Atharva Veda
For appeasement and weal: to various divinities
For appeasement and weal: to various divinities
Appeased (çāntá) be heaven (dyú), appeased be earth, appeased be this wide atmosphere, appeased the waters rich in moisture (udanvánt), appeased be the herbs for us. ⌊With a, b, cf. AGS. ii. 4. 14; PGS. iii. 3. 6; MGS. ii. 8. 6 b.⌋
Appeased be the foretokens, appeased for us be the-done-and-undone, appeased both what is and what is to be: be just everything weal for us. The comm. explains pūrvarūpāṇi first as kāryāpekṣayā kāraṇāvasthāpannāni vastūni, and again as "former births, the fruit of evil deeds." Instead of nas in b it reads me; and it points out that 'the done' means what is done that should not be done, and 'the undone' what was left undone that should have been done—which is far from necessary or certain.
This speech that is most exalted, divine, sharpened by bráhman, by which is produced (sṛj) what is terrible—by that be there appeasement for us.
Or (?) this mind that is most exalted, sharpened by bráhman, by which is produced what is terrible—by that be there appeasement for us. All the mss. read in b vām instead of vā, and SPP's text follows them. The comm. makes no mention of either in its exposition of the verse; but its text (so SPP. reports) reads vā, as does ours by emendation.
These five senses, with mind as sixth, that are in my heart, sharpened by bráhman, by which is produced what is terrible—by them be there appeasement for us. The mss. read mána ṣaṣṭhā́ni (p. mánaḥ: ṣaṣṭhā́ni), but SPP., as well as our text, emends to -ṭhāni, and this the comm. also understands. In all the verses 3-5, some of the mss. leave sasṛje unaccented. This verse (10 + 8 + 7: 8 + 8 = 41) is ill defined by the Anukr.
Weal for us be Mitra, weal Varuṇa, weal Vishṇu, weal Prajāpati, weal for us Indra, Bṛihaspati, weal for us be Aryaman.
Weal for us be Mitra, weal Varuṇa, weal Vivasvant, weal the destroyer (ántaka), [weal] the portents from earth and from atmosphere, weal for us the planets (?) moving in the sky.
Weal for us be the quaking (vip) earth, and weal what is meteor-smitten; weal be the red-milked kine, weal the earth when cleaving down.
Be the meteor-smitten asterism weal for us; weal for us the enchantments and weal be the witchcrafts; weal for us the buried spells (valagá), weal the meteors; and weal be for us the land-plagues.
Weal for us be the planets belonging to the moon, and weal the sun (ādityá) with Rāhu; weal for us smoke-bannered death, weal the Rudras of keen brightness.
Weal [for us be] the Rudras, weal the Vasus, weal the Ādityas, weal the fires; weal for us the divine great seers, weal the gods, weal Bṛihaspati.
The bráhman, Prajāpati, Dhātar, the worlds, the Vedas, the seven seers, the fires—by them happy progress (svastyáyana) is made for me: let Indra grant (yam) me refuge; let Brahmán grant me refuge; let all the gods grant me refuge; let the gods all grant me refuge.
Whatsoever things that are appeased in the world the seven seers know, be they all weal for me; let weal be mine, let fearlessness be mine.
[Be] earth appeasement, atmosphere appeasement, sky appeasement, waters appeasement, herbs appeasement, forest trees appeasement; [be] all the gods appeasement for me, the gods all appeasement for me, appeasement with appeasements; by those appeasements all-appeasing do I appease what here is terrible, what here is cruel, what here is evil; [be] that appeased, [be] that propitious; be just everything weal for us.