Atharvaveda · Sūkta 11.3
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11.3.1
तस्यौदनस्य बृहस्पतिः शिरो ब्रह्म मुखम् ॥ ११.३.१ ॥
Of that odana, Bṛhaspati is the head, Brahman the mouth.
11.3.2
द्यावापृथिवी श्रोत्रे सूर्याचन्द्रमसावक्षिणी सप्तऋषयः प्राणापानाः ॥ ११.३.२ ॥
Heaven and earth are its ears, sun and moon its eyes, the seven seers and the in- and out-breaths.
11.3.3
चक्षुर्मुसलं काम उलूखलम् ॥ ११.३.३ ॥
The eye is the pestle, desire the mortar.
11.3.4
दितिः शूर्पमदितिः शूर्पग्राही वातोऽपाविनक् ॥ ११.३.४ ॥
Diti is the winnowing basket, Aditi the one who holds it; the wind winnows it away.
11.3.5
अश्वाः कणा गावस्तण्डुला मशकास्तुषाः ॥ ११.३.५ ॥
Horses are the grain-fragments, cows the husked rice, gnats the husks.
11.3.6
कब्रु फलीकरणाः शरोऽभ्रम् ॥ ११.३.६ ॥
The kabru are the pod-splitters; the reed is the cloud.
11.3.7
श्याममयोऽस्य मांसानि लोहितमस्य लोहितम् ॥ ११.३.७ ॥
Dark is its flesh, red is its blood.
11.3.8
त्रपु भस्म हरितं वर्णः पुष्करमस्य गन्धः ॥ ११.३.८ ॥
Tin and ash are its green-yellow colour; the lotus is its fragrance.
11.3.9
खलः पात्रं स्फ्यावंसावीषे अनूक्ये ॥ ११.३.९ ॥
The threshing floor is its vessel; the spades are its shoulders; the yoke-pole and the yoke-pins are its limbs.
11.3.10
आन्त्राणि जत्रवो गुदा वरत्राः ॥ ११.३.१० ॥
The entrails are its collarbones; the bowels are its thongs.
11.3.11
इयमेव पृथिवी कुम्भी भवति राध्यमानस्यौदनस्य द्यौरपिधानम् ॥ ११.३.११ ॥
This very earth becomes the cooking-pot of the odana being cooked; the sky is its lid.
11.3.12
सीताः पर्शवः सिकता ऊबध्यम् ॥ ११.३.१२ ॥
The furrows are its ribs; the sand is its udder-membrane.
11.3.13
ऋतं हस्तावनेजनं कुल्योपसेचनम् ॥ ११.३.१३ ॥
Ṛta is the washing of the hands, the sprinkling from the channel.
11.3.14
ऋचा कुम्भ्यधिहितार्त्विज्येन प्रेषिता ॥ ११.३.१४ ॥
Placed in the pot by the verse, sent forth by the office of the priest.
11.3.15
ब्रह्मणा परिगृहीता साम्ना पर्यूढा ॥ ११.३.१५ ॥
Taken up by the sacred formula, carried around by the chant.
11.3.16
बृहदायवनं रथन्तरं दर्विः ॥ ११.३.१६ ॥
The Bṛhat is the mixing vessel, the Rathantara the ladle.
11.3.17
ऋतवः पक्तार आर्तवाः समिन्धते ॥ ११.३.१७ ॥
The seasons are the cooks; those belonging to the seasons kindle the fire together.
11.3.18
चरुं पञ्चबिलमुखं घर्मोऽभीन्धे ॥ ११.३.१८ ॥
The caru with its five-holed mouth; the gharma (heat) blazes up.
11.3.19
ओदनेन यज्ञवतः सर्वे लोकाः समाप्याः ॥ ११.३.१९ ॥
By the odana, for the one who performs the sacrifice, all worlds are to be attained.
11.3.20
यस्मिन्त्समुद्रो द्यौर्भूमिस्त्रयोऽवरपरं श्रिताः ॥ ११.३.२० ॥
In whom the ocean, the sky and the earth, the three, lower and higher, rest.
11.3.21
यस्य देवा अकल्पन्तोच्छिष्टे षडशीतयः ॥ ११.३.२१ ॥
In whose remainder the gods were formed, eighty-six (divisions).
11.3.22
तं त्वौदनस्य पृच्छामि यो अस्य महिमा महान् ॥ ११.३.२२ ॥
That odana I ask: who is this great glory of it?
11.3.23
स य ओदनस्य महिमानं विद्यात् ॥ ११.३.२३ ॥
He who knows the greatness of the odana—he is that one.
11.3.24
नाल्प इति ब्रूयान् नानुपसेचन इति नेदं च किं चेति ॥ ११.३.२४ ॥
One should not say "it is little," nor "without sauce," nor "what is this," nor "what."
11.3.25
यावद्दाताभिमनस्येत तन् नाति वदेत् ॥ ११.३.२५ ॥
As long as the giver is not displeased in mind, one should not speak excessively about it.
11.3.26
ब्रह्मवादिनो वदन्ति पराञ्चमोदनं प्राशी३ः प्रत्यञ्चा३ इति ॥ ११.३.२६ ॥
The expounders of the sacred word say: 'Odana, eat facing backward; eat facing forward.'
11.3.27
त्वमोदनं प्राशी३ त्वामोदना३ इति ॥ ११.३.२७ ॥
'You eat the odana'; 'may the odana eat you' — thus it is said.
11.3.28
पराञ्चं चैनं प्राशीः प्राणास्त्वा हास्यन्तीत्येनमाह ॥ ११.३.२८ ॥
To one who eats it facing backward, he says: 'Your breaths will forsake you.'
11.3.29
प्रत्यञ्चं चैनं प्राशीरपानास्त्वा हास्यन्तीत्येनमाह ॥ ११.३.२९ ॥
To one who eats it facing forward, he says: 'Your downward breaths will forsake you.'
11.3.30
नैवाहमोदनं न मामोदनः ॥ ११.३.३० ॥
I am not the odana, nor does the odana eat me.
11.3.31
ओदन एवौदनं प्राशीत् ॥ ११.३.३१ ॥
Odana itself ate Odana.