मानुपदस्वतः ॥

duhe sāyaṃ duhe prātar duhe madhyaṃdinaṃ pari ।
dohā ye asya saṃyanti tān vidmānupadasvataḥ ॥

Atharvaveda 4.12 · 7 mantras

4.12.1

रोहण्य् असि रोहण्य् अस्थ्नश् छिन्नस्य रोहणी ।
रोहयेदम् अरुन्धति ॥

rohaṇy asi rohaṇy asthnaś chinnasya rohaṇī ।
rohayedam arundhati ॥

You are Rohini, the healer, healer of the broken bone. Growing, unobstmctive, Arundhati, clearer of the blockade, pray heal this wound and let the bone grow normally.

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4.12.2

यत् ते रिष्टं यत् ते द्युत्तम् अस्ति पेष्ट्रं त आत्मनि ।
धाता तद् भद्रया पुनः सं दधत् परुषा परुः ॥

yat te riṣṭaṃ yat te dyuttam asti peṣṭraṃ ta ātmani ।
dhātā tad bhadrayā punaḥ saṃ dadhat paruṣā paruḥ ॥

Whatever in your body is injured, whatever is tom and broken and cmshed, may the universal healer with this efficacious herb join, every part with another and heal to full growth.

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4.12.3

सं ते मज्जा मज्ज्ञा भवतु सम् उ ते परुषा परुः ।
सं ते मांसस्य विस्रस्तं सम् अस्थ्य् अपि रोहतु ॥

saṃ te majjā majjñā bhavatu sam u te paruṣā paruḥ ।
saṃ te māṃsasya visrastaṃ sam asthy api rohatu ॥

Let your marrow join with marrow and grow, let your joint of spine join with the joint, let the tom flesh be healed, join with the bone and grow.

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4.12.4

मज्जा मज्ञा सं धीयतां चर्मणा चर्म रोहतु ।
असृक् ते अस्थि रोहतु मांसं मांसेन रोहतु ॥

majjā majñā saṃ dhīyatāṃ carmaṇā carma rohatu ।
asṛk te asthi rohatu māṃsaṃ māṃsena rohatu ॥

Let the marrow join and grow with marrow, let your skin join with the skin and grow, let the blood and bone join and grow, and let the flesh grow with the flesh.

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4.12.5

लोम लोम्ना सं कल्पया त्वचा सं कल्पया त्वचम् ।
असृक् ते अस्थि रोहतु छिन्नं सं धेह्य् ओषधे ॥

loma lomnā saṃ kalpayā tvacā saṃ kalpayā tvacam ।
asṛk te asthi rohatu chinnaṃ saṃ dhehy oṣadhe ॥

Let the hair be planted with the hair, let the skin be joined with the skin, let the blood heal the bone and let it grow, let the broken bone be joined with the bone.

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4.12.6

स उत् तिष्ठ प्रेहि प्र द्रव रथः सुचक्रः ।
सुपविः सुनाभिः प्रति तिष्ठोर्ध्वः ॥

sa ut tiṣṭha prehi pra drava rathaḥ sucakraḥ ।
supaviḥ sunābhiḥ prati tiṣṭhordhvaḥ ॥

Arise and stand, O patient, move up, go fast like a chariot of strong wheels, strong felly and strong nave, stand, stand and stay, stand firm and stay up.

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4.12.7

यदि कर्तं पतित्वा संशश्रे यदि वाश्मा प्रहृतो जघान ।
ऋभू रथस्येवाङ्गानि सं दधत् परुषा परुः ॥

yadi kartaṃ patitvā saṃśaśre yadi vāśmā prahṛto jaghāna ।
ṛbhū rathasyevāṅgāni saṃ dadhat paruṣā paruḥ ॥

If the wound is caused by a large knife, or a stone-shot has hit you, let the surgeon join, part with part as an expert technician repairs and rejoins the parts of a chariot.

Atharvaveda 4.13 · 7 mantras

4.13.1

उत देवा अवहितं देवा उन् नयथा पुनः ।
उतागश् चक्रुषं देवा देवा जीवयथा पुनः ॥

uta devā avahitaṃ devā un nayathā punaḥ ।
utāgaś cakruṣaṃ devā devā jīvayathā punaḥ ॥

O Devas, noble, brilliant and generous powers and people, raise the fallen, raise them higher again and again. And, O devas, O lovers of divinity, if they do evil and commit sin, even then save them, give them life again, redeem them.

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4.13.2

द्वाव् इमौ वातौ वात आ सिन्धोर् आ परावतः ।
दक्षं ते अन्य आवातु व्य् अन्यो वातु यद् रपः ॥

dvāv imau vātau vāta ā sindhor ā parāvataḥ ।
dakṣaṃ te anya āvātu vy anyo vātu yad rapaḥ ॥

Two winds these are that blow: One that blows from nature’s sea and the river of energy, the other blows far off and away. One is prana that blows in to the lungs, the heart and the blood stream. There is the other, apana, that blows out. The one, prana, breathes in energy, freshness, enthusiasm and expertise. The other, apana, blows out whatever is impure and polluted.

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4.13.3

आ वात वाहि भेषजं वि वात वाहि यद् रपः ।
त्वं हि विश्वभेषज देवानां दूत ईयसे ॥

ā vāta vāhi bheṣajaṃ vi vāta vāhi yad rapaḥ ।
tvaṃ hi viśvabheṣaja devānāṃ dūta īyase ॥

O prana, blow in the sanative energy that repairs and strengthens the body system with good health. O apana, blow out and throw away what is impure and polluted. O wind, you are the universal sanative, destroyer of ill-health, and you blow as messenger of the divinities, harbinger of good health and the joy of living.

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4.13.4

त्रायन्ताम् इमं देवास् त्रायन्तां मरुतां गणाः ।
त्रायन्तां विश्वा भूतानि यथायम् अरपा असत् ॥

trāyantām imaṃ devās trāyantāṃ marutāṃ gaṇāḥ ।
trāyantāṃ viśvā bhūtāni yathāyam arapā asat ॥

O Devas, divinities of nature and humanity, save this life, this humanity. O energies of the winds, energise and save this life of humanity. O human and natural forms and forces of the world, save and strengthen this life so that it may become free from sin and violence.

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4.13.5

आ त्वागमं शंतातिभिर् अथो अरिष्टतातिभिः ।
दक्षं त उग्रम् आभारिषं परा यक्ष्मं सुवामि ते ॥

ā tvāgamaṃ śaṃtātibhir atho ariṣṭatātibhiḥ ।
dakṣaṃ ta ugram ābhāriṣaṃ parā yakṣmaṃ suvāmi te ॥

O man, I come to you with the means and message of peace and good health and freedom from violence and disease. I bear and bring for you the lustre of good health, passion for life and expertise to live and work. I inspire and energise you and throw out consumptive and cancerous negativities from your health system.

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4.13.6

अयं मे हस्तो भगवान् अयं मे भगवत्तरः ।
अयं मे विश्वभेषजो ऽयं शिवाभिमर्शनः ॥

ayaṃ me hasto bhagavān ayaṃ me bhagavattaraḥ ।
ayaṃ me viśvabheṣajo 'yaṃ śivābhimarśanaḥ ॥

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4.13.7

हस्ताभ्यां दशशाखाभ्यां जिह्वा वाचः पुरोगवी ।
अनामयित्नुभ्यां हस्ताभ्यां ताभ्यां त्वाभि मृशामसि ॥

hastābhyāṃ daśaśākhābhyāṃ jihvā vācaḥ purogavī ।
anāmayitnubhyāṃ hastābhyāṃ tābhyāṃ tvābhi mṛśāmasi ॥

Atharvaveda 4.14 · 9 mantras

4.14.1

अजो ह्य् अग्नेर् अजनिष्ट शोकात् सो अपश्यज् जनितारम् अग्रे ।
तेन देवा देवताम् अग्रा आयन् तेन रोहान् रुरुहुर् मेध्यासः ॥

ajo hy agner ajaniṣṭa śokāt so apaśyaj janitāram agre ।
tena devā devatām agrā āyan tena rohān ruruhur medhyāsaḥ ॥

Aja, the unborn human soul, rose into the state of being by the will and passion of Agni, light eternal beyond the state of Being and Becoming. As it arose, it first saw the Janita, light eternal, the generator that brought it into being. By the same divine presence and will the divinities of nature and sagely nobilities of humanity first attained to their divine character. Men of pure mind and spirit too rise to their heights of possibility by the same light of divinity.

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4.14.2

क्रमध्वम् अग्निना नाकम् उख्यान् हस्तेषु बिभ्रतः ।
दिवस् पृष्ठं स्वर् गत्वा मिश्रा देवेभिर् आध्वम् ॥

kramadhvam agninā nākam ukhyān hasteṣu bibhrataḥ ।
divas pṛṣṭhaṃ svar gatvā miśrā devebhir ādhvam ॥

By the light and grace of Agni, go forward and rise to the state of bliss, bearing in hands yajnic homage for the fire and, having reached on top of the regions of light and bliss by the divinities, attain to the state of liberation.

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4.14.3

पृष्ठात् पृथिव्या अहम् अन्तरिक्षम् आरुहम् अन्तरिक्षाद् दिवम् आरुहम् ।
दिवो नाकस्य पृष्ठात् स्वर् ज्योतिर् अगाम् अहम् ॥

pṛṣṭhāt pṛthivyā aham antarikṣam āruham antarikṣād divam āruham ।
divo nākasya pṛṣṭhāt svar jyotir agām aham ॥

From the highest vedi of earthly yajna, I rise to the sky, from the sky I rise to the regions of light, from the top of heavenly joy of the regions of light I have risen to the light and bliss of Divinity. (This mantra describes the yogi’s ascent from the heights of attainment on earth, through the skies and solar regions to the state of Turiya, absolute bliss in the Kaivalya state of pure Being. The state of the ascent of humanity to Divinity, or alternatively, the descent of Divinity to humanity is described in Rgveda 8, 44, 23.)

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4.14.4

स्वर् यन्तो नापेक्षन्त आ द्यां रोहन्ति रोदसी ।
यज्ञं ये विश्वतोधारं सुविद्वांसो वितेनिरे ॥

svar yanto nāpekṣanta ā dyāṃ rohanti rodasī ।
yajñaṃ ye viśvatodhāraṃ suvidvāṃso vitenire ॥

Sagely men of knowledge and experiential attainment, who practice and expand at their individual level the yajna of communion between their soul and the cosmic soul, and rise from the earth through sky and the solar regions on way to the bliss of Divinity, accept nothing for a compromise but only the attainment of union with the Divine.

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4.14.5

अग्ने प्रेहि प्रथमो देवतानां चक्षुर् देवानाम् उत मानुषानाम् ।
इयक्षमाणा भृगुभिः सजोषाः स्वर् यन्तु यजमानाः स्वस्ति ॥

agne prehi prathamo devatānāṃ cakṣur devānām uta mānuṣānām ।
iyakṣamāṇā bhṛgubhiḥ sajoṣāḥ svar yantu yajamānāḥ svasti ॥

Come Agni, be with us, first, last and eternal, first of the divinities, light of divines such as the sun, and light of the spirit of humanity. May the yajamanas. loving and joining in company with veteran sages and scholars, rise to divine bliss. May there be good and all round well being with them.

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4.14.6

अजम् अनज्मि पयसा घृतेन दिव्यं सुपर्नं पयसं बृहन्तम् ।
तेन गेष्म सुकृतस्य लोकं स्वर् आरोहन्तो अभि नाकम् उत्तमम् ॥

ajam anajmi payasā ghṛtena divyaṃ suparnaṃ payasaṃ bṛhantam ।
tena geṣma sukṛtasya lokaṃ svar ārohanto abhi nākam uttamam ॥

With the homage of milk and ghrta in the sacred fire, I honour, celebrate and serve the Aja, unborn, eternal, infinite Divine Spirit of golden glory. May we, by the service and the light and grace of Agni, rising to the regions of bliss, reach the presence of Divinity, the state of infinite happiness.

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4.14.7

पञ्चौदनं पञ्चभिर् अङ्गुलिभिर् दर्व्योद्धर पञ्चधैतम् ओदनम् ।
प्राच्यां दिशि शिरो अजस्य धेहि दक्षिणायां दिशि दक्षिणं धेहि पार्श्वम् ॥

pañcaudanaṃ pañcabhir aṅgulibhir darvyoddhara pañcadhaitam odanam ।
prācyāṃ diśi śiro ajasya dhehi dakṣiṇāyāṃ diśi dakṣiṇaṃ dhehi pārśvam ॥

Hold the panchaudana, havi prepared from five grains and milk, curd, ghrta, rock sugar and honey, in a ladle with five fingers of the hand, raise it to offer into the sacred fire. Keep the Aja’s, unborn soul’s, head, i.e., intelligence in the east direction, the right part in the southern direction. (Aja here does not mean a goat, it means ‘the man in the posture of meditation and prayer.’ ‘Panchandana’ havi is love, faith, knowledge, prayer and communion and all other experience gathered through five senses, mind and intelligence. The mantra means the yajna of self-surrender to Divinity).

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4.14.8

प्रतीच्यां दिशि भसदम् अस्य धेह्य् उत्तरस्यां दिश्य् उत्तरं धेहि पार्श्वम् ।
ऊर्ध्वायां दिश्य् अजस्यानूकं धेहि दिशि ध्रुवायां धेहि पाजस्यम् अन्तरिक्षे मध्यतो मध्यम् अस्य ॥

pratīcyāṃ diśi bhasadam asya dhehy uttarasyāṃ diśy uttaraṃ dhehi pārśvam ।
ūrdhvāyāṃ diśy ajasyānūkaṃ dhehi diśi dhruvāyāṃ dhehi pājasyam antarikṣe madhyato madhyam asya ॥

Keep the Aja’s back part in the western direction, keep the left part in the northern direction, keep the spine vertically straight in the upper direction, keep the lower part firm on the seat on ground, and keep the middle part in the middle position. (This is obviously a description of the body posture when the yajamana sits on the vedi or the yogi sits in proper posture for meditation. The word ‘dhruvayam’ is echoed in Patanjali’s description of the meditation posture in Yoga Sutras, 2, 46 where he says that the yogi’s seat should be “firm and comfortable: sthira sukham asanam.”

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4.14.9

शृतम् अजं शृतया प्रोर्णुहि त्वचा सर्वैर् अङ्गैः संभृतं विश्वरूपम् ।
स उत् तिस्ठेतो अभि नाकम् उत्तमं पद्भिश् चतुर्भिः प्रति तिष्ठ दिक्षु ॥

śṛtam ajaṃ śṛtayā prorṇuhi tvacā sarvair aṅgaiḥ saṃbhṛtaṃ viśvarūpam ।
sa ut tisṭheto abhi nākam uttamaṃ padbhiś caturbhiḥ prati tiṣṭha dikṣu ॥

human soul, complete in all aspects of human virtue, perfected and raised to universal character in the existential medium of personality, enfold it in the infinite grace of Divinity. O man, completed, perfected, universalised, and now consecrated with divine grace, rise from the earth to the highest state of divine bliss and with all four stages of ascension from existence to essence, sojourn in perfect freedom over all directions of eternal time and space.

Atharvaveda 4.15 · 16 mantras

4.15.1

समुत्पतन्तु प्रदिशो नभस्वतीः सम् अभ्राणि वातजूतानि यन्तु ।
महऋषभस्य नदतो नभस्वतो वाश्रा आपः पृथिवीं तर्पयन्तु ॥

samutpatantu pradiśo nabhasvatīḥ sam abhrāṇi vātajūtāni yantu ।
mahaṛṣabhasya nadato nabhasvato vāśrā āpaḥ pṛthivīṃ tarpayantu ॥

Let clusters of dense vapour in the quarters of the firmament rush in together. Let clouds driven by winds fly on together. Let overladen showers dense with vapour of the thundering clouds of bursting sky rain down and fill the earth to the full.

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4.15.2

सम् ईक्षयन्तु तविषाः सुदानवो ऽपां रसा ओषधीभिः सचन्ताम् ।
वर्षस्य सर्गा महयन्तु भूमिं पृथग् जायन्ताम् ओषधयो विश्वरूपाः ॥

sam īkṣayantu taviṣāḥ sudānavo 'pāṃ rasā oṣadhībhiḥ sacantām ।
varṣasya sargā mahayantu bhūmiṃ pṛthag jāyantām oṣadhayo viśvarūpāḥ ॥

Let mighty generous clouds be favourable to us and and share their delicious showers of vitality with herbs and trees. Let showers of rain arouse and exalt the earth. Let herbs of immense variety sprout and grow in all different ways.

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4.15.3

सम् ईक्षयस्व गायतो नभांस्य् अपाम् वेगासः पृथग् उद् विजन्ताम् ।
वर्षस्य सर्गा महयन्तु भूमिं पृथग् जायन्ताम् वीरुधो विश्वरूपाः ॥

sam īkṣayasva gāyato nabhāṃsy apām vegāsaḥ pṛthag ud vijantām ।
varṣasya sargā mahayantu bhūmiṃ pṛthag jāyantām vīrudho viśvarūpāḥ ॥

O lord, show us the rumbling clouds in the skies. Let multitudes of clouds rush on and overwhelm the firmament. Let showers of rain gladden and exalt the earth. Let plants and trees of all kinds sprout and grow.

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4.15.4

गणास् त्वोप गायन्तु मारुताः पर्जन्य घोषिणः पृथक् ।
सर्गा वर्षस्य वर्षतो वर्षन्तु पृथिवीम् अनु ॥

gaṇās tvopa gāyantu mārutāḥ parjanya ghoṣiṇaḥ pṛthak ।
sargā varṣasya varṣato varṣantu pṛthivīm anu ॥

Let currents of wind, O cloud of rain, celebrate you in song all round. May showers of rain falling and blessing the earth according to the needs of the season oblige us.

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4.15.5

उद् ईरयत मरुतः समुद्रतस् त्वेषो अर्को नभ उत् पातयाथ ।
महऋषभस्य नदतो नभस्वतो वाश्रा आपः पृथिवीं तर्पयन्तु ॥

ud īrayata marutaḥ samudratas tveṣo arko nabha ut pātayātha ।
mahaṛṣabhasya nadato nabhasvato vāśrā āpaḥ pṛthivīṃ tarpayantu ॥

O winds, stir the vapours of water from the sea evaporated by the heat of the sun and raise them to the sky. Let the profuse showers of rain from the rumbling clouds of the roaring sky fall and fill the earth to the full.

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4.15.6

अभि क्रन्द स्तनयार्दयोदधिं भूमिं पर्जन्य पयसा सम् अङ्धि ।
त्वया सृष्टं बहुलम् ऐतु वर्षम् आशारैषी कृशगुर् एत्व् अस्तम् ॥

abhi kranda stanayārdayodadhiṃ bhūmiṃ parjanya payasā sam aṅdhi ।
tvayā sṛṣṭaṃ bahulam aitu varṣam āśāraiṣī kṛśagur etv astam ॥

Thunder and roar, O cloud, shake the flood of the firmament into showers, and bless the earth with life giving rain. Let the showers released by you fall and flow profusely, and let the hopeful farmer go home happy.

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4.15.7

सं वो ऽवन्तु सुदानव उत्सा अजगरा उत ।
मरुद्भिः प्रच्युता मेघा वर्षन्तु पृथिवीम् अनु ॥

saṃ vo 'vantu sudānava utsā ajagarā uta ।
marudbhiḥ pracyutā meghā varṣantu pṛthivīm anu ॥

Let the mighty bounteous showers save you from drought and promote you to prosperity. Let the clouds impelled and propelled by the winds rain down on earth in showers according to the needs of the season.

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4.15.8

आशामाशां वि द्योततां वाता वान्तु दिशोदिशः ।
मरुद्भिः प्रच्युता मेघाः सं यन्तु पृथिवीम् अनु ॥

āśāmāśāṃ vi dyotatāṃ vātā vāntu diśodiśaḥ ।
marudbhiḥ pracyutā meghāḥ saṃ yantu pṛthivīm anu ॥

Let lightnings flash all round in all directions. Let winds blow in all directions from all directions. Let clouds moved by winds shower in accord with the earth.

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4.15.9

आपो विद्युद् अभ्रं वर्षं सं वो ऽवन्तु सुदानव उत्सा अजगरा उत ।
मरुद्भिः प्रच्युता मेघाः प्रावन्तु पृथिवीम् अनु ॥

āpo vidyud abhraṃ varṣaṃ saṃ vo 'vantu sudānava utsā ajagarā uta ।
marudbhiḥ pracyutā meghāḥ prāvantu pṛthivīm anu ॥

O children of the earth, let waters, lightning and thunder, cloud and showers, and the great bounteous floods of water, rains, rivers and seas protect and promote you to prosperity. May the clouds moved by winds promote the produce of the earth.

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4.15.10

अपाम् अग्निस् तनूभिः संविदानो य ओषधीनाम् अधिपा बभूव ।
स नो वर्षं वनुतां जातवेदाः प्राणं प्रजाभ्यो अमृतं दिवस् परि ॥

apām agnis tanūbhiḥ saṃvidāno ya oṣadhīnām adhipā babhūva ।
sa no varṣaṃ vanutāṃ jātavedāḥ prāṇaṃ prajābhyo amṛtaṃ divas pari ॥

May Agni, Jataveda, all pervasive vitality of life, one with the form and spirit of waters and life forms, which is over all protector and promoter of the life and efficacy of herbs, bless us with nectar showers of water from over the heavens and the firmament as the very breath and energy of life for all people and other forms of life.

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4.15.11

प्रजापतिः सलिलाद् आ समुद्राद् आप ईरयन्न् उदधिम् अर्दयाति ।
प्र प्यायतां वृष्णो अश्वस्य रेतो ऽर्वान् एतेन स्तनयित्नुनेहि ॥

prajāpatiḥ salilād ā samudrād āpa īrayann udadhim ardayāti ।
pra pyāyatāṃ vṛṣṇo aśvasya reto 'rvān etena stanayitnunehi ॥

Prajapati, lord of his people, solar sustainer of life, raising vapours of water from the rolling oceans, forms and breaks the spatial oceans of vapours. By this, may the living vitality of the generous abundant cloud increase, and by this very augmentation, further, may the showers of rain by the catalytic force of lightning come down and bless the earth.

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4.15.12

अपो निषिञ्चन्न् असुरः पिता नः श्वसन्तु गर्गरा अपां वरुणाव नीचीर् अपः सृज ।
वदन्तु पृश्निबाहवो मण्डूका इरिणानु ॥

apo niṣiñcann asuraḥ pitā naḥ śvasantu gargarā apāṃ varuṇāva nīcīr apaḥ sṛja ।
vadantu pṛśnibāhavo maṇḍūkā iriṇānu ॥

The cloud of waters and showers, giver of life energy, is our protector and promoter. O Varuna, dear cloud, release the showers of rain down and let the streams and pools of water come to life, and then let the colourful frogs croak with joy in the rippling pools and flowing streams in celebration of the earth.

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4.15.13

संवत्सरं शशयाना ब्राह्मणा व्रतचारिणः ।
वाचम् पर्जन्यजिन्वितां प्र मण्दूका अवादिषुः ॥

saṃvatsaraṃ śaśayānā brāhmaṇā vratacāriṇaḥ ।
vācam parjanyajinvitāṃ pra maṇdūkā avādiṣuḥ ॥

Frogs are celebrants of divinity: observing the cycle of nature’s seasons, lying in hybernation for a year, they sing and celebrate life, singing in their natural language inspired by the cloud and showers of rain.

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4.15.14

उपप्रवद मण्डूकि वर्षं आ वद तादुरि ।
मध्ये ह्रदस्य प्लवस्व विगृह्य चतुरः पदः ॥

upapravada maṇḍūki varṣaṃ ā vada tāduri ।
madhye hradasya plavasva vigṛhya caturaḥ padaḥ ॥

O froggy, O little baby froggy, sing and celebrate. Call on the rain, extend your four legs in joy and swim freely in the flood.

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4.15.15

खण्वखा3इ खैमखा3इ मध्ये तदुरि ।
वर्षं वनुध्वं पितरो मरुतां मन इछत ॥

khaṇvakhā3i khaimakhā3i madhye taduri ।
varṣaṃ vanudhvaṃ pitaro marutāṃ mana ichata ॥

O hybemating froggy, O silent little one, enjoy and have fun in the rain. O seniors, guardians of the people, try to have the knowledge and favour of the

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4.15.16

महान्तं कोशम् उद् अचाभि षिञ्च सविद्युतं भवतु वातु वातः ।
तन्वतां यज्ञं बहुधा विसृष्टा आनन्दिनीर् ओषधयो भवन्तु ॥

mahāntaṃ kośam ud acābhi ṣiñca savidyutaṃ bhavatu vātu vātaḥ ।
tanvatāṃ yajñaṃ bahudhā visṛṣṭā ānandinīr oṣadhayo bhavantu ॥

O lord, O people, raise the cloud, treasure bearer of rain. Bring rain on the earth. Let the sky flash with thunder and lightning for rain. Let the wind blow favourable for rain. Extend and develop yajna for rain. Let the herbs, sprouted, grown and extended for yajna and rain be great sources of joy and well being.

Atharvaveda 4.16 · 9 mantras

4.16.1

बृहन्न् एषाम् अधिष्ठाता अन्तिकाद् इव पश्यति ।
य स्तायन् मन्यते चरन्त् सर्वं देवा इदं विदुः ॥

bṛhann eṣām adhiṣṭhātā antikād iva paśyati ।
ya stāyan manyate carant sarvaṃ devā idaṃ viduḥ ॥

Mighty and infinitely great is the ruling lord and master of these worlds of the universe who watches everything as if at the closest, directly, and, expanding these all, alert and ever awake, knows, watches and assesses the entire universe and its working. This, the brilliant divine sages know well.

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4.16.2

यस् तिष्ठति चरति यश् च वञ्चति यो निलायं चरति यः प्रतङ्कम् ।
द्वौ संनिषद्य यन् मन्त्रयेते राजा तद् वेद वरुणस् तृतीयः ॥

yas tiṣṭhati carati yaś ca vañcati yo nilāyaṃ carati yaḥ prataṅkam ।
dvau saṃniṣadya yan mantrayete rājā tad veda varuṇas tṛtīyaḥ ॥

Who does not move and stands still, who moves, who deceives, who acts under disguise or openly or crookedly, whatever two people in consult talk and decide together, all these the third, the witness, the all-ruling Varuna, lord of universal judgement, dispensation and retribution, knows, ever watchful.

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4.16.3

उतेयं भूमिर् वरुणस्य राज्ञ उतासौ द्यौर् बृहती दूरेअन्ता ।
उतो समुद्रौ वरुणस्य कुक्षी उतास्मिन्न् अल्प उदके निलीनः ॥

uteyaṃ bhūmir varuṇasya rājña utāsau dyaur bṛhatī dūreantā ।
uto samudrau varuṇasya kukṣī utāsminn alpa udake nilīnaḥ ॥

And this earth is the dominion of the ruler Varuna, and so is that vast heaven at the far end, and both the oceans of earth and space are Varuna’s, they all exist in him, and so does he pervade and is hidden in the greatest and in the smallest of waters.

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4.16.4

उत यो द्याम् अतिसर्पात् परस्तान् न स मुच्यातै वरुणस्य राज्ञः ।
दिव स्पशः प्र चरन्तीदम् अस्य सहस्राक्षा अति पश्यन्ति भूमिम् ॥

uta yo dyām atisarpāt parastān na sa mucyātai varuṇasya rājñaḥ ।
diva spaśaḥ pra carantīdam asya sahasrākṣā ati paśyanti bhūmim ॥

And he who thinks he might possibly stride beyond the far off heavens of light cannot get away free from the dominion of the ruler Varuna. The watchful sentinels of this lord of light and the heavens are ever on the move, watching, thousand eyed, they watch even beyond the world of existence. They watch intensely, they miss nothing.

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4.16.5

सर्वं तद् राजा वरुणो वि चष्टे यद् अन्तरा रोदसी यत् परस्तात् ।
संख्याता अस्य निमिषो जनानाम् अक्षान् इव श्वघ्नी नि मिनोति तानि ॥

sarvaṃ tad rājā varuṇo vi caṣṭe yad antarā rodasī yat parastāt ।
saṃkhyātā asya nimiṣo janānām akṣān iva śvaghnī ni minoti tāni ॥

All that, the ruler Varuna watches closely, whatever is in heaven and earth and beyond. Even people’s wink of the eye every moment throughout life is watched, counted and assessed by him as every cast and move of the dice is perceived by the player. (May be he is a player. He has cast the die and watches. We are the dice. He casts us according to our Karma, but we move according to our will, still within the rules of his game.)

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4.16.6

ये ते पाशा वरुण सप्तसप्त त्रेधा तिष्ठन्ति विषिता रुषन्तः ।
छिनन्तु सर्वे अनृतं वदन्तं यः सत्यवाद्य् अति तं सृजन्तु ॥

ye te pāśā varuṇa saptasapta tredhā tiṣṭhanti viṣitā ruṣantaḥ ।
chinantu sarve anṛtaṃ vadantaṃ yaḥ satyavādy ati taṃ sṛjantu ॥

O Varuna, those threefold laws of existence seven by seven, which ever abide, ever active, ever shining, never sparing, may they all bind or split the personality of the man who speaks untruth, and may they all release and recreate the man who speaks the truth.

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4.16.7

शतेन पाशैर् अभि धेहि वरुणैनं मा ते मोच्य् अनृतवाङ् नृचक्षः ।
आस्तां जाल्म उदरं श्रंशयित्वा कोश इवाबन्धः परिकृत्यमानः ॥

śatena pāśair abhi dhehi varuṇainaṃ mā te mocy anṛtavāṅ nṛcakṣaḥ ।
āstāṃ jālma udaraṃ śraṃśayitvā kośa ivābandhaḥ parikṛtyamānaḥ ॥

O Varuna, all presiding, all watching ruler, with a hundred bonds of your laws bind and restrain this liar. Let him not escape the bonds of your law. Let this unfortunate man, his inner personality split into shreds, self-tortured, lie loose like a broken vessel.

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4.16.8

यः समाभ्यो वरुणो यो व्याभ्यो यः संदेश्यो वरुणो यो विदेश्यो ।
यो दैवो वरुणो यश् च मानुषः ॥

yaḥ samābhyo varuṇo yo vyābhyo yaḥ saṃdeśyo varuṇo yo videśyo ।
yo daivo varuṇo yaś ca mānuṣaḥ ॥

Varuna that is common and equal for all, yet different and specific for every one among all, Varuna that is good and equal for all places, Varuna that is different and specific for all places, that Varuna is good to the divinely sages as well as to ordinary human beings.

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4.16.9

तैस् त्वा सर्वैर् अभि ष्यामि पाशैर् असाव् आमुष्यायणामुष्याः पुत्र ।
तान् उ ते सर्वान् अनुसंदिशामि ॥

tais tvā sarvair abhi ṣyāmi pāśair asāv āmuṣyāyaṇāmuṣyāḥ putra ।
tān u te sarvān anusaṃdiśāmi ॥

By all these bonds of the law of Nature I bind you, son of your mother and scion of your family line. i.e., gotra, and direct that all of them be applied to you.

Atharvaveda 4.17 · 8 mantras

4.17.1

ईशाणां त्वा भेषजानाम् उज्जेष आ रभामहे ।
चक्रे सहस्रवीर्यम् सर्वस्मा ओषधे त्वा ॥

īśāṇāṃ tvā bheṣajānām ujjeṣa ā rabhāmahe ।
cakre sahasravīryam sarvasmā oṣadhe tvā ॥

O Apamarga, best of herbal sanatives, in order to win our medical objective we take you up for medical treatment and reinforce you to a thousandfold higher efficacy as a cure for all diseases.

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4.17.2

सत्यजितं शपथयावनीं सहमानां पुनःसराम् ।
सर्वाः सम् अह्व्य् ओषधीर् इतो नः पारयाद् इति ॥

satyajitaṃ śapathayāvanīṃ sahamānāṃ punaḥsarām ।
sarvāḥ sam ahvy oṣadhīr ito naḥ pārayād iti ॥

I take up and reinforce the truly conquering, cursed disease reverting, successfully challenging and persistently acting herb in which I collect and concentrate the power and efficacy of all herbs in general so that it may give us success in fighting against all diseases.

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4.17.3

या शशाप शपनेन याघं मूरम् आदधे ।
या रसस्य हरणाय जातम् आरेभे तोकम् अत्तु सा ॥

yā śaśāpa śapanena yāghaṃ mūram ādadhe ।
yā rasasya haraṇāya jātam ārebhe tokam attu sā ॥

Whatever has reviled the patient with its malignity, whatever has planted itself as a fast growing killer disease, whatever has seized life’s regenerative force to consume the vitality of life and arrest the renewal, may all that cancerous curse itself consume its own germination and further growth to cause its own end.

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4.17.4

यां ते चक्रुर् आमे पात्रे यां चक्रुर् नीललोहिते ।
आमे मांसे कृत्यां यां चक्रुस् तया कृत्याकृतो जहि ॥

yāṃ te cakrur āme pātre yāṃ cakrur nīlalohite ।
āme māṃse kṛtyāṃ yāṃ cakrus tayā kṛtyākṛto jahi ॥

Whatever damage the cancerous causes do in the constipated intestines, whatever they do in the veins and arteries, whatever damage they do in the formative flesh, by whatever ways and causes they do so, by that very process reversed, destroy the causes of the disease.

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4.17.5

दौष्वप्न्यं दौर्जीवित्यं रक्षो अभ्वम् अराय्यः ।
दुर्णाम्नीः सर्वा दुर्वाचस् ता अस्मन् नाशयामसि ॥

dauṣvapnyaṃ daurjīvityaṃ rakṣo abhvam arāyyaḥ ।
durṇāmnīḥ sarvā durvācas tā asman nāśayāmasi ॥

Bad dreams and loss of sleep, depression, hyper tension and schizophrenia, debility, loss of lustre, and all cursed and superstitious diseases concerned with loss of honour and image and loss of reputation, we eliminate from us. (Dumaman and Durvach are names of piles.)

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4.17.6

क्षुधामारं तृष्णामारम् अगोताम् अनपत्यताम् ।
अपामार्ग त्वया वयं सर्वं तद् अप मृज्महे ॥

kṣudhāmāraṃ tṛṣṇāmāram agotām anapatyatām ।
apāmārga tvayā vayaṃ sarvaṃ tad apa mṛjmahe ॥

O Apamarga, destroyer of all want of health and causes of death and disease, with your power and efficacy we ward off and cleanse loss of appetite, diseases concerned with thirst, diseases of the weakness and loss of perceptive senses and dementia, sterility and infertility and all other ailments of body and mind.

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4.17.7

तृष्णामारं क्षुधामारं अथो अक्षपराजयम् ।
अपामार्ग त्वया वयं सर्वं तद् अप मृज्महे ॥

tṛṣṇāmāraṃ kṣudhāmāraṃ atho akṣaparājayam ।
apāmārga tvayā vayaṃ sarvaṃ tad apa mṛjmahe ॥

O Apamarga, panacea for health and happiness, with your versatile power and efficacy we eliminate from our life and society all diseases that cause death by thirst or loss of thirst, by hunger or loss of hunger, and all mental diseases caused by addiction such as gambling, alcohol or the thrill of chance and unknown possibility and expectation.

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4.17.8

अपामार्ग ओषधीनां सर्वासाम् एक इद् वशी ।
तेन ते मृज्म आस्थितम् अथ त्वम् अगदश् चर ॥

apāmārga oṣadhīnāṃ sarvāsām eka id vaśī ।
tena te mṛjma āsthitam atha tvam agadaś cara ॥

Of all the medicines, Apamarga is the one all conquering against disease. O patient, with that we cure and eliminate the chronic disease from you so that you live and enjoy life healthy, happy and free from disease.

Atharvaveda 4.18 · 8 mantras

4.18.1

समं ज्योतिः सूर्येणाह्ना रात्री समावती ।
कृणोमि सत्यम् ऊतये ऽरसाः सन्तु कृत्वरीः ॥

samaṃ jyotiḥ sūryeṇāhnā rātrī samāvatī ।
kṛṇomi satyam ūtaye 'rasāḥ santu kṛtvarīḥ ॥

Light is naturally one with the sun. Night is naturally close with the day, (the one implies the other). Similarly, I naturally follow the truth for peace, protection and security (because truth and peace with security and protection go together). And when you equate truth and peace both in action, all counterfeits become void of meaning and value. This is the ethics of professionalism.

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4.18.2

यो देवाः कृत्यां कृत्वा हराद् अविदुषो गृहम् ।
वत्सो धारुर् इव मातरं तं प्रत्यग् उप पद्यताम् ॥

yo devāḥ kṛtyāṃ kṛtvā harād aviduṣo gṛham ।
vatso dhārur iva mātaraṃ taṃ pratyag upa padyatām ॥

If a clever man does an evil act and robs the house of an ignorant, innocent, trustful man, O devas, the evil act would recoil on the doer just like a suckling calf going back to the mother cow. (This is a warning to a clever professional who cheats innocent, ignorant people while they trust him. Evil must return to its source.)

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4.18.3

अमा कृत्वा पाप्मानं यस् तेनान्यं जिघांसति ।
अश्मानस् तस्यां दग्धायां बहुलाः फट् करिक्रति ॥

amā kṛtvā pāpmānaṃ yas tenānyaṃ jighāṃsati ।
aśmānas tasyāṃ dagdhāyāṃ bahulāḥ phaṭ karikrati ॥

Having planned an evil act at home, if a person hurts and kills another person with that, then, when that evil act is accomplished and ignited, imumerable stones would burst forth and destroy the evil doer.

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4.18.4

सहस्रधामन् विशिखान् विग्रीवां छायया त्वम् ।
प्रति स्म चक्रुषे कृत्यां प्रियां प्रियावते हर ॥

sahasradhāman viśikhān vigrīvāṃ chāyayā tvam ।
prati sma cakruṣe kṛtyāṃ priyāṃ priyāvate hara ॥

O ruler of a thousand powers, protector and keeper of a thousand homes, let the old and young sleep at peace. Put the ogres and saboteurs to sleep. Pay the evil doer in his own coin. Let the lover meet his love.

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4.18.5

अनयाहम् ओषध्या सर्वाः कृत्या अदूदुषम् ।
यां क्षेत्रे चक्रुर् यां गोषु यां वा ते पुरुषेषु ॥

anayāham oṣadhyā sarvāḥ kṛtyā adūduṣam ।
yāṃ kṣetre cakrur yāṃ goṣu yāṃ vā te puruṣeṣu ॥

Thus by this curative and policy of peace I cleanse all deeds and correct all evils that they do in the field, among the cows or among the people, and this I do for you all.

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4.18.6

यश् चकार न शशाक कर्तुं शश्रे पादम् अङ्गुरिम् ।
चकार भद्रम् अस्मभ्यम् आत्मने तपनम् तु सः ॥

yaś cakāra na śaśāka kartuṃ śaśre pādam aṅgurim ।
cakāra bhadram asmabhyam ātmane tapanam tu saḥ ॥

He that does the mischief, or tries but fails to accomplish, bums his own fingers or breaks his own feet. In a way, he does good to us, awakens us, but, after all, this is a torture for himself, he is a torture unto himself.

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4.18.7

अपामार्गो ऽप मार्ष्टु क्षेत्रियं शपथश् च यः ।
अपाह यातुधानीर् अप सर्वा अराय्यः ॥

apāmārgo 'pa mārṣṭu kṣetriyaṃ śapathaś ca yaḥ ।
apāha yātudhānīr apa sarvā arāyyaḥ ॥

Apamarga, real panacea, is that which cleanses and cures us of all physical disease and mental malignity, whether it is individual or social, inherited, contacted or acquired. It is that which removes all that is negative, destructive and depressive and causes self-deprivation and social debility.

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4.18.8

अपमृज्य यातुधानान् अप सर्वा अराय्यः ।
अपामार्ग त्वया वयं सर्वं तद् अप मृज्महे ॥

apamṛjya yātudhānān apa sarvā arāyyaḥ ।
apāmārga tvayā vayaṃ sarvaṃ tad apa mṛjmahe ॥

O Apamarga, personal and social panacea, having cleansed out all violence and negativity, all depression, deprivation and poverty by your power and efficacy, we clean up the totality of life and restore it to purity, good health, happiness and advancement.

Atharvaveda 4.19 · 8 mantras

4.19.1

उतो अस्य् अबन्धुकृद् उतो असि नु जामिकृत् ।
उतो कृत्याकृतः प्रजां नदम् इवा छिन्धि वार्षिकम् ॥

uto asy abandhukṛd uto asi nu jāmikṛt ।
uto kṛtyākṛtaḥ prajāṃ nadam ivā chindhi vārṣikam ॥

Apamarga, as you are destroyer of deadly and dread diseases and also of the dearest dearly related addictions, pray destroy all violent negativities and their after effects, uproot them like the weeds of the rainy season.

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4.19.2

ब्राह्मणेन पर्युक्तासि कण्वेन नार्षदेन ।
सेनेवैषि त्विषीमती न तत्र भयम् अस्ति यत्र प्राप्नोष्य् ओषधे ॥

brāhmaṇena paryuktāsi kaṇvena nārṣadena ।
senevaiṣi tviṣīmatī na tatra bhayam asti yatra prāpnoṣy oṣadhe ॥

Created and composed by the Brahmana, scholar of science and Veda, and approved by the wise Councillor, you go forward shining and blazing like a victorious army. O Oshadhi, wherever you reach and act, fear stays no more.

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4.19.3

अग्रम् एष्य् ओषधीनां ज्योतिषेवाभिदीपयन् ।
उत त्रातासि पाकस्याथो हन्तासि रक्षसः ॥

agram eṣy oṣadhīnāṃ jyotiṣevābhidīpayan ।
uta trātāsi pākasyātho hantāsi rakṣasaḥ ॥

You go forward working as first and foremost of all medications, shining and illuminating like light itself. You are the saviour, preserver and protector of the good and pure with maturity, and destroyer of the violent and the killers.

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4.19.4

यद् अदो देवा असुरांस् त्वयाग्रे निरकुर्वत ।
ततस् त्वम् अध्य् ओषधे ऽपामार्गो अजायथाः ॥

yad ado devā asurāṃs tvayāgre nirakurvata ।
tatas tvam adhy oṣadhe 'pāmārgo ajāyathāḥ ॥

O Apamarga, divine energy for universal cleansing, when in the early stages of natural evolution, the positive and brilliant creative forces of nature struggle with negativities and resistance and they overcome the dark forces, then you, O crown of herbs, come into being on earth by the name Apamarga, the cleanser, pioneer and leader on way to progress.

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4.19.5

विभिन्दती शतशाखा विभिन्दन् नाम ते पिता ।
प्रत्यग् वि भिन्धि त्वं तं यो अस्मां अभिदासति ॥

vibhindatī śataśākhā vibhindan nāma te pitā ।
pratyag vi bhindhi tvaṃ taṃ yo asmāṃ abhidāsati ॥

O Apamarga, hundred branched destroyer of disease, it is Nature’s force of survival and victory over negative forces in the evolutionary circuit that is your generator. So turn to those forces which seek to subdue and enslave us and destroy them in their natural course.

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4.19.6

असद् भूम्याः सम् अभवत् तद् याम् एति महद् व्यचः ।
तद् वै ततो विधूपायत् प्रत्यक् कर्तारम् ऋछतु ॥

asad bhūmyāḥ sam abhavat tad yām eti mahad vyacaḥ ।
tad vai tato vidhūpāyat pratyak kartāram ṛchatu ॥

Whatever is false, untrue and negative born of the earth, even if it grows and rises to the skies, ultimately returns to its root cause, torturing its own creator and perpetrator.

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4.19.7

प्रत्यङ् हि संबभूविथ प्रतीचीनफलस् त्वम् ।
सर्वान् मच् छपथाम् अधि वरीयो यावया वधम् ॥

pratyaṅ hi saṃbabhūvitha pratīcīnaphalas tvam ।
sarvān mac chapathām adhi varīyo yāvayā vadham ॥

You are the giver of the fruit of action: direct for the positive, indirect and reverse for the negative. Pray revert all negativities and enmities directed against me, and revert all deadly weapons away from me.

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4.19.8

शतेन मा परि पाहि सहस्रेणाभि रक्षा मा ।
इन्द्रस् ते वीरुधां पत उग्र ओज्मानम् आ दधत् ॥

śatena mā pari pāhi sahasreṇābhi rakṣā mā ।
indras te vīrudhāṃ pata ugra ojmānam ā dadhat ॥

Promote me all over by a hundredfold vigour and vitality. Protect me all round by thosandfold forces against all danger and debility. O chief of herbs and sanatives, may mighty Indra, the omnipotence of Nature, bless you with lustrous vigour and efficacy.

Atharvaveda 4.20 · 9 mantras

4.20.1

आ पश्यति प्रति पश्यति परा पश्यति पश्यति ।
दिवम् अन्तरिक्षम् आद् भूमिं सर्वं तद् देवि पश्यति ॥

ā paśyati prati paśyati parā paśyati paśyati ।
divam antarikṣam ād bhūmiṃ sarvaṃ tad devi paśyati ॥

O vision divine, by virtue of your gift, man sees, sees directly, sees everything specifically, sees far far and wide, sees all round. Man sees the heavens, the middle regions, the earth, man sees all.

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4.20.2

तिस्रो दिवस् तिस्रः पृथिवीः षट् चेमाः प्रदिशाः पृथक् ।
त्वयाहं सर्वा भूतानि पश्यानि देव्य् ओषधे ॥

tisro divas tisraḥ pṛthivīḥ ṣaṭ cemāḥ pradiśāḥ pṛthak ।
tvayāhaṃ sarvā bhūtāni paśyāni devy oṣadhe ॥

O divine herb, divine light of the eye, by virtue of your gift, let me see all things in existence: three regions of light, three earths, three skies and into these six directions one by one.

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4.20.3

दिव्यस्य सुपर्णस्य तस्य हासि कनीनिका ।
सा भूमिम् आ रुरोहिथ वह्यं श्रान्ता वधूर् इव ॥

divyasya suparṇasya tasya hāsi kanīnikā ।
sā bhūmim ā rurohitha vahyaṃ śrāntā vadhūr iva ॥

O vision divine, you are indeed the pupil of the eye of that celestial Sojourner of light,, the Sun. You are all-watchful divinity, who have descended from heaven to ride this earthly chariot like a way-wearied bride on way to the lover’s home.

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4.20.4

तां मे सहस्राक्षो देवो दक्षिणे हस्त आ दधत् ।
तयाहं सर्वं पश्यामि यश् च शूद्र उतार्यः ॥

tāṃ me sahasrākṣo devo dakṣiṇe hasta ā dadhat ।
tayāhaṃ sarvaṃ paśyāmi yaś ca śūdra utāryaḥ ॥

That vision, the lord of thousand divine eyes has placed in me, this herb in my right hand for a symbol and efficacy. By that intensified vision. I see all, well and equally, whether one is rich or poor, high or low, master or servant.

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4.20.5

आविष् कृणुष्व रूपानि मात्मानम् अप गूहथाः ।
अथो सहस्रचक्षो त्वं प्रति पश्याः किमीदिनः ॥

āviṣ kṛṇuṣva rūpāni mātmānam apa gūhathāḥ ।
atho sahasracakṣo tvaṃ prati paśyāḥ kimīdinaḥ ॥

O lord of a thousand divine eyes, show the real forms of things. Do not hide yourself either, reveal yourself to my vision, and help me see into the evil realities of things in existence.

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4.20.6

दर्शय मा यातुधानान् दर्शय यातुधान्यः ।
पिशाचान्त् सर्वान् दर्शयेति त्वा रभ ओषधे ॥

darśaya mā yātudhānān darśaya yātudhānyaḥ ।
piśācānt sarvān darśayeti tvā rabha oṣadhe ॥

O herb, O light and vision of divine efficacy, show me the covert damagers of life, show me the demonic devourers of life and vitality. Show me those cancerous negativities that eat up the blood. For this purpose I love and pray for the vision of knowledge.

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4.20.7

कश्यपस्य चक्षुर् असि शुन्याश् च चतुरक्ष्याः ।
वीध्रे सूर्यम् इव सर्पन्तं मा पिशाचं तिरस् करः ॥

kaśyapasya cakṣur asi śunyāś ca caturakṣyāḥ ।
vīdhre sūryam iva sarpantaṃ mā piśācaṃ tiras karaḥ ॥

O light of divine vision, you are the super-eye of the realised yogi. You are the fourfold vision of the sagely seer’s consciousness. Like the sun travelling in space, reveal, and allow not the cancerous evils to conceal themselves and escape the detective eye.

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4.20.8

उद् अग्रभं परिपाणाद् यातुधानं किमीदिनम् ।
तेनाहं सर्वं पश्याम्य् उत शूद्रम् उतार्यम् ॥

ud agrabhaṃ paripāṇād yātudhānaṃ kimīdinam ।
tenāhaṃ sarvaṃ paśyāmy uta śūdram utāryam ॥

With the eye of divine vision, I have caught out the damagers of life from their den and restrained the demonic devourers from sucking life blood. Thereby now I see all whether high or low, I see them all in their human reality.

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4.20.9

यो अन्तरिक्षेण पतति दिवम् यश् च अतिसर्पति ।
भूमिं यो मन्यते नाथं तं पिशाचम् प्र दर्शय ॥

yo antarikṣeṇa patati divam yaś ca atisarpati ।
bhūmiṃ yo manyate nāthaṃ taṃ piśācam pra darśaya ॥

Who flies through the middle regions, who rises to the regions of light and feels he would cross, who thinks he has mastered the earth, such devilish blood suckers, O vision divine, pray expose.

Atharvaveda 4.21 · 7 mantras

4.21.1

आ गावो अग्मन्न् उत भद्रम् अक्रन्त् सीदन्तु गोष्ठे रणयन्त्व् अस्मे ।
प्रजावतीः पुरुरूपा इह स्युर् इन्द्राय पूर्वीर् उषसो दुहानाः ॥

ā gāvo agmann uta bhadram akrant sīdantu goṣṭhe raṇayantv asme ।
prajāvatīḥ pururūpā iha syur indrāya pūrvīr uṣaso duhānāḥ ॥

Let the cows come as rays of the sun. Let them sit and rest in the stalls, be happy and comfortable. They bring happiness and good fortune. May they be fertile, rich with progeny, abundant rich and various by growing, yielding plenty of milk for the health and prosperity of the nation, and thereby let them be harbingers of light as morning dawns.

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4.21.2

इन्द्रो यज्वने गृणते च शिक्षत उपेद् ददाति न स्वं मुषायति ।
भूयोभूयो रयिम् इद् अस्य वर्धयन्न् अभिन्ने खिल्ये नि दधाति देवयुम् ॥

indro yajvane gṛṇate ca śikṣata uped dadāti na svaṃ muṣāyati ।
bhūyobhūyo rayim id asya vardhayann abhinne khilye ni dadhāti devayum ॥

Indra, the ruler, gives protection and maintenance for the man dedicated to yajna, divine celebration, social service and education for a purpose and self-fulfilment. This way too he does not deplete his wealth and knowledge but maintains it. He constantly adds to the wealth of the nation in every region of the land, maintaining the devotees of learning for society and divinity, without taking anything from them materially.

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4.21.3

न ता नशन्ति न दभाति तस्करो नासाम् आमित्रो व्यथिर् आ दधर्षति ।
देवांश् च याभिर् यजते ददाति च ज्योग् इत् ताभिः सचते गोपतिः सह ॥

na tā naśanti na dabhāti taskaro nāsām āmitro vyathir ā dadharṣati ।
devāṃś ca yābhir yajate dadāti ca jyog it tābhiḥ sacate gopatiḥ saha ॥

Knowledge, fruits of yajna, generosity, patronage of learning and culture, these are holy cows. Like light rays they do not perish, nor deplete, nor fade away. Thief steals them not, no enemy can afflict them, nor can anyone injure or insult them. The master of these cows, lights and radiations, with which and for which he serves the divinities, the learned and the wise, creates, gives and adds to the beauty of life and he too lives, lasts and constantly rises with them.

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4.21.4

न ता अर्वा रेणुककाटो ऽश्नुते न संस्कृतत्रम् उप यन्ति ता अभि ।
उरुगायम् अभयं तस्य ता अनु गावो मर्तस्य वि चरन्ति यज्वनः ॥

na tā arvā reṇukakāṭo 'śnute na saṃskṛtatram upa yanti tā abhi ।
urugāyam abhayaṃ tasya tā anu gāvo martasya vi caranti yajvanaḥ ॥

Neither a vociferous brute raising clouds of dust like a war horse attains to these rays of light and culture, nor do these raidations penetrate the thick head of a cruel butcher insulated against sensitivity and enlightenment. These cows of holy light and refinement roam freely around the open pastures of the generous man of yajna and social service, a boundless world of freedom, fearlessness and non-violence.

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4.21.5

गावो भगो गाव इन्द्रो म इछाद् गाव सोमस्य प्रथमस्य भक्षः ।
इमा या गावः स जनास इन्द्र इछामि हृदा मनसा चिद् इन्द्रम् ॥

gāvo bhago gāva indro ma ichād gāva somasya prathamasya bhakṣaḥ ।
imā yā gāvaḥ sa janāsa indra ichāmi hṛdā manasā cid indram ॥

May Bhaga, lord of wealth and good fortune, give me cows. May Indra, lord of power and majesty, develop cows for me. May Bhaksha, lord of primal food, energy and joy of life give me cows for soma. O people, O lord of power and glory, Indra, I love all that cows stand for: mothers of food and energy, sources of sweetness, light and culture, masters of knowledge and wisdom, honour and excellence. I love all that with my heart and mind: the beauty, the glory, the ecstasy!

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4.21.6

यूयं गावो मेदयथ कृशं चिद् अश्रीरं चित् कृणुथा सुप्रतीकम् ।
भद्रं गृहं कृणुथ भद्रवाचो बृहद् वो वय उच्यते सभासु ॥

yūyaṃ gāvo medayatha kṛśaṃ cid aśrīraṃ cit kṛṇuthā supratīkam ।
bhadraṃ gṛhaṃ kṛṇutha bhadravāco bṛhad vo vaya ucyate sabhāsu ॥

O cows, mother spirits of the nation’s body, mind and soul, give health and vigour to the weak, turn the ugly to beauty and grace. O people, make the home overflow with peace, prosperity and the bliss of good fortune. You command noble speech and your life and work is praised in the assemblies of the wise.

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4.21.7

प्रजावतीः सूयवसे रुशन्तीः शुद्धा अपः सुप्रपाणे पिबन्तीः ।
मा व स्तेन ईशत माघशंसः परि वो रुद्रस्य हेतिर् वृणक्तु ॥

prajāvatīḥ sūyavase ruśantīḥ śuddhā apaḥ suprapāṇe pibantīḥ ।
mā va stena īśata māghaśaṃsaḥ pari vo rudrasya hetir vṛṇaktu ॥

Atharvaveda 4.22 · 7 mantras

4.22.1

इमम् इन्द्र वर्धय क्षत्रियं मे इमं विशाम् एकवृषं कृणु त्वम् ।
निर् अमित्रान् अक्ष्णुह्य् अस्य सर्वांस् तान् रन्धयास्मा अहमुत्तरेषु ॥

imam indra vardhaya kṣatriyaṃ me imaṃ viśām ekavṛṣaṃ kṛṇu tvam ।
nir amitrān akṣṇuhy asya sarvāṃs tān randhayāsmā ahamuttareṣu ॥

O lord of majesty and power, Indra, exalt this ruler for our sake, make him unique, brave and generous among the people. Weaken all his adversaries disposed to enmity. Subject those to the ruling order who boast and proclaim: T am the greatest of the great’. Exalt the one ruling order.

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4.22.2

एमं भज ग्रामे अश्वेषु गोषु निष् टं भज यो अमित्रो अस्य ।
वर्ष्म क्षत्राणाम् अयम् अस्तु राजेन्द्र शत्रुं रन्धय सर्वम् अस्मै ॥

emaṃ bhaja grāme aśveṣu goṣu niṣ ṭaṃ bhaja yo amitro asya ।
varṣma kṣatrāṇām ayam astu rājendra śatruṃ randhaya sarvam asmai ॥

Indra, ruling spirit of the nation, support him among the citizens, among the warriors and among the farmers. Do not support him who is his enemy, without all support from him. Let him be the highest embodiment of the ruling orders. Subject all opposition, adversaries and enemies to the order of governance.

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4.22.3

अयम् अस्तु धनपतिर् धनानाम् अयं विशां विश्पतिर् अस्तु राजा ।
अस्मिन्न् इन्द्र महि वर्चांसि धेह्य् अवर्चसं कृणुहि शत्रुम् अस्य ॥

ayam astu dhanapatir dhanānām ayaṃ viśāṃ viśpatir astu rājā ।
asminn indra mahi varcāṃsi dhehy avarcasaṃ kṛṇuhi śatrum asya ॥

Let him be the master, protector, promoter and controller of the wealth and resources of the nation. Let him be the ruler of the people over all professional communities. Let him thus be the ruler. Indra, lord of omnipotence and glory of majesty, vest him with great virtues of dignity, power and lustre. And let his enemies be reduced to the lack-lustre status of negative performers down to zero.

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4.22.4

अस्मै द्यावापृथिवी भूरि वामं दुहाथां घर्मदुघे इव धेनू ।
अयं राजा प्रिय इन्द्रस्य भूयात् प्रियो गवाम् ओषधीनां पशूनाम् ॥

asmai dyāvāpṛthivī bhūri vāmaṃ duhāthāṃ gharmadughe iva dhenū ।
ayaṃ rājā priya indrasya bhūyāt priyo gavām oṣadhīnāṃ paśūnām ॥

O heaven and earth, O brilliant sages and scholars, O children of the earth, create and provide ample wealth and beauty of culture and majesty for the order like two fertile cows yielding profuse milk and ghrta for yajna. Let this ruler be dear to Indra, lord omnipotent, and to the sovereign social order, and let him be a lover of cows, herbs and trees and the animals in general.

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4.22.5

युनज्मि त उत्तरावन्तम् इन्द्रं येन जयन्ति न पराजयन्ते ।
यस् त्वा करद् एकवृषं जनानाम् उत राज्ञाम् उत्तमं मानवानाम् ॥

yunajmi ta uttarāvantam indraṃ yena jayanti na parājayante ।
yas tvā karad ekavṛṣaṃ janānām uta rājñām uttamaṃ mānavānām ॥

For your order of governance, I join you with the lord of supreme power and vision by whose grace men always win their goal and never lose, and who would raise you to the highest position among people, the highest office among rulers, and the highest wisdom among men on earth.

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4.22.6

उत्तरस् त्वम् अधरे ते सपत्ना ये के च राजन् प्रतिशत्रवस् ते ।
एकवृष इन्द्रसखा जिगीवां छत्रूयताम् आ भरा भोजनानि ॥

uttaras tvam adhare te sapatnā ye ke ca rājan pratiśatravas te ।
ekavṛṣa indrasakhā jigīvāṃ chatrūyatām ā bharā bhojanāni ॥

O ruler, you are the higher, your equal adversaries and your enemies, one and all, they are lower, much below you. Sole one, unique and mighty, friend and favourite of Indra, Lord Almighty, you are the conqueror of those engaged in enmity. Bring in and provide for the food, maintenance and peace and security of the people, all of them, friends and foes alike.

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4.22.7

सिंहप्रतीको विशो अद्धि सर्वा व्याघ्रप्रतीको ऽव बाधस्व शत्रून् ।
एकवृष इन्द्रसखा जिगीवां छत्रूयताम् आ खिदा भोजनानि ॥

siṃhapratīko viśo addhi sarvā vyāghrapratīko 'va bādhasva śatrūn ।
ekavṛṣa indrasakhā jigīvāṃ chatrūyatām ā khidā bhojanāni ॥

Icon of the regal lion as ruler of the people, rule and have taxes from the people but spend and consume the money like yajnic fire. Icon of the ferocious tiger, fight out all the enemies, sole one, unique and mighty, friend and favourite of Indra, conqueror of enemies, take away all their powers and privileges which are the fuel of their enmity. (This idea of the expenditure of income is clearly expressed in Rgveda 6, 59, 3 through the metaphor of yajna: National income by taxes is havi, expenditure is oblation, and the return is fragrance. The Vedic idea of political and administrative management of national economy is: Maximum production from the minimum investment.)

Atharvaveda 4.23 · 7 mantras

4.23.1

अग्नेर् मन्वे प्रथमस्य प्रचेतसः पाञ्चजन्यस्य बहुधा यम् इन्धते ।
विशोविशः प्रविशिवांसम् ईमहे स नो मुञ्चत्व् अंहसः ॥

agner manve prathamasya pracetasaḥ pāñcajanyasya bahudhā yam indhate ।
viśoviśaḥ praviśivāṃsam īmahe sa no muñcatv aṃhasaḥ ॥

I study, honour and meditate on Agni, first, eternal, omniscient lord of all the five orders of humanity, pervasive in all people at all places, whom people light and serve in many ways. May omnipresent Agni save and deliver us from all sin and distress, we pray.

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4.23.2

यथा हव्यं वहसि जातवेदो यथा यज्ञं कल्पयसि प्रजानन् ।
एवा देवेभ्यः सुमतिं न आ वह स नो मुञ्चत्व् अंहसः ॥

yathā havyaṃ vahasi jātavedo yathā yajñaṃ kalpayasi prajānan ।
evā devebhyaḥ sumatiṃ na ā vaha sa no muñcatv aṃhasaḥ ॥

O Jataveda, all knowing, all pervasive power and presence, as you carry the input of yajnic havi, carry it to the divinities, and accomplish the form and function of yajna with full knowledge, so bring us, too, noble knowledge and wisdom and save us from sin and distress.

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4.23.3

यामन्यामन्न् उपयुक्तं वहिष्ठं कर्मङ्कर्मन्न् आभगम् अग्निम् ईडे ।
रक्षोहणं यज्ञवृधं घृताहुतं स नो मुञ्चत्व् अंहसः ॥

yāmanyāmann upayuktaṃ vahiṣṭhaṃ karmaṅkarmann ābhagam agnim īḍe ।
rakṣohaṇaṃ yajñavṛdhaṃ ghṛtāhutaṃ sa no muñcatv aṃhasaḥ ॥

Day by day, I honour and worship Agni, appropriate and adorable power in every act and programme, most powerful carrier of every thing to its proper end, destroyer of negative forces, growing by oblations of ghrta and exalting the yajna further. May that dynamic power and presence save us from sin and distress.

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4.23.4

सुजातं जातवेदसम् अग्निं वैश्वानरं विभुम् ।
हव्यवाहं हवामहे स नो मुञ्चत्व् अंहसः ॥

sujātaṃ jātavedasam agniṃ vaiśvānaraṃ vibhum ।
havyavāhaṃ havāmahe sa no muñcatv aṃhasaḥ ॥

We invoke and worship Agni, divinely manifested in every thing born in existence, infinite presence and universal friend of mankind and carrier of our homage to the divinities. May that dynamic power save us from sin and distress.

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4.23.5

येन ऋषयो बलम् अद्योतयन् युजा येनासुराणाम् अयुवन्त मायाः ।
येनाग्निना पणीन् इन्द्रो जिगाय स नो मुञ्चत्व् अंहसः ॥

yena ṛṣayo balam adyotayan yujā yenāsurāṇām ayuvanta māyāḥ ।
yenāgninā paṇīn indro jigāya sa no muñcatv aṃhasaḥ ॥

May Agni, divine friendly power by which visionary sages light up their power of the mind and spirit, by which the uncanny forces of the evil are thrown off, and by which Indra, the mighty soul, wins over the stinginess, fear and negativities of small minds and social forces, that Agni, we pray, may save us from sin and distress.

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4.23.6

येन देवा अमृतम् अन्वविन्दन् येनौषधीर् मधुमतीर् अकृण्वन् ।
येन देवाः स्वर् आभरन्त् स नो मुञ्चत्व् अंहसः ॥

yena devā amṛtam anvavindan yenauṣadhīr madhumatīr akṛṇvan ।
yena devāḥ svar ābharant sa no muñcatv aṃhasaḥ ॥

Agni by which the devas, divine souls, achieve the nectar of immortality, by which the vital vibrations of nature make the herb full of honey sweets, and by which the Devas rise to eternal joy and bring the heaven upon earth, may that Agni bring us the light and ecstasy against sin and darkness.

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4.23.7

यस्येदं प्रदिशि यद् विरोचते यज् जातं जनितव्यं च केवलम् ।
स्तौम्य् अग्निं नाथितो जोहवीमि स नो मुञ्चत्व् अंहसः ॥

yasyedaṃ pradiśi yad virocate yaj jātaṃ janitavyaṃ ca kevalam ।
staumy agniṃ nāthito johavīmi sa no muñcatv aṃhasaḥ ॥

Atharvaveda 4.24 · 7 mantras

4.24.1

इन्द्रस्य मन्महे शश्वद् इद् अस्य मन्महे वृत्रघ्न स्तोमा उप मेम आगुः ।
यो दाशुषः सुकृतो हवम् एति स नो मुञ्चत्व् अंहसः ॥

indrasya manmahe śaśvad id asya manmahe vṛtraghna stomā upa mema āguḥ ।
yo dāśuṣaḥ sukṛto havam eti sa no muñcatv aṃhasaḥ ॥

We think, investigate and reflect upon Indra, omnipotent energy of the lord of nature. We always, in a sustained manner, meditate upon the nature and presence of Indra, lord omnipotent of the universe and destroyer of demonic evil, darkness and ignorance. The words of adoration have now come to me in honour of the lord who listens and responds to the call of the generous man of charity and noble action. May Indra save us from sin and distress.

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4.24.2

य उग्रीणाम् उग्रबाहुर् ययुर् यो दानवानां बलम् आरुरोज ।
येन जिताः सिन्धवो येन गावः स नो मुञ्चत्व् अंहसः ॥

ya ugrīṇām ugrabāhur yayur yo dānavānāṃ balam āruroja ।
yena jitāḥ sindhavo yena gāvaḥ sa no muñcatv aṃhasaḥ ॥

We meditate upon Indra, giver of final beatitude, lord of mightiest arms over the blazing brave, who strengthens heroic warriors and shatters the strength of demonic destroyers. He sets the running floods aflow, controls the rolling oceans, shines the stars and spins the planets, radiates the rays of light and blesses the holy cows. May that lord of power and bliss save us from sin and distress.

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4.24.3

यश् चर्षणिप्रो वृषभः स्वर्विद् यस्मै ग्रावाणः प्रवदन्ति नृम्णम् ।
यस्याध्वरः सप्तहोता मदिष्ठः स नो मुञ्चत्व् अंहसः ॥

yaś carṣaṇipro vṛṣabhaḥ svarvid yasmai grāvāṇaḥ pravadanti nṛmṇam ।
yasyādhvaraḥ saptahotā madiṣṭhaḥ sa no muñcatv aṃhasaḥ ॥

He that gives fulfilment to industrious people, brings showers of generosity, illuminates the paths of bliss, for whom yajnic celebrants sing songs of exaltation, whose most ecstatic creative yajna of love and non-violence is conducted by seven priests (i.e., five elements of nature, human soul and Ratm, the cosmic law), may he save us from sin and distress.

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4.24.4

यस्य वशास ऋषभास उक्षणो यस्मै मीयन्ते स्वरवः स्वर्विदे ।
यस्मै शुक्रः पवते ब्रह्मशुम्भितः स नो मुञ्चत्व् अंहसः ॥

yasya vaśāsa ṛṣabhāsa ukṣaṇo yasmai mīyante svaravaḥ svarvide ।
yasmai śukraḥ pavate brahmaśumbhitaḥ sa no muñcatv aṃhasaḥ ॥

Whose law and authority veteran sages honour and cloud showers obey, for whom yajnic flags are hoisted in reverence to his beatific gift of heavenly light, for whom the purest soma of natural ecstasy to the accompaniment of Vedic hymns is offered, may that lord Indra save us from sin and distress.

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4.24.5

यस्य जुष्टिं सोमिनः कामयन्ते यं हवन्त इषुमन्तं गविष्टौ ।
यस्मिन्न् अर्कः शिश्रिये यस्मिन्न् ओजः स नो मुञ्चत्व् अंहसः ॥

yasya juṣṭiṃ sominaḥ kāmayante yaṃ havanta iṣumantaṃ gaviṣṭau ।
yasminn arkaḥ śiśriye yasminn ojaḥ sa no muñcatv aṃhasaḥ ॥

Whose love connoisseurs of soma ecstasy cherish, whom, on the attainment of enlightenment, devotees invoke as the lord giver of target fulfilment, in whom light of the sun finds its centre abode and lustrous might, its original source, may that lord of soma, light and power save us from sin and distress.

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4.24.6

यः प्रथमः कर्मकृत्याय जज्ञे यस्य वीर्यम् प्रथमस्यानुबुद्धम् ।
येनोद्यतो वज्रो ऽभ्यायताहिं स नो मुञ्चत्व् अंहसः ॥

yaḥ prathamaḥ karmakṛtyāya jajñe yasya vīryam prathamasyānubuddham ।
yenodyato vajro 'bhyāyatāhiṃ sa no muñcatv aṃhasaḥ ॥

Who first arose for the act of creation and natural evolution, whose omnipotence is known as the sole divine power, and whose thunder force self-raised strikes the resistent powers with awe, that lord omnipotent, I pray, may save us from sin and distress.

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4.24.7

यः संग्रामान् नयति सं युधे वशी यः पुष्टानि संसृजति द्वयानि ।
स्तौमीन्द्रं नाथितो जोहवीमि स नो मुञ्चत्व् अंहसः ॥

yaḥ saṃgrāmān nayati saṃ yudhe vaśī yaḥ puṣṭāni saṃsṛjati dvayāni ।
staumīndraṃ nāthito johavīmi sa no muñcatv aṃhasaḥ ॥

Who, lord of absolute power and control, guides the forces of natural dynamics to the goal, who creates the two complementarities of nature’s vitality for growth, that Indra, I, self-surrendered, self-controlled, divinely protected, invoke and adore and pray the lord may save us from sin and distress.

Atharvaveda 4.25 · 7 mantras

4.25.1

वायोः सवितुर् विदथानि मन्महे याव् आत्मन्वद् विशथो यौ च रक्षथः ।
यौ विश्वस्य परिभू बभूवथुस् तौ नो मुञ्चतम् अंहसः ॥

vāyoḥ savitur vidathāni manmahe yāv ātmanvad viśatho yau ca rakṣathaḥ ।
yau viśvasya paribhū babhūvathus tau no muñcatam aṃhasaḥ ॥

We contemplate the holy acts and attributes of Vayu, divine cosmic energy, and Savita, refulgent divine creative inspirer, who enter, preserve and promote the living world of nature, who sustain and govern the dynamics of the entire universe. May the two, Vayu and Savita, save us from evil, want and affliction.

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4.25.2

ययोः संख्याता वरिमा पार्हिवानि याभ्यां रजो युपितम् अन्तरिक्षे ।
ययोः प्रायं नान्व् आनशे कश् चन तौ नो मुञ्चतम् अंहसः ॥

yayoḥ saṃkhyātā varimā pārhivāni yābhyāṃ rajo yupitam antarikṣe ।
yayoḥ prāyaṃ nānv ānaśe kaś cana tau no muñcatam aṃhasaḥ ॥

The earthly extensions of nature’s evolution are sustained and comprehended by Vayu and Savita. By them the particles of matter and vapours of water are sustained and controlled in the middle sphere. No one can reach and comprehend the high degree of the dynamics of the two. May they save us from evil, want and affliction.

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4.25.3

तव व्रते नि विशन्ते जनासस् त्वय्य् उदिते प्रेरते चित्रभानो ।
युवं वायो सविता च भुवनानि रक्षथस् तौ नो मुञ्चतम् अंहसः ॥

tava vrate ni viśante janāsas tvayy udite prerate citrabhāno ।
yuvaṃ vāyo savitā ca bhuvanāni rakṣathas tau no muñcatam aṃhasaḥ ॥

O Vayu, all people observe and live in the discipline of your pranic law and sustenance. O Savita of wondrous light, when you rise people feel inspired and engage in their daily tasks. You both, Vayu and Savita, preserve, sustain and promote the worlds of existence. May the two save us from sin, evil and affliction.

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4.25.4

अपेतो वायो सविता च दुष्कृतम् अप रक्षांसि शिमिदां च सेधतम् ।
सं ह्य् ऊर्जया सृजथः सं बलेन तौ नो मुञ्चतम् अंहसः ॥

apeto vāyo savitā ca duṣkṛtam apa rakṣāṃsi śimidāṃ ca sedhatam ।
saṃ hy ūrjayā sṛjathaḥ saṃ balena tau no muñcatam aṃhasaḥ ॥

May Vayu and Savita drive away evil deeds, destructive forces and afflictive elements from here. Together, with pranic energy, strength of vital warmth of nourishment and inspiration for advancement, you evolve and create new possibilities of life’s progress.

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4.25.5

रयिं मे पोषं सवितोत वायुस् तनू दक्षम् आ सुवतां सुशेवम् ।
अयक्ष्मतातिं मह इह धत्तं तौ नो मुञ्चतम् अंहसः ॥

rayiṃ me poṣaṃ savitota vāyus tanū dakṣam ā suvatāṃ suśevam ।
ayakṣmatātiṃ maha iha dhattaṃ tau no muñcatam aṃhasaḥ ॥

May Savita and Vayu both create, bear and bring me cherished and auspicious wealth, honour and excellence, nourishment and good health, strong and handsome body, self-confidence and expertise for action, freedom from weakness and disease, and lustre of life, and bless me here. May both of them save us from sin, affliction and deprivation.

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4.25.6

प्र सुमतिं सवितर् वाय ऊतये महस्वन्तं मत्सरं मादयाथः ।
अर्वाग् वामस्य प्रवतो नि यछतं तौ नो मुञ्चतम् अंहसः ॥

pra sumatiṃ savitar vāya ūtaye mahasvantaṃ matsaraṃ mādayāthaḥ ।
arvāg vāmasya pravato ni yachataṃ tau no muñcatam aṃhasaḥ ॥

Savita and Vayu, pray give us wisdom for protection and progress, pleasure, splendour and bliss for the soul, and progressive and abundant beauty, decency and grace of life. Pray save us from want.

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4.25.7

उप श्रेष्ठा न आशिषो देवयोर् धामन्न् अस्थिरन् ।
स्तौमि देवं सवितारं च वायुं तौ नो मुञ्चन्त्व् अंहसः ॥

upa śreṣṭhā na āśiṣo devayor dhāmann asthiran ।
staumi devaṃ savitāraṃ ca vāyuṃ tau no muñcantv aṃhasaḥ ॥

Atharvaveda 4.26 · 7 mantras

4.26.1

मन्वे वां द्यावापृथिवी सुभोजसौ सचेतसौ ये अप्रथेथाम् अमिता योजनानि ।
प्रतिष्ठे ह्य् अभवतं वसूनां ते नो मुञ्चतम् अंहसः ॥

manve vāṃ dyāvāpṛthivī subhojasau sacetasau ye aprathethām amitā yojanāni ।
pratiṣṭhe hy abhavataṃ vasūnāṃ te no muñcatam aṃhasaḥ ॥

I reflect upon heaven and earth, father and mother potentials of Supreme lord divine, which extend expansive far beyond measures of distance. Both, together, are givers of life and sustenance, being, indeed, the mainstay of the Vasus, abodes and protectors of life’s existence. May they save us from sin and evil.

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4.26.2

प्रतिष्ठे ह्य् अभवतं वसूनां प्रवृद्धे देवी सुभगे उरूची ।
द्यावापृथिवी भवतं मे स्योने ते नो मुञ्चतम् अंहसः ॥

pratiṣṭhe hy abhavataṃ vasūnāṃ pravṛddhe devī subhage urūcī ।
dyāvāpṛthivī bhavataṃ me syone te no muñcatam aṃhasaḥ ॥

Both heaven and earth are indeed the mainstay of the Vasus, abodes of life sustainers. They are ancient and exalted, divinely generous, blissful givers of good fortune and expansive beyond all measure. May both heaven and earth be gracious to me and save us from evil and affliction.

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4.26.3

असन्तापे सुतपसौ हुवे ऽहम् उर्वी गम्भीरे कविभिर् नमस्ये ।
द्यावापृथिवी भवतं मे स्योने ते नो मुञ्चतम् अंहसः ॥

asantāpe sutapasau huve 'ham urvī gambhīre kavibhir namasye ।
dyāvāpṛthivī bhavataṃ me syone te no muñcatam aṃhasaḥ ॥

Unafflictive both, given to relentless law of divinity, heaven and earth I invoke, both expansive wide and high, measureless deep, adorable celebrities for poets. May heaven and earth be gracious to me and save us from sin and suffering.

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4.26.4

ये अमृतं बिभृथो ये हवींषि ये स्रोत्या बिभृथो ये मनुष्यान् ।
द्यावापृथिवी भवतं मे स्योने ते नो मुञ्चतम् अंहसः ॥

ye amṛtaṃ bibhṛtho ye havīṃṣi ye srotyā bibhṛtho ye manuṣyān ।
dyāvāpṛthivī bhavataṃ me syone te no muñcatam aṃhasaḥ ॥

You, O heaven and earth, who bear the nectar sweets of life’s pleasure and sustenance, who bear the fragrant havis for our yajna, who bear streams and rivers, and who bear and sustain humanity, pray be kind and gracious to me and save us from sin and deprivation.

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4.26.5

ये उस्रिया बिभृथो ये वनस्पतीन् ययोर् वां विश्वा भुवनान्य् अन्तः ।
द्यावापृथिवी भवतं मे स्योने ते नो मुञ्चतम् अंहसः ॥

ye usriyā bibhṛtho ye vanaspatīn yayor vāṃ viśvā bhuvanāny antaḥ ।
dyāvāpṛthivī bhavataṃ me syone te no muñcatam aṃhasaḥ ॥

You, O heaven and earth, who bear and sustain the cows, herbs and trees, who bear and sustain all worlds of existence in your wide expanse, pray be kind and gracious to me and save us from sin and starvation.

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4.26.6

ये कीलालेन तर्पयथो ये घृतेन याभ्याम् ऋते न किं चन शक्नुवन्ति ।
द्यावापृथिवी भवतं मे स्योने ते नो मुञ्चतम् अंहसः ॥

ye kīlālena tarpayatho ye ghṛtena yābhyām ṛte na kiṃ cana śaknuvanti ।
dyāvāpṛthivī bhavataṃ me syone te no muñcatam aṃhasaḥ ॥

You, O heaven and earth, who replete the world with food and drink and gratify living beings, without whom no one can possibly do anything, pray be kind and gracious to me and save us from sin and frustration.

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4.26.7

यन् मेदम् अभिशोचति येनयेन वा कृतं पौरुषेयान् न दैवात् ।
स्तौमि द्यावापृथिवी नाथितो जोहवीमि ते नो मुञ्चतम् अंहसः ॥

yan medam abhiśocati yenayena vā kṛtaṃ pauruṣeyān na daivāt ।
staumi dyāvāpṛthivī nāthito johavīmi te no muñcatam aṃhasaḥ ॥

This is that now afflicts me, done for whatever reason, human or destined, not divine, O heaven and earth, I invoke you and to you I pray, helpless but not alienated and unprotected, be kind and gracious to me and save us from sin and sufferance.

Atharvaveda 4.27 · 7 mantras

4.27.1

मरुतां मन्वे अधि मे ब्रुवन्तु प्रेमं वाजं वाजसाते अवन्तु ।
आशून् इव सुयमान् अह्व ऊतये ते नो मुञ्चन्त्व् अंहसः ॥

marutāṃ manve adhi me bruvantu premaṃ vājaṃ vājasāte avantu ।
āśūn iva suyamān ahva ūtaye te no muñcantv aṃhasaḥ ॥

I reflect and meditate upon the Maruts, vibrant forces of nature’s dynamics of evolution inspiring humanity, pioneering scholars and thinkers, and refreshing pranic energies: may they energise me, speak their message to me, preserve, protect and promote this energy and enthusiasm of life to win further victories in our struggle for higher living. Fast like war horses are they, innately controlled progressive powers, leading to fresh achievement, I invoke them for peace, progress and security. May they save us from sin and dangerous over-enthusiasm.

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4.27.2

उत्सम् अक्षितं व्यचन्ति ये सदा य आसिञ्चन्ति रसम् ओषधीषु ।
पुरो दधे मरुतः पृश्निमातॄंस् ते नो मुञ्चन्त्व् अंहसः ॥

utsam akṣitaṃ vyacanti ye sadā ya āsiñcanti rasam oṣadhīṣu ।
puro dadhe marutaḥ pṛśnimātṝṃs te no muñcantv aṃhasaḥ ॥

Children of nature, sun and sky are they who always increase and extend the inexhaustible waters from the cloud down to the sea and infuse the herbs with the sap of life. I keep them ever before my mind and meditate. May they save us from sin and distress so that we may never try to over-reach and fall instead of rising.

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4.27.3

पयो धेनूनां रसम् ओषधीनां जवम् अर्वतां कवयो य इन्वथ ।
शग्मा भवन्तु मरुतो नः स्योनास् ते नो मुञ्चन्त्व् अंहसः ॥

payo dhenūnāṃ rasam oṣadhīnāṃ javam arvatāṃ kavayo ya invatha ।
śagmā bhavantu maruto naḥ syonās te no muñcantv aṃhasaḥ ॥

Poetic powers and forces of creative vision and self-control who increase, invigorate and intensify the milk of cows, sap of herbs and the speed and impulse of the powers of progress, may the Maruts, we pray, be kind and gracious to us and save us from sin and sufferance.

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4.27.4

अपः समुद्राद् दिवम् उद् वहन्ति दिवस् पृथिवीम् अभि ये सृजन्ति ।
ये अद्भिर् ईशाना मरुतश् चरन्ति ते नो मुञ्चन्त्व् अंहसः ॥

apaḥ samudrād divam ud vahanti divas pṛthivīm abhi ye sṛjanti ।
ye adbhir īśānā marutaś caranti te no muñcantv aṃhasaḥ ॥

Maruts, which raise the vapours from the sea to the sun and release the showers of rain from the sun and sky to the earth, sagely pioneers who sojourn with vision from sea to the sun and bring us showers of knowledge from heaven to earth, Maruts, all who command the waters of life and universally roam around for all equally with freedom, may they save us from sin and suffering.

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4.27.5

ये कीलालेन तर्पयन्ति ये घृतेन ये वा वयो मेदसा संसृजन्ति ।
ये अद्भिर् ईशाना मरुतो वर्षयन्ति ते नो मुञ्चन्त्व् अंहसः ॥

ye kīlālena tarpayanti ye ghṛtena ye vā vayo medasā saṃsṛjanti ।
ye adbhir īśānā maruto varṣayanti te no muñcantv aṃhasaḥ ॥

Those that nurture with the food of life, who refine with the sweetness and light of ghrta, who infuse life with beauty and grace, Maruts who command the strength, sweetness and culture of life with grace and no friction, and shower us with the joy of life, may they save us from sin and suffering.

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4.27.6

यदीद् इदं मरुतो मारुतेन यदि देवा दैव्येनेदृग् आर ।
यूयम् ईशिध्वे वसवस् तस्य निष्कृतेस् ते नो मुञ्चन्त्व् अंहसः ॥

yadīd idaṃ maruto mārutena yadi devā daivyenedṛg āra ।
yūyam īśidhve vasavas tasya niṣkṛtes te no muñcantv aṃhasaḥ ॥

O Maruts, if this life as it is is the consequence of the power and potential of maruts, forces of nature, or, O divines, it is so by the will of divinity, then O Vasus, sustainers of life, divine, natural and human, you are competent to shape and reshape it for deliverance, repair and progress onwards. Pray may all save us from sin, sufferance and suffering, and help us recover and advance.

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4.27.7

तिग्मम् अनीकम् विदितं सहस्वन् मारुतं शर्धः पृतनासूग्रम् ।
स्तौमि मरुतो नाथितो जोहवीमि ते नो मुञ्चन्त्व् अंहसः ॥

tigmam anīkam viditaṃ sahasvan mārutaṃ śardhaḥ pṛtanāsūgram ।
staumi maruto nāthito johavīmi te no muñcantv aṃhasaḥ ॥

Atharvaveda 4.28 · 7 mantras

4.28.1

भवाशर्वौ मन्वे वां तस्य वित्तं ययोर् वाम् इदं प्रदिशि यद् विरोचते ।
याव् अस्येशाथे द्विपदो यौ चतुष्पदस् तौ नो मुञ्चतम् अंहसः ॥

bhavāśarvau manve vāṃ tasya vittaṃ yayor vām idaṃ pradiśi yad virocate ।
yāv asyeśāthe dvipado yau catuṣpadas tau no muñcatam aṃhasaḥ ॥

O divine power of creative evolution, Bhava, and O divine power of involution and annihilation, Sharva, I reflect and meditate on you. You know and possess this world which exists and manifests within your space and law, which you both govern in its entirety, whether it is biped or quadruped. O divine ruling powers, pray save us from sin and suffering in this world of life and death.

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4.28.2

ययोर् अभ्यभ्व उत यद् दूरे चिद् यौ विदिताव् इषुभृताम् असिष्ठौ ।
याव् अस्येशथे द्विपदो यौ चतुष्पदस् तौ नो मुञ्चतम् अंहसः ॥

yayor abhyabhva uta yad dūre cid yau viditāv iṣubhṛtām asiṣṭhau ।
yāv asyeśathe dvipado yau catuṣpadas tau no muñcatam aṃhasaḥ ॥

O Bhava and Sharva, who are known as the sharpest shooters of those archers who shoot and kill, under whose control is all that which is near and all that is far, who both govern the bipeds and the quadrupeds, pray, both of you save us from sin and suffering in this world of life and death.

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4.28.3

सहस्राक्षौ वृत्रहना हुवेहं दूरेगव्यूती स्तुवन्न् एम्य् उग्रौ ।
याव् अस्येशथे द्विपदो यौ चतुष्पदस् तौ नो मुञ्चतम् अंहसः ॥

sahasrākṣau vṛtrahanā huvehaṃ dūregavyūtī stuvann emy ugrau ।
yāv asyeśathe dvipado yau catuṣpadas tau no muñcatam aṃhasaḥ ॥

Thousand eyed destroyers of sin, darkness and suffering, blazing far-reachers at the farthest anywhere, I invoke and call upon you, celebrating and praying I come, save us from sin and suffering in this world of life and death, rule as you do the world of bipeds and quadrupeds.

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4.28.4

याव् आरेभाथे बहु साकम् अग्रे प्र चेद् अस्राष्ट्रम् अभिभां जनेषु ।
याव् अस्येशथे द्विपदो यौ चतुष्पदस् तौ नो मुञ्चतम् अंहसः ॥

yāv ārebhāthe bahu sākam agre pra ced asrāṣṭram abhibhāṃ janeṣu ।
yāv asyeśathe dvipado yau catuṣpadas tau no muñcatam aṃhasaḥ ॥

You two who together began the multitude of existence long long before, and created the light among mankind, who rule the world of both bipeds and quadrupeds, pray save us from sin and suffering in this world of life and death.

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4.28.5

ययोर् वधान् नापपद्यते कश् चनान्तर् देवेषूत मानुषेषु ।
याव् अस्येशथे द्विपदो यौ चतुष्पदस् तौ नो मुञ्चतम् अंहसः ॥

yayor vadhān nāpapadyate kaś canāntar deveṣūta mānuṣeṣu ।
yāv asyeśathe dvipado yau catuṣpadas tau no muñcatam aṃhasaḥ ॥

Whose fatal strike no one can escape, whether among the brightest or among ordinary people, who govern and control the bipeds and the quadrupeds both, pray save us from sin and suffering in this world of life and death.

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4.28.6

यः कृत्याकृन् मूलकृद् यातुधानो नि तस्मिन् धत्तं वज्रम् उग्रौ ।
याव् अस्येशथे द्विपदो यौ चतुष्पदस् तौ नो मुञ्चतम् अंहसः ॥

yaḥ kṛtyākṛn mūlakṛd yātudhāno ni tasmin dhattaṃ vajram ugrau ।
yāv asyeśathe dvipado yau catuṣpadas tau no muñcatam aṃhasaḥ ॥

O Bhava and Sharva, whoever be an assassin, a destroyer, a killer of the seed and root of life, O wielders of the thunder and power of life and death, blazing divines who conrtol this world of bipeds and quadrupeds, strike your bolt there, pray save us from sin and suffering and from an ignoble death.

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4.28.7

अधि नो ब्रूतं पृतनासूग्रौ सं वज्रेण सृजतं यः किमीदी ।
स्तौमि भवाशर्वौ नाथितो जोहवीमि तौ नो मुञ्चतम् अंहसः ॥

adhi no brūtaṃ pṛtanāsūgrau saṃ vajreṇa sṛjataṃ yaḥ kimīdī ।
staumi bhavāśarvau nāthito johavīmi tau no muñcatam aṃhasaḥ ॥

Lustrous Bhava and terrible Sharva, speak and guide us in the battles of life, and strike the fatal bolt on him that is selfish, cruel and destructive. I invoke you, celebrate and call upon you, I need help and succour, and pray save us from sin and suffering in this world of life and death.

Atharvaveda 4.29 · 7 mantras

4.29.1

मन्वे वां मित्रावरुणाव् ऋतावृधौ सचेतसौ द्रुह्वणो यौ नुदेथे ।
प्र सत्यावानम् अवथो भरेषु तौ नो मुञ्चतम् अंहसः ॥

manve vāṃ mitrāvaruṇāv ṛtāvṛdhau sacetasau druhvaṇo yau nudethe ।
pra satyāvānam avatho bhareṣu tau no muñcatam aṃhasaḥ ॥

I reflect and meditate on you, O Mitra and Varuna, life’s love and judgement, day and night, sun and wind, prana and apana energisers, powers of governance and justice, observers and augmenters of truth, cooperatives in mind and thought, who drive out mutually conflictive forces, you protect and advance the man of truth in the struggle for better and higher life. Pray save us from sin and distress.

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4.29.2

सचेतसौ द्रुह्वणो यौ नुदेथे प्र सत्यावानम् अवथो भरेषु ।
यौ गछथो नृचक्षसौ बभ्रुणा सुतं तौ नो मुञ्चतम् अंहसः ॥

sacetasau druhvaṇo yau nudethe pra satyāvānam avatho bhareṣu ।
yau gachatho nṛcakṣasau babhruṇā sutaṃ tau no muñcatam aṃhasaḥ ॥

O Mitra and Varuna, equal in mind and thought, who drive out mutually conflictive forces and protect the powers of truth in the human struggle for higher life, who, watching humanity, go to yajna in unison in support of the progress of life, pray save us from sin and suffering.

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4.29.3

याव् अङ्गिरसम् अवथो याव् अगस्तिं मित्रावरुणा जमदग्निम् अत्त्रिम् ।
यौ कश्यपम् अवथो यौ वसिष्ठं तौ नो मुञ्चतम् अंहसः ॥

yāv aṅgirasam avatho yāv agastiṃ mitrāvaruṇā jamadagnim attrim ।
yau kaśyapam avatho yau vasiṣṭhaṃ tau no muñcatam aṃhasaḥ ॥

O Mitra and Varuna, who protect and promote Angiras, specialist of human vitality and breath energy, Agasti, fighter against sin and disease, Jamadagni, promoter of the hearth fire and yajna, Atri, controller of three kinds of suffering, Kashyapa, man of subtle vision, and Vasishtha who provides settlement for the uprooted, pray save us from sin and suffering.

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4.29.4

यौ श्यावाश्वम् अवथो वाध्र्यश्वं मित्रावरुणा पुरुमीढम् अत्त्रिम् ।
यौ विमदम् अवथो सप्तवध्रिं तौ नो मुञ्चतम् अंहसः ॥

yau śyāvāśvam avatho vādhryaśvaṃ mitrāvaruṇā purumīḍham attrim ।
yau vimadam avatho saptavadhriṃ tau no muñcatam aṃhasaḥ ॥

O Mitra and Varuna, who protect and promote Shyavashva, man of dynamic thought and habit, Vadhryashva, man of sense control, Purumidha, man of prosperity, Atri, man of threefold freedom, Vimada, man free from pride, and Saptavadhri, man of controlled mind and senses, pray save us from sin and suffering.

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4.29.5

यौ भरद्वाजम् अवथो यौ गविष्ठिरं विश्वामित्रं वरुण मित्र कुत्सम् ।
यौ कक्षीवन्तम् अवथो प्रोत कण्वं तौ नो मुञ्चतम् अंहसः ॥

yau bharadvājam avatho yau gaviṣṭhiraṃ viśvāmitraṃ varuṇa mitra kutsam ।
yau kakṣīvantam avatho prota kaṇvaṃ tau no muñcatam aṃhasaḥ ॥

O Mitra, O Varuna, who protect and promote Bharadvaja, producer and giver of food, Gavishthara, man of good word and protector of the earthly environment, Vishvamitra, universal friend, Kutsa, destroyer of doubt and malignity, Kakshivan, dynamic man of discipline, and Kanva, man of wisdom and subtle vision, pray save us from sin and suffering.

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4.29.6

यौ मेधातिथिम् अवथो यौ त्रिशोकं मित्रावरुणाव् उशनाम् काव्यं यौ ।
यौ गोतमम् अवथो प्रोत मुग्दलं तौ नो मुञ्चतम् अंहसः ॥

yau medhātithim avatho yau triśokaṃ mitrāvaruṇāv uśanām kāvyaṃ yau ।
yau gotamam avatho prota mugdalaṃ tau no muñcatam aṃhasaḥ ॥

O Mitra and Varuna, who protect and promote Medhatithi, man of controlled intelligence, Trishoka, man thrice brilliant in thought, word and deed, Ushana Kabya, enthusiastic seeker and disciple of the brilliant wise, Gotama, seeker and master of the Word and wisdom of the world, and Mudgala, seeker and creator of happiness, pray save us from sin and distress.

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4.29.7

ययो रथः सत्यवर्त्म र्जुरश्मिर् मिथुया चरन्तम् अभियाति दूषयन् ।
स्तौमि मित्रावरुणौ नाथितो जोहवीमि तौ नो मुञ्चतम् अंहसः ॥

yayo rathaḥ satyavartma rjuraśmir mithuyā carantam abhiyāti dūṣayan ।
staumi mitrāvaruṇau nāthito johavīmi tau no muñcatam aṃhasaḥ ॥

Atharvaveda 4.30 · 8 mantras

4.30.1

अहं रुद्रेभिर् वसुभिश् चराम्य् अहम् आदित्यैर् उत विश्वदेवैः ।
अहं मित्रावरुनोभा बिभर्म्य् अहम् इन्द्राग्नी अहम् अश्विनोभा ॥

ahaṃ rudrebhir vasubhiś carāmy aham ādityair uta viśvadevaiḥ ।
ahaṃ mitrāvarunobhā bibharmy aham indrāgnī aham aśvinobhā ॥

I am Rashtri Devi, light of life, voice of omniscience, universal power and speech all bearing, all borne, co-existent with eleven Rudras, pranic energies, eight Vasus, earth, water, fire, air, space, sun, moon and stars, all abodes and supports of life, twelve Adityas, twelve yearly phases of the sun, and the Vishvedevas, generous and creative divinities of nature and humanity. I bear and support both Mitra and Varuna, day and night, I bear and support Indra and Agni, cosmic energy and vitality of life and intelligence. I bear and support both the Ashvins, all complementaries of nature and humanity such as positive and negative currents of energy circuit in operation, science and technology, physician and surgeon, teacher and preacher.

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4.30.2

अहं राष्ट्री संगमनी वसूनां चिकितुषी प्रथमा यज्ञियानाम् ।
तां मा देवा व्य् अदधुः पुरुत्रा भूरिस्थात्रां भूर्य् आवेशयन्तः ॥

ahaṃ rāṣṭrī saṃgamanī vasūnāṃ cikituṣī prathamā yajñiyānām ।
tāṃ mā devā vy adadhuḥ purutrā bhūristhātrāṃ bhūry āveśayantaḥ ॥

I am the spirit and organisation of the social system. I am the pioneer and harbinger of the wealth, honours and excellences of the corporate system. I am the thought, awareness and determined organisation and constitution of the basics of human life, its principles and values. Scholars, sages and leaders establish me in many socio-political forms with many permament stabilities and many evolving powers and possibilities of progress in many directions.

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4.30.3

अहम् एव स्वयम् इदं वदामि जुष्टं देवानाम् उत मानुषाणाम् ।
यं कामये तन्तम् उग्रं कृणोमि तं ब्रह्माणं तम् ऋषिं तं सुमेधाम् ॥

aham eva svayam idaṃ vadāmi juṣṭaṃ devānām uta mānuṣāṇām ।
yaṃ kāmaye tantam ugraṃ kṛṇomi taṃ brahmāṇaṃ tam ṛṣiṃ taṃ sumedhām ॥

I myself speak all this that is loved, adored and spoken by sages and veteran scholars and even by mortals of average but honest mind. Whosoever I love for his or her merit of nature, character and performance. I raise to brilliance, to piety worthy of a yajnic Brahma, to the vision of a poetic sage and the high intelligence of an exceptional thinker.

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4.30.4

मया सो ऽन्नम् अत्ति यो विपश्यति यः प्राणति य ईम् शृणोत्य् उक्तम् ।
अमन्तवो मां त उप क्षियन्ति श्रुधि श्रुत श्रुद्धेयं ते वदामि ॥

mayā so 'nnam atti yo vipaśyati yaḥ prāṇati ya īm śṛṇoty uktam ।
amantavo māṃ ta upa kṣiyanti śrudhi śruta śruddheyaṃ te vadāmi ॥

O listener, listen, what I say to you is worth listening, believing and doing in faith: Whoever sees whatever he sees, whoever breathes whatever he breathes for energy, whoever hears whatever is said, he receives all that as the food of life from me. Those who do not listen, do not care, do not believe but reject what I say and so neglect me, waste themselves away, they come to ruin.

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4.30.5

अहं रुद्राय धनुर् आ तनोमि ब्रह्मद्विषे शरवे हन्तवा उ ।
अहं जनाय समदं कृणोमि अहम् द्यावापृथिवी आ विवेश ॥

ahaṃ rudrāya dhanur ā tanomi brahmadviṣe śarave hantavā u ।
ahaṃ janāya samadaṃ kṛṇomi aham dyāvāpṛthivī ā viveśa ॥

I draw the bow for Rudra, powers of justice and punishment, to eliminate the forces of hate and violence against the lovers and observers of piety and divinity. I fight for the people and create felicity and joy for them, and I reach and pervade the heaven and earth.

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4.30.6

अहं सोमम् आहनसं बिभर्म्य् अहं त्वष्टारम् उत पूषणं भगम् ।
अहं दधामि द्रविणा हविष्मते सुप्राव्या यजमानाय सुन्वते ॥

ahaṃ somam āhanasaṃ bibharmy ahaṃ tvaṣṭāram uta pūṣaṇaṃ bhagam ।
ahaṃ dadhāmi draviṇā haviṣmate suprāvyā yajamānāya sunvate ॥

I bear the ruling soma joy of corporate existence, how people experience and express it. I bear and support Tvashta, Pusha and Bhaga, formative evolution, nourishment and growth, and the power, excellence and rising glory of the human nation. I bear and bring the wealth and prosperity of life for the yajamana who creates sweetness and light for life and offers liberal havi in the corporate yajna for the common welfare of humanity and indeed for all life.

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4.30.7

अहं सुवे पितरम् अस्य मूर्धन् मम योनिर् अप्स्व् अन्तः समुद्रे ।
ततो वि तिष्ठे भुवनानि विश्वोतामूं द्यां वर्ष्मणोप स्पृशामि ॥

ahaṃ suve pitaram asya mūrdhan mama yonir apsv antaḥ samudre ।
tato vi tiṣṭhe bhuvanāni viśvotāmūṃ dyāṃ varṣmaṇopa spṛśāmi ॥

I create the parental protector on top of this human nation and this world in the form of the ruler and the sun. My place and presence is in the oceanic depth of waters and in the expanding particles of space. That same way I abide in all worlds of the universe, and I reach the high heaven of light and touch the very top of it with my light and grandeur.

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4.30.8

अहम् एव वातैव प्र वाम्य् आरभमाणा भुवनानि विश्वा ।
परो दिवा पर एना पृथिव्यैतावती महिम्ना सं बभूव ॥

aham eva vātaiva pra vāmy ārabhamāṇā bhuvanāni viśvā ।
paro divā para enā pṛthivyaitāvatī mahimnā saṃ babhūva ॥

Loving, embracing and pervading all regions of the universe, I flow forward like the wind that blows across over all spaces. Beyond the heaven, beyond this earthly world, I am, so much is my power and potential, transcendent is my presence.

Atharvaveda 4.31 · 7 mantras

4.31.1

त्वया मन्यो सरथम् आरुजन्तो हर्षमाणा हृषितासो मरुत्वन् ।
तिग्मेषव आयुधा संशिशाना उप प्र यन्तु नरो अग्निरूपाः ॥

tvayā manyo saratham ārujanto harṣamāṇā hṛṣitāso marutvan ।
tigmeṣava āyudhā saṃśiśānā upa pra yantu naro agnirūpāḥ ॥

O Manyu, spirit of vaulting passion without compromise with negativities, may our leading lights, warriors of universal rectitude, riding the chariot with you, breaking through paths of advancement, joyous, bold, undaunted, stormy like wind shears, their arrows like lazer beams, weapons sharp and blazing, go forward like flames of fire.

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4.31.2

अग्निर् इव मन्यो त्विषितः सहस्व सेनानीर् नः सहुरे हूत एधि ।
हत्वाय शत्रून् वि भजस्व वेद ओजो मिमानो वि मृधो नुदस्व ॥

agnir iva manyo tviṣitaḥ sahasva senānīr naḥ sahure hūta edhi ।
hatvāya śatrūn vi bhajasva veda ojo mimāno vi mṛdho nudasva ॥

O Manyu, blazing like fire, commanding our forces, spirit of forbearance and challenge, invoked and called upon, come to lead our battles of life, face the enemies to destroy the adversaries and share the wealth, beauty and goodness of life with all. O spirit comprehending lustrous light of life, move forward, push the adversaries back and throw out the enemies.

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4.31.3

सहस्व मन्यो अभिमातिम् अस्मै रुजन् मृणन् प्रमृणन् प्रेहि शत्रून् ।
उग्रं ते पाजो नन्व् आ रुरुध्रे वशी वशं नयासा एकज त्वम् ॥

sahasva manyo abhimātim asmai rujan mṛṇan pramṛṇan prehi śatrūn ।
ugraṃ te pājo nanv ā rurudhre vaśī vaśaṃ nayāsā ekaja tvam ॥

O wrath of justice, rectitude and dispensation, arise, challenge the adversaries for our system, breaking, smashing, eliminating the forces of negation. Blazing is your force and courage, none to obstruct and stop your advance. You are the master, all in control, leader of the forces of predominance, sole one bom of divinity without an equal.

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4.31.4

एको बहूनाम् असि मन्य ईडिता विशंविशम् युद्धाय सं शिशाधि ।
अकृत्तरुक् त्वया युजा वयं द्युमन्तं घोषम् विजयाय कृण्मसि ॥

eko bahūnām asi manya īḍitā viśaṃviśam yuddhāya saṃ śiśādhi ।
akṛttaruk tvayā yujā vayaṃ dyumantaṃ ghoṣam vijayāya kṛṇmasi ॥

Manyu, you are the one unique among many, invoked and universally adored. Pray instruct, inspire, prepare and perfect every community to fight and win against negativity and adversity. Your lustre unimpaired and unchallengeable, with you as leader and inspirer, let us raise the battle cry and hoist the flag of victory flying sky high.

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4.31.5

विजेषकृद् इन्द्र इवानवब्रवो ऽस्माकं मन्यो अधिपा भवेह ।
प्रियं ते नाम सहुरे गृणीमसि विद्मा तम् उत्सं यत आबभूथ ॥

vijeṣakṛd indra ivānavabravo 'smākaṃ manyo adhipā bhaveha ।
priyaṃ te nāma sahure gṛṇīmasi vidmā tam utsaṃ yata ābabhūtha ॥

Uncontradicted, irreproachable, victorious like Indra, O Manyu, be our protector and promoter here throughout life. For sure, O spirit of courage, forbearance and victory, we adore you, dear and adorable for all. We know where you arise from, fountain head of the lust for life, inspiration and victory: Dharma and universal love of life.

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4.31.6

आभूत्या सहजा वज्र सायक सहो बिभर्षि सहभूत उत्तरम् ।
क्रत्वा नो मन्यो सह मेद्य् एधि महाधनस्य पुरुहूत संसृजि ॥

ābhūtyā sahajā vajra sāyaka saho bibharṣi sahabhūta uttaram ।
kratvā no manyo saha medy edhi mahādhanasya puruhūta saṃsṛji ॥

Twin brother of the ardour and glory of life, thunderbolt of divine humanity, unfailing targeted arrow, you bear the higher ardour of human love and passion for life. O Manyu, sweetest companion of living splendour universally invoked and adored, come to us with the force of unfailing yajnic action in the heat of the grand battle scene of life.

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4.31.7

संसृष्टं धनम् उभयं समाकृतम् अस्मभ्यं धत्तां वरुणश् च मन्युः ।
भियो दधाना हृदयेषु शत्रवः पराजितासो अप नि लयन्ताम् ॥

saṃsṛṣṭaṃ dhanam ubhayaṃ samākṛtam asmabhyaṃ dhattāṃ varuṇaś ca manyuḥ ।
bhiyo dadhānā hṛdayeṣu śatravaḥ parājitāso apa ni layantām ॥

Atharvaveda 4.32 · 7 mantras

4.32.1

यस् ते मन्यो ऽविधद् वज्र सायक सह ओजः पुष्यति विश्वम् आनुषक् ।
साह्याम दासम् आर्यं त्वया युजा वयं सहस्कृतेन सहसा सहस्वता ॥

yas te manyo 'vidhad vajra sāyaka saha ojaḥ puṣyati viśvam ānuṣak ।
sāhyāma dāsam āryaṃ tvayā yujā vayaṃ sahaskṛtena sahasā sahasvatā ॥

O Manyu, spirit of passion and ardour, awful as thunder and accurate as an arrow to hit the target, whoever bears, honours and commands you with strength and enthusiasm, rises in universal honour and splendour. We pray that with your friendly and unfailing courage, patience and vigour we may support the noble and defeat the violent and destroyers.

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4.32.2

मन्युर् इन्द्रो मन्युर् एवास देवो मन्युर् होता वरुणो जातवेदाः ।
मन्युं विश ईडते मानुषीर् याः पहि नो मन्यो तपसा सजोषाः ॥

manyur indro manyur evāsa devo manyur hotā varuṇo jātavedāḥ ।
manyuṃ viśa īḍate mānuṣīr yāḥ pahi no manyo tapasā sajoṣāḥ ॥

Manyu, righteous passion and courage of mind, is Indra, glory and power, manyu is brilliance, manyu is the call for yajna and the yajamana, manyu is Varuna, deep as ocean, blazing as sun and self-confidence of choice. Manyu is Jataveda, spirit of intelligence and existential awareness. Communities which live all over the human world honour and adore manyu. O spirit of passion and universal intelligence of divine mind, dearest friend and inner inspiration, pray protect and promote us with the strength and discipline of body, mind and soul.

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4.32.3

अभीहि मन्यो तवसस् तवीयान् तपसा युजा वि जहि शत्रून् ।
अमित्रहा वृत्रहा दस्युहा च विश्वा वसून्य् आ भरा त्वं नः ॥

abhīhi manyo tavasas tavīyān tapasā yujā vi jahi śatrūn ।
amitrahā vṛtrahā dasyuhā ca viśvā vasūny ā bharā tvaṃ naḥ ॥

Come manyu, stronger than strength itself, one with valour and austerity of discipline, destroy the enemies, O saviour of friends and destroyer of adversaries, dispeller of darkness, eliminator of evil and negativities, and bear and bring us all wealth, honour and excellence of the world.

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4.32.4

त्वं हि मन्यो अभिभूत्योजाः स्वयंभूर् भामो अभिमातिषाहः ।
विश्वचर्षणिः सहुरिः सहीयान् अस्मास्व् ओजः पृतनासु धेहि ॥

tvaṃ hi manyo abhibhūtyojāḥ svayaṃbhūr bhāmo abhimātiṣāhaḥ ।
viśvacarṣaṇiḥ sahuriḥ sahīyān asmāsv ojaḥ pṛtanāsu dhehi ॥

O manyu, you command the courage and valour of the victor, you are self-existent and self-justified, lustrous and exalting, and shatterer of challenging adversaries. You are the all-watching spirit over the world, all power controller and commander of strength, endurance and spirit of challenge. Pray bear and vest in us lustre and fighting strength for our progress and victory in the battles of life.

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4.32.5

अभागः सन्न् अप परेतो अस्मि तव क्रत्वा तविषस्य प्रचेतः ।
तं त्वा मन्यो अक्रतुर् जिहीडाहं स्वा तनूर् बलदावा न एहि ॥

abhāgaḥ sann apa pareto asmi tava kratvā taviṣasya pracetaḥ ।
taṃ tvā manyo akratur jihīḍāhaṃ svā tanūr baladāvā na ehi ॥

Being void of righteous passion, O spiritual rectitude, giver of confidence and assertive identity, I am gone far from my own self and, by action, deprived of your spirit of lustre and inspiration. O manyu, I am guilty of remiss towards you, and I have come to you in shame. You are by yourself the embodiment of courage and passion. Pray come and bless us with strength of body, courage of mind and determination of the spirit.

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4.32.6

अयं ते अस्म्य् उप न एह्य् अर्वाङ् प्रतीचीनः सहुरे विश्वदावन् ।
मन्यो वज्रिन्न् अभि न आ ववृत्स्व हनाव दस्यूंर् उत बोध्य् आपेः ॥

ayaṃ te asmy upa na ehy arvāṅ pratīcīnaḥ sahure viśvadāvan ।
manyo vajrinn abhi na ā vavṛtsva hanāva dasyūṃr uta bodhy āpeḥ ॥

Here I am for you, O spirit of courage and self-assertion, all giver and sustainer for the world, come, turn to me, universal spirit. O spirit of awful passion and undaunted self identity, wielder of the thunderbolt, eome eonstantly, let us together dispel darkness and destroy evil. Pray inspire and awaken me, your own self.

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4.32.7

अभि प्रेहि दक्षिणतो भवा नो ऽधा वृत्राणि जङ्घनाव भूरि ।
जुहोमि ते धरुणं मध्वो अग्रम् उभाव् उपांशु प्रथमा पिबाव ॥

abhi prehi dakṣiṇato bhavā no 'dhā vṛtrāṇi jaṅghanāva bhūri ।
juhomi te dharuṇaṃ madhvo agram ubhāv upāṃśu prathamā pibāva ॥

Pray come forward and be on our right side in your own place, and together we shall eliminate all darkness and adversity. I offer you the best, foremost and sweetest honeyed homage of the self, and we shall together drink of the joy of victory in closest intimacy.

Atharvaveda 4.33 · 8 mantras

4.33.1

अप नः शोशुचद् अघम् अग्ने शुशुग्ध्य् आ रयिम् ।
अप नः शोशुचद् अघम् ॥

apa naḥ śośucad agham agne śuśugdhy ā rayim ।
apa naḥ śośucad agham ॥

Agni, Spirit of light and purity, pray shine on us, burn off our sins and evil, purify and sanctify our wealth, honour and excellence, cleanse off our sins and evil and let us shine in purity.

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4.33.2

सुक्षेत्रिया सुगातुया वसूया च यजामहे ।
अप नः शोशुचद् अघम् ॥

sukṣetriyā sugātuyā vasūyā ca yajāmahe ।
apa naḥ śośucad agham ॥

With the desire for waving green fields, straight and simple highways of life, and honest wealth of body, mind and soul and power of defence and protection, we approach and honour you. O Agni, lord of light and power, burn off our sins and let us shine in purity.

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4.33.3

प्र यद् भन्दिष्ठ एषां प्रास्माकासश् च सूरयः ।
अप नः शोशुचद् अघम् ॥

pra yad bhandiṣṭha eṣāṃ prāsmākāsaś ca sūrayaḥ ।
apa naḥ śośucad agham ॥

As you are the highest honoured and exalted of these that are your radiations, which are our heroes too and brilliant guides, pray cleanse us of our sins and evil and let us shine in purity.

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4.33.4

प्र यत् ते अग्ने सूरयो जायेमहि प्र ते वयम् ।
अप नः शोशुचद् अघम् ॥

pra yat te agne sūrayo jāyemahi pra te vayam ।
apa naḥ śośucad agham ॥

Agni, as your leading lights are, so may we rise to be. Pray cleanse us of our sins and evil and let us shine in purity with power divine.

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4.33.5

प्र यद् अग्नेः सहस्वतो विश्वतो यन्ति भानवः ।
अप नः शोशुचद् अघम् ॥

pra yad agneḥ sahasvato viśvato yanti bhānavaḥ ।
apa naḥ śośucad agham ॥

As the lights of this powerful Agni go up all round in mighty blaze, so may we be with light and power. O lord of light and power, purge us of our sins and pollution and let us shine in purity and original power.

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4.33.6

त्वं हि विश्वतोमुख विश्वतः परिभूर् असि ।
अप नः शोशुचद् अघम् ॥

tvaṃ hi viśvatomukha viśvataḥ paribhūr asi ।
apa naḥ śośucad agham ॥

Agni, you are the light, universal presence, all watching lord supreme over the worlds of existence. Burn off our sins and let us shine in purity.

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4.33.7

द्विषो नो विश्वतोमुखाति नावेव पारय ।
अप नः शोशुचद् अघम् ॥

dviṣo no viśvatomukhāti nāveva pāraya ।
apa naḥ śośucad agham ॥

O lord of universal presence and power, like a saving ark over the seas, take us over and aross the whirlpools of jealousy and enmity of the world. Bum off our sins and evil and let us shine all pure.

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4.33.8

स नः सिन्धुम् इव नावाति पर्ष स्वस्तये ।
अप नः शोशुचद् अघम् ॥

sa naḥ sindhum iva nāvāti parṣa svastaye ।
apa naḥ śośucad agham ॥

As we cross a river in flood by boat, so may Agni purge us and help us cross the seas of existence for the sake of the good life and all round well being. O lord, purge us of our sins and evil, let us shine in original purity and power with piety in the state of grace.

Atharvaveda 4.34 · 8 mantras

4.34.1

ब्रह्मास्य शीर्षं बृहद् अस्य पृष्ठं वामदेव्यम् उदरम् ओदनस्य ।
छन्दांसि पक्षौ मुखम् अस्य सत्यं विष्टारी जातस् तपसोऽधि यज्ञः ॥

brahmāsya śīrṣaṃ bṛhad asya pṛṣṭhaṃ vāmadevyam udaram odanasya ।
chandāṃsi pakṣau mukham asya satyaṃ viṣṭārī jātas tapaso'dhi yajñaḥ ॥

This universe is an expansive yajna born of divine self-will, tapas, the presiding power and immanent one soul of which is the Supreme Cosmic Self. That is its content, odana, as well as its container, Adhi-yajna. Brahma, Supreme Soul, is its pinnacle, Veda is its climactic knowledge and wisdom. The expansive world of nature is its back and burden, the living world is its womb wherein it broods on itself and generates forms of life. Vedic verses are its joyous sides, and truth and law is its mouth proclaiming loud and bold with words and beauty of nature’s play. (The metaphor is extended to the form of yajna

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4.34.2

अनस्थाः पूताः पवनेन शुद्धाः शुचयः शुचिम् अपि यन्ति लोकम् ।
नैषां शिश्नं प्र दहति जातवेदाः स्वर्गे लोके बहु स्त्रैणम् एषाम् ॥

anasthāḥ pūtāḥ pavanena śuddhāḥ śucayaḥ śucim api yanti lokam ।
naiṣāṃ śiśnaṃ pra dahati jātavedāḥ svarge loke bahu straiṇam eṣām ॥

Souls with constant mind, undistracted, holy in conduct and character, purified by pranayama, pure, unsullied by anything within or without, rise to the region of purity. In that region of bliss, the yajnic fire and revelation of truth does not destroy, in fact, it maintains their creative spirit and sustains their productivity in abundance. (They maintain their bliss, creativity and productivity of happy family life through the performance of yajna, a real symbolic act simulating the cosmic creative yajna.)

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4.34.3

विष्टारिणम् ओदनं ये पचन्ति नैनान् अवर्तिः सचते कदा चन ।
आस्ते यम उप याति देवान्त् सं गन्धर्वैर् मदते सोम्येभिः ॥

viṣṭāriṇam odanaṃ ye pacanti nainān avartiḥ sacate kadā cana ।
āste yama upa yāti devānt saṃ gandharvair madate somyebhiḥ ॥

Want and distress never afflicts those who maintain the epicycle of yajna and prepare the holy food for yajnic homage and thus serve the divine spirit of yajna. The person who abides by the discipline of external and internal law of Yama rises to the spirit of divinity, associates with the divines, and rejoices with the Gandharvas with whom he shares the peace and pleasure of life on earth. (To appreciate the joyous peace and pleasure of the Gandharva state of being, refence may be made to Ananda Valli of Taittiriya Upanishad 2, 8, 1-12.)

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4.34.4

विष्टारिणम् ओदनम् ये पचन्ति नैनान् यमः परि मुष्णाति रेतः ।
रथी ह भूत्वा रथयान ईयते पक्षी ह भूत्वाति दिवः सम् एति ॥

viṣṭāriṇam odanam ye pacanti nainān yamaḥ pari muṣṇāti retaḥ ।
rathī ha bhūtvā rathayāna īyate pakṣī ha bhūtvāti divaḥ sam eti ॥

Those who prepare the yajnic food and offer it into the expansive yajna of the universe rise to the devas, and Yama, the law of life, does not deprive them of their spirit of creative vitality. Such a person becomes the happy master of his body chariot, goes forward in his chariot and like a bird rises high beyond the region of light to divine bliss.

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4.34.5

एष यज्ञानां विततो वहिष्ठो विष्टारिणं पक्त्वा दिवम् आ विवेश ।
आण्डीकं कुमुदं सं तनोति बिसं शालूकं शफको मुलाली ।
एतास् त्वा धारा उप यन्तु सर्वाः स्वर्गे लोके मधुमत् पिन्वमाना उप त्वा तिष्ठन्तु पुष्करिणीः समन्ताः ॥

eṣa yajñānāṃ vitato vahiṣṭho viṣṭāriṇaṃ paktvā divam ā viveśa ।
āṇḍīkaṃ kumudaṃ saṃ tanoti bisaṃ śālūkaṃ śaphako mulālī ।
etās tvā dhārā upa yantu sarvāḥ svarge loke madhumat pinvamānā upa tvā tiṣṭhantu puṣkariṇīḥ samantāḥ ॥

This human yajna of the home is the most extensive of all yajnas. Having accomplished this vast yajna, the yajamana reaches the heaven of light and bliss. There in that state of paradisal bliss of the home, the yajamana, lover of peace, sowing seeds of noble karmic fruit, extends the attainable earthly joy of vital, dynamic possibilities of karma: lotus shoots and fibres sweet to taste, water lilies in bloom with delicious oval fruit, and all this with germinative potential. May all these abundant streams of joy flow for you, bearing honey sweets, and may all lakes and streams of lotus bloom be for you.

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4.34.6

घृतह्रदा मधुकूलाः सुरोदकाः क्षीरेण पूर्णा उदकेन दध्ना ।
एतास् त्वा धारा उप यन्तु सर्वाः स्वर्गे लोके मधुमत् पिन्वमाना उप त्वा तिष्ठन्तु पुष्करिणीः समन्ताः ॥

ghṛtahradā madhukūlāḥ surodakāḥ kṣīreṇa pūrṇā udakena dadhnā ।
etās tvā dhārā upa yantu sarvāḥ svarge loke madhumat pinvamānā upa tvā tiṣṭhantu puṣkariṇīḥ samantāḥ ॥

May all these abundant streams with pools of ghrta, banks of delicious shade and fragrance, full of exciting drink, overflowing with milk, water, curds and exuberant honey, all full of fragrant flowers, flow for you in the state of paradisal bliss.

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4.34.7

चतुरः कुम्भांश् चतुर्धा ददामि क्षीरेण पूर्नां उदकेन दध्ना ।
एतास् त्वा धारा उप यन्तु सर्वाः स्वर्गे लोके मधुमत् पिन्वमाना उप त्वा तिष्ठन्तु पुष्करिणीः समन्ताः ॥

caturaḥ kumbhāṃś caturdhā dadāmi kṣīreṇa pūrnāṃ udakena dadhnā ।
etās tvā dhārā upa yantu sarvāḥ svarge loke madhumat pinvamānā upa tvā tiṣṭhantu puṣkariṇīḥ samantāḥ ॥

I give you four potfuls (of Dharma, artha, kama and Moksha) four ways (of Brahmacharya, grhastha, vanaprastha and sanyasa), all full of the waters of life, milk of love and kindness, and curds of exciting energy. May all these abundant streams of fragrant flower-joy and honey sweets, rising and raising you in the state of paradisal bliss, flow by you for you.

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4.34.8

इमम् ओदनं नि दधे ब्राह्मणेषु विष्टारिणं लोकजितं स्वर्गम् ।
स मे मा क्षेष्ट स्वधया पिन्वमानो विश्वरूपा धेनुः कामदुघा मे अस्तु ॥

imam odanaṃ ni dadhe brāhmaṇeṣu viṣṭāriṇaṃ lokajitaṃ svargam ।
sa me mā kṣeṣṭa svadhayā pinvamāno viśvarūpā dhenuḥ kāmadughā me astu ॥

This paradisal food and fruit of yajna, expansive, life fulfilling, leading to paradisal bliss, I ordain and enjoin for preparation and yajnic homage to divinity among the lovers of Veda and the universal spirit of existence. May that never diminish for me and never be neglected by me. In stead, itself rising and raising us with its own innate strength and augmented by yajnic offers of fragrant food, may it be for us a universal mother giver of the fulfilment of our cherished desires and noble ambitions.

Atharvaveda 4.35 · 7 mantras

4.35.1

यम् ओदनं प्रथमजा ऋतस्य प्रजापतिस् तपसा ब्रह्मणे ऽपचत् ।
यो लोकानां विधृतिर् नाभिरेषात् तेनौदनेनाति तराणि मृत्युम् ॥

yam odanaṃ prathamajā ṛtasya prajāpatis tapasā brahmaṇe 'pacat ।
yo lokānāṃ vidhṛtir nābhireṣāt tenaudanenāti tarāṇi mṛtyum ॥

Brahmaudana, divine food of life, which Prajapati, divine generator and sustainer of his creation, first self-manifested of Rtam, laws and dynamics of existence, brooded over, perfected and brought into being by ‘tapas’, his will and power, for his self-manifestation as well as for the expansive manifested universe, which is the mainstay of the worlds of existence and the people therein, never decays, nor does it hurt anyone. By that very food of life I would conquer and outlive death unto eternity. (Brahmaudana here can be interpreted as ‘Brahma that itself is the food of life’, and ‘life that is the food of Brahma’. Both ways, the interpretation is the same with reference to human life. In Shatapatha Brahmana (13, 1, 1, 4) and in Taittiriya Brahmana (3, 8, 2, 4) Odana is interpreted as Retas, creativity of divinity. Rgveda 10,129 also speaks of the precreation stage of existence as the state of Brahma existing with its creative power. And power and the powerful both are one, together, integrated. Odana is also interpreted as Brahmacharya, the way of life in which one knows as well as lives the life divine with perfect self control. So, if Brahma is the food of life, it means that you dedicate your life and time to Brahma as your sole object of love and service. On the other hand, if life is the food of Brahma, you totally surrender yourself to Brahma. In one case, Brahma is your food, in the other, you are the food of Brahma. How do we conquer death by Brahma? Our life on earth is a cycle of birth, age and death: Life is body and soul together, death is seperation of the two. If we identify ourselves with life-in-body, we identify ourselves with the motal despite our immortality. But if we know our real nature and live in full awareness as such and dedicate ourselves to Brahma, we abide in freedom from the ravages of mortality. Death then becomes irrelevant and meaningless, at best a stage in the journey. Thus we conquer death and outlive it in the state of freedom from mortality. Thus we become identified with eternity, with Brahma.

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4.35.2

येनातरन् भूतकृतो ऽति मृत्युं यम् अन्वविन्दन् तपसा श्रमेण ।
यं पपाच ब्रह्मणे ब्रह्म पूर्वं तेनौदनेनाति तराणि मृत्युम् ॥

yenātaran bhūtakṛto 'ti mṛtyuṃ yam anvavindan tapasā śrameṇa ।
yaṃ papāca brahmaṇe brahma pūrvaṃ tenaudanenāti tarāṇi mṛtyum ॥

By that very sustaining spirit of the universe, life-forming powers of nature abide beyond death. By that very spirit, all-form-realised souls attain to immortality beyond form with relentless practice of meditation. By the same spiritual food of life, Vedic knowledge and meditation, which eternal Brahma prepared and perfected for us in the expansive universe, I too would conquer and outlive death and attain to immortality.

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4.35.3

यो दाधार पृथिवीं विश्वभोजसं यो अन्तरिक्षम् आपृणाद् रसेन ।
यो अस्तभ्नाद् दिवम् ऊर्ध्वो महिम्ना तेनौदनेनाति तराणि मृत्युम् ॥

yo dādhāra pṛthivīṃ viśvabhojasaṃ yo antarikṣam āpṛṇād rasena ।
yo astabhnād divam ūrdhvo mahimnā tenaudanenāti tarāṇi mṛtyum ॥

Brahma, who holds and sustains mother earth which provides food for all forms of life, who fills the skies with abundant waters of life, who with his grand might and majesty sustains the suns and heavens above, by the same Brahma, I too would conquer and outlive death and attain to life eternal.

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4.35.4

यस्मान् मासा निर्मितास् त्रिंशदराः संवत्सरो यस्मान् निर्मितो द्वादशारः ।
अहोरात्रा यं परियन्तो नापुस् तेनौदनेनाति तराणि मृत्युम् ॥

yasmān māsā nirmitās triṃśadarāḥ saṃvatsaro yasmān nirmito dvādaśāraḥ ।
ahorātrā yaṃ pariyanto nāpus tenaudanenāti tarāṇi mṛtyum ॥

By the same food of life, by which the wheels of monthly time with thirty spokes of days are formed, by which the yearly wheels of time with twelve spokes of months are formed, which the day-night revolutions of time ever on the move forward overtake not, by that very spiritual food of Brahma, I too would conquer and outlive death and attain to life eternal.

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4.35.5

यः प्राणदः प्राणदवान् बभूव यस्मै लोका घृतवन्तः क्षरन्ति ।
ज्योतिष्मतीः प्रदिशो यस्य सर्वास् तेनौदनेनाति तराणि मृत्युम् ॥

yaḥ prāṇadaḥ prāṇadavān babhūva yasmai lokā ghṛtavantaḥ kṣaranti ।
jyotiṣmatīḥ pradiśo yasya sarvās tenaudanenāti tarāṇi mṛtyum ॥

He that is the life source of the life-givers of existence, in whose service universal regions of life abound in ghrta and shower the nectar of life, whose light of life all quarters of space hold and radiate, by that very spiritual food of Brahma I too would conquer and outlive death and attain to life eternal.

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4.35.6

यस्मात् पक्वाद् अमृतं संबभूव यो गायत्र्या अधिपतिर् बभूव ।
यस्मिन् वेदा निहिता विश्वरूपास् तेनौदनेनाति तराणि मृत्युम् ॥

yasmāt pakvād amṛtaṃ saṃbabhūva yo gāyatryā adhipatir babhūva ।
yasmin vedā nihitā viśvarūpās tenaudanenāti tarāṇi mṛtyum ॥

From whose perfect nature and creativity, the nectar of immortality of life is generated, who is the lord master and creator of the Gayatri joy of existence, in whose omniscience all the Vedas of the universal forms and branches of knowledge are treasured, by that very spiritual food of Brahma I too would conquer and outlive death and achieve the life eternal.

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4.35.7

अव बाधे द्विषन्तं देवपीयुं सपत्ना ये मे ऽप ते भवन्तु ।
ब्रह्मौदनं विश्वजितं पचामि शृण्वन्तु मे श्रद्दधानस्य देवाः ॥

ava bādhe dviṣantaṃ devapīyuṃ sapatnā ye me 'pa te bhavantu ।
brahmaudanaṃ viśvajitaṃ pacāmi śṛṇvantu me śraddadhānasya devāḥ ॥

I stop and ward off those hostilities which forestall or distract my thoughts of divinity. Let all adversaries, all negativities get off my mind. I have developed and perfected the all-world-victorious food of divinity for my soul. Listen ye all, divine, brilliant sages, this voice of the faithful me.

Atharvaveda 4.36 · 10 mantras

4.36.1

तान्त् सत्यौजाः प्र दहत्व् अग्निर् वैश्वानरो वृषा ।
यो नो दुरस्याद् दिप्साच् चाथो यो नो अरातियात् ॥

tānt satyaujāḥ pra dahatv agnir vaiśvānaro vṛṣā ।
yo no durasyād dipsāc cātho yo no arātiyāt ॥

Let generous Agni, commander of the blaze of truth, all-watching ruler of humanity, bum those forces of negativity which intend to hurt us, subject us to adversity and rob us of felicity.

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4.36.2

यो नो दिप्साद् अदिप्सतो दिप्सतो यश् च दिप्सति ।
वैश्वानरस्य दंष्ट्रयोर् अग्नेर् अपि दधामि तम् ॥

yo no dipsād adipsato dipsato yaś ca dipsati ।
vaiśvānarasya daṃṣṭrayor agner api dadhāmi tam ॥

Whoever it is that wants to injure us who never wish to injure anyone, whoever it is that wants to injure him who tries to injure others, I subject to the jaws of Agni, all watching Ruler’s dispensation of justice.

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4.36.3

य आगरे मृगयन्ते प्रतिक्रोशे ऽमावास्ये ।
क्रव्यादो अन्यान् दिप्सतः सर्वांस् तान्त् सहसा सहे ॥

ya āgare mṛgayante pratikrośe 'māvāsye ।
kravyādo anyān dipsataḥ sarvāṃs tānt sahasā sahe ॥

Whoever in the home, in disputes or in gatherings and crowds, hurts and hunts others for nothing, whoever the flesh eater, whoever the injurer of others, let me challenge and punish them all with the force of justice.

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4.36.4

सहे पिशाचान्त् सहसैषां द्रविणं ददे ।
सर्वान् दुरस्यतो हन्मि सं म आकूतिर् ऋध्यताम् ॥

sahe piśācānt sahasaiṣāṃ draviṇaṃ dade ।
sarvān durasyato hanmi saṃ ma ākūtir ṛdhyatām ॥

I challenge and punish all exploiters and blood suckers with power and force of justice. I disarm them of their power and money which are their instruments of exploitation and violence. I destroy all forces of evil and injustice so that my ethics, policy and programme of justice may be fulfilled.

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4.36.5

ये देवास् तेन हासन्ते सूर्येण मिमते जवम् ।
नदीषु पर्वतेषु ये सं तैः पशुभिर् विदे ॥

ye devās tena hāsante sūryeṇa mimate javam ।
nadīṣu parvateṣu ye saṃ taiḥ paśubhir vide ॥

Those noble people who feel satisfied and happy with that policy and programme, those dynamic people who measure the speed and success of the programme by the light of the sun, those that live by rivers and on the hills, with all these watchful people I meet and associate to seek their cooperation.

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4.36.6

तपनो अस्मि पिशाचानां व्याघ्रो गोमताम् इव ।
श्वानः सिंहम् इव दृष्ट्वा ते न विन्दन्ते न्यञ्चनम् ॥

tapano asmi piśācānāṃ vyāghro gomatām iva ।
śvānaḥ siṃham iva dṛṣṭvā te na vindante nyañcanam ॥

I am the fire and fear of justice and punishment for the violent and the blood suckers like a tiger to the keepers of flocks of sheep and cows,so that, like the dogs which flee in terror of the lion, they find no place to hide and escape.

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4.36.7

न पिशाचैः सं शक्नोमि न स्तेनैः न वनर्गुभिः ।
पिशाचास् तस्मान् नश्यन्ति यम् अहं ग्रामम् आविशे ॥

na piśācaiḥ saṃ śaknomi na stenaiḥ na vanargubhiḥ ।
piśācās tasmān naśyanti yam ahaṃ grāmam āviśe ॥

I cannot tolerate and cannot compromise with thieves, highway men and blood-sucking exploiters. These evils disappear from the village wherever I enter and the rule of law and justice operates.

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4.36.8

यं ग्रामम् आविशत इदम् उग्रं सहो मम ।
पिशाचास् तस्मान् नश्यन्ति न पापम् उप जानते ॥

yaṃ grāmam āviśata idam ugraṃ saho mama ।
piśācās tasmān naśyanti na pāpam upa jānate ॥

Whichever the village or human settlement where the heat and awe of my law, justice and power operates, from that place the law breakers and forces of violence disappear, never dare they revive their propensity to sin and crime.

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4.36.9

ये मा क्रोधयन्ति लपिता हस्तिनं मशका इव ।
तान् अहं मन्ये दुर्हितान् जने अल्पशयून् इव ॥

ye mā krodhayanti lapitā hastinaṃ maśakā iva ।
tān ahaṃ manye durhitān jane alpaśayūn iva ॥

Those whisperers, jabbers and idle protesters who try to provoke my anger as mosquitoes buzzzing around an elephant do, I reject as ineffectual undesirables like short lived moths among the people.

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4.36.10

अभि तं निरृतिर् धत्ताम् अश्वम् इव अश्वाभिधान्या ।
मल्वो यो मह्यं क्रुध्यति स उ पाशान् न मुच्यते ॥

abhi taṃ nirṛtir dhattām aśvam iva aśvābhidhānyā ।
malvo yo mahyaṃ krudhyati sa u pāśān na mucyate ॥

Like a rope arresting a horse, adversity would seize that malcontent, who smoulders in anger against me. He would never be free from that noose.

Atharvaveda 4.37 · 12 mantras

4.37.1

त्वया पूर्वम् अथर्वाणो जघ्नू रक्षांस्य् ओषधे ।
त्वया जघान कश्यपस् त्वया कण्वो अगस्त्यः ॥

tvayā pūrvam atharvāṇo jaghnū rakṣāṃsy oṣadhe ।
tvayā jaghāna kaśyapas tvayā kaṇvo agastyaḥ ॥

O all-cleansing herb, by you the veteran scholars of Atharvani science of fire and soma destroy life threatening germs. By you the microbiologist, Kashyapa, destroys germs of disease. By you Kanva, the technologist, and Agastya, specialist of water pollution, destroys germs of disease.

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4.37.2

त्वया वयम् अप्सरसो गन्धर्वांस् चातयामहे ।
अजशृङ्ग्य् अज रक्षः सर्वान् गन्धेन नाशय ॥

tvayā vayam apsaraso gandharvāṃs cātayāmahe ।
ajaśṛṅgy aja rakṣaḥ sarvān gandhena nāśaya ॥

By you we drive off water borne and air borne diseases. O Ajashrngi, remove disease bearing germs, destroy them all by smell.

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4.37.3

नदीं यन्त्व् अप्सरसो ऽपां तारम् अवश्वसम् ।
गुल्गुलूः पीला नलद्य् औक्षगन्धिः प्रमन्दनी ।
तत् परेताप्सरसः प्रतिबुद्धा अभूतन ॥

nadīṃ yantv apsaraso 'pāṃ tāram avaśvasam ।
gulgulūḥ pīlā nalady aukṣagandhiḥ pramandanī ।
tat paretāpsarasaḥ pratibuddhā abhūtana ॥

Let the water borne diseases flow out like fast streams of water carrying off all dirt and pollution. O water borne germs and bacteria, you have been diagnosed, therefore get off now. The cure of all these are five herbs: gulgulu, pila, naladi, aukshagandhi and pramandani.

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4.37.4

यत्राश्वत्था न्यग्रोधा महावृक्षाः शिखण्डिनः ।
तत् परेताप्सरसः प्रतिबुद्धा अभूतन ॥

yatrāśvatthā nyagrodhā mahāvṛkṣāḥ śikhaṇḍinaḥ ।
tat paretāpsarasaḥ pratibuddhā abhūtana ॥

Where there are great trees like Ashvattha (peepal), Nyagrodha (banyan), Shikhandin (gunja creeper), and birds like peacock, from there, O water borne diseases, get off. Diagnosed you are, and off you go.

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4.37.5

यत्र वः प्रेङ्खा हरिता अर्जुना उत यत्राघाताः कर्कर्यः संवदन्ति ।
तत् परेताप्सरसः प्रतिबुद्धा अभूतन ॥

yatra vaḥ preṅkhā haritā arjunā uta yatrāghātāḥ karkaryaḥ saṃvadanti ।
tat paretāpsarasaḥ pratibuddhā abhūtana ॥

O diseases, where against you are green, waving Arjuna trees, there are aghata (apamarga) and karkari, waving with rustling leaves, there off you go, you are well diagnosed.

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4.37.6

एयम् अगन्न् ओषधीनां वीरुधाम् वीर्यावती ।
अजशृङ्ग्य् अराटकी तीक्ष्णशृङ्गी व्यृषतु ॥

eyam agann oṣadhīnāṃ vīrudhām vīryāvatī ।
ajaśṛṅgy arāṭakī tīkṣṇaśṛṅgī vyṛṣatu ॥

And here it is, most powerful of the herbs, ajashrngi, very efficacious, which destroys the subtle causes of disease at the fastest.

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4.37.7

आनृत्यतः शिखण्डिनो गन्धर्वस्याप्सरापतेः ।
भिनद्मि मुष्काव् अपि यामि शेपः ॥

ānṛtyataḥ śikhaṇḍino gandharvasyāpsarāpateḥ ।
bhinadmi muṣkāv api yāmi śepaḥ ॥

I also destroy the eggs of the females and breeding power of the males of the carriers of air borne and water borne diseases, rising and spreading all round.

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4.37.8

भीमा इन्द्रस्य हेतयः शतं ऋष्टीर् अयस्मयीः ।
ताभिर् हविरदान् गन्धर्वान् अवकादान् व्यृषतु ॥

bhīmā indrasya hetayaḥ śataṃ ṛṣṭīr ayasmayīḥ ।
tābhir haviradān gandharvān avakādān vyṛṣatu ॥

Deadly are the strikes of the rays of the sun, hundred-fold for the destruction of pollution and contamination, shattering like thunder. With these let the physician and health powers destroy the air borne, water borne and food contaminating germs.

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4.37.9

भीमा इन्द्रस्य हेतयः शतं ऋष्टीर् हिरण्ययीः ।
ताभिर् हविरदान् गन्धर्वान् अवकादान् व्यृषतु ॥

bhīmā indrasya hetayaḥ śataṃ ṛṣṭīr hiraṇyayīḥ ।
tābhir haviradān gandharvān avakādān vyṛṣatu ॥

Golden energisers are rays of the sun, deadly destroyers, of hundredfold power, terrible killers of disease germs. With these, let the physician eliminate food and water plant contaminators, air borne viruses

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4.37.10

अवकादान् अभिशोचान् अप्सु ज्योतय मामकान् ।
पिशाचान्त् सर्वान् ओषधे प्र मृणीहि सहस्व च ॥

avakādān abhiśocān apsu jyotaya māmakān ।
piśācānt sarvān oṣadhe pra mṛṇīhi sahasva ca ॥

O herb, bum up and eliminate all consumptive and cancerous contaminations in my blood, destroy all blood suckers and with your power cmsh them to the root.

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4.37.11

श्वेवैकः कपिर् इवैकः कुमारः सर्वकेशकः ।
प्रियो दृश इव भूत्वा गन्धर्वः सचते स्त्रियस् ।
तम् इतो नाशयामसि ब्रह्मणा वीर्यावता ॥

śvevaikaḥ kapir ivaikaḥ kumāraḥ sarvakeśakaḥ ।
priyo dṛśa iva bhūtvā gandharvaḥ sacate striyas ।
tam ito nāśayāmasi brahmaṇā vīryāvatā ॥

One is like a dog, another like a monkey, yet another with hair all over the body is a cruel killer and, being pretty and dear to the eye, afflicts the women. These psychic diseases we destroy and root out from here with the powerful Brahmi herb.

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4.37.12

जाया इद् वो अप्सरसो गन्धर्वाः पतयो युयम् ।
अप धावतामर्त्या मर्त्यान् मा सचध्वम् ॥

jāyā id vo apsaraso gandharvāḥ patayo yuyam ।
apa dhāvatāmartyā martyān mā sacadhvam ॥

O Gandharvas, psychic disorders, you are the masters. Diseases of the blood and body are your secondary and subordinate forms. Get away, you are not for humans. Do not afflict the humans, keep away.

Atharvaveda 4.38 · 7 mantras

4.38.1

उद्भिन्दतीं संजयन्तीम् अप्सरां साधुदेविनीम् ।
ग्लहे कृतानि कृण्वानाम् अप्सरां ताम् इह हुवे ॥

udbhindatīṃ saṃjayantīm apsarāṃ sādhudevinīm ।
glahe kṛtāni kṛṇvānām apsarāṃ tām iha huve ॥

Here I invoke Apsara which overthrows the negativities of life and wins over opposition, which is the spirit of holy and divine action and leading performer of noble deeds in the dynamics of life’s evolutionary and developmental programmes.

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4.38.2

विचिन्वतीम् आकिरन्तीम् अप्सरां साधुदेविनीम् ।
ग्लहे कृतानि गृह्णानाम् अप्सरां ताम् इह हुवे ॥

vicinvatīm ākirantīm apsarāṃ sādhudevinīm ।
glahe kṛtāni gṛhṇānām apsarāṃ tām iha huve ॥

I invoke the Apsara, noble and divine of action, collecting and distributing her favours, and securing and consolidating into her power and grasp all the results of her performance in the evolution of life.

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4.38.3

यायैः परिनृत्यत्य् आददाना कृतं ग्लहात् ।
सा नः कृतानि सीषती प्रहाम् आप्नोतु मायया ।
सा नः पयस्वत्य् ऐतु मा नो जैषुर् इदं धनम् ॥

yāyaiḥ parinṛtyaty ādadānā kṛtaṃ glahāt ।
sā naḥ kṛtāni sīṣatī prahām āpnotu māyayā ।
sā naḥ payasvaty aitu mā no jaiṣur idaṃ dhanam ॥

Apsara who, with her noble acts, rejoices and celebrates life in song and dance, collecting and consolidating the achievements of her performance in the evolutionary struggle of life, may, we pray, guiding and organising our actions, achieve further progress by her wonderful power and intelligence. May she, abounding in the waters and food of life continue to come and bless us so that none may win away this wealth of achievement from us.

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4.38.4

या अक्षेषु प्रमोदन्ते शुचं क्रोधं च बिभ्रती ।
आनन्दिनीं प्रमोदिनीम् अप्सरां ताम् इह हुवे ॥

yā akṣeṣu pramodante śucaṃ krodhaṃ ca bibhratī ।
ānandinīṃ pramodinīm apsarāṃ tām iha huve ॥

She who, in all her diversifications, bearing the purity and righteous passion for life, rejoices at the centre of the advance of all human affairs, herself happy celebrant and exhilarating all others, that Apsara I invoke and adore here in life.

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4.38.5

सूर्यस्य रश्मीन् अनु याः सञ्चरन्ति मरीचीर् वा या अनुसञ्चरन्ति ।
यासाम् ऋषभो दूरतो वाजिनीवान्त् सद्यः सर्वान् लोकान् पर्येति रक्षन् ।
स न ऐतु होमम् इमं जुसाणो ऽन्तरिक्षेण सह वाजिनीवान् ॥

sūryasya raśmīn anu yāḥ sañcaranti marīcīr vā yā anusañcaranti ।
yāsām ṛṣabho dūrato vājinīvānt sadyaḥ sarvān lokān paryeti rakṣan ।
sa na aitu homam imaṃ jusāṇo 'ntarikṣeṇa saha vājinīvān ॥

She who, in all her diversifications, radiating with the rays of the sun and vibrating with the particles of cosmic energy, goes about, and her omnipotent master who pervades far and near, commanding and superintending all the energies and protecting and sustaining all their regions of cosmic operation, may he too, lord commander and energiser of cosmic lights and energies, listen to this voice of thought, love this yajna of communion, come with his omnipresence in the time and space of divine bliss, and bless my spirit at the heart-core.

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4.38.6

अन्तरिक्षेन सह वाजिनीवन् कर्कीं वत्साम् इह रक्ष वाजिन् ।
इमे ते स्तोका बहुला एह्य् अर्वाङ् इयं ते कर्कीह ते मनो ऽस्तु ॥

antarikṣena saha vājinīvan karkīṃ vatsām iha rakṣa vājin ।
ime te stokā bahulā ehy arvāṅ iyaṃ te karkīha te mano 'stu ॥

O lord omnipresent commander of omnipotence, come with universal bliss, bless this happy vibrant soul, your darling child. These sparks of light and exuberant

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4.38.7

अन्तरिक्षेण सह वाजिनीवन् कर्कीं वत्साम् इह रक्ष वाजिन् ।
अयं घासो अयं व्रज इह वत्सां नि बध्नीमः ।
यथानाम व ईश्महे स्वाहा ॥

antarikṣeṇa saha vājinīvan karkīṃ vatsām iha rakṣa vājin ।
ayaṃ ghāso ayaṃ vraja iha vatsāṃ ni badhnīmaḥ ।
yathānāma va īśmahe svāhā ॥

Atharvaveda 4.39 · 10 mantras

4.39.1

पृथिव्याम् अग्नये सम् अनमन्त् स आर्ध्नोत् ।
यथा पृथिव्याम् अग्नये समनमन्न् एवा मह्यं संनमः सं नमन्तु ॥

pṛthivyām agnaye sam anamant sa ārdhnot ।
yathā pṛthivyām agnaye samanamann evā mahyaṃ saṃnamaḥ saṃ namantu ॥

On the earth, people bow to Agni for the sake of progress and prosperity. Agni, energy and generosity of the earth, blesses them with abundance and prosperity. Just as people bow to Agni on the earth, so may favours of the earth and earthly energy come to me and lead me to prosperity and humility.

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4.39.2

पृथिवी धेनुस् तस्या अग्निर् वत्सः ।
सा मे ऽग्निना वत्सेनेषम् ऊर्जं कामं दुहाम् ।
आयुः प्रथमं प्रजां पोषं रयिं स्वाहा ॥

pṛthivī dhenus tasyā agnir vatsaḥ ।
sā me 'gninā vatseneṣam ūrjaṃ kāmaṃ duhām ।
āyuḥ prathamaṃ prajāṃ poṣaṃ rayiṃ svāhā ॥

The earth is a mother cow, Agni, fire and magnetic energy, is her calf. May the earth, with her calf-like energy, give me the energy and power I need for my earthly fulfilment leading to prime health, long age, progeny, nourishment, wealth, honour and excellence. This is the prayer in homage to the mother in truth of thought, word and deed.

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4.39.3

अन्तरिक्षे वायवे सम् अनमन्त् स आर्ध्नोत् ।
यथान्तरिक्षे वायवे समनमन्न् एवा मह्यं संनमः सं नमन्तु ॥

antarikṣe vāyave sam anamant sa ārdhnot ।
yathāntarikṣe vāyave samanamann evā mahyaṃ saṃnamaḥ saṃ namantu ॥

People honour and adore Vayu energy in the firmament. The energy and generosity of Vayu from the sky blesses them with prosperity. Just as people adore Vayu in the sky, so may favours of Vayu come to me and lead me to prosperity and humility.

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4.39.4

अन्तरिक्षं धेनुस् तस्या वत्सः ।
सा मे वायुना वत्सेनेषम् ऊर्जं कामं दुहाम् ।
आयुः प्रथमं प्रजां पोषं रयिं स्वाहा ॥

antarikṣaṃ dhenus tasyā vatsaḥ ।
sā me vāyunā vatseneṣam ūrjaṃ kāmaṃ duhām ।
āyuḥ prathamaṃ prajāṃ poṣaṃ rayiṃ svāhā ॥

The sky is a mother cow, Vayu, electric energy, is her calf. May the sky with its calf-like electric energy give me energy and fulfilment and bless me with prime health, long age, good progeny, nourishment, wealth, honour and excellence. This is the prayer in homage to the mother in truth of thought, word and deed.

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4.39.5

दिव्यादित्याय सम् अनमन्त् स आर्ध्नोत् ।
यथा दिव्यादित्याय समनमन्न् एवा मह्यं संनमः सं नमन्तु ॥

divyādityāya sam anamant sa ārdhnot ।
yathā divyādityāya samanamann evā mahyaṃ saṃnamaḥ saṃ namantu ॥

People honour and adore the sun in heaven. The light and warmth of the sun from heaven blesses them with prosperity. Just as people adore the sun in heaven, so may favours of the sun come to me and lead me to prosperity and humility.

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4.39.6

द्यौर् धेनुस् तस्या आदित्यो वत्सः ।
सा म आदित्येन वत्सेनेषम् ऊर्जं कामं दुहाम् ।
आयुः प्रथमं प्रजां पोषं रयिं स्वाहा ॥

dyaur dhenus tasyā ādityo vatsaḥ ।
sā ma ādityena vatseneṣam ūrjaṃ kāmaṃ duhām ।
āyuḥ prathamaṃ prajāṃ poṣaṃ rayiṃ svāhā ॥

The heaven is a mother cow, the sun is her calf. May mother heaven with her calf-like light energy give me enlightenment and fulfilment and bless me with prime health, long age, noble progeny, nourishment, wealth, honour and excellence. This is my prayer in homage to the mother in truth of thought, word and deed.

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4.39.7

दिक्षु चन्द्राय सम् अनमन्त् स आर्ध्नोत् ।
यथा दिक्षु चन्द्राय समनमन्न् एवा मह्यं संनमः सं नमन्तु ॥

dikṣu candrāya sam anamant sa ārdhnot ।
yathā dikṣu candrāya samanamann evā mahyaṃ saṃnamaḥ saṃ namantu ॥

People love and adore the moon in quarters of space. The moon blesses them with the prosperity of peace and herbal soma. Just as people turn to the moon and adore her in space, so may favours of the moon come to me and lead me to abundance of peace and joy with humility.

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4.39.8

दिशो धेनवस् तासां चन्द्रो वत्सः ।
ता मे चन्द्रेण वत्सेनेषम् ऊर्जं कामं दुहाम् आयुः प्रथमं प्रजां पोसं रयिं स्वाहा ॥

diśo dhenavas tāsāṃ candro vatsaḥ ।
tā me candreṇa vatseneṣam ūrjaṃ kāmaṃ duhām āyuḥ prathamaṃ prajāṃ posaṃ rayiṃ svāhā ॥

The quarters of space are a mother cow, the moon is their calf. May mother space with her calf-like beauty, peace and soma give me the energy that is in peace and fulfilment with prime health, long age, noble progeny, nourishment, and the wealth of honour and excellence. This is my prayer to the mother in truth of thought, word and deed in all sincerity.

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4.39.9

अग्नाव् अग्निश् चरति प्रविष्ट ऋषीणाम् पुत्रो अभिशस्तिपा उ ।
नमस्कारेण नमसा ते जुहोमि मा देवानां मिथुया कर्म भागम् ॥

agnāv agniś carati praviṣṭa ṛṣīṇām putro abhiśastipā u ।
namaskāreṇa namasā te juhomi mā devānāṃ mithuyā karma bhāgam ॥

Agni, light of life and entire existence, vibrates omnipresent, pervading all forms of nature’s energy. Experienced through the vibrancy of Rshi pranas, revealed by the sages, sanctifier of mind and senses, it is our saviour against sin, evil and malignity. O lord of universal energy and humanity, I come to you with self surrender, salutations and homage in all sincerity. O celebrants, let us never, with insincerity and hypocrisy, pollute and desecrate what is due to the divinities in gratefulness to their favours.

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4.39.10

हृदा पूतम् मनसा जातवेदो विश्वानि देव वयुनानि विद्वान् ।
सप्तास्यानि तव जातवेदस् तेभ्यो जुहोमि स जुषस्व हव्यम् ॥

hṛdā pūtam manasā jātavedo viśvāni deva vayunāni vidvān ।
saptāsyāni tava jātavedas tebhyo juhomi sa juṣasva havyam ॥

O Jataveda, lord omnipresent in the world of existence, O lord self-refulgent and omnificent, omniscient of all the laws of Rtam and paths and ways of things bom, O light and fire of life, seven are your flames of fire, seven are your mouths for the evolution and involution of creation, i.e., five elements, senses and mind. For them and through all five senses, mind and intelligence of mine, I come, surrender and join you with homage of the self, purified and sanctified at heart with faith. Pray accept this homage and bless me.

Atharvaveda 4.40 · 8 mantras

4.40.1

ये पुरस्ताज् जुह्वति जातवेदः प्राच्या दिशो ऽभिदासन्त्य् अस्मान् ।
अग्निम् ऋत्वा ते पराञ्चो व्यथन्तां प्रत्यग् एनान् प्रतिसरेण हन्मि ॥

ye purastāj juhvati jātavedaḥ prācyā diśo 'bhidāsanty asmān ।
agnim ṛtvā te parāñco vyathantāṃ pratyag enān pratisareṇa hanmi ॥

O Jataveda, omniscient lord of light, discrimination and justice, there are those who first offer the tribute of homage upfront from the east and then from the same direction attack and try to enslave us. Later, when they face Agni, lord of light and discriminative vision, they come to nothing. I hit and destroy them straight with an equal and opposite weapon.

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4.40.2

ये दक्षिणतो जुह्वति जातवेदो दक्षिणाया दिशो ऽभिदासन्त्य् अस्मान् ।
यमं ऋत्वा ते पराञ्चो व्यथन्तां प्रत्यग् एना प्रतिसरेण हन्मि ॥

ye dakṣiṇato juhvati jātavedo dakṣiṇāyā diśo 'bhidāsanty asmān ।
yamaṃ ṛtvā te parāñco vyathantāṃ pratyag enā pratisareṇa hanmi ॥

O Jataveda, those who first offer the tribute of homage from the right side, southern quarter, and then from the same direction attack and try to enslave us, later, when they face Yama, lord of justice and punishment, come to nothing. I hit and destroy them straight with an equal and opposite stroke.

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4.40.3

ये पश्चाज् जुह्वति जातवेदः प्रतीच्या दिशो ऽभिदासन्त्य् अस्मान् ।
वरुणम् ऋत्वा ते पराञ्चो व्यथन्तां प्रत्यग् एनान् प्रतिसरेण हन्मि ॥

ye paścāj juhvati jātavedaḥ pratīcyā diśo 'bhidāsanty asmān ।
varuṇam ṛtvā te parāñco vyathantāṃ pratyag enān pratisareṇa hanmi ॥

O Jataveda, those who first offer the tribute of homage from the back side, western quarter, and them from the same direction attack and try to enslave us, later, when they face Varuna, lord of judgement and dispensation, come to nothing. I hit them back and destroy them straight with an equal and opposite stroke.

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4.40.4

य उत्तरतो जुह्वति जातवेद उदीच्या दिशो ऽभिदासन्त्य् अस्मान् ।
सोमम् ऋत्वा ते पराञ्चो व्यथन्तां प्रत्यग् एनान् प्रतिसरेण हन्मि ॥

ya uttarato juhvati jātaveda udīcyā diśo 'bhidāsanty asmān ।
somam ṛtvā te parāñco vyathantāṃ pratyag enān pratisareṇa hanmi ॥

O Jataveda, those who first offer the tribute of homage from the left side, northern quarter, and then from the same direction attack and try to enslave us, later, when they face Soma, lord of peace and honour, come to nothing. I hit them back and destroy them straight with an equal and opposite stroke.

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4.40.5

ये ऽधस्ताज् जुह्वति जातवेद उदीच्या दिशो ऽभिदासन्त्य् अस्मान् ।
भूमिम् ऋत्वा ते पराञ्चो व्यथन्तां प्रत्यग् एनान् प्रतिसरेण हन्मि ॥

ye 'dhastāj juhvati jātaveda udīcyā diśo 'bhidāsanty asmān ।
bhūmim ṛtvā te parāñco vyathantāṃ pratyag enān pratisareṇa hanmi ॥

O Jataveda, those, who first offer the tribute of homage from below and then from the same lower direction attack us and try to enslave us, later, when they face Mother Earth, mother of all her children equally, come to nothing. I hit them back and destroy them straight with an equal and opposite blow.

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4.40.6

ये ऽन्तरिक्षाज् जुह्वति जातवेदो व्यध्वाया दिशो ऽभिदासन्त्य् अस्मान् ।
वायुम् ऋत्वा ते पराञ्चो व्यथन्तां प्रत्यग् एनान् प्रतिसरेण हन्मि ॥

ye 'ntarikṣāj juhvati jātavedo vyadhvāyā diśo 'bhidāsanty asmān ।
vāyum ṛtvā te parāñco vyathantāṃ pratyag enān pratisareṇa hanmi ॥

O Jataveda, those who first offer the tribute of homage from the sky and then from the same upper direction attack us and try to enslave us come to nothing, when later they face Vayu, mighty force of nature’s retribution. I hit them back and destroy them straight with an equal and opposite blow.

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4.40.7

य उपरिष्टाज् जुह्वति जातवेद ऊर्ध्वाया दिशो ऽभिदासन्त्य् अस्मान् ।
सूर्यम् ऋत्वा ते पराञ्चो व्यथन्तां प्रत्यग् एनान् प्रतिसरेण हन्मि ॥

ya upariṣṭāj juhvati jātaveda ūrdhvāyā diśo 'bhidāsanty asmān ।
sūryam ṛtvā te parāñco vyathantāṃ pratyag enān pratisareṇa hanmi ॥

O Jataveda, those who first offer the tribute of homage from above and from the same high direction attack us and try to enslave us come to nothing, when later they face Surya, solar blaze of the pure light of truth. I hit them back and destroy them straight with an equal and opposite blow.

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4.40.8

ये दिशाम् अन्तर्देशेभ्यो जुह्वति जातवेदः सर्वाभ्यो दिग्भ्यो ऽभिदासन्ति अस्मान् ।
ब्रह्म र्त्वा ते पराञ्चो व्यथन्तां प्रत्यग् एनान् प्रतिसरेण हन्मि ॥

ye diśām antardeśebhyo juhvati jātavedaḥ sarvābhyo digbhyo 'bhidāsanti asmān ।
brahma rtvā te parāñco vyathantāṃ pratyag enān pratisareṇa hanmi ॥

O Jataveda, those who first offer the tribute of homage from the middle spaces of all directions and then from all those directions attack us and try to enslave us later come to naught when they face Brahma, eternal lord of light and life and ultimate justcie. I hit them back and destroy them straight with a single blow of equal and opposite force.