Library·Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka)·2·2.2

Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka) 2.2

दिव्यो गन्धर्वो भुवनस्य यस् पतिर् एक एव नमस्यो विक्ष्व् ईड्यः । तं त्वा यौमि ब्रह्मणा दिव्य देव नमस् ते अस्तु दिवि ते सधस्थम् ॥१॥

divyo gandharvo bhuvanasya yas patir eka eva namasyo vikṣv īḍyaḥ | taṃ tvā yaumi brahmaṇā divya deva namas te astu divi te sadhastham ||1||

The heavenly Gandharva, who is lord of being (bhúvana), the only one to receive homage, to be praised (īḍ) among the clans (víç)—thee being such I ban (yu) with incantation, O heavenly god; homage be to thee; in the heaven is thy station.

Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)

दिवि स्पृष्टो यजतः सूर्यत्वग् अवयाता हरसो दैव्यस्य । मृडात् गन्धर्वो भुवनस्य यस् पतिर् एक एव नमस्यः सुशेवाः ॥२॥

divi spṛṣṭo yajataḥ sūryatvag avayātā haraso daivyasya | mṛḍāt gandharvo bhuvanasya yas patir eka eva namasyaḥ suśevāḥ ||2||

Touching the sky, worshipful, sun-skinned, deprecator of the seizure (háras) of the gods—gracious shall be the Gandharva, who is lord of being, the only one to receive homage, very propitious.

Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)

अनवद्याभिः सम् उ जग्म आभिर् अप्सरास्व् अपि गन्धर्व आसीत् । समुद्र आसां सदनं म आहुर् यतः सद्य आ च परा च यन्ति ॥३॥

anavadyābhiḥ sam u jagma ābhir apsarāsv api gandharva āsīt | samudra āsāṃ sadanaṃ ma āhur yataḥ sadya ā ca parā ca yanti ||3||

He hath united himself (sam-gam) with those irreproachable ones (f.); in (ápi) among the Apsarases was the Gandharva; in the ocean is, they tell me, their seat, whence at once they both come and go.

Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)

अभ्रिये दिद्युन् नक्षत्रिये या विश्वावसुं गन्धर्वं सचध्वे । ताभ्यो वो देवीर् नम इत् कृणोमि ॥४॥

abhriye didyun nakṣatriye yā viśvāvasuṃ gandharvaṃ sacadhve | tābhyo vo devīr nama it kṛṇomi ||4||

O cloudy one, gleamer (didyút), starry one—ye that accompany (sac) the Gandharva Viçvāvasu, to you there, O divine ones, homage do I pay.

Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)

याः क्लन्दास् तमिषीचयो ऽक्षकामा मनोमुहः । ताभ्यो गन्धर्वभ्यो ऽप्सराभ्यो ऽकरम् नमः ॥५॥

yāḥ klandās tamiṣīcayo 'kṣakāmā manomuhaḥ | tābhyo gandharvabhyo 'psarābhyo 'karam namaḥ ||5||

They that are noisy, dusky, dice-loving, mind-confusing—to those Apsarases, that have the Gandharvas for spouses, have I paid homage.

Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)