Atharvaveda · Sūkta 8.2
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8.2.1
आ रभस्वेमाममृतस्य श्नुष्टिमछिद्यमाना जरदष्टिरस्तु ते ।
असुं त आयुः पुनरा भरामि रजस्तमो मोप गा मा प्र मेष्ठाः ॥ ८.२.१ ॥
Take hold of this strength of the immortal; may you be unbroken, may long old age be yours. I bring back your breath and your life span again; do not go near the darkness, do not perish.
8.2.2
जीवतां ज्योतिरभ्येह्यर्वाङा त्वा हरामि शतशारदाय ।
अवमुञ्चन् मृत्युपाशान् अशस्तिं द्राघीय आयुः प्रतरं ते दधामि ॥ ८.२.२ ॥
Come toward the light of the living, come hither; for a hundred autumns I draw you here. Loosening the nooses of death, releasing ill-fate, I set for you a longer life span.
8.2.3
वातात्ते प्रानमविदं सूर्याच्चक्षुरहं तव ।
यत्ते मनस्त्वयि तद्धारयामि सं वित्स्वाङ्गैर्वद जिह्वयालपन् ॥ ८.२.३ ॥
From the wind I have obtained your breath, from the sun your sight; whatever your mind is, I fix it in you. Come together again with your limbs, speak with your tongue, talk.
8.2.4
प्राणेन त्वा द्विपदां चतुष्पदामग्निमिव जातमभि सं धमामि ।
नमस्ते मृत्यो चक्षुषे नमः प्राणाय तेऽकरम् ॥ ८.२.४ ॥
With breath I kindle you, as fire newly born, among bipeds and quadrupeds, blowing upon you. Homage to your eye, O Death; homage I make to your breath.
8.2.5
अयं जीवतु मा मृतेमं समीरयामसि ।
कृणोम्यस्मै भेषजं मृत्यो मा पुरुषं वधीः ॥ ८.२.५ ॥
Let this one live, not dead; him we rouse up. For him I make a remedy. O Death, do not strike down this person.
8.2.6
जीवलां नघारिषां जीवन्तीमोषधीमहम् ।
त्रायमाणां सहमानां सहस्वतीमिह हुवेऽस्मा अरिष्टतातये ॥ ८.२.६ ॥
Life-giving herb, I do not harm; the living, protecting, overcoming, mighty herb I call here, for his safety from harm.
8.2.7
अधि ब्रूहि मा रभथाः सृजेमं तवैव सन्त्सर्वहायाः इहास्तु ।
भवाशर्वौ मृडतं शर्म यच्छतमपसिध्य दुरितं धत्तमायुः ॥ ८.२.७ ॥
O Death, speak to him, do not seize him; release him, let him be yours, and let him remain here his whole life. May Bhava and Śarva be gracious and grant bliss, driving away misfortune and establishing long life.
8.2.8
अस्मै मृत्यो अधि ब्रूहीमं दयस्वोदितोऽयमेतु ।
अरिष्टः सर्वाङ्गः सुश्रुज्जरसा शतहायन आत्मना भुजमश्नुताम् ॥ ८.२.८ ॥
O Death, speak for him and show him mercy; let him come forth risen, unharmed and whole in all his limbs, with keen hearing, living a hundred years and, in his own body, enjoying pleasures up to old age.
8.2.9
देवानां हेतिः परि त्वा वृणक्तु पारयामि त्वा रजस उत्त्वा मृत्योरपीपरम् ।
आरादग्निं क्रव्यादं निरूहं जीवातवे ते परिधिं दधामि ॥ ८.२.९ ॥
May the weapon of the gods encircle you; I lead you across the darkness, I have raised you up from death. Driving the flesh-eating fire far away, I place an enclosure around you for your life.
8.2.10
यत्ते नियानं रजसं मृत्यो अनवधर्ष्यम् ।
पथ इमं तस्माद्रक्षन्तो ब्रह्मास्मै वर्म कृण्मसि ॥ ८.२.१० ॥
O Death, your dark path is not to be assailed; guarding him from that path, we make the sacred formula Brahman a armour for him.
8.2.11
कृणोमि ते प्राणापानौ जरां मृत्युं दीर्घमायुः स्वस्ति ।
वैवस्वतेन प्रहितान् यमदूतांश्चरतोऽप सेधामि सर्वान् ॥ ८.२.११ ॥
I make for you the in-breath and out-breath; I make old age, death, long life and well-being. Sent by Vaivasvata Yama, the messengers of Yama wandering about, I drive them all away.
8.2.12
आरादरातिं निर्ऋतिं परो ग्राहिं क्रव्यादः पिशाचान् ।
रक्षो यत्सर्वं दुर्भूतं तत्तम इवाप हन्मसि ॥ ८.२.१२ ॥
Far away we drive the hostile one, Nirṛti, the seizer from afar, the flesh-eating piśācas. Whatever demon, whatever evil-born thing there is, like darkness we strike it away.
8.2.13
अग्नेष्ट प्रानममृतादायुष्मतो वन्वे जातवेदसः ।
यथा न रिष्या अमृतः सजूरसस्तत्ते कृणोमि तदु ते समृध्यताम् ॥ ८.२.१३ ॥
From the immortal breath of Agni Jātavedas, long-lived, I win it, so that you may not be harmed, may be immortal and remain together. That I make for you; may it prosper for you.
8.2.14
शिवे ते स्तां द्यावापृथिवी असंतापे अभिश्रियौ ।
शं ते सूर्य आ तपतु शं वातो वातु ते हृदे ।
शिवा अभि क्षरन्तु त्वापो दिव्याः पयस्वतीः ॥ ८.२.१४ ॥
For you let heaven and earth be auspicious, not scorching, bearing grace. May the sun warm you for well-being, may the wind blow gently to your heart. May the heavenly, milk-rich waters flow down upon you auspiciously.
8.2.15
शिवास्ते सन्त्वोषधय उत्त्वाहार्षमधरस्या उत्तरां पृथिवीमभि ।
तत्र त्वादित्यौ रक्षतां सूर्याचन्द्रमसावुभा ॥ ८.२.१५ ॥
For you may the herbs be auspicious. I have brought you up from the lower earth toward the higher earth. There may the two Ādityas protect you, both the sun and the moon.
8.2.16
यत्ते वासः परिधानं यां नीविं कृणुषे त्वम् ।
शिवं ते तन्वे तत्कृण्मः संस्पर्शेऽद्रूक्ष्णमस्तु ते ॥ ८.२.१६ ॥
The garment you wear, the outer wrapper, the knot you tie — that we make auspicious for your body. May it be gentle to your touch.
8.2.17
यत्क्षुरेण मर्चयता सुतेजसा वप्ता वपसि केशश्मश्रु ।
शुभं मुखं मा न आयुः प्र मोषीः ॥ ८.२.१७ ॥
When you shave hair and beard with a keen razor, do not steal away our auspicious face and life.
8.2.18
शिवौ ते स्तां व्रीहियवावबलासावदोमधौ ।
एतौ यक्ष्मं वि बाधेते एतौ मुञ्चतो अंहसः ॥ ८.२.१८ ॥
May rice and barley be auspicious for you, and likewise the two abalāsa and adomadha plants. These two drive away wasting disease; these two release from distress.
8.2.19
यदश्नासि यत्पिबसि धान्यं कृष्याः पयः ।
यदाद्यं यदनाद्यं सर्वं ते अन्नमविषं कृणोमि ॥ ८.२.१९ ॥
Whatever you eat and drink, the grain and milk of the field, whatever is edible and whatever is not—all your food I make free of poison.
8.2.20
अह्ने च त्वा रात्रये चोभाभ्यां परि दद्मसि ।
अरायेभ्यो जिघत्सुभ्य इमं मे परि रक्षत ॥ ८.२.२० ॥
To day and to night, to both, we entrust you. From the niggardly and from those who long to devour, protect this one well for me.
8.2.21
शतं तेऽयुतं हायनान् द्वे युगे त्रीणि चत्वारि कृण्मः ।
इन्द्राग्नी विश्वे देवास्तेऽनु मन्यन्तामहृणीयमानाः ॥ ८.२.२१ ॥
For you we make a hundred and ten thousand years, two yugas, three and four (yugas). May Indra and Agni and all the gods, unangered, consent to it.
8.2.22
शरदे त्वा हेमन्ताय वसन्ताय ग्रीष्माय परि दद्मसि ।
वर्षाणि तुभ्यं स्योनानि येषु वर्धन्त ओषधीः ॥ ८.२.२२ ॥
To autumn, to winter, to spring, to summer we entrust you. May there be pleasant rainy seasons for you, in which the plants grow.
8.2.23
मृत्युरीशे द्विपदां मृत्युरीशे चतुष्पदाम् ।
तस्मात्त्वां मृत्योर्गोपतेरुद्भरामि स मा बिभेः ॥ ८.२.२३ ॥
Death rules over the biped, death rules over the quadruped. Therefore I lift you up from the lord of death; do not fear.
8.2.24
सोऽरिष्ट न मरिष्यसि न मरिष्यसि मा बिभेः ।
न वै तत्र म्रियन्ते नो यन्ति अधमं तमः ॥ ८.२.२४ ॥
You are unharmed; you will not die, you will not die; do not fear. There indeed no one dies, nor do they go to the lowest darkness.
8.2.25
सर्वो वै तत्र जीवति गौरश्वः पुरुषः पशुः ।
यत्रेदं ब्रह्म क्रियते परिधिर्जीवनाय कम् ॥ ८.२.२५ ॥
There indeed all live — cow, horse, man, beast — where this sacred formula is performed, a fence of happiness for life.
8.2.26
परि त्वा पातु समानेभ्योऽभिचारात्सबन्धुभ्यः ।
अमम्रिर्भवामृतोऽतिजीवो मा ते हासिषुरसवः शरीरम् ॥ ८.२.२६ ॥
May he protect you from peers and from kinsmen, from malicious rites (abhicāra). Become undying, immortal, long-lived; may your breaths not leave your body.
8.2.27
ये मृत्यव एकशतं या नाष्ट्रा अतितार्याः ।
मुञ्चन्तु तस्मात्त्वां देवा अग्नेर्वैश्वानरादधि ॥ ८.२.२७ ॥
The hundred deaths, those that are hidden and to be overcome — may the gods release you from them, from above Vaiśvānara Agni.
8.2.28
अग्नेः शरीरमसि पारयिष्णु रक्षोहासि सपत्नहा ।
अथो अमीवचातनः पूतुद्रुर्नाम भेषजम् ॥ ८.२.२८ ॥
You are the body of Agni, bringing across; you are the slayer of demons, the slayer of rivals. And you are the remedy named Pūtudru, which drives away disease.