Atharvaveda · Sūkta 9.15
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9.15.1
यद्गायत्रे अधि गायत्रमाहितं त्रैष्टुभं वा त्रैष्टुभान् निरतक्षत ।
यद्वा जगज्जगत्याहितं पदं य इत्तद्विदुस्ते अमृतत्वमानुशुः ॥ ९.१५.१ ॥
Where Gāyatrī is established upon Gāyatrī, or the Triṣṭubh verses were carved out of the Triṣṭubh, or the step of the world was placed in the Jagatī — those who know that have attained immortality.
9.15.2
गायत्रेण प्रति मिमीते अर्कमर्केण साम त्रैष्टुभेन वाकम् ।
वाकेन वाकं द्विपदा चतुष्पदाक्षरेण मिमते सप्त वाणीः ॥ ९.१५.२ ॥
With Gāyatrī they measure the chant; with the chant the melody, with Triṣṭubh speech; with speech speech, with two-footed and four-footed metres, with the syllable they measure the seven speech-forms.
9.15.3
जगता सिन्धुं दिव्यस्कभायद्रथंतरे सूर्यं पर्यपश्यत् ।
गायत्रस्य समिधस्तिस्र आहुस्ततो मह्ना प्र रिरिचे महित्वा ॥ ९.१५.३ ॥
With Jagatī he fixed the ocean in the sky; in the Rathaṃtara he saw the sun all around. Three fuel-sticks of Gāyatrī are named; then by his majesty it surpassed in greatness.
9.15.4
उप ह्वये सुदुघां धेनुमेतां सुहस्तो गोधुगुत दोहदेनाम् ।
श्रेष्ठं सवं सविता साविषन् नोऽभीद्धो घर्मस्तदु षु प्र वोचत् ॥ ९.१५.४ ॥
I call upon this easy-milking cow; may the fair-handed milker milk her. May Savitṛ impel for us the best pressing; may the kindled heated milk proclaim it well.
9.15.5
हिङ्कृण्वती वसुपत्नी वसूनां वत्समिच्छन्ती मनसाभ्यागात् ।
दुहामश्विभ्यां पयो अघ्न्येयं सा वर्धतां महते सौभगाय ॥ ९.१५.५ ॥
Lowing, mistress of the Vasus' riches, desiring her calf, she has come with her mind. May this inviolable cow yield milk for the Aśvins; may she thrive for great prosperity.
9.15.6
गौरमीमेदभि वत्सं मिषन्तं मूर्धानं हिङ्ङकृणोन् मातवा उ ।
सृक्वाणं घर्ममभि वावशाना मिमाति मायुं पयते पयोभिः ॥ ९.१५.६ ॥
The cow lowed toward the calf that was gazing at her; for her mother she made the sound hiṅ. Licking her lips, bellowing toward the warm vessel, she sends forth her lowing; with her milk she yields milk.
9.15.7
अयं स शिङ्क्ते येन गौरभिवृता मिमाति मयुं ध्वसनावधि श्रिता ।
सा चित्तिभिर्नि हि चकार मर्त्यान् विद्युद्भवन्ती प्रति वव्रिमौहत ॥ ९.१५.७ ॥
This is the sound with which she cries out; enveloped by it, the cow, resting up to the place of crumbling, lows. With her perceptions she brought mortals low; becoming lightning, she pushed toward the enclosure.
9.15.8
अनच्छये तुरगातु जीवमेजद्ध्रुवं मध्य आ पस्त्यानाम् ।
जीवो मृतस्य चरति स्वधाभिरमर्त्यो मर्त्येना सयोनिः ॥ ९.१५.८ ॥
Not lying down, the living one moves swiftly, trembling, firm, to the middle of the dwellings. The life of the dead moves by its own powers; the immortal, of one origin with the mortal.
9.15.9
विधुं दद्राणं सलिलस्य पृष्ठे युवानं सन्तं पलितो जगार ।
देवस्य पश्य काव्यं महित्वाद्य ममार स ह्यः समान ॥ ९.१५.९ ॥
The moon, appearing on the surface of the water, though young, the aged one swallowed. Behold the poetic wisdom of the god in its greatness: today he died, the same as yesterday.
9.15.10
य ईं चकार न सो अस्य वेद य ईं ददर्श हिरुगिन् नु तस्मात् ।
स मातुर्योना परिवीतो अन्तर्बहुप्रजा निर्ऋतिरा विवेश ॥ ९.१५.१० ॥
He who made him does not know him; he who has seen him is deceived by him. Enveloped within the mother's womb, he is inside; Nirṛti of many offspring has entered within.
9.15.11
अपश्यं गोपामनिपद्यमानमा च परा च पथिभिश्चरन्तम् ।
स सध्रीचीः स विषूचीर्वसान आ वरीवर्ति भुवनेष्वन्तः ॥ ९.१५.११ ॥
I saw the herdsman who does not sink down, who moves along the paths hither and thither. Clothed in those that go together and those that go apart, he turns again and again within the worlds.
9.15.12
द्यौर्नः पिता जनिता नाभिरत्र बन्धुर्नो माता पृथिवी महीयम् ।
उत्तानयोश्चम्वोर्योनिरन्तरत्रा पिता दुहितुर्गर्भमाधात् ॥ ९.१५.१२ ॥
Heaven is our father and begetter, the navel here; the great earth is our kinsman and mother. Between the two upturned vessels is the womb, where the father placed an embryo in his daughter.
9.15.13
पृछामि त्वा परमन्तं पृथिव्याः पृछामि वृष्णो अश्वस्य रेतः ।
पृछामि विश्वस्य भुवनस्य नाभिं पृछामि वाचः परमं व्योम ॥ ९.१५.१३ ॥
I ask you the farthest end of the earth; I ask the seed of the bull and the stallion. I ask the navel of the whole world; I ask the highest space of speech.
9.15.14
इयं वेदिः परो अन्तः पृथिव्या अयं सोमो वृष्णो अश्वस्य रेतः ।
अयं यज्ञो विश्वस्य भुवनस्य नाभिर्ब्रह्मायं वाचः परमं व्योम ॥ ९.१५.१४ ॥
This altar is the farthest end of the earth; this soma is the seed of the bull and the stallion. This sacrifice is the navel of the whole world; this brahman is the highest space of speech.
9.15.15
न वि जानामि यदिवेदमस्मि निण्यः संनद्धो मनसा चरामि ।
यदा मागन् प्रथमजा ऋतस्यादिद्वाचो अश्नुवे भागमस्याः ॥ ९.१५.१५ ॥
I do not clearly know what this I am; bound fast in mind, I move about in secret. Only when the firstborn of the cosmic order came to me do I obtain my share of this speech.
9.15.16
अपाङ्प्राङेति स्वधया गृभीतोऽमर्त्यो मर्त्येना सयोनिः ।
ता शश्वन्ता विषूचीना वियन्ता न्यन्यं चिक्युर्न नि चिक्युरन्यम् ॥ ९.१५.१६ ॥
Upward and downward, seized by its own svadhā, it goes; the immortal, of the same womb as the mortal. The two are eternal, spreading apart and going asunder; they know one another, yet they do not fully know the other.
9.15.17
सप्तार्धगर्भा भुवनस्य रेतो विष्णोस्तिष्ठन्ति प्रदिशा विधर्मणि ।
ते धीतिभिर्मनसा ते विपश्चितः परिभुवः परि भवन्ति विश्वतः ॥ ९.१५.१७ ॥
Seven half-wombs are the seed of the world; they stand in the regions, in Viṣṇu's established order. Wise through insight and mind, they become all-encompassing, around on every side.
9.15.18
ऋचो अक्षरे परमे व्योमन् यस्मिन् देवा अधि विश्वे निषेदुः ।
यस्तन् न वेद किमृचा करिष्यति य इत्तद्विदुस्ते अमी समासते ॥ ९.१५.१८ ॥
In the imperishable syllable of the ṛc, in the supreme ether, in which all the gods have settled. What will one who does not know it do with the ṛc? Those who know it indeed sit together here.
9.15.19
ऋचः पदं मात्रया कल्पयन्तोऽर्धर्चेन चकॢपुर्विश्वमेजत् ।
त्रिपाद्ब्रह्म पुरुरूपं वि तष्ठे तेन जीवन्ति प्रदिशश्चतस्रः ॥ ९.१५.१९ ॥
Arranging the foot of the ṛc by measure, with the half-ṛc they fashioned the trembling universe. The three-footed brahman, of many forms, stands apart; by it the four regions live.
9.15.20
सूयवसाद्भगवती हि भूया अधा वयं भगवन्तः स्याम ।
अद्धि तृणमघ्न्ये विश्वदानीं पिब शुद्धमुदकमाचरन्ती ॥ ९.१५.२० ॥
Be indeed blessed through good pasture, that then we too may be blessed. O inviolable one, eat grass at all times, and drink pure water as you go about.
9.15.21
गौरिन् मिमाय सलिलानि तक्षती एकपदी द्विपदी सा चतुष्पदी ।
अष्टापदी नवपदी बभूवुषी सहस्राक्षरा भुवनस्य पङ्क्तिस्तस्याः समुद्रा अधि वि क्षरन्ति ॥ ९.१५.२१ ॥
The cow measured out and shaped the waters; becoming one-footed, two-footed, four-footed, eight-footed and nine-footed, she became the thousand-syllabled line of the world; from her the oceans pour forth from above.
9.15.22
कृष्णं नियानं हरयः सुपर्णा अपो वसाना दिवमुत्पतन्ति ।
तमाववृत्रन्त्सदनादृतस्यादिद्घृतेन पृथिवीं व्यूदुः ॥ ९.१५.२२ ॥
The dark-pathed, tawny, fine-winged birds, clothed in waters, fly up to heaven; from the seat of cosmic order they enveloped him, and then with ghee they drenched the earth.
9.15.23
अपादेति प्रथमा पद्वतीनां कस्तद्वां मित्रावरुणा चिकेत ।
गर्भो भारं भरत्या चिदस्या ऋतं पिपर्ति अनृतं नि पाति ॥ ९.१५.२३ ॥
The footless one first goes forth among the footed beings; O Mitra and Varuṇa, who knows this but you two? The embryo bears the burden; it fills the cosmic order and keeps falsehood away.
9.15.24
विराड्वाग्विराट्पृथिवी विराडन्तरिक्षं विराट्प्रजापतिः ।
विराण्मृत्युः साध्यानामधिराजो बभूव तस्य भूतं भव्यं वशे स मे भूतं भव्यं वशे कृणोतु ॥ ९.१५.२४ ॥
Virāṭ is speech, Virāṭ is the earth, Virāṭ is the atmosphere, Virāṭ is Prajāpati; Virāṭ as death became overlord of the Sādhyas; let what has been and what shall be be under his control; may he bring my past and my future under his control.
9.15.25
शकमयं धूममारादपश्यं विषूवता पर एनावरेण ।
उक्षाणं पृश्निमपचन्त वीरास्तानि धर्माणि प्रथमान्यासन् ॥ ९.१५.२५ ॥
This powerful smoke I saw from afar, from beyond and from near the divergent region; the heroes cooked the bull and the spotted cow; those were the first ordinances.
9.15.26
त्रयः केशिन ऋतुथा वि चक्षते संवत्सरे वपत एक एषाम् ।
विश्वमन्यो अभिचष्टे शचीभिर्ध्राजिरेकस्य ददृशे न रूपम् ॥ ९.१५.२६ ॥
Three long-haired ones appear in turn with the seasons; in the year one of them sows. Another surveys the whole world by his powers, and the form of the one radiance is not seen.
9.15.27
चत्वारि वाक्परिमिता पदानि तानि विदुर्ब्राह्मणा ये मनीषिणः ।
गुहा त्रीणि निहिता नेङ्गयन्ति तुरीयं वाचो मनुष्या वदन्ति ॥ ९.१५.२७ ॥
There are four measured steps of speech; the Brahmins who are wise know them. Three, placed hidden in the cave, do not stir; the fourth step of speech is what men speak.
9.15.28
इन्द्रं मित्रं वरुणमग्निमाहुरथो दिव्यः स सुपर्णो गरुत्मान् ।
एकं सद्विप्रा बहुधा वदन्त्यग्निं यमं मातरिश्वानमाहुः ॥ ९.१५.२८ ॥
They call him Indra, Mitra, Varuṇa, Agni; and he is also the heavenly fine-winged Garutmān. The wise speak of the one reality in many ways; they call him Agni, Yama, Mātariśvan.