Fetching
One moment.
Fetching
One moment.
Romanised transliteration as printed by the translator, not the original script. This is what we hold.
1the side, carries, goest with brilliance, causing the waters to flow. 22. Devoted to Rohita is Rohmi his mistress, with beautiful colour (complexion), great, and lustrous: through her may we conquer booty of every descrip- tion, through her win every battle ! 23. This seat, Rohi/rf, belongs to Rohita; yonder is the path on which the brindled (female) goes ! Her the Gandharvas and the Kasyapas lead forth, her the sages guard with diligence. 24. The radiant bay steeds of the sun, the im- mortal, ever draw the delightful chariot. Rohita, the drinker of ghee, the shining god, did enter the variegated heavens. 25. Rohita, the sharp-horned bull, who surpasses Agni and surpasses Surya, who props up the earth and the sky, out of him the gods frame the creations. 26. Rohita ascended the heaven from the great flood ; Rohita has climbed all heights. 27. Create (the cow) that is rich in milk, drips with ghee : she is the milch-cow of the gods that does not refuse! Indra shall drink the Soma, there shall be secure possession ; Agni shall sing praises : the enemies do thou drive out ! 28. Agni kindled, spreads his flames, fortified by ghee, sprinkled with ghee. Victorious, all-conquering Agni shall slay them that are my rivals ! X. COSMOGONIC AND THEOSOPHIC HYMNS. 211 29. He shall slay them, shall burn the enemy that battles against us ! With the flesh-devouring Agni do we burn our rivals. 30. Smite them down, O Indra, with the thunder- bolt, with thy (strong) arm ! Then have I over- powered my rivals with Agni's brilliant strengths. 31. O Agni, subject our rivals to us; confuse, O B/zhaspati, the kinsman that is puffed up ! O Indra and Agni, O Mitra and Vanma, subjected they shall be, unable to vent their wrath against us ! 32. Do thou, god Surya (the sun), when thou risest, beat down my rivals, beat them down with a stone : they shall go to the nethermost darkness ! 33. The calf of Viri^*, the bull of prayers, carry- ing the bright (soma) upon his back, has ascended the atmosphere. A song accompanied by ghee they sing to the calf; himself brahma (spiritual exalta- tion) they swell him with their brahma (prayer). 34. Ascend the heavens, ascend the earth ; sovereignty ascend thou, and possessions ascend thou ! Offspring ascend thou, and immortality ascend thou, unite thy body with Rohita ! 35. The gods that hold sovereignty, who go about the sun, with these allied, Rohita, kindly disposed, shall bestow sovereignty upon thee ! 36.
2end thou, and possessions ascend thou ! Offspring ascend thou, and immortality ascend thou, unite thy body with Rohita ! 35. The gods that hold sovereignty, who go about the sun, with these allied, Rohita, kindly disposed, shall bestow sovereignty upon thee ! 36. The sacrifices purified by prayer lead thee forth ; the bay steeds that travel upon the road carry thee : thou shinest across the swelling ocean. 37. In Rohita who conquers wealth, conquers cattle, and conquers booty, heaven and earth are fixed. Of thee that hast a thousand and seven births, let me announce the origin over the extent of the world ! 38. Glorious thou goest to the intermediate direc- p 2 212 HYMNS OF THE ATHARVA-VEDA, tions and the directions (of space), glorious (in the sight) of animals and the tribes of men, glorious in the lap of the earth, of Aditi : may I like Savitar be lovely ! 39. Being yonder thou knowest (what takes place) here; being here thou beholdest these things. Here (men) behold the inspired sun that shines upon the sky. 40. A god thou praisest the gods, thou movest within the flood. They kindle (him), a universal fire ; him the highest sages know. 41. Below the superior (region), above the inferior (region) here, the cow has arisen supporting (her) calf by the foot. Whither is she turned ; to which half (of the universe), forsooth, has she gone away ; where, forsooth, does she beget ? Verily not in this herd ! 42. One-footed, two-footed, four-footed is she ; eight-footed, nine-footed became she, the thousand- syllabled (consisting of thousand elements) pankti (quinary stanza) of the universe : the oceans from her flow forth upon (the world). 43. Ascending the heaven, immortal, receive kindly my song ! The sacrifices purified by prayer lead thee forth ; the bay steeds that travel upon the road carry thee. 44. That do I know of thee, O immortal, where thy march is upon the sky, where thy habitation is in the highest heaven.- 45. Surya (the sun) surveys the sky, Surya the earth, Surya the waters. Surya is the single eye of being : he has ascended the great heavens. 46. The broad (directions) where the fagots that fence in (the fire), the earth turned itself into a fire- X. COSMOGONIC AND THEOSOPHIC HYMNS. 213 altar. There Rohita laid on for himself these two fires, cold and heat. 47. Laying on cold and heat, using the moun- tains as sacrificial posts, the two fires of Rohita who knows the (heavenly) light, into which (the fires) rain (flowed) as ghee, carried out the sacrifice. 48.
3a laid on for himself these two fires, cold and heat. 47. Laying on cold and heat, using the moun- tains as sacrificial posts, the two fires of Rohita who knows the (heavenly) light, into which (the fires) rain (flowed) as ghee, carried out the sacrifice. 48. The fire of Rohita who knows the (heavenly) light is kindled by prayer. From it heat, from it cold, from it the sacrifice was produced. 49. The two fires swelling through prayer, in- creased through prayer, sacrificed into with prayer ; the two fires of Rohita who knows the (heavenly) light, kindled through prayer, carried out the sacrifice. 50. One is deposited in truth, the other is kindled in the waters. The two fires of Rohita who knows the (heavenly) light, kindled through prayer, carried out the sacrifice. 51. The fire which the wind brightens up, and that which Indra and Brahma/zaspati (brighten up), the two fires of Rohita who knows the (heavenly) light, kindled through prayer, carried out the sacrifice. 52. Having fashioned the earth into an altar, having made the heavens (his) sacrificial reward, then having made heat into fire, Rohita created all that has breath through rain (serving) as ghee. 53. Rain fashioned itself into ghee, heat into fire, the earth into an altar. Then Agni by (his) songs fashioned the high mountains. 54. Having fashioned by means of songs the high (mountains), Rohita spake to the earth : In thee all shall be born, what is and what shall be. 55. The sacrifice first, (and then) what is and 214 HYMNS OF THE ATHARVA-VEDA. what shall be was born. From that this all was born, and whatever here appears, brought hither by the sage Rohita. 56. He who kicks a cow with his foot, and he who micturates towards the sun — of thee do I tear out the root; thou shalt henceforth not cast a shadow ! 57. Thou that passest across me, casting thy shadow against me, between me and the fire — of thee do I tear out the root ; thou shalt henceforth not cast a shadow ! 58. He, O god Surya, that to-day passes between thee and me, upon him our evil dream, our foulness, and our misfortunes do we wipe off. 59. May we not miss our way, may we not, O Indra, miss the sacrifice of him that presses the soma ; may not the powers of grudge intercept us ! 60. The (guiding) thread stretched out among the gods, that accomplishes the sacrifice, that, by pour- ing oblations, may we attain ! XI, 5. Glorification of the sun, or the primeval principle, as a Brahman disciple. 1.
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
Romanised transliteration as printed by the translator, not the original script. This is what we hold.
1the side, carries, goest with brilliance, causing the waters to flow. 22. Devoted to Rohita is Rohmi his mistress, with beautiful colour (complexion), great, and lustrous: through her may we conquer booty of every descrip- tion, through her win every battle ! 23. This seat, Rohi/rf, belongs to Rohita; yonder is the path on which the brindled (female) goes ! Her the Gandharvas and the Kasyapas lead forth, her the sages guard with diligence. 24. The radiant bay steeds of the sun, the im- mortal, ever draw the delightful chariot. Rohita, the drinker of ghee, the shining god, did enter the variegated heavens. 25. Rohita, the sharp-horned bull, who surpasses Agni and surpasses Surya, who props up the earth and the sky, out of him the gods frame the creations. 26. Rohita ascended the heaven from the great flood ; Rohita has climbed all heights. 27. Create (the cow) that is rich in milk, drips with ghee : she is the milch-cow of the gods that does not refuse! Indra shall drink the Soma, there shall be secure possession ; Agni shall sing praises : the enemies do thou drive out ! 28. Agni kindled, spreads his flames, fortified by ghee, sprinkled with ghee. Victorious, all-conquering Agni shall slay them that are my rivals ! X. COSMOGONIC AND THEOSOPHIC HYMNS. 211 29. He shall slay them, shall burn the enemy that battles against us ! With the flesh-devouring Agni do we burn our rivals. 30. Smite them down, O Indra, with the thunder- bolt, with thy (strong) arm ! Then have I over- powered my rivals with Agni's brilliant strengths. 31. O Agni, subject our rivals to us; confuse, O B/zhaspati, the kinsman that is puffed up ! O Indra and Agni, O Mitra and Vanma, subjected they shall be, unable to vent their wrath against us ! 32. Do thou, god Surya (the sun), when thou risest, beat down my rivals, beat them down with a stone : they shall go to the nethermost darkness ! 33. The calf of Viri^*, the bull of prayers, carry- ing the bright (soma) upon his back, has ascended the atmosphere. A song accompanied by ghee they sing to the calf; himself brahma (spiritual exalta- tion) they swell him with their brahma (prayer). 34. Ascend the heavens, ascend the earth ; sovereignty ascend thou, and possessions ascend thou ! Offspring ascend thou, and immortality ascend thou, unite thy body with Rohita ! 35. The gods that hold sovereignty, who go about the sun, with these allied, Rohita, kindly disposed, shall bestow sovereignty upon thee ! 36.
2end thou, and possessions ascend thou ! Offspring ascend thou, and immortality ascend thou, unite thy body with Rohita ! 35. The gods that hold sovereignty, who go about the sun, with these allied, Rohita, kindly disposed, shall bestow sovereignty upon thee ! 36. The sacrifices purified by prayer lead thee forth ; the bay steeds that travel upon the road carry thee : thou shinest across the swelling ocean. 37. In Rohita who conquers wealth, conquers cattle, and conquers booty, heaven and earth are fixed. Of thee that hast a thousand and seven births, let me announce the origin over the extent of the world ! 38. Glorious thou goest to the intermediate direc- p 2 212 HYMNS OF THE ATHARVA-VEDA, tions and the directions (of space), glorious (in the sight) of animals and the tribes of men, glorious in the lap of the earth, of Aditi : may I like Savitar be lovely ! 39. Being yonder thou knowest (what takes place) here; being here thou beholdest these things. Here (men) behold the inspired sun that shines upon the sky. 40. A god thou praisest the gods, thou movest within the flood. They kindle (him), a universal fire ; him the highest sages know. 41. Below the superior (region), above the inferior (region) here, the cow has arisen supporting (her) calf by the foot. Whither is she turned ; to which half (of the universe), forsooth, has she gone away ; where, forsooth, does she beget ? Verily not in this herd ! 42. One-footed, two-footed, four-footed is she ; eight-footed, nine-footed became she, the thousand- syllabled (consisting of thousand elements) pankti (quinary stanza) of the universe : the oceans from her flow forth upon (the world). 43. Ascending the heaven, immortal, receive kindly my song ! The sacrifices purified by prayer lead thee forth ; the bay steeds that travel upon the road carry thee. 44. That do I know of thee, O immortal, where thy march is upon the sky, where thy habitation is in the highest heaven.- 45. Surya (the sun) surveys the sky, Surya the earth, Surya the waters. Surya is the single eye of being : he has ascended the great heavens. 46. The broad (directions) where the fagots that fence in (the fire), the earth turned itself into a fire- X. COSMOGONIC AND THEOSOPHIC HYMNS. 213 altar. There Rohita laid on for himself these two fires, cold and heat. 47. Laying on cold and heat, using the moun- tains as sacrificial posts, the two fires of Rohita who knows the (heavenly) light, into which (the fires) rain (flowed) as ghee, carried out the sacrifice. 48.
3a laid on for himself these two fires, cold and heat. 47. Laying on cold and heat, using the moun- tains as sacrificial posts, the two fires of Rohita who knows the (heavenly) light, into which (the fires) rain (flowed) as ghee, carried out the sacrifice. 48. The fire of Rohita who knows the (heavenly) light is kindled by prayer. From it heat, from it cold, from it the sacrifice was produced. 49. The two fires swelling through prayer, in- creased through prayer, sacrificed into with prayer ; the two fires of Rohita who knows the (heavenly) light, kindled through prayer, carried out the sacrifice. 50. One is deposited in truth, the other is kindled in the waters. The two fires of Rohita who knows the (heavenly) light, kindled through prayer, carried out the sacrifice. 51. The fire which the wind brightens up, and that which Indra and Brahma/zaspati (brighten up), the two fires of Rohita who knows the (heavenly) light, kindled through prayer, carried out the sacrifice. 52. Having fashioned the earth into an altar, having made the heavens (his) sacrificial reward, then having made heat into fire, Rohita created all that has breath through rain (serving) as ghee. 53. Rain fashioned itself into ghee, heat into fire, the earth into an altar. Then Agni by (his) songs fashioned the high mountains. 54. Having fashioned by means of songs the high (mountains), Rohita spake to the earth : In thee all shall be born, what is and what shall be. 55. The sacrifice first, (and then) what is and 214 HYMNS OF THE ATHARVA-VEDA. what shall be was born. From that this all was born, and whatever here appears, brought hither by the sage Rohita. 56. He who kicks a cow with his foot, and he who micturates towards the sun — of thee do I tear out the root; thou shalt henceforth not cast a shadow ! 57. Thou that passest across me, casting thy shadow against me, between me and the fire — of thee do I tear out the root ; thou shalt henceforth not cast a shadow ! 58. He, O god Surya, that to-day passes between thee and me, upon him our evil dream, our foulness, and our misfortunes do we wipe off. 59. May we not miss our way, may we not, O Indra, miss the sacrifice of him that presses the soma ; may not the powers of grudge intercept us ! 60. The (guiding) thread stretched out among the gods, that accomplishes the sacrifice, that, by pour- ing oblations, may we attain ! XI, 5. Glorification of the sun, or the primeval principle, as a Brahman disciple. 1.
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
No commentary for this page.