Atharvaveda · Sūkta 10.8
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10.8.1
यो भूतं च भव्यं च सर्वं यश्चाधितिष्ठति ।
स्वर्यस्य च केवलं तस्मै ज्येष्ठाय ब्रह्मणे नमः ॥ १०.८.१ ॥
Homage to that eldest Brahman who is all that has been and all that shall be, who presides over everything, and to whom alone heaven belongs.
10.8.2
स्कम्भेनेमे विष्टभिते द्यौश्च भूमिश्च तिष्ठतः ।
स्कम्भ इदं सर्वमात्मन्वद्यत्प्राणन् निमिषच्च यत् ॥ १०.८.२ ॥
By the pillar these two, heaven and earth, are held apart and stand fast. The pillar is all this: whatever has breath, whatever breathes, and whatever blinks.
10.8.3
तिस्रो ह प्रजा अत्यायमायन् न्यन्या अर्कमभितोऽविशन्त ।
बृहन् ह तस्थौ रजसो विमानो हरितो हरिणीरा विवेश ॥ १०.८.३ ॥
Three creatures indeed went forward; the others entered below, all around the sun. The vast one stands as the measurer of the atmosphere; the tawny one entered the tawny females.
10.8.4
द्वादश प्रधयश्चक्रमेकं त्रीणि नभ्यानि क उ तच्चिकेत ।
तत्राहतास्त्रीणि शतानि शङ्कवः षष्टिश्च खीला अविचाचला ये ॥ १०.८.४ ॥
Twelve felloes, one wheel, three hubs: who indeed knows that? There are fixed three hundred pegs and sixty stakes, immovable.
10.8.5
इदं सवितर्वि जानीहि षड्यमा एक एकजः ।
तस्मिन् हापित्वमिच्छन्ते य एषामेक एकजः ॥ १०.८.५ ॥
O Savitṛ, understand this: there are six pairs, and one alone, born singly. In him indeed they desire to be united, those six of whom this one is the single-born.
10.8.6
आविः सन् निहितं गुहा जरन् नाम महत्पदम् ।
तत्रेदं सर्वमार्पितमेजत्प्राणत्प्रतिष्ठितम् ॥ १०.८.६ ॥
Though manifest, placed in the cave is the great station named Jaran; there all this is fixed: whatever moves, whatever breathes, whatever stands firm.
10.8.7
एकचक्रं वर्तत एकनेमि सहस्राक्षरं प्र पुरो नि पश्चा ।
अर्धेन विश्वं भुवनं जजान यदस्यार्धं क्व तद्बभूव ॥ १०.८.७ ॥
A single wheel turns, with one rim and a thousand syllables; it moves forward and backward. With one half it brought forth all the worlds; where did its other half go?
10.8.8
पञ्चवाही वहत्यग्रमेषां प्रष्टयो युक्ता अनुसंवहन्ति ।
अयातमस्य ददृशे न यातं परं नेदीयोऽवरं दवीयः ॥ १०.८.८ ॥
A five-horsed chariot carries these forward; the yoked side-horses draw them along behind. Its unmoving form is seen, not its moving one; far, near, lower, and farther.
10.8.9
तिर्यग्बिलश्चमस ऊर्ध्वबुध्नस्तस्मिन् यशो निहितं विश्वरूपम् ।
तदासत ऋषयः सप्त साकं ये अस्य गोपा महतो बभूवुः ॥ १०.८.९ ॥
A cup with a sideways opening and its base upward; in it is placed glory of all forms. On it sit together seven seers, who became its great guardians.
10.8.10
या पुरस्ताद्युज्यते या च पश्चाद्या विश्वतो युज्यते या च सर्वतः ।
यया यज्ञः प्राङ्तायते तां त्वा पृच्छामि कतमा सर्चाम् ॥ १०.८.१० ॥
That which is yoked in front, that which is yoked behind, that which is yoked on every side, that which is yoked everywhere, by which the sacrifice is stretched forward—I ask you: which of these is the one I should touch?
10.8.11
यदेजति पतति यच्च तिष्ठति प्राणदप्राणन् निमिषच्च यद्भुवत् ।
तद्दाधार पृथिवीं विश्वरूपं तत्संभूय भवत्येकमेव ॥ १०.८.११ ॥
That which trembles, flies, and stands; that which breathes and does not breathe, blinks, and comes to be—that bears the earth of all forms; having come together, it becomes one alone.
10.8.12
अनन्तं विततं पुरुत्रानन्तमन्तवच्चा समन्ते ।
ते नाकपालश्चरति विचिन्वन् विद्वान् भूतमुत भव्यमस्य ॥ १०.८.१२ ॥
It is endless, spread out, extended in many places; endless and yet bounded, it lies on every side. The guardian of the heavenly vault moves about, searching, knowing what has been and what is yet to be of it.
10.8.13
प्रजापतिश्चरति गर्भे अन्तरदृश्यमानो बहुधा वि जायते ।
अर्धेन विश्वं भुवनं जजान यदस्यार्धं कतमः स केतुः ॥ १०.८.१३ ॥
Prajāpati moves within the womb, unseen, and is born in many forms. With one half he generated the whole world; what is the sign of that other half of him?
10.8.14
ऊर्ध्वं भरन्तमुदकं कुम्भेनेवोदहार्यम् ।
पश्यन्ति सर्वे चक्षुषा न सर्वे मनसा विदुः ॥ १०.८.१४ ॥
As water is drawn up with a pot, so he bears the water upward. All see with the eye, but not all know with the mind.
10.8.15
दूरे पूर्णेन वसति दूर ऊनेन हीयते ।
महद्यक्षं भुवनस्य मध्ये तस्मै बलिं राष्ट्रभृतो भरन्ति ॥ १०.८.१५ ॥
Far off he dwells with the full; far off he is diminished by the lacking. In the midst of the world is a great wonder-being; to him the nation's bearers bring their offering.
10.8.16
यतः सूर्यः उदेत्यस्तं यत्र च गच्छति ।
तदेव मन्येऽहं ज्येष्ठं तदु नात्येति किं चन ॥ १०.८.१६ ॥
From where the sun rises and where it goes down to set, that I consider the highest; nothing whatever goes beyond it.
10.8.17
ये अर्वाङ्मध्य उत वा पुराणं वेदं विद्वांसमभितो वदन्ति ।
आदित्यमेव ते परि वदन्ति सर्वे अग्निं द्वितीयं त्रिवृतं च हंसम् ॥ १०.८.१७ ॥
Those who speak of the knower of the ancient Veda, on this side or in the middle or on every side, all of them speak only of the sun; and secondly of Agni, the threefold one, and the swan.
10.8.18
सहस्राह्ण्यं वियतावस्य पक्षौ हरेर्हंसस्य पततः स्वर्गम् ।
स देवान्त्सर्वान् उरस्युपदद्य संपश्यन् याति भुवनानि विश्वा ॥ १०.८.१८ ॥
Its two wings, spread for a thousand days, are those of the flying tawny swan; it flies toward heaven. Holding all the gods in its breast and looking closely, it goes to all worlds.
10.8.19
सत्येनोर्ध्वस्तपति ब्रह्मणार्वाङ्वि पश्यति ।
प्राणेन तिर्यङ्प्राणति यस्मिन् ज्येष्ठमधि श्रितम् ॥ १०.८.१९ ॥
By truth it burns upward; by sacred power it also sees below. By breath it breathes across, in which the highest rests.
10.8.20
यो वै ते विद्यादरणी याभ्यां निर्मथ्यते वसु ।
स विद्वान् ज्येष्ठं मन्येत स विद्याद्ब्राह्मणं महत् ॥ १०.८.२० ॥
He who knows your two fire-sticks, by which wealth is churned out, should be held the best of the knowing; let him know the great Brahman.
10.8.21
अपादग्रे समभवत्सो अग्रे स्वराभरत् ।
चतुष्पाद्भूत्वा भोग्यः सर्वमादत्त भोजनम् ॥ १०.८.२१ ॥
In the beginning it came into being footless; first it brought forth light. Becoming four-footed and fit to be enjoyed, it took up all food.
10.8.22
भोग्यो भवदथो अन्नमदद्बहु ।
यो देवमुत्तरावन्तमुपासातै सनातनम् ॥ १०.८.२२ ॥
Becoming fit to be enjoyed, it received much food. He who worships the higher, eternal god—
10.8.23
सनातनमेनमाहुरुताद्य स्यात्पुनर्णवः ।
अहोरात्रे प्र जायेते अन्यो अन्यस्य रूपयोः ॥ १०.८.२३ ॥
They call this eternal, and may it be renewed again today. Day and night are born, one in the forms of the other.
10.8.24
शतं सहस्रमयुतं न्यर्बुदमसंख्येयं स्वमस्मिन् निविष्टम् ।
तदस्य घ्नन्त्यभिपश्यत एव तस्माद्देवो रोचतेष एतत् ॥ १०.८.२४ ॥
A hundred, a thousand, ten thousand, a hundred million, countless—one's own portion established within them. For the one who sees, they strike it; therefore this god shines, this is it.
10.8.25
बालादेकमणीयस्कमुतैकं नेव दृश्यते ।
ततः परिष्वजीयसी देवता सा मम प्रिया ॥ १०.८.२५ ॥
One finer even than the tip of a hair, and another that seems not to be seen. That goddess who embraces more closely is my beloved.
10.8.26
इयं कल्याण्यजरा मर्त्यस्यामृता गृहे ।
यस्मै कृता शये स यश्चकार जजार सः ॥ १०.८.२६ ॥
This auspicious one, ageless, is immortal in the house of the mortal. With him for whom she is made I lie down; he who made her grows old.
10.8.27
त्वं स्त्री त्वं पुमान् असि त्वं कुमार उत वा कुमारी ।
त्वं जीर्णो दण्डेन वञ्चसि त्वं जातो भवसि विश्वतोमुखः ॥ १०.८.२७ ॥
You are woman, you are man; you are boy or girl. You are aged, tottering with a staff; born, you become all-faced.
10.8.28
उतैषां पितोत वा पुत्र एषामुतैषां ज्येष्ठ उत वा कनिष्ठः ।
एको ह देवो मनसि प्रविष्टः प्रथमो जातः स उ गर्भे अन्तः ॥ १०.८.२८ ॥
Among these, a father, or a son; among these, an eldest, or a youngest. One god has entered the mind; he is the first born, and he is within the womb.
10.8.29
पूर्णात्पूर्णमुदचति पूर्णं पूर्णेन सिच्यते ।
उतो तदद्य विद्याम यतस्तत्परिषिच्यते ॥ १०.८.२९ ॥
From the full, the full is drawn up; by the full, the full is poured out. And today may we know that from which it is poured forth.
10.8.30
एषा सनत्नी सनमेव जातैषा पुराणी परि सर्वं बभूव ।
मही देव्युषसो विभाती सैकेनैकेन मिषता वि चष्टे ॥ १०.८.३० ॥
This is eternal, born of old; this is ancient, and has become all around. The great goddess Dawn, shining forth, looks with each single blink of the eye.
10.8.31
अविर्वै नाम देवतर्तेनास्ते परीवृता ।
तस्या रूपेणेमे वृक्षा हरिता हरितस्रजः ॥ १०.८.३१ ॥
The goddess named Avir dwells enveloped by the cosmic order; by her form these trees are green, wearing green garlands.
10.8.32
अन्ति सन्तं न जहात्यन्ति सन्तं न पश्यति ।
देवस्य पश्य काव्यं न ममार न जीर्यति ॥ १०.८.३२ ॥
It does not abandon him who is near, nor does it see him who is near. Behold the poem of the god: it does not die, nor does it grow old.
10.8.33
अपूर्वेणेषिता वाचस्ता वदन्ति यथायथम् ।
वदन्तीर्यत्र गच्छन्ति तदाहुर्ब्राह्मणं महत् ॥ १०.८.३३ ॥
Speeches impelled by the unprecedented speak each as is fitting; speaking, they go to where they go, and that they call the great Brahman.
10.8.34
यत्र देवाश्च मनुष्याश्चारा नाभाविव श्रिताः ।
अपां त्वा पुष्पं पृछामि यत्र तन् मायया हितम् ॥ १०.८.३४ ॥
Where gods and humans are fixed, like spokes at the hub—flower of the waters, I ask you: where is that which is placed there by illusion?
10.8.35
येभिर्वात इषितः प्रवाति ये ददन्ते पञ्च दिशः सध्रीचीः ।
य आहुतिमत्यमन्यन्त देवा अपां नेतारः कतमे त आसन् ॥ १०.८.३५ ॥
By whom the wind is impelled and blows, who hold the five directions together; the gods who thought the oblation a steed, the leaders of the waters—who were they?
10.8.36
इमामेषां पृथिवीं वस्त एकोऽन्तरिक्षं पर्येको बभूव ।
दिवमेषां ददते यो विधर्ता विश्वा आशाः प्रति रक्षन्त्येके ॥ १०.८.३६ ॥
One of these covered this earth, and in the atmosphere he alone became. The sustainer among them holds the sky; and certain ones guard all the quarters.
10.8.37
यो विद्यात्सूत्रं विततं यस्मिन्न् ओताः प्रजा इमाः ।
सूत्रं सूत्रस्य यो विद्याद्स विद्याद्ब्राह्मणं महत् ॥ १०.८.३७ ॥
He who knows the stretched-out thread in which these creatures are strung, and who knows the thread of the thread, let him know that great Brahman.
10.8.38
वेदाहं सूत्रं विततं यस्मिन्न् ओताः प्रजा इमाः ।
सूत्रं सूत्रस्याहं वेदाथो यद्ब्राह्मणं महद् ॥ १०.८.३८ ॥
I know the stretched-out thread in which these creatures are strung; I know the thread of the thread, and also that great Brahman.
10.8.39
यदन्तरा द्यावापृथिवी अग्निरैत्प्रदहन् विश्वदाव्यः ।
यत्रातिष्ठन्न् एकपत्नीः परस्तात्क्वेवासीन् मातरिश्वा तदानीम् ॥ १०.८.३९ ॥
When Agni, all-consuming, went burning between heaven and earth, and where the single-husbanded ones stood, where then was Mātariśvan at that time?
10.8.40
अप्स्वासीन् मातरिश्वा प्रविष्टः प्रविष्टा देवाः सलिलान्यासन् ।
बृहन् ह तस्थौ रजसो विमानः पवमानो हरित आ विवेश ॥ १०.८.४० ॥
Mātariśvan had entered the waters; the gods too entered, and there were waters. Vast, he stood as the measurer of the atmosphere; purifying, he entered the green (realm).
10.8.41
उत्तरेणेव गयत्रीममृतेऽधि वि चक्रमे ।
साम्ना ये साम संविदुरजस्तद्ददृशे क्व ॥ १०.८.४१ ॥
As if from the north, Gāyatrī stepped apart upon the immortal. Those who knew the sāman through the sāman — where is the unborn one seen?
10.8.42
निवेशनः संगमनो वसूनां देव इव सविता सत्यधर्मा ।
इन्द्रो न तस्थौ समरे धनानाम् ॥ १०.८.४२ ॥
He is the establisher and uniter of the treasures, like the god Savitṛ whose law is truth; he stands in the battle for wealth like Indra.
10.8.43
पुण्डरीकं नवद्वारं त्रिभिर्गुणेभिरावृतम् ।
तस्मिन् यद्यक्षमात्मन्वत्तद्वै ब्रह्मविदो विदुः ॥ १०.८.४३ ॥
The lotus with nine gates, enveloped by three strands; within it is the wondrous being that possesses the self, which only the knowers of Brahman truly know.
10.8.44
अकामो धीरो अमृतः स्वयंभू रसेन तृप्तो न कुतश्चनोनः ।
तमेव विद्वान् न बिभाय मृत्योरात्मानं धीरमजरं युवानम् ॥ १०.८.४४ ॥
Free from desire, steadfast, immortal, self-existent, satisfied with its essence, lacking nothing from anywhere; the wise one who knows him does not fear death, knowing the steadfast, ageless, youthful self.