Atharva Veda 11.5

brahmacārīṣṇaṃś carati rodasī ubhe tasmin devāḥ saṃmanaso bhavanti sa dādhāra pṛthivīṃ divaṃ ca sa ācāryaṃ tapasā piparti

Extolling the Vedic student (brahmacārin)

The Vedic student goes on setting in motion (iṣ) both firmaments; in him the gods become like-minded; he maintains earth and heaven; he fills his teacher with fervor (tápas).

brahmacāriṇaṃ pitaro devajanāḥ pṛthag devā anusaṃyanti sarve gandharvā enam anv āyan trayastriṃśat triśatāḥ ṣaṭsahasrāḥ sarvānt sa devāṃs tapasā piparti

The Fathers, the god-folk, all the gods individually assemble after the Vedic student; the Gandharvas went after him, thirty-three, three hundred, six thousand; he fills all the gods with fervor.

ācārya upanayamāno brahmacāriṇaṃ kṛṇute garbham antaḥ taṃ rātrīs tisra udare bibharti taṃ jātaṃ draṣṭum abhisaṃyanti devāḥ

The teacher, taking [him] in charge (upa-nī), makes the Vedic student an embryo within; he bears him in his belly three nights; the gods gather unto him to see him when born.

iyaṃ samit pṛthivī dyaur dvitīyotāntarikṣaṃ samidhā pṛṇāti brahmacārī samidhā mekhalayā śrameṇa lokāṃs tapasā piparti

This piece of fuel [is] earth, sky the second; also the atmosphere he fills with fuel; the Vedic student fills the worlds with fuel, girdle, toil, fervor.

pūrvo jāto brahmaṇo brahmacārī gharmaṃ vasānas tapasodatiṣṭhat tasmāj jātaṃ brāhmaṇaṃ brahma jyeṣṭhaṃ devāś ca sarve amṛtena sākam

Prior born of the bráhman, the Vedic student, clothing himself with heat (gharmá), stood up with fervor; from him [was] born the brā́hmaṇa, the chief bráhman, and all the gods, together with immortality (amṛ́ta).

brahmacāry eti samidhā samiddhaḥ kārṣṇaṃ vasāno dīkṣito dīrghaśmaśruḥ sa sadya eti pūrvasmād uttaraṃ samudraṃ lokānt saṃgṛbhya muhur ācarikrat

The Vedic student goes kindled with fuel, clothing himself in the black-antelope-skin, consecrated, long-bearded; he goes at once from the eastern to the northern ocean, having grasped the worlds, again and again violently shaping (? ācarikṛ) [them].

brahmacārī janayan brahmāpo lokaṃ prajāpatiṃ parameṣṭhinaṃ virājam garbho bhūtvāmṛtasya yonāv indro ha bhūtvāsurāṃs tatarha

The Vedic student, generating the bráhman, the waters, the world, Prajāpati, the most exalted one, the virāj, having become an embryo in the womb of immortality; having become Indra, he has shattered (tṛh) the Asuras.

ācāryas tatakṣa nabhasī ubhe ime urvī gambhīre pṛthivīṃ divaṃ ca te rakṣati tapasā brahmacārī tasmin devāḥ saṃmanaso bhavanti

The teacher fabricated both these envelops (nábhas), the wide, profound, [namely] earth and sky; them the Vedic student defends by fervor; in him the gods become like-minded.

imāṃ bhūmiṃ pṛthivīṃ brahmacārī bhikṣām ā jabhāra prathamo divaṃ ca te kṛtvā samidhāv upāste tayor ārpitā bhuvanāni viśvā

This broad (pṛthivī́) earth, and the sky, the Vedic student first brought [as] alms (bhikṣā́); having made them [both] fuel, he worships; in them are set (ā́rpita) all beings.

arvāg anyaḥ paro anyo divas pṛṣṭhād guhā nidhī nihitau brāhmaṇasya tau rakṣati tapasā brahmacārī tat kevalaṃ kṛṇute brahma vidvān

The one this side, the other beyond, the back of the sky, in secret [are] deposited ⌊ni-dhā⌋ the two treasures (nidhí) of the brā́hmaṇa; them the Vedic student defends by fervor; the whole of that he, knowing, makes bráhman for himself.

arvāg anya ito anyaḥ pṛthivyā agnī sameto nabhasī antareme tayoḥ śrayante raśmayo 'dhi dṛḍhās tān ā tiṣṭhati tapasā brahmacārī

The one this side, the other hence, from earth, the two fires come together between these two envelops; upon them are set (çri) the firm rays; these the Vedic student stands upon by fervor.

abhikrandan stanayann aruṇaḥ śitiṅgo bṛhac chepo 'nu bhūmau jabhāra brahmacārī siñcati sānau retaḥ pṛthivyāṃ tena jīvanti pradiśaś catasraḥ

Roaring on, thundering, the ruddy white-goer has introduced (? anu-bhṛ) in the earth a great virile member; the Vedic student pours seed upon the surface (sā́nu), on the earth; by that live the four directions.

agnau sūrye candramasi mātariśvan brahmacāry apsu samidham ā dadhāti tāsām arcīṃṣi pṛthag abhre caranti tāsām ājyaṃ puruṣo varṣam āpaḥ

In the fire, in the sun, in the moon, in Mātariçvan, in the waters, the Vedic student puts fuel; their gleams (arcís) go about separately in the cloud; their sacrificial butter (ā́jya) is man, rain, waters.

ācāryo mṛtyur varuṇaḥ soma oṣadhayaḥ payaḥ jīmūtā āsant satvānas tair idaṃ svar ābhṛtam

The teacher [was] death, Varuṇa, Soma, the herbs, milk; the thunder-clouds were warriors; by them [was] this heaven (svàr) brought.

amā ghṛtaṃ kṛṇute kevalam ācāryo bhūtvā varuṇaḥ yadyad aicchat prajāpatau tad brahmacārī prāyacchat svān mitro adhy ātmanaḥ

Varuṇa, having become teacher, makes his own (? amā́) the entire ghee; whatever he sought of Prajāpati, that the Vedic student furnished, a friend (mitrá) from his own self.

ācāryo brahmacārī brahmacārī prajāpatiḥ prajāpatir virājati virāḍ indro 'bhavad vaśī

The teacher [is] the Vedic student; the Vedic student [is] Prajāpati; Prajāpati bears rule (vi-rāj); the virā́j became the controlling Indra.

brahmacaryeṇa tapasā rājā rāṣṭraṃ virakṣati ācāryo brahmacaryeṇa brahmacāriṇam icchate

By Vedic-studentship, by fervor, a king defends his kingdom; a teacher by Vedic-studentship (brahmacárya) seeks a Vedic student.

brahmacaryeṇa kanyā yuvānaṃ vindate patim anaḍvān brahmacaryeṇāśvo ghāsaṃ jigīṣati

By Vedic-studentship a girl wins (vid) a young husband; by Vedic-studentship a draft-ox, a horse strives to gain (ji) food.

This verse is not included in this edition.

By Vedic-studentship, by fervor, the gods smote away death; Indra by Vedic-studentship brought heaven (svàr) for the gods.

oṣadhayo bhūtabhavyam ahorātre vanaspatiḥ saṃvatsaraḥ saha ṛtubhis te jātā brahmacāriṇaḥ

The herbs, past and future, day and night, the forest tree, the year together with the seasons—they are born of the Vedic student.

pārthivā divyāḥ paśava āraṇyā grāmyāś ca ye apakṣāḥ pakṣiṇaś ca ye te jātā brahmacāriṇaḥ

The earthly, the heavenly cattle, they of the forest, and they that are of the village, the wingless and they that are winged—they are born of the Vedic student.

pṛthak sarve prājāpatyāḥ prāṇān ātmasu bibhrati tānt sarvān brahma rakṣati brahmacāriṇy ābhṛtam

Individually do all that are of Prajāpati bear breaths in their bodies (ātmán); all these the bráhman defends, brought in the Vedic student.

devānām etat pariṣūtam anabhyārūḍhaṃ carati rocamānam tasmāj jātaṃ brāhmaṇaṃ brahma jyeṣṭhaṃ devāś ca sarve amṛtena sākam

That, sent forth (? pariṣūtá) of the gods, not mounted onto, goes about shining; from that [was] born the brā́hmana, the chief bráhman, and all the gods, together with immortality.

brahmacārī brahma bhrājad bibharti tasmin devā adhi viśve samotāḥ prāṇāpānau janayann ād vyānaṃ vācaṃ mano hṛdayaṃ brahma medhām

The Vedic student bears a shining bráhman; in that [are] woven together all the gods; [he] generating breath-and-expiration, then out-breathing (vyāná), speech, mind, heart, bráhman, wisdom.

cakṣuḥ śrotraṃ yaśo asmāsu dhehy annaṃ reto lohitam udaram

Sight, hearing, glory put thou in us; food, seed, blood (lóhita), belly.

tāni kalpad brahmacārī salilasya pṛṣṭhe tapo 'tiṣṭhat tapyamānaḥ samudre sa snāto babhruḥ piṅgalaḥ pṛthivyāṃ bahu rocate

Shaping (?) these things, the Vedic student stood performing penance (tapas tapya-) on the back of the sea (salilá), in the ocean; he, bathed, brown, ruddy (pin̄galá), shines much on the earth.