Library·Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka)·3·3.28

Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka) 3.28

AVŚ 3.28.1

एकैकयैषा सृष्ट्या सं बभूव यत्र गा असृजन्त भूतकृतो विश्वरूपाः । यत्र विजायते यमिन्य् अपर्तुः सा पशून् क्षिणाति रिफती रुशती ॥१॥

ekaikayaiṣā sṛṣṭyā saṃ babhūva yatra gā asṛjanta bhūtakṛto viśvarūpāḥ | yatra vijāyate yaminy apartuḥ sā paśūn kṣiṇāti riphatī ruśatī ||1||

She herself came into being by a one-by-one creation, where the being-makers created the kine of all forms; where the twinning [cow] gives birth, out of season, she destroys the cattle, snarling, angry.

Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)

AVŚ 3.28.2

एषा पशून्त् सं क्षिणाति क्रव्याद् भूत्वा व्यद्वरी । उतैनां ब्रह्मणे दद्यात् तथा स्योना शिवा स्यात् ॥२॥

eṣā paśūnt saṃ kṣiṇāti kravyād bhūtvā vyadvarī | utaināṃ brahmaṇe dadyāt tathā syonā śivā syāt ||2||

She quite destroys the cattle, becoming a flesh-eater, devourer (? vy-ádvarī); also one should give her to a priest (brahmán); so would she be pleasant, propitious.

Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)

AVŚ 3.28.3

शिवा भव पुरुषेभ्यो गोभ्यो अश्वेभ्यः शिवा । शिवास्मै सर्वस्मै क्षेत्राय शिवा न इहैधि ॥३॥

śivā bhava puruṣebhyo gobhyo aśvebhyaḥ śivā | śivāsmai sarvasmai kṣetrāya śivā na ihaidhi ||3||

Be thou propitious to men (púruṣa), propitious to kine, to horses, propitious to all this field (kṣétra); be propitious to us here.

Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)

AVŚ 3.28.4

इह पुष्टिर् इह रस इह सहस्रसातमा भव । पशून् यमिनि पोषय ॥४॥

iha puṣṭir iha rasa iha sahasrasātamā bhava | paśūn yamini poṣaya ||4||

Here prosperity, here sap—here be thou best winner of a thousand; make the cattle prosper, O twinning one.

Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)

AVŚ 3.28.5

यत्रा सुहार्दः सुकृतो मदन्ति विहाय रोगं तन्वः स्वायाः । तं लोकं यमिन्य् अभिसंबभूव सा नो मा हिंसीत् पुरुषान् पशूंश् च ॥५॥

yatrā suhārdaḥ sukṛto madanti vihāya rogaṃ tanvaḥ svāyāḥ | taṃ lokaṃ yaminy abhisaṃbabhūva sā no mā hiṃsīt puruṣān paśūṃś ca ||5||

Where the good-hearted [and] well-doing revel, quitting disease of their own body—into that world hath the twinning one come into being; let her not injure our men and cattle.

Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)

AVŚ 3.28.6

यत्रा सुहार्दां सुकृताम् अग्निहोत्रहुताम् यत्र लोकः । तं लोकं यमिन्य् अभिसंबभूव सा नो मा हिंसीत् पुरुषान् पशूंश् च ॥६॥

yatrā suhārdāṃ sukṛtām agnihotrahutām yatra lokaḥ | taṃ lokaṃ yaminy abhisaṃbabhūva sā no mā hiṃsīt puruṣān paśūṃś ca ||6||

Where is the world of the good-hearted, of the well-doing, where of them that offer the fire-offering (agnihotrá-)—into that world hath the twinning one come into being; let her not injure our men and cattle.

Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)