Library·Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka)·19·19.44
आयुषो ऽसि प्रतरणं विप्रं भेषजम् उच्यसे । तद् आञ्जन त्वं शंताते शम् आपो अभयं कृतम् ॥१॥
āyuṣo 'si prataraṇaṃ vipraṃ bheṣajam ucyase | tad āñjana tvaṃ śaṃtāte śam āpo abhayaṃ kṛtam ||1||
Thou art an extender of life-time; all-healing art thou called; so, O ointment, do thou [make] wealfulness; make, O ye waters, weal [and] fearlessness.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
यो हरिमा जायान्यो ऽङ्गभेदो विषल्पकः । सर्वं ते यक्ष्मम् अङ्गेभ्यो बहिर् निर् हन्त्व् आञ्जनम् ॥२॥
yo harimā jāyānyo 'ṅgabhedo viṣalpakaḥ | sarvaṃ te yakṣmam aṅgebhyo bahir nir hantv āñjanam ||2||
What the jaundice is, the jāyā́nya, the limb-splitter, the visálpaka —all yákṣma from thy limbs let the ointment expel (nir-han) out.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
आञ्जनं पृथिव्यां जातं भद्रं पुरुषजीवनम् । कृणोत्व् अप्रमायुकं रथजूतिम् अनागसम् ॥३॥
āñjanaṃ pṛthivyāṃ jātaṃ bhadraṃ puruṣajīvanam | kṛṇotv apramāyukaṃ rathajūtim anāgasam ||3||
The ointment, born on the earth, excellent, giving life to men—let it make [me] unperishing, of chariot-swiftness, free from offense.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
प्राण प्राणं त्रायस्वासो असवे मृड । निरृते निरृत्या नः पाशेभ्यो मुञ्च ॥४॥
prāṇa prāṇaṃ trāyasvāso asave mṛḍa | nirṛte nirṛtyā naḥ pāśebhyo muñca ||4||
O breath, rescue thou breath; O life-breath (ásu), be gracious to life-breath; O destruction, free us from the fetters of destruction.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
सिन्धोर् गर्भो ऽसि विद्युतां पुष्पम् । वातः प्राणः सूर्यश् चक्षुर् दिवस् पयः ॥५॥
sindhor garbho 'si vidyutāṃ puṣpam | vātaḥ prāṇaḥ sūryaś cakṣur divas payaḥ ||5||
Embryo of the river art thou, flower of the lightnings; the wind [thy] breath, the sun [thine] eye, from the sky [thy] milk.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
देवाञ्जन त्रैककुद परि मा पाहि विश्वतः । न त्वा तरन्त्य् ओषधयो बाह्याः पर्वतीया उत ॥६॥
devāñjana traikakuda pari mā pāhi viśvataḥ | na tvā taranty oṣadhayo bāhyāḥ parvatīyā uta ||6||
O divine ointment, thou from the three-peaked [mountain], do thou protect me all about; the herbs do not surpass (tṛ) thee—those from abroad and those from the mountains.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
वीदं मध्यम् अवासृपद् रक्षोहामीवचातनः । अमीवाः सर्वाश् चातयन् नाशयद् अभिभा इतः ॥७॥
vīdaṃ madhyam avāsṛpad rakṣohāmīvacātanaḥ | amīvāḥ sarvāś cātayan nāśayad abhibhā itaḥ ||7||
The demon-slayer, disease-expeller, hath crept down over the middle here, expelling all diseases, making portents vanish from here.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
बह्व् इदं राजन् वरुणानृतम् आह पूरुषः । तस्मात् सहस्रवीर्य मुञ्च नः पर्य् अंहसः ॥८॥
bahv idaṃ rājan varuṇānṛtam āha pūruṣaḥ | tasmāt sahasravīrya muñca naḥ pary aṃhasaḥ ||8||
Much untruth, O king Varuṇa, doth man (pū́ruṣa) say here; from that sin (áṅhas) do thou free us, O thou of thousand-fold heroism.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
यद् आपो अघ्न्या इति वरुणेति यद् ऊचिम । तस्मात् सहस्रवीर्य मुञ्च नः पर्य् अंहसः ॥९॥
yad āpo aghnyā iti varuṇeti yad ūcima | tasmāt sahasravīrya muñca naḥ pary aṃhasaḥ ||9||
In that we have said O waters, O inviolable [kine], O Varuṇa, from that sin do thou free us, O thou of thousand-fold heroism.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
मित्रश् च त्वा वरुणश् चानुप्रेयतुर् आञ्जन । तौ त्वानुगत्य दूरं भोगाय पुनर् ओहतुः ॥१०॥
mitraś ca tvā varuṇaś cānupreyatur āñjana | tau tvānugatya dūraṃ bhogāya punar ohatuḥ ||10||
Both Mitra and Varuṇa went forth after thee, O ointment; they, having gone far after thee, brought thee back for enjoyment (bhogá).
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)