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Atharva Veda

Atharva Veda 13.3

To the sun (with imprecation on the evil-doer)

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To the sun (with imprecation on the evil-doer)

He who generated these two, heaven-and-earth; who clothes himself in existences, making them a garment (drā́pi); in whom abide the six wide directions, toward which he, the flying one, looks all abroad—against that god, angered, [is] this offense (ā́gas); whoso scathes a Brahman that knows thus, do thou, O ruddy one, make him quake, destroy him; fasten on the fetters of the Brahman-scather.

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From whom the winds in their season go purifying (pū), out of whom the oceans flow forth—against that god etc. etc.

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Who causes to die [and] causes to breathe; from whom all existences breathe—against that god etc. etc.

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Who gratifies heaven-and-earth with breath; who fills the belly of the ocean with respiration—against that god etc. etc.

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In whom is set (çritá) Virāj, the most exalted one, Prajāpati, Agni Vāiçvānara with the series (pan̄ktí); who took to himself the breath of the lofty one, the brilliancy of the loftiest one—against that god etc. etc.

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Upon whom are set (çritá) the six wide [spaces], the five quarters, the four waters, the three syllables (? akṣára) of the sacrifice; who, angered, looked with his eye between the two firmaments (ródaṣī)—against that god etc. etc.

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Who became food-eater, lord of food, and also Brahmaṇaspati (lord of worship); who is and shall be lord of existence—against that god etc. etc.

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He who measures out the thirteenth month, fabricated (vi-mā) of days-and-nights, having thirty members—against that god etc. etc.

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Black the descent, the yellow eagles, clothing themselves in waters, fly up to the sky; they have come hither from the seat of righteousness—against that god etc. etc.

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What of thee, O Kaçyapa, is bright (candrá), full of shining (rocanā́vant), what that is combined (saṁhitá), splendid (puṣkalá), of wondrous light, in which seven suns are set (ā́rpita) together—against that god etc. etc.

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The bṛhát dresses itself in him in front; the rathaṁtará accepts [him] behind: [both] clothing themselves always in light unremittingly—against that god etc. etc.

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The bṛhát was his wing on the one side, rathaṁtará on the other, [both] of like strength, of like motion (? sadhryàñc), when the gods generated the ruddy one—against that god etc. etc.

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This Agni becomes Varuṇa in the evening; in the morning, rising, he becomes Mitra; he, having become Savitar, goes through the atmosphere; he, having become Indra, burns (tap) through the midst of the sky.—Against that god etc. etc.

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A thousand days' journey are expanded the wings of him, of the yellow swan flying to heaven; he, putting all the gods in his breast, goes viewing together all existences.—Against that god etc. etc.

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This is that god within the waters, the thousand-rooted, many-powered (?) Atri; he who generated all this existence—against that god etc. etc.

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Swift-running yellow [horses] draw the bright one (çukrá), the god shining with splendor in the sky, whose lofty bodies heat the sky; hitherward with well-colored gleams (? paṭará) he shines forth.—Against that god etc. etc.

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By whom the yellow steeds draw the Ādityas together; by what sacrifice go many foreknowing; which, sole light, shines forth variously—against that god etc. etc.

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Seven harness a one-wheeled chariot; one horse, having seven names, draws [it]; of three naves [is] the wheel, unwasting, unassailed, whereon stand all these existences.—Against that god etc. etc.

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Harnessed eight-fold draws the formidable draft-horse (váhni), father of gods, generator of prayers (mati); measuring with the mind the line of righteousness, Mātariçvan goes cleansing (pū) to all the quarters.—Against that god etc. etc.

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A united (saviyáñc) line along all the directions, within the gāyatrī́, the womb (embryo?) of the immortal.—Against that god etc. etc.

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Three settings, dawnings also three; three welkins, skies verily three: we know, O Agni, the birth-place of thee threefold; threefold the births of the gods we know.—Against that god etc. etc.

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He who in birth (jā́yamāna) opened out the earth, [who] set the ocean in the atmosphere—against that god etc. etc.

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Thou, O Agni, impelled by powers (krátu), by lights (ketú), didst shine up, a kindled song (? arká) in the sky; unto what did the Maruts, having the spotted one for mother, sing, when the gods generated the ruddy one?—Against that god etc. etc.

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He who is self-giving, strength-giving, of whom all, of whom [even] the gods wait upon the direction, who is master of these bipeds, who of quadrupeds—against that god etc. etc.

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The one-footed strode out more than the two-footed; the two-footed falls upon the three-footed from behind; the four-footed acted within the call of the two-footed ones, beholding the series (pan̄tí), drawing near (upa-sthā).—Against that god etc. etc.

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The white son of the black [mother], the young of night, was born; he ascends upon the sky; the ruddy one ascended the ascents.

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Sanskrit text: Oliver Hellwig, The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit (DCS), 2010–2024. CC BY 4.0. · Source ↗

Sanskrit text from The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit (DCS) by Oliver Hellwig, 2010–2024, https://github.com/OliverHellwig/sanskrit, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Changes: sentence parts joined per verse; only verses the DCS numbers within Whitney's verse count are included (3522).

W. D. Whitney's literal translation (1905), Books I–XIX. Words in ⌊half-brackets⌋ are his own notes and cross-references to his edition; a few verses he gives only in outline.

William Dwight Whitney (tr.), Atharva-Veda Saṁhitā, revised and edited by Charles Rockwell Lanman, Harvard Oriental Series 7–8 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University, 1905). Public domain. Transcribed and proofread from the scans by English Wikisource volunteers; translation only (critical notes omitted). · Source ↗

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