Atharvaveda · Sūkta 13.6

13.6.22

ब्रह्म च तपश्च कीर्तिश्च यशश्चाम्भश्च नभश्च ब्राह्मणवर्चसं चान्नं चान्नाद्यं च ॥ १३.६.२२ ॥

Brahman and austerity, fame and glory, water and sky, the splendour of the brahmin, food and what is fit to be eaten.

भूतं च भव्यं च श्रद्धा च रुचिश्च स्वर्गश्च स्वधा च ॥ १३.६.२३ ॥

What has been and what is to be, faith and delight, heaven and svadhā.

य एतं देवमेकवृतं वेद ॥ १३.६.२४ ॥

He who knows this god of single enclosure.

स एव मृत्युः सोऽमृतं सोऽभ्वं स रक्षः ॥ १३.६.२५ ॥

He indeed is death, he is immortality, he is the unmanifest, he is the demon.

स रुद्रो वसुवनिर्वसुदेये नमोवाके वषट्कारोऽनु संहितः ॥ १३.६.२६ ॥

He is Rudra, winner of wealth and giver of wealth, in the call of homage, joined with the vaṣaṭ exclamation.

तस्येमे सर्वे यातव उप प्रशिषमासते ॥ १३.६.२७ ॥

Under his command all these harassing demons abide.

तस्यामू सर्वा नक्षत्रा वशे चन्द्रमसा सह ॥ १३.६.२८ ॥

Under her control are all the lunar mansions, together with the moon.