Atharvaveda · Sūkta 8.4
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8.4.1
इन्द्रासोमा तपतं रक्ष उब्जतं न्यर्पयतं वृषणा तमोवृधः ।
परा शृणीतमचितो न्योषतं हतं नुदेथां नि शिशीतमत्त्रिणः ॥ ८.४.१ ॥
Indra and Soma, scorch the demon, press it down, cast it low. You two bulls, mighty ones, shatter and burn up the unthinking ones who grow in darkness; drive off the slain, and whet the devourers.
8.4.2
इन्द्रासोमा समघशंसमभ्यघं तपुर्ययस्तु चरुरग्निमामिव ।
ब्रह्मद्विषे क्रव्यादे घोरचक्षसे द्वेषो धत्तमनवायं किमीदिने ॥ ८.४.२ ॥
Indra and Soma, scorch the evil-wisher, the evil one, as one heats a sacrificial pot in the fire. To the hater of the sacred word, the flesh-eater, the fierce-eyed Kimīdin, give hatred from which there is no escape.
8.4.3
इन्द्रासोमा दुष्कृतो वव्रे अन्तरनारम्भणे तमसि प्र विध्यतम् ।
यतो नैषां पुनरेकश्चनोदयत्तद्वामस्तु सहसे मन्युमच्छवः ॥ ८.४.३ ॥
Indra and Soma, the evildoers have hidden within the unbegun darkness; pierce them thoroughly, so that not one of them rises again. Let that wrath be yours, for the strength of you two.
8.4.4
इन्द्रासोमा वर्तयतं दिवो वधं सं पृथिव्या अघशंसाय तर्हणम् ।
उत्तक्षतं स्वर्यं१ पर्वतेभ्यो येन रक्षो वावृधानं निजूर्वथः ॥ ८.४.४ ॥
Indra and Soma, turn the bolt from heaven, and bring destruction from the earth upon the evil-speaker. Shape from the mountains a weapon turned toward the sun, by which you two may subdue the swelling demon.
8.4.5
इन्द्रासोमा वर्तयतं दिवस्पर्यग्नितप्तेभिर्युवमश्महन्मभिः ।
तपुर्वधेभिरजरेभिरत्त्रिणो नि पर्शाने विध्यतं यन्तु निस्वरम् ॥ ८.४.५ ॥
Indra and Soma, turn the fire-heated stone-striking missiles around the heavens; with burning, undecaying weapons, strike down into the ribs of the devourers, so that they depart without a sound.
8.4.6
इन्द्रासोमा परि वां भूतु विश्वत इयं मतिः कक्ष्याश्वेव वाजिना ।
यां वां होत्रां परिहिनोमि मेधयेमा ब्रह्माणि नृपती इव जिन्वतम् ॥ ८.४.६ ॥
O Indra and Soma, let this thought turn about you on all sides, like the two swift horses of a chariot. The invocation I send to you with understanding, these sacred formulas — quicken them like two lords of men.
8.4.7
प्रति स्मरेथां तुजयद्भिरेवैर्हतं द्रुहो रक्षसो भङ्गुरावतः ।
इन्द्रासोमा दुष्कृते मा सुगं भूद्यो मा कदा चिदभिदासति द्रुहुः ॥ ८.४.७ ॥
O Indra and Soma, remember and strike down the malicious and crooked demons with your thrusting blows. Let no easy path be given to the evildoer, to whichever malicious one ever seeks to harm me.
8.4.8
यो मा पाकेन मनसा चरन्तमभिचष्टे अनृतेभिर्वचोभिः ।
आप इव काशिना सम्गृभीता असन्न् अस्त्वसतः इन्द्र वक्ता ॥ ८.४.८ ॥
Whoever, seeing me walk with a simple mind, reviles me with false words — let him be caught like waters seized in a net. O Indra, let him be the speaker of the false one.
8.4.9
ये पाकशंसं विहरन्त एवैर्ये वा भद्रं दूषयन्ति स्वधाभिः ।
अहये वा तान् प्रददातु सोम आ वा दधातु निर्ऋतेरुपष्ठे ॥ ८.४.९ ॥
Those who lead astray the one who praises the simple, and those who defile the good with their own powers — may Soma deliver them to the serpent, or place them in the lap of Nirṛti.
8.4.10
यो नो रसं दिप्सति पित्वो अग्ने अश्वानां गवां यस्तनूनाम् ।
रिपु स्तेन स्तेयकृद्दभ्रमेतु नि ष हीयतां तन्वा तना च ॥ ८.४.१० ॥
O Agni, whoever desires to seize our vital sap of nourishment, the enemy of horses, cows and bodies, the thief, the doer of theft — may he come down small; may he be diminished in body and in offspring.
8.4.11
परः सो अस्तु तन्वा तना च तिस्रः पृथिवीरधो अस्तु विश्वाः ।
प्रति शुष्यतु यशो अस्य देवा यो मा दिवा दिप्सति यश्च नक्तम् ॥ ८.४.११ ॥
Let him be far off with his body and his offspring, and let him be below all three earths. O gods, let the fame of him who seeks to harm me by day and by night wither away.
8.4.12
सुविज्ञानं चिकितुषे जनाय सच्चासच्च वचसी पस्पृधाते ।
तस्योर्यत्सत्यं यतरदृजीयस्तदित्सोमोऽवति हन्त्यासत् ॥ ८.४.१२ ॥
Truth and falsehood, two words, are clear to the discerning man; they contend with each other. Of these two, whichever is true and more upright, that Soma indeed protects, and the false he strikes down.
8.4.13
न वा उ सोमो वृजिनं हिनोति न क्षत्रियं मिथुया धारयन्तम् ।
हन्ति रक्षो हन्त्यासद्वदन्तमुभाविन्द्रस्य प्रसितौ शयाते ॥ ८.४.१३ ॥
Soma indeed does not send the crooked man, nor the warrior who holds power falsely. He strikes the demon, he strikes the one who speaks falsehood; both lie in the snare of Indra.
8.4.14
यदि वाहमनृतदेवो अस्मि मोघं वा देवामप्यूहे अग्ने ।
किमस्मभ्यं जातवेदो हृणीषे द्रोघवाचस्ते निर्ऋथं सचन्ताम् ॥ ८.४.१४ ॥
If I am one whose god is falsehood, or if I call upon a god in vain, then, O Agni, Jātavedas, why are you angry at us? Let the speakers of treachery cling to ruin.
8.4.15
अद्या मुरीय यदि यातुधानो अस्मि यदि वायुस्ततप पुरुषस्य ।
अधा स वीरैर्दशभिर्वि यूया यो मा मोघं यातुधानेत्याह ॥ ८.४.१५ ॥
If I am a sorcerer, may I die today, or if the wind has burned a man. Then let him who falsely calls me a sorcerer be separated from his ten heroes.
8.4.16
यो मायातुं यातुधानेत्याह यो वा रक्षाः शिचिरस्मीत्याह ।
इन्द्रस्तं हन्तु महता वधेन विश्वस्य जन्तोरधमस्पदीष्ट ॥ ८.४.१६ ॥
Whoever, a deceiver, says 'I am a yātudhāna', or whoever says 'I am a demon, a Śicira' — may Indra strike him with a great blow; may he fall lowest of all creatures.
8.4.17
प्र या जिगाति खर्गलेव नक्तमप द्रुहुस्तन्वं१ गूहमाना ।
वव्रमनन्तमव सा पदीष्ट ग्रावाणो घ्नन्तु रक्षस उपब्दैः ॥ ८.४.१७ ॥
She who goes forth at night like a night-bird, hiding her body, a deceiver — may she fall down like an endless burrowing creature; may the pressing stones strike the demon with their thud.
8.4.18
वि तिष्ठध्वं मरुतो विक्ष्विच्छत गृभायत रक्षसः सं पिनष्टन् ।
वयो ये भूत्वा पतयन्ति नक्तभिर्ये वा रिपो दधिरे देवे अध्वरे ॥ ८.४.१८ ॥
O Maruts, stand apart, seek among the clans, seize the demons and crush them together — those who become birds and fly by night, and who have placed themselves against the god in the sacrifice.
8.4.19
प्र वर्तय दिवोऽश्मानमिन्द्र सोमशितं मघवन्त्सं शिशाधि ।
प्राक्तो अपाक्तो अधरादुदक्तोऽभि जहि रक्षसः पर्वतेन ॥ ८.४.१९ ॥
O Indra, hurl the stone sharpened by Soma from heaven; O bountiful one, sharpen it together; strike the demons with the mountain from the east, from the west, from below, from the north.
8.4.20
एत उ त्ये पतयन्ति श्वयातव इन्द्रं दिप्सन्ति दिप्सवोऽदाभ्यम् ।
शिशीते शक्रः पिशुनेभ्यो वधं नुनं सृजदशनिं यातुमद्भ्यः ॥ ८.४.२० ॥
Behold, those dog-demons fly here, seeking to harm the invincible Indra; the mighty one sharpens his deadly weapon for the slanderers, and surely hurls the thunderbolt at the sorcerers.
8.4.21
इन्द्रो यातूनामभवत्पराशरो हविर्मथीनामभ्याविवासताम् ।
अभीदु शक्रः परशुर्यथा वनं पात्रेव भिन्दन्त्सत एतु रक्षसः ॥ ८.४.२१ ॥
Indra became the vanquisher of sorcerers; against those who seek to assail the oblation-churners, may the mighty Indra advance, breaking the demons as an axe breaks a forest and a vessel breaks.
8.4.22
उलूकयातुं शुशुलूकयातुं जहि श्वयातुमुत कोकयातुम् ।
सुपर्णयातुमुत गृध्रयातुं दृषदेव प्र मृण रक्ष इन्द्र ॥ ८.४.२२ ॥
Strike down the sorcery of the owl, the sorcery of the horned owl; the sorcery of the dog and of the kokā bird; the sorcery of the eagle and of the vulture. O Indra, crush the demon like a stone.
8.4.23
मा नो रक्षो अभि नड्यातुमावदपोच्छन्तु मिथुना ये किमीदिनः ।
पृथिवी नः पार्थिवात्पात्वंहसोऽन्तरिक्षं दिव्यात्पात्वस्मान् ॥ ८.४.२३ ॥
May the demon not approach us with the reed-sorcery; may those pairs who seek this and that be driven away. May the earth protect us from the earthly and from distress; may the atmosphere protect us from the heavenly.
8.4.24
इन्द्र जहि पुमांसं यातुधानमुत स्त्रियं मायया शाशदानाम् ।
विग्रीवासो मूरदेवा ऋदन्तु मा ते दृशन्त्सूर्यमुच्चरन्तम् ॥ ८.४.२४ ॥
O Indra, strike down the male sorcerer and also the woman who sways by illusion. May the deluded gods with twisted necks perish; may they not see your sun rising.
8.4.25
प्रति चक्ष्व वि चक्ष्वेन्द्रश्च सोम जागृतम् ।
रक्षोभ्यो वधमस्यतमशनिं यातुमद्भ्यः ॥ ८.४.२५ ॥
Look toward, look specially; Indra and Soma, be awake. Hurl the deadly blow against the demons, and cast the thunderbolt against the sorcerers.