Library·Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka)·4·4.16
बृहन्न् एषाम् अधिष्ठाता अन्तिकाद् इव पश्यति । य स्तायन् मन्यते चरन्त् सर्वं देवा इदं विदुः ॥१॥
bṛhann eṣām adhiṣṭhātā antikād iva paśyati | ya stāyan manyate carant sarvaṃ devā idaṃ viduḥ ||1||
The great superintendent of them sees, as it were, from close by; whoever thinks to be going on in secret, all this the gods know.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
यस् तिष्ठति चरति यश् च वञ्चति यो निलायं चरति यः प्रतङ्कम् । द्वौ संनिषद्य यन् मन्त्रयेते राजा तद् वेद वरुणस् तृतीयः ॥२॥
yas tiṣṭhati carati yaś ca vañcati yo nilāyaṃ carati yaḥ prataṅkam | dvau saṃniṣadya yan mantrayete rājā tad veda varuṇas tṛtīyaḥ ||2||
Whoso stands, goes about, and whoso goes crookedly (vañc), whoso goes about hiddenly, who defiantly (? pratán̄kam)—what two, sitting down together, talk, king Varuṇa, as third, knows that.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
उतेयं भूमिर् वरुणस्य राज्ञ उतासौ द्यौर् बृहती दूरेअन्ता । उतो समुद्रौ वरुणस्य कुक्षी उतास्मिन्न् अल्प उदके निलीनः ॥३॥
uteyaṃ bhūmir varuṇasya rājña utāsau dyaur bṛhatī dūreantā | uto samudrau varuṇasya kukṣī utāsminn alpa udake nilīnaḥ ||3||
Both this earth is king Varuṇa's, and yonder great sky with distant margins (-ánta); also the two oceans are Varuṇa's paunches; also in this petty water is he hidden.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
उत यो द्याम् अतिसर्पात् परस्तान् न स मुच्यातै वरुणस्य राज्ञः । दिव स्पशः प्र चरन्तीदम् अस्य सहस्राक्षा अति पश्यन्ति भूमिम् ॥४॥
uta yo dyām atisarpāt parastān na sa mucyātai varuṇasya rājñaḥ | diva spaśaḥ pra carantīdam asya sahasrākṣā ati paśyanti bhūmim ||4||
Also whoso should creep far off beyond the sky, he should not be released from king Varuṇa; from the sky his spies go forth hither; thousand-eyed, they look over the earth.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
सर्वं तद् राजा वरुणो वि चष्टे यद् अन्तरा रोदसी यत् परस्तात् । संख्याता अस्य निमिषो जनानाम् अक्षान् इव श्वघ्नी नि मिनोति तानि ॥५॥
sarvaṃ tad rājā varuṇo vi caṣṭe yad antarā rodasī yat parastāt | saṃkhyātā asya nimiṣo janānām akṣān iva śvaghnī ni minoti tāni ||5||
All this king Varuna beholds (vi-cakṣ)—what is between the two firmaments (ródasī), what beyond; numbered of him are the winkings of people; as a gambler the dice, [so] does he fix (? ni-mi) these things.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
ये ते पाशा वरुण सप्तसप्त त्रेधा तिष्ठन्ति विषिता रुषन्तः । छिनन्तु सर्वे अनृतं वदन्तं यः सत्यवाद्य् अति तं सृजन्तु ॥६॥
ye te pāśā varuṇa saptasapta tredhā tiṣṭhanti viṣitā ruṣantaḥ | chinantu sarve anṛtaṃ vadantaṃ yaḥ satyavādy ati taṃ sṛjantu ||6||
What fetters (pā́ça) of thine, O Varuṇa, seven by seven, stand triply relaxed (vi-si), shining—let them all bind him that speaks untruth; whoso is truth-speaking, let them let him go.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
शतेन पाशैर् अभि धेहि वरुणैनं मा ते मोच्य् अनृतवाङ् नृचक्षः । आस्तां जाल्म उदरं श्रंशयित्वा कोश इवाबन्धः परिकृत्यमानः ॥७॥
śatena pāśair abhi dhehi varuṇainaṃ mā te mocy anṛtavāṅ nṛcakṣaḥ | āstāṃ jālma udaraṃ śraṃśayitvā kośa ivābandhaḥ parikṛtyamānaḥ ||7||
With a hundred fetters, O Varuṇa, do thou bridle (abhi-dhā) him; let not the speaker of untruth escape thee, O men-watcher; let the villain sit letting his belly fall [apart], like a hoopless vessel, being cut round about.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
यः समाभ्यो वरुणो यो व्याभ्यो यः संदेश्यो वरुणो यो विदेश्यो । यो दैवो वरुणो यश् च मानुषः ॥८॥
yaḥ samābhyo varuṇo yo vyābhyo yaḥ saṃdeśyo varuṇo yo videśyo | yo daivo varuṇo yaś ca mānuṣaḥ ||8||
The Varuṇa that is lengthwise (samāmyà), that is crosswise (vyāmyà); the Varuṇa that is of the same region (saṁdeçyà), that is of a different region (videçyà); the Varuṇa that is of the gods, and that is of men—
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
तैस् त्वा सर्वैर् अभि ष्यामि पाशैर् असाव् आमुष्यायणामुष्याः पुत्र । तान् उ ते सर्वान् अनुसंदिशामि ॥९॥
tais tvā sarvair abhi ṣyāmi pāśair asāv āmuṣyāyaṇāmuṣyāḥ putra | tān u te sarvān anusaṃdiśāmi ||9||
With all those fetters I fasten (abhi-sā) thee, O so-and-so, of such-and-such a family, son of such-and-such a mother; and all of them I successively appoint for thee.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)