Library·Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka)·4·4.11
अनड्वान् दाधार पृथिवीम् उत द्याम् अनड्वान् दाधारोर्व् अन्तरिक्षम् । अनड्वान् दाधार प्रदिशः षड् उर्वीर् अनड्वान् विश्वं भुवनम् आ विवेश ॥१॥
anaḍvān dādhāra pṛthivīm uta dyām anaḍvān dādhārorv antarikṣam | anaḍvān dādhāra pradiśaḥ ṣaḍ urvīr anaḍvān viśvaṃ bhuvanam ā viveśa ||1||
The draft-ox sustains earth and sky; the draft-ox sustains the wide atmosphere; the draft-ox sustains the six wide directions; the draft-ox hath entered into all existence.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
अनड्वान् इन्द्रः स पशुभ्यो वि चष्टे त्रयां छक्रो वि मिमीते अध्वनः । भूतं भविष्यद् भुवना दुहानः सर्वा देवानाम् चरति व्रतानि ॥२॥
anaḍvān indraḥ sa paśubhyo vi caṣṭe trayāṃ chakro vi mimīte adhvanaḥ | bhūtaṃ bhaviṣyad bhuvanā duhānaḥ sarvā devānām carati vratāni ||2||
The draft-ox [is] Indra; he looks out from (for?) the cattle; triple ways the mighty one (çakrá) measures out (traverses?); yielding (duh) the past (? bhūtá), the future, existing things (bhúvana), he goes upon (car) all the courses (vratá) of the gods.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
इन्द्रो जातो मनुष्येष्व् अन्तर् घर्मस् तप्तश् चरति शोशुचानः । सुप्रजाः सन्त् स उदारे न सर्षद् यो नाश्नीयाद् अनडुहो विजानन् ॥३॥
indro jāto manuṣyeṣv antar gharmas taptaś carati śośucānaḥ | suprajāḥ sant sa udāre na sarṣad yo nāśnīyād anaḍuho vijānan ||3||
Born an Indra among human beings (manuṣyà), he goes about (car) shining brightly, a heated hot-drink (gharmá); he, being one of good offspring, shall not go in mist (? udārá) who, understanding [it], shall not partake of (aç) the draft-ox.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
अनड्वान् दुहे सुकृतस्य लोक ऐनं प्याययति पवमानः पुरस्तात् । पर्जन्यो धारा मरुत ऊधो अस्य यज्ञः पयो दक्षिणा दोहो अस्य ॥४॥
anaḍvān duhe sukṛtasya loka ainaṃ pyāyayati pavamānaḥ purastāt | parjanyo dhārā maruta ūdho asya yajñaḥ payo dakṣiṇā doho asya ||4||
The draft-ox yields milk (duh) in the world of the well-done; the purifying one fills him up from in front; Parjanya [is] his streams, the Maruts his udder, the sacrifice his milk, the sacrificial gift the milking of him.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
यस्य नेशे यज्ञपतिर् न यज्ञो नास्य दातेशे न प्रतिग्रहीता । यो विश्वजिद् विश्वभृद् विश्वकर्मा घर्मं नो ब्रूत यतमश् चतुष्पात् ॥५॥
yasya neśe yajñapatir na yajño nāsya dāteśe na pratigrahītā | yo viśvajid viśvabhṛd viśvakarmā gharmaṃ no brūta yatamaś catuṣpāt ||5||
Of whom the lord of the sacrifice is not master (īç), nor the sacrifice; not the giver is master of him, nor the acceptor; who is all-conquering, all-bearing, all-working—tell ye us the hot-drink which [is] four-footed.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
येन देवाः स्वर् आरुरुहुर् हित्वा शरीरम् अमृतस्य नाभिम् । तेन गेष्म सुकृतस्य लोकं घर्मस्य व्रतेन तपसा यशस्यवः ॥६॥
yena devāḥ svar āruruhur hitvā śarīram amṛtasya nābhim | tena geṣma sukṛtasya lokaṃ gharmasya vratena tapasā yaśasyavaḥ ||6||
By whom the gods ascended to heaven (svàr), quitting the body, to the navel of the immortal, by him may we go to the world of the well-done, desiring glory, by the vow (vratá) of the hot-drink, by penance.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
इन्द्रो रूपेणाग्निर् वहेन प्रजापतिः परमेष्ठी विराट् । विश्वानरे अक्रमत वैश्वानरे अक्रमतानदुह्य् अक्रमत । सो ऽदृंहयत सो ऽधारयत ॥७॥
indro rūpeṇāgnir vahena prajāpatiḥ parameṣṭhī virāṭ | viśvānare akramata vaiśvānare akramatānaduhy akramata | so 'dṛṃhayata so 'dhārayata ||7||
Indra by form, Agni by carrying (váha), Prajāpati, Parameshṭhin, Virāj; in Viçvānara he strode, in Vāiçvānara he strode, in the draft-ox he strode; he made firm, he sustained.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
मध्यम् एतद् अनडुहो यत्रैष वह आहितः । एतावद् अस्य प्राचीनं यावान् प्रत्यङ् समाहितः ॥८॥
madhyam etad anaḍuho yatraiṣa vaha āhitaḥ | etāvad asya prācīnaṃ yāvān pratyaṅ samāhitaḥ ||8||
That is the middle of the draft-ox, where this carrying (váha) is set; so much of him is in front (prācī́na) as he is put all together on the opposite side.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
यो वेदानदुहो दोहान् सप्तानुपदस्वतः । प्रजां च लोकं चाप्नोति तथा सप्तऋषयो विदुः ॥९॥
yo vedānaduho dohān saptānupadasvataḥ | prajāṃ ca lokaṃ cāpnoti tathā saptaṛṣayo viduḥ ||9||
Whoso knows the milkings of the draft-ox, seven, unfailing, both progeny and world he obtains: so the seven seers know.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
पद्भिः सेदिम् अवक्रामन्न् इरां जङ्घाभिर् उत्खिदन् । स्रमेणानड्वान् कीलालं कीनाशश् चाभि गछतः ॥१०॥
padbhiḥ sedim avakrāmann irāṃ jaṅghābhir utkhidan | srameṇānaḍvān kīlālaṃ kīnāśaś cābhi gachataḥ ||10||
With his feet treading down debility (sedí), with his thighs (ján̄ghā) extracting (ut-khid) refreshing drink—with weariness go the draft-ox and the plowman unto sweet drink (kīlála).
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
द्वादश वा एता रात्रीर् व्रत्या आहुः प्रजापतेः । तत्रोप ब्रह्म यो वेद तद् वा अनडुहो व्रतम् ॥११॥
dvādaśa vā etā rātrīr vratyā āhuḥ prajāpateḥ | tatropa brahma yo veda tad vā anaḍuho vratam ||11||
Twelve, indeed, they declare those nights of the vow (vrátya) of Prajāpati; whoso knows the bráhman within them (tátro ’pa)—that verily is the vow of the draft-ox.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
दुहे सायं दुहे प्रातर् दुहे मध्यंदिनं परि । दोहा ये अस्य संयन्ति तान् विद्मानुपदस्वतः ॥१२॥
duhe sāyaṃ duhe prātar duhe madhyaṃdinaṃ pari | dohā ye asya saṃyanti tān vidmānupadasvataḥ ||12||
He milks (duh) at evening, he milks in the morning, he milks about midday; the milkings of him that come together, those unfailing ones we know.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)