Atharvaveda · Sūkta 4.11
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4.11.1
अनड्वान् दाधार पृथिवीमुत द्यामनड्वान् दाधारोर्वन्तरिक्षम् ।
अनड्वान् दाधार प्रदिशः षडुर्वीरनड्वान् विश्वं भुवनमा विवेश ॥ ४.११.१ ॥
The ox held up the earth and also the sky; the ox held up the wide atmosphere. The ox held up the six broad directions; the ox entered the whole world.
4.11.2
अनड्वान् इन्द्रः स पशुभ्यो वि चष्टे त्रयां छक्रो वि मिमीते अध्वनः ।
भूतं भविष्यद्भुवना दुहानः सर्वा देवानां चरति व्रतानि ॥ ४.११.२ ॥
That ox is Indra; he looks out for the creatures; the mighty one measures out the three paths. Milking past, future and worlds, he moves through all the sacred ordinances of the gods.
4.11.3
इन्द्रो जातो मनुष्येष्वन्तर्घर्मस्तप्तश्चरति शोशुचानः ।
सुप्रजाः सन्त्स उदारे न सर्षद्यो नाश्नीयादनडुहो विजानन् ॥ ४.११.३ ॥
Indra, born among men, is the heated ghárma within; blazing, he moves about heated. Having good offspring, he does not go to the generous sacrifice—he who, knowing the ox's share, does not eat it.
4.11.4
अनड्वान् दुहे सुकृतस्य लोक ऐनं प्याययति पवमानः पुरस्तात् ।
पर्जन्यो धारा मरुत ऊधो अस्य यज्ञः पयो दक्षिणा दोहो अस्य ॥ ४.११.४ ॥
The ox yields milk in the world of good deeds; the purifier (Pavamāna) gladdens him from the front. Parjanya is his streams, the Maruts his udder; the sacrifice is his milk, the sacrificial gift his milking.
4.11.5
यस्य नेशे यज्ञपतिर्न यज्ञो नास्य दातेशे न प्रतिग्रहीता ।
यो विश्वजिद्विश्वभृद्विश्वकर्मा घर्मं नो ब्रूत यतमश्चतुष्पात् ॥ ४.११.५ ॥
In whose rule there is neither sacrifice-lord, nor sacrifice, nor giver, nor receiver — you who are all-conquering, all-supporting, all-making, tell us the ghárma: which is the four-footed one?
4.11.6
येन देवाः स्वरारुरुहुर्हित्वा शरीरममृतस्य नाभिम् ।
तेन गेष्म सुकृतस्य लोकं घर्मस्य व्रतेन तपसा यशस्यवः ॥ ४.११.६ ॥
By the path on which the gods, leaving the body, ascended to heaven, the centre of immortality, by that path, through the vow of the heat-offering and by austerity, seeking glory, let us go to the world of good deeds.
4.11.7
इन्द्रो रूपेणाग्निर्वहेन प्रजापतिः परमेष्ठी विराट् ।
विश्वानरे अक्रमत वैश्वानरे अक्रमतानडुह्यक्रमत ।
सोऽदृंहयत सोऽधारयत ॥ ४.११.७ ॥
Indra advanced in form, Agni in carrying, Prajāpati, the supreme, resplendent one, advanced; he advanced in Viśvānara, he advanced in Vaiśvānara, he advanced in the ox. He made it firm; he sustained it.
4.11.8
मध्यमेतदनडुहो यत्रैष वह आहितः ।
एतावदस्य प्राचीनं यावान् प्रत्यङ्समाहितः ॥ ४.११.८ ॥
This is the middle of the ox, where this yoke-pole is placed. As far as its forward part extends, so far its rearward part is set.
4.11.9
यो वेदानडुहो दोहान्त्सप्तानुपदस्वतः ।
प्रजां च लोकं चाप्नोति तथा सप्तऋषयो विदुः ॥ ४.११.९ ॥
He who knows the seven untrodden milkings of the ox obtains both offspring and the world; thus the seven seers know.
4.11.10
पद्भिः सेदिमवक्रामन्न् इरां जङ्घाभिरुत्खिदन् ।
श्रमेणानड्वान् कीलालं कीनाशश्चाभि गच्छतः ॥ ४.११.१० ॥
Stepping onward with its feet, digging up the soil with its shanks, the ox goes by labour toward the water, and the ploughman goes toward it too.
4.11.11
द्वादश वा एता रात्रीर्व्रत्या आहुः प्रजापतेः ।
तत्रोप ब्रह्म यो वेद तद्वा अनडुहो व्रतम् ॥ ४.११.११ ॥
These twelve nights are called the vow-nights of Prajāpati; he who knows Brahman near them knows indeed the vow of the ox.
4.11.12
दुहे सायं दुहे प्रातर्दुहे मध्यंदिनं परि ।
दोहा ये अस्य संयन्ति तान् विद्मानुपदस्वतः ॥ ४.११.१२ ॥
At evening they milk it, at morning they milk it, at midday they milk it; those milkings of his that gather together, we know them.