Atharvaveda · Sūkta 9.14
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9.14.1
अस्य वामस्य पलितस्य होतुस्तस्य भ्राता मध्यमो अस्त्यश्नः ।
तृतीयो भ्राता घृतपृष्ठो अस्यात्रापश्यं विश्पतिं सप्तपुत्रम् ॥ ९.१४.१ ॥
Of this wondrous, greying invoker, his middle brother is the eater, and his third brother is ghee-backed. Here I saw the lord of the clans who has seven sons.
9.14.2
सप्त युञ्जन्ति रथमेकचक्रमेको अश्वो वहति सप्तनामा ।
त्रिनाभि चक्रमजरमनर्वं यत्रेमा विश्वा भुवनाधि तस्थुः ॥ ९.१४.२ ॥
Seven yoke a one-wheeled chariot, and one horse of seven names draws it. A wheel with three hubs, ageless and untiring, on which all these worlds rest.
9.14.3
इमं रथमधि ये सप्त तस्थुः सप्तचक्रं सप्त वहन्त्यश्वाः ।
सप्त स्वसारो अभि सं नवन्त यत्र गवां निहिता सप्त नाम ॥ ९.१४.३ ॥
Those seven who stand upon this chariot — a seven-wheeled chariot carried by seven horses. Seven sisters bow together, where the seven names of the cows are placed.
9.14.4
को ददर्श प्रथमं जायमानमस्थन्वन्तं यदनस्था बिभर्ति ।
भूम्या असुरसृगात्मा क्व स्वित्को विद्वांसमुप गात्प्रष्टुमेतत् ॥ ९.१४.४ ॥
Who first saw that which has bones being born? What do the boneless bear? Where is the blood-dripping self of the earth? Who will go to the one who knows and ask this?
9.14.5
इह ब्रवीतु य ईमङ्ग वेदास्य वामस्य निहितं पदं वेः ।
शीर्ष्णः क्षीरं दुह्रते गावो अस्य वव्रिं वसाना उदकं पदाऽपुः ॥ ९.१४.५ ॥
Let him who knows tell here, my friend, where the bird's station of this wondrous one is placed. From its head the cows milk out milk; clothed in its hide, they reach the water with the foot.
9.14.6
पाकः पृछामि मनसाऽविजानन् देवानामेना निहिता पदानि ।
वत्से बष्कयेऽधि सप्त तन्तून् वि तत्निरे कवय ओतवा उ ॥ ९.१४.६ ॥
In simplicity, not knowing, I ask with my mind: where are these stations of the gods placed? For the calf, upon the milch-cow, the seers stretched out seven threads for weaving.
9.14.7
अचिकित्वांस्चिकितुषश्चिदत्र कवीन् पृछामि विद्वनो न विद्वान् ।
वि यस्तस्तम्भ षटिमा रजांस्यजस्य रूपे किमपि स्विदेकम् ॥ ९.१४.७ ॥
Not knowing, I ask here the wise seers, as one unlearned asks the learned. Who has held apart these six realms and set them firm, in the form of the Unborn, that one thing indeed.
9.14.8
माता पितरमृत आ बभाजऽधीत्यग्रे मनसा सं हि जग्मे ।
सा बीभत्सुर्गर्भरसा निविद्धा नमस्वन्त इदुपवाकमीयुः ॥ ९.१४.८ ॥
The mother, apart from order, first divided the father in her mind, and the two came together. She, fearful, full of the essence of the embryo, was set in place; only the reverent came near that spoken invocation.
9.14.9
युक्ता मातासिद्धुरि दक्षिणाया अतिष्ठद्गर्भो वृजनीष्वन्तः ।
अमीमेद्वत्सो अनु गामपश्यद्विश्वरूप्यं त्रिषु योगनेषु ॥ ९.१४.९ ॥
The yoked mother was set beside the ocean toward the southern gift; the embryo stood within the bearing-places. The calf, following the cow, beheld the all-formed one in the three yoking-places.
9.14.10
तिस्रो मतॄस्त्रीन् पितॄन् बिभ्रदेक उर्ध्वस्तस्थौ नेमव ग्लापयन्त ।
मन्त्रयन्ते दिवो अमुष्य पृष्ठे विश्वविदो वाचमविश्वविन्नाम् ॥ ९.१४.१० ॥
One, bearing three mothers and three fathers, stood upright; those below kept weakening it. On the back of that heaven the all-knowing deliberate about speech, which is itself not all-knowing, only a name.
9.14.11
पञ्चारे चक्रे परिवर्तमाने यस्मिन्न् आतस्थुर्भुवनानि विश्वा ।
तस्य नाक्षस्तप्यते भूरिभारः सनादेव न छिद्यते सनाभिः ॥ ९.१४.११ ॥
On the revolving wheel of five spokes, on which all worlds stand, its axle is heated by a great burden; yet with its hub it is never broken from of old.
9.14.12
पञ्चपादं पितरं द्वादशाकृतिं दिव आहुः परे अर्धे पुरीषिणम् ।
अथेमे अन्य उपरे विचक्षणे सप्तचक्रे षडर आहुरर्पितम् ॥ ९.१४.१२ ॥
They call the father of five feet and twelve forms full of waters in the far half of heaven; and those other discerning ones above call it fixed upon a seven-wheeled, six-spoked (wheel).
9.14.13
द्वादशारं नहि तज्जराय वर्वर्ति चक्रं परि द्यामृतस्य ।
आ पुत्रा अग्ने मिथुनासो अत्र सप्त शतानि विंशतिश्च तस्थुः ॥ ९.१४.१३ ॥
That wheel of twelve spokes does not turn for decay; it turns around the heaven of order (ṛta). O Agni, here stand seven hundred and twenty sons in pairs.
9.14.14
सनेमि चक्रमजरं वि ववृत उत्तानायां दश युक्ता वहन्ति ।
सूर्यस्य चक्षू रजसैत्यावृतं यस्मिन्न् आतस्थुर्भुवनानि विश्वा ॥ ९.१४.१४ ॥
The undecaying wheel has turned about with its rim; in the upturned (vessel) ten yoked (steeds) draw it. The eyes of the sun come enveloped in the air (rajas), upon which all worlds stand firm.
9.14.15
स्त्रियः सतीस्तामु मे पुंसः आहुः पश्यदक्षण्वान्न् वि चेतदन्धः ।
कविर्यः पुत्रः स ईमा चिकेत यस्ता विजानात्स पितुष्पितासत् ॥ ९.१४.१५ ॥
Though they are women, they are called men by me; one with eyes sees, the blind does not perceive. The son of the sage who knows them—he indeed would be the father of his father.
9.14.16
साकंजानां सप्तथमाहुरेकजं षडिद्यमा ऋषयो देवजा इति ।
तेषामिष्टानि विहितानि धामश स्थात्रे रेजन्ते विकृतानि रूपशः ॥ ९.१४.१६ ॥
Among those born together they call the seventh the one-born; six are the Yamas, the seers born of the gods. Their desired and appointed things, altered form by form according to their abodes, tremble in the stationary.
9.14.17
अवः परेण पर एना अवरेण पदा वत्सं बिभ्रती गौरुदस्थात् ।
सा कद्रीची कं स्विदर्धं परागात्क्व स्वित्सूते नहि यूथे अस्मिन् ॥ ९.१४.१७ ॥
From below above and from above below, by this station, the cow bearing her calf rose up. Turning backward, where did she go to the half? Where does she bear? Not in this herd.
9.14.18
अवः परेण पितरं यो अस्य वेदावः परेण पर एनावरेण ।
कवीयमानः क इह प्र वोचद्देवं मनः कुतो अधि प्रजातम् ॥ ९.१४.१८ ॥
From below above, whoever knows its father, from below and from above, above, from below by this station. Who, becoming a seer, would declare here? The god-mind, whence was it born?
9.14.19
ये अर्वाञ्चस्तामु पराच आहुर्ये पराञ्चस्तामु अर्वाच आहुः ।
इन्द्रश्च या चक्रथुः सोम तानि धुरा न युक्ता रजसो वहन्ति ॥ ९.१४.१९ ॥
Those that are called turned hither, and those called turned away, they call the turned hither. O Soma, what you two made with Indra bears the air like yoked axles.
9.14.20
द्वा सुपर्णा सयुजा सखाया समानं वृक्षं परि षस्वजाते ।
तयोरन्यः पिप्पलं स्वाद्वत्त्यनश्नन्न् अन्यो अभि चाकशीति ॥ ९.१४.२० ॥
Two beautiful-winged birds, yoked friends, embrace the same tree all around. One of them eats the sweet fig; the other, not eating, looks on.
9.14.21
यस्मिन् वृक्षे मध्वदः सुपर्णा निविशन्ते सुवते चाधि विश्वे ।
तस्य यदाहुः पिप्पलं स्वाद्वग्रे तन् नोन् नशद्यः पितरं न वेद ॥ ९.१४.२१ ॥
On the tree where the honey-eating birds settle and bring forth all things, its fig-fruit is said to be sweet at first; he who does not know the father cannot reach it.
9.14.22
यत्रा सुपर्णा अमृतस्य भक्षमनिमेषं विदथाभिस्वरन्ति ।
एना विश्वस्य भुवनस्य गोपाः स मा धीरः पाकमत्रा विवेश ॥ ९.१४.२२ ॥
Where the birds, without blinking, sing toward the sacrifices over the food of immortality, these are the guardians of the whole world and of all beings; that wise one entered here into me, the ripened one.