Library·Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka)·5·5.4
यो गिरिष्व् अजायथा वीरुधां बलवत्तमः । कुष्ठेहि तक्मनाशन तक्मानं नाशयन्न् इतः ॥१॥
yo giriṣv ajāyathā vīrudhāṃ balavattamaḥ | kuṣṭhehi takmanāśana takmānaṃ nāśayann itaḥ ||1||
Thou that wast born on the mountains, strongest of plants, come, O kúṣṭha, effacer (-nā́çana) of takmán, effacing the fever (takmán) from here.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
सुपर्णसुवने गिरौ जातं हिमवतस् परि । धनैर् अभि श्रुत्वा यन्ति विदुर् हि तक्मनाशनम् ॥२॥
suparṇasuvane girau jātaṃ himavatas pari | dhanair abhi śrutvā yanti vidur hi takmanāśanam ||2||
On an eagle-bearing (-súvana) mountain, born from the snowy one (himávant); they go to [it] with riches, having heard [of it], for they know the effacer of fever.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
अश्वत्थो देवसदनस् तृतीयस्याम् इतो दिवि । तत्रामृतस्य चक्षणं देवाः कुष्ठम् अवन्वत ॥३॥
aśvattho devasadanas tṛtīyasyām ito divi | tatrāmṛtasya cakṣaṇaṃ devāḥ kuṣṭham avanvata ||3||
The açvatthá, seat of the gods, in the third heaven from here; there the gods won the kúṣṭha, the sight (cákṣaṇa) of immortality (amṛ́ta).
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
हिरण्ययी नौर् अचरद् धिरण्यबन्धना दिवि । तत्रामृतस्य पुष्पं देवाः कुष्ठम् अवन्वत ॥४॥
hiraṇyayī naur acarad dhiraṇyabandhanā divi | tatrāmṛtasya puṣpaṃ devāḥ kuṣṭham avanvata ||4||
A golden ship, of golden tackle (-bándhana), moved about in the sky; there the gods won the kúṣṭha, the flower of immortality.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
हिरण्ययाः पन्थान आसन्न् अरित्राणि हिरण्यया । नावो हिरण्ययीर् आसन् याभिः कुष्ठं निरावहन् ॥५॥
hiraṇyayāḥ panthāna āsann aritrāṇi hiraṇyayā | nāvo hiraṇyayīr āsan yābhiḥ kuṣṭhaṃ nirāvahan ||5||
Golden were the roads, the oars golden, the ships were golden by which they brought out the kúṣṭha.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
इमं मे कुष्ठ पूरुषं तम् आ वह तं निष् कुरु । तम् उ मे अगदं कृधि ॥६॥
imaṃ me kuṣṭha pūruṣaṃ tam ā vaha taṃ niṣ kuru | tam u me agadaṃ kṛdhi ||6||
This man of mine, O kúṣṭha —him bring, him relieve (nis-kṛ), him also make free from disease for me.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
देवेभ्यो अधि जातो ऽसि सोमस्यासि सखा हितः । स प्राणाय व्यानाय चक्षुषे मे अस्मै मृड ॥७॥
devebhyo adhi jāto 'si somasyāsi sakhā hitaḥ | sa prāṇāya vyānāya cakṣuṣe me asmai mṛḍa ||7||
From the gods art thou born; of Soma art thou set as companion; do thou be gracious to my breath, out-breathing, sight here.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
उदङ् जातो हिमवतः स प्राच्यां नीयसे जनम् । तत्र कुष्ठस्य नामान्य् उत्तमानि वि भेजिरे ॥८॥
udaṅ jāto himavataḥ sa prācyāṃ nīyase janam | tatra kuṣṭhasya nāmāny uttamāni vi bhejire ||8||
Born in the north from the snowy [mountain], thou art conducted to people (jána) in the eastern [quarter]; there have they shared out the highest names of the kúṣṭha.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
उत्तमो नाम कुष्ठस्य् उत्तमो नाम ते पिता । यक्ष्मं च सर्वं नाशय तक्मानं चारसं कृधि ॥९॥
uttamo nāma kuṣṭhasy uttamo nāma te pitā | yakṣmaṃ ca sarvaṃ nāśaya takmānaṃ cārasaṃ kṛdhi ||9||
Highest by name, O kúṣṭha, art thou; highest by name thy father; both do thou efface all yákṣma, and do thou make the fever sapless.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
शीर्षामयम् उपहत्याम् अक्ष्योस् तन्वो रपः । कुष्ठस् तत् सर्वं निष् करद् दैवं समह वृष्ण्यम् ॥१०॥
śīrṣāmayam upahatyām akṣyos tanvo rapaḥ | kuṣṭhas tat sarvaṃ niṣ karad daivaṃ samaha vṛṣṇyam ||10||
Head-disease, attack (? upahatyā́), evil of the eyes, of the body—all that may kúṣṭha relieve, verily a divine virility (vṛ́ṣṇya).
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)