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Atharva Veda

Atharva Veda 7.73

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English · William Dwight Whitney

Kindled, O ye two bulls, is Agni, the charioteer of heaven; heated is the gharmá; honey is milked for your food (íṣ); for we singers (kārú), of many houses, call on you, O Açvins, in joint revelings.

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Kindled is Agni, O ye Açvins; heated is your gharmá; come! now, ye bulls, the milch-kine are milked here, ye wondrous ones (dasrá)-, the pious ones are reveling.

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The bright (çúci) sacrifice to the gods accompanied with "hail," the Açvins' bowl that is for the gods to drink of—this all the immortals, enjoying, lick respectively by the Gandharva's mouth.

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The offered ghee, the milk, which is in the ruddy [kine], that is your portion here, ye Açvins; come; ye sweet ones, maintainers of the council (vidátha), lords of the good, drink ye the heated gharmá in the shining space of the sky.

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Let the heated gharmá, its own invoker (hótar), attain to you; let your offerer (adhvaryú) move forward, rich in milk; of the milked sweet, O Açvins, of the offspring (?), eat (vī) ye, drink ye, of the milk of the ruddy [cow].

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Run up with milk, O cow-milker, quickly; pour in the milk of the ruddy [cow] in the gharmá; the desirable Savitar hath irradiated (vi-khyā) the firmament; after the forerunning of the dawn he shines forth (vi-rāj).

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I call upon that easy-milking milch-cow; a skilful-handed milker also shall milk her; may the impeller (savitár) impel us the best impulse; the hot drink is kindled upon—that may he kindly proclaim.

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Lowing (hin̄-kṛ), mistress of good things, seeking her calf with her mind, hath she come in; let this inviolable one (aghnyā́) yield (duh) milk for the Açvins; let her increase unto great good-fortune.

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As enjoyable (júṣṭa) household guest in our home (duroṇá), do thou come, knowing, unto this our sacrifice; smiting away, O Agni, all assaulters (abhiyúj), do thou bring in the enjoyments of them that play the foe.

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O Agni, be bold unto great good-fortune; let thy brightnesses (dyumná) be highest; put together a well-ordered house-headship; trample on the greatnesses of them that play the foe.

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Mayest thou ⌊verily⌋ be well-portioned, feeding in excellent meadows; so also may we be well-portioned; eat thou grass, O inviolable one, at all times; drink clear water, moving hither.

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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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