Library·Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka)·3·3.24
पयस्वतीर् ओषधयः पयस्वन् मामकं वचः । अथो पयस्वतीनाम् आ भरे ऽहं सहस्रशः ॥१॥
payasvatīr oṣadhayaḥ payasvan māmakaṃ vacaḥ | atho payasvatīnām ā bhare 'haṃ sahasraśaḥ ||1||
Rich in milk [are] the herbs, rich in milk my utterance (vácas); accordingly, of them that are rich in milk I bring by thousands.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
वेदाहं पयस्वन्तं चकार धान्यम् बहु । संभृत्वा नाम यो देवस् तं वयं हवामहे योयो अयज्वनो गृहे ॥२॥
vedāhaṃ payasvantaṃ cakāra dhānyam bahu | saṃbhṛtvā nāma yo devas taṃ vayaṃ havāmahe yoyo ayajvano gṛhe ||2||
I know him that is rich in milk; he hath made the grain much; the god that is "collector" by name, him do we call, whichever is in the house of one who sacrifices not.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
इमा याः पञ्च प्रदिशो मानवीः पञ्च कृष्टयः । वृष्टे शापं नदीर् इवेह स्फातिं समावहान् ॥३॥
imā yāḥ pañca pradiśo mānavīḥ pañca kṛṣṭayaḥ | vṛṣṭe śāpaṃ nadīr iveha sphātiṃ samāvahān ||3||
These five directions that there are, the five races (kṛṣṭí) descended from Manu (mānavī́)—may they bring fatness (sphātí) together here, as streams [bring] drift when it has rained.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
उद् उत्सं शतधारं सहस्रधारम् अक्षितम् । एवास्माकेदं धान्यं सहस्रधारम् अक्षितम् ॥४॥
ud utsaṃ śatadhāraṃ sahasradhāram akṣitam | evāsmākedaṃ dhānyaṃ sahasradhāram akṣitam ||4||
As a fountain of a hundred streams, of a thousand streams, unexhausted, so this grain of ours, in a thousand streams, unexhausted.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
शतहस्त समाहर सहस्रहस्त सं किर । कृतस्य कार्यस्य चेह स्फातिं समावह ॥५॥
śatahasta samāhara sahasrahasta saṃ kira | kṛtasya kāryasya ceha sphātiṃ samāvaha ||5||
O hundred-handed one, bring together; O thousand-handed one, pile together; of what is made and of what is to be made do thou convey together the fatness here.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
तिस्रो मात्रा गन्धर्वाणां चतस्रो गृहपत्न्याः । तासां या स्फातिमत्तमा तया त्वाभि मृशामसि ॥६॥
tisro mātrā gandharvāṇāṃ catasro gṛhapatnyāḥ | tāsāṃ yā sphātimattamā tayā tvābhi mṛśāmasi ||6||
Three measures of the Gandharvas, four of the house-mistress; of them whichever is richest in fatness, with that one we touch thee.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
उपोहश् च समूहश् च क्षत्तारौ ते प्रजापते । ताव् इहा वहतां स्फातिं बहुं भूमानम् अक्षितम् ॥७॥
upohaś ca samūhaś ca kṣattārau te prajāpate | tāv ihā vahatāṃ sphātiṃ bahuṃ bhūmānam akṣitam ||7||
Bringer (upohá) and gatherer (samūhá) [are] thy (two) distributors, O Prajāpati; let them convey hither fatness, much unexhausted plenty.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)