Library·Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka)·10·10.4
इन्द्रस्य प्रथमो रथो देवानाम् अपरो रथो वरुणस्य तृतीय इत् । अहीनाम् अपमा रथ स्थानुम् आरद् अथार्षत् ॥१॥
indrasya prathamo ratho devānām aparo ratho varuṇasya tṛtīya it | ahīnām apamā ratha sthānum ārad athārṣat ||1||
Indra's [was] the first chariot, the gods' the after chariot, Varuna's the third one; the snakes' chariot, the furthest one (?), hath run against the pillar: then may it come to harm (?).
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
दर्भः शोचिस् तरूणकम् अश्वस्य वारः परुषस्य वारः । रथस्य बन्धुरम् ॥२॥
darbhaḥ śocis tarūṇakam aśvasya vāraḥ paruṣasya vāraḥ | rathasya bandhuram ||2||
Darbhá -grass, brightness, young shoot (? tarū́ṇaka); horse's tail-tuft, rough-one's tail-tuft; chariot's seat (? bándhura).
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अव श्वेत पदा जहि पूर्वेण चापरेण च । उदप्लुतम् इव दार्व् अहीनाम् अरसं विषं वार् उग्रम् ॥३॥
ava śveta padā jahi pūrveṇa cāpareṇa ca | udaplutam iva dārv ahīnām arasaṃ viṣaṃ vār ugram ||3||
Smite down, O white one, with the foot, both the fore and the hind; like water-floated wood, sapless [is] the snakes' poison, fierce water (vā́r).
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अरंघुषो निमज्योन्मज पुनर् अब्रवीत् । उदप्लुतम् इव दार्व् अहीनाम् अरसं विषं वार् उग्रम् ॥४॥
araṃghuṣo nimajyonmaja punar abravīt | udaplutam iva dārv ahīnām arasaṃ viṣaṃ vār ugram ||4||
The araṁghuṣá, having immerged, having emerged, said again: like water-floated wood, sapless is the snake's poison, fierce water.
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पैद्वो हन्ति कसर्णीलं पैद्वः श्वित्रम् उतासितम् । पैद्वो रथर्व्याः शिरः सं बिभेद पृदाक्वाः ॥५॥
paidvo hanti kasarṇīlaṃ paidvaḥ śvitram utāsitam | paidvo ratharvyāḥ śiraḥ saṃ bibheda pṛdākvāḥ ||5||
Pāidva slays the kasarṇī́la (snake), Pāidva the whitish and the black; Pāidva hath split altogether the head of the ratharvī́, of the pṛdākū́.
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पैद्व प्रेहि प्रथमो ऽनु त्वा वयम् एमसि । अहीन् व्य् अस्यतात् पथो येन स्मा वयम् एमसि ॥६॥
paidva prehi prathamo 'nu tvā vayam emasi | ahīn vy asyatāt patho yena smā vayam emasi ||6||
Go forth first, O Pāidva; we come after thee; cast thou out the snakes from the road by which we come.
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इदं पैद्वो अजायतेदम् अस्य परायणम् । इमान्य् अर्वतः पदाहिघ्न्यो वाजिनीवतः ॥७॥
idaṃ paidvo ajāyatedam asya parāyaṇam | imāny arvataḥ padāhighnyo vājinīvataḥ ||7||
Here was Pāidva born; this [is] his going-away; these [are] the tracks of the snake-slaying vigorous steed.
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संयतं न वि ष्परद् व्यात्तं न सं यमत् । अस्मिन् क्षेत्रे द्वाव् अही स्त्री च पुमांश् च ताव् उभाव् अरसा ॥८॥
saṃyataṃ na vi ṣparad vyāttaṃ na saṃ yamat | asmin kṣetre dvāv ahī strī ca pumāṃś ca tāv ubhāv arasā ||8||
What is shut together may it not open; what is opened may it not shut together; in this field [are] two snakes, both a female and a male; those [are] both sapless.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
अरसास इहाहयो ये अन्ति ये च दूरके । घनेन हन्मि वृश्चिकम् अहिं दण्डेनागतम् ॥९॥
arasāsa ihāhayo ye anti ye ca dūrake | ghanena hanmi vṛścikam ahiṃ daṇḍenāgatam ||9||
Sapless here [are] the snakes, they that are near and they that are far; with a club (ghaná) I slay the stinger (vṛ́çcika), with a staff the snake that has come.
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अघाश्वस्येदं भेषजम् उभयो स्वजस्य च । इन्द्रो मे ऽहिम् अघायन्तम् अहिं पैद्वो अरन्धयत् ॥१०॥ १०
aghāśvasyedaṃ bheṣajam ubhayo svajasya ca | indro me 'him aghāyantam ahiṃ paidvo arandhayat ||10|| 10
This is the remedy of both, of the ill-horse (aghāçvá) and of the constrictor; the mischievous (aghāy-) snake hath Indra, the snake hath Pāidva put in my power (randhay-).
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पैद्वस्य मन्महे वयं स्थिरस्य स्थिरधाम्नः । इमे पश्चा पृदाकवः प्रदीध्यत आसते ॥११॥
paidvasya manmahe vayaṃ sthirasya sthiradhāmnaḥ | ime paścā pṛdākavaḥ pradīdhyata āsate ||11||
We reverence Pāidva, the staunch one, of staunch abode (- dhā́man); here behind sit pṛ́dākus, plotting forth.
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नष्टासवो नष्टविषा हता इन्द्रेण वज्रिणा । जघानेन्द्रो जघ्निमा वयम् ॥१२॥
naṣṭāsavo naṣṭaviṣā hatā indreṇa vajriṇā | jaghānendro jaghnimā vayam ||12||
Of lost lives, of lost poison [are they], slain by the thunderbolt-bearing Indra; Indra hath slain, we have slain.
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हतास् तिरश्चिराजयो निपिष्टासः पृदाकवः । दर्विं करिक्रतं श्वित्रं दर्भेष्व् असितं जहि ॥१३॥
hatās tiraścirājayo nipiṣṭāsaḥ pṛdākavaḥ | darviṃ karikrataṃ śvitraṃ darbheṣv asitaṃ jahi ||13||
Slain [are] the cross-lined ones, crushed down the pṛ́dākus; slay thou the whitish [snake] that makes a great hood, the black snake, in the darbhá -grasses.
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कैरातिका कुमारिका सका खनति भेषजम् । हिरण्ययीभिर् अभ्रिभिर् गिरीनाम् उप सानुषु ॥१४॥
kairātikā kumārikā sakā khanati bheṣajam | hiraṇyayībhir abhribhir girīnām upa sānuṣu ||14||
The little girl of the Kirātas, she the little one, digs a remedy, with golden shovels, upon the ridges (sā́nu) of the mountains.
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आयम् अगन् युवा भिषक् पृश्निहापराजितः । स वै स्वजस्य जम्भन उभयोर् वृश्चिकस्य च ॥१५॥
āyam agan yuvā bhiṣak pṛśnihāparājitaḥ | sa vai svajasya jambhana ubhayor vṛścikasya ca ||15||
Hither hath come the young physician, slayer of the spotted ones, unconquered; he verily is a grinder-up of both, the constrictor and the stinger.
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इन्द्रो मे ऽहिम् अरन्धयन् मित्रश् च वरुणश् च । वातापर्जन्योभा ॥१६॥
indro me 'him arandhayan mitraś ca varuṇaś ca | vātāparjanyobhā ||16||
Indra hath put the snake in my power, [also] both Mitra and Varuṇa, and Vāta ('wind') and Parjanya, both of them.
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इन्द्रो मे ऽहिम् अरन्धयत् पृदाकुं च पृदाक्वम् । स्वजं तिरश्चिराजिं कसर्णीलं दशोनसिम् ॥१७॥
indro me 'him arandhayat pṛdākuṃ ca pṛdākvam | svajaṃ tiraścirājiṃ kasarṇīlaṃ daśonasim ||17||
Indra hath put the snake in my power, the pṛ́dāku and the she- pṛ́dāku, the constrictor, the cross-lined one, the kasarṇī́la, the dáçonasi.
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इन्द्रो जघान प्रथमं जनितारम् अहे तव । तेषाम् उ तृह्यमाणानां कः स्वित् तेषाम् असद् रसः ॥१८॥
indro jaghāna prathamaṃ janitāram ahe tava | teṣām u tṛhyamāṇānāṃ kaḥ svit teṣām asad rasaḥ ||18||
Indra hath slain first thy progenitor, O snake; of them, being shattered, what forsooth can be their sap?
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सं हि शीर्षाण्य् अग्रभं पौञ्जिष्ठ इव कर्वरम् । सिन्धोर् मध्यं परेत्य व्य् अनिजम् अहेर् विषम् ॥१९॥
saṃ hi śīrṣāṇy agrabhaṃ pauñjiṣṭha iva karvaram | sindhor madhyaṃ paretya vy anijam aher viṣam ||19||
Since I have grasped together their heads, as a fisherman the kárvara; having gone away to the middle of the river, I have washed out the snake's poison.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
अहीनां सर्वेषां विषं परा वहन्तु सिन्धवः । हतास् तिरश्चिराजयो निपिष्टासः पृदाकवः ॥२०॥ ११
ahīnāṃ sarveṣāṃ viṣaṃ parā vahantu sindhavaḥ | hatās tiraścirājayo nipiṣṭāsaḥ pṛdākavaḥ ||20|| 11
The poison of all snakes let the rivers carry away; slain [are] the cross-lined ones, crushed down the pṛ́dākus.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
ओषधीनाम् अहं वृण उर्वरीर् इव साधुया । नयाम्य् अर्वतीर् इवाहे निरैतु विषम् ॥२१॥
oṣadhīnām ahaṃ vṛṇa urvarīr iva sādhuyā | nayāmy arvatīr ivāhe niraitu viṣam ||21||
I choose as it were the filaments of herbs successfully; I conduct as it were mares; O snake, let thy poison come out.
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यद् अग्नौ सूर्ये विषं पृथिव्याम् ओषधीषु यत् । कान्दाविषं कनक्नकं निरैत्व् ऐतु ते विषम् ॥२२॥
yad agnau sūrye viṣaṃ pṛthivyām oṣadhīṣu yat | kāndāviṣaṃ kanaknakaṃ niraitv aitu te viṣam ||22||
What poison is in fire, in the sun, what in the earth, in herbs, kāndā -poison, kanáknaka —let thy poison come out; let it come.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
ये अग्निजा ओषधिजा अहीनां ये अप्सुजा विद्युत आबभूवुः । येषां जातानि बहुधा महान्ति तेभ्यः सर्पेभ्यो नमसा विधेम ॥२३॥
ye agnijā oṣadhijā ahīnāṃ ye apsujā vidyuta ābabhūvuḥ | yeṣāṃ jātāni bahudhā mahānti tebhyaḥ sarpebhyo namasā vidhema ||23||
Whichever of the snakes [are] fire-born, herb-born, whichever came hither (ā-bhū) [as] water-born lightnings; those of which the kinds are variously great—to those serpents would we pay worship with reverence.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
तौदी नामासि कन्या घृताची नाम वा असि । अधस्पदेन ते पदम् आ ददे विषदूषणम् ॥२४॥
taudī nāmāsi kanyā ghṛtācī nāma vā asi | adhaspadena te padam ā dade viṣadūṣaṇam ||24||
Thou art a girl, tāúdī by name; verily thou art by name ghee-like (ghṛtā́cī); I take beneath thy poison-spoiling track.
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अङ्गादङ्गात् प्र च्यावय हृदयम् परि वर्जय । अधा विषस्य यत् तेजो ऽवाचीनं तद् एतु ते ॥२५॥
aṅgādaṅgāt pra cyāvaya hṛdayam pari varjaya | adhā viṣasya yat tejo 'vācīnaṃ tad etu te ||25||
Remove thou [it] from every limb; make [it] avoid the heart; then, what keenness (téjas) the poison has, let that go downward for thee.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
आरे अभूद् विषम् अरौद् विषे विषम् अप्राग् अपि । अग्निर् विषम् अहेर् निर् अधात् सोमो निर् अणयीत् । दंष्टारम् अन्व् अगाद् विषम् अहिर् अमृत ॥२६॥ १२
āre abhūd viṣam araud viṣe viṣam aprāg api | agnir viṣam aher nir adhāt somo nir aṇayīt | daṃṣṭāram anv agād viṣam ahir amṛta ||26|| 12
He (it ?) hath come to be afar; he hath obstructed the poison; he hath mixed poison in poison; Agni hath put out the snake's poison; Soma hath conducted [it] out; the poison hath gone after the biter; the snake hath died.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)