Library·Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka)·5·5.19
अतिमात्रम् अवर्धन्त नोद् इव दिवम् अस्पृशन् । भृगुं हिंसित्वा सृञ्जया वैतहव्याः पराभवन् ॥१॥
atimātram avardhanta nod iva divam aspṛśan | bhṛguṃ hiṃsitvā sṛñjayā vaitahavyāḥ parābhavan ||1||
They grew excessively; they did not quite (iva) touch up to the sky; having injured Bhrigu, the Sriñjayas, Vāitahavyas, perished.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
ये बृहत्सामानम् आङ्गिरसम् आर्पयन् ब्राह्मणं जनाः । पेत्वस् तेषाम् उभयादम् अविस् तोकान्य् आवयत् ॥२॥
ye bṛhatsāmānam āṅgirasam ārpayan brāhmaṇaṃ janāḥ | petvas teṣām ubhayādam avis tokāny āvayat ||2||
The people who delivered up (? arpay-) the Brahman Brihatsāman, descendant of An̄giras—a he-goat with two rows of teeth, a sheep, consumed (av) their offspring (toká).
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
ये ब्राह्मणं प्रत्यष्ठीवन् ये वास्मिञ् छुल्कम् ईषिरे । अस्नस् ते मध्ये कुल्यायाः केशान् खादन्त आसते ॥३॥
ye brāhmaṇaṃ pratyaṣṭhīvan ye vāsmiñ chulkam īṣire | asnas te madhye kulyāyāḥ keśān khādanta āsate ||3||
They who spat upon a Brahman, or who sent [their] mucus at him—they sit in the midst of a stream of blood, devouring hair.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
ब्रह्मगवी पच्यमाना यावत् साभि विजङ्गहे । तेजो राष्ट्रस्य निर् हन्ति न वीरो जायते वृषा ॥४॥
brahmagavī pacyamānā yāvat sābhi vijaṅgahe | tejo rāṣṭrasya nir hanti na vīro jāyate vṛṣā ||4||
The Brahman's cow, being cooked, as far as she penetrates (?), smites out the brightness (téjas) of a kingdom; no virile (vṛ́ṣan) hero is born [there].
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
क्रूरम् अस्या आशसनं तृष्टं पिशितम् अस्यते । क्षीरं यद् अस्याः पीयते तद् वै पितृषु किल्बिषम् ॥५॥
krūram asyā āśasanaṃ tṛṣṭaṃ piśitam asyate | kṣīraṃ yad asyāḥ pīyate tad vai pitṛṣu kilbiṣam ||5||
Cruel is the cutting up of her; harsh to eat (?) is her prepared flesh (piçitám); in that the milk (kṣīrá) of her is drunk, that verily is an offense against the Fathers.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
उग्रो राजा मन्यमानो ब्राह्मणं यो जिघत्सति । परा तत् सिच्यते राष्ट्रं ब्राह्मणो यत्र जीयते ॥६॥
ugro rājā manyamāno brāhmaṇaṃ yo jighatsati | parā tat sicyate rāṣṭraṃ brāhmaṇo yatra jīyate ||6||
A king who thinks himself formidable, [and] who desires to devour a Brahman—that kingdom is poured away, where a Brahman is scathed (jyā).
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
अष्टापदी चतुरक्षी चतुःश्रोत्रा चतुर्हनुः । द्व्यास्या द्विजिह्वा भूत्वा सा राष्ट्रम् अव धूनुते ब्रह्मज्यस्य ॥७॥
aṣṭāpadī caturakṣī catuḥśrotrā caturhanuḥ | dvyāsyā dvijihvā bhūtvā sā rāṣṭram ava dhūnute brahmajyasya ||7||
Becoming eight-footed, four-eyed, four-eared, four-jawed, two-mouthed, two-tongued, she shakes down the kingdom of the Brahman-scather.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
तद् वै राष्ट्रम् आ स्रवति नावं भिन्नाम् इवोदकम् । ब्रह्माणं यत्र हिंसन्ति तद् राष्ट्रं हन्ति दुछुना ॥८॥
tad vai rāṣṭram ā sravati nāvaṃ bhinnām ivodakam | brahmāṇaṃ yatra hiṃsanti tad rāṣṭraṃ hanti duchunā ||8||
It leaks verily into that kingdom, as water into a split boat (nāú); where they injure a Brahman, that kingdom misfortune smites.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
तं वृक्षा अप सेधन्ति छायां नो मोप गा इति । यो ब्राह्मणस्य सद् धनम् अभि नारद मन्यते ॥९॥
taṃ vṛkṣā apa sedhanti chāyāṃ no mopa gā iti | yo brāhmaṇasya sad dhanam abhi nārada manyate ||9||
Him the trees drive away, saying "do not come unto our shadow," who, O Nārada, plots against that which is the riches of the Brahman.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
विषम् एतद् देवकृतं राजा वरुणो ऽब्रवीत् । न ब्राह्मणस्य गां जग्ध्वा रास्त्रे जागार कश् चन ॥१०॥
viṣam etad devakṛtaṃ rājā varuṇo 'bravīt | na brāhmaṇasya gāṃ jagdhvā rāstre jāgāra kaś cana ||10||
King Varuṇa called that a god-made poison; no one soever, having devoured the cow of the Brahman, keeps watch in the kingdom.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
नवैव ता नवतयो या भूमिर् व्यधूनुत । प्रजां हिंसित्वा ब्राह्मणीम् असंभव्यं पराभवन् ॥११॥
navaiva tā navatayo yā bhūmir vyadhūnuta | prajāṃ hiṃsitvā brāhmaṇīm asaṃbhavyaṃ parābhavan ||11||
Those same nine nineties whom the earth shook off, having injured the progeny of the Brahman, perished irretrievably.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
याम् मृतायानुबध्नन्ति कूद्यं पदयोपनीम् । तद् वै ब्रह्मज्य ते देवा उपस्तरणम् अब्रुवन् ॥१२॥
yām mṛtāyānubadhnanti kūdyaṃ padayopanīm | tad vai brahmajya te devā upastaraṇam abruvan ||12||
The kūdī́ which they tie on after a dead man, as effacer (?) of the track, that verily, O Brahman-scather, did the gods call thy couch (upastáraṇa).
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
अश्रूणि कृपमानस्य यानि जीतस्य वावृतुः । तं वै ब्रह्मज्य ते देवा अपां भागम् अधारयन् ॥१३॥
aśrūṇi kṛpamānasya yāni jītasya vāvṛtuḥ | taṃ vai brahmajya te devā apāṃ bhāgam adhārayan ||13||
The tears of one weeping (kṛp), which rolled [down] when he was scathed, these verily, O Brahman-scather, did the gods maintain as thy portion of water.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
येन मृतं स्नपयन्ति श्मश्रूणि येनोन्दते । तं वै ब्रह्मज्य ते देवा अपां भागम् अधारयन् ॥१४॥
yena mṛtaṃ snapayanti śmaśrūṇi yenondate | taṃ vai brahmajya te devā apāṃ bhāgam adhārayan ||14||
With what they bathe a dead man, with what they wet (ud) beards, that verily, O Brahman-scather, did the gods maintain as thy portion of water.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
न वर्षं मैत्रावरुणं ब्रह्मज्यम् अभि वर्षति । नास्मै समितिः कल्पते न मित्रं नयते वशम् ॥१५॥
na varṣaṃ maitrāvaruṇaṃ brahmajyam abhi varṣati | nāsmai samitiḥ kalpate na mitraṃ nayate vaśam ||15||
The rain of Mitra-and- Varuna does not rain upon the Brahman-scather; the assembly (sámiti) does not suit (kḷp) him; he wins (nī) no friend to his control.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)