Library·Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka)·7·7.5

Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka) 7.5

AVŚ 7.5.1

यज्ञेन यज्ञम् अयजन्त देवास् तानि धर्माणि प्रथमान्य् आसन् । ते ह नाकं महिमानः सचन्त यत्र पूर्वे साध्याः सन्ति देवाः ॥१॥

yajñena yajñam ayajanta devās tāni dharmāṇi prathamāny āsan | te ha nākaṃ mahimānaḥ sacanta yatra pūrve sādhyāḥ santi devāḥ ||1||

By the sacrifice the gods sacrificed to the sacrifice; those were the first ordinances (dhárman); those greatnesses attach themselves to (sac) the firmament, where are the ancient (pū́rva) perfectible (sādhyá) gods.

Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)

AVŚ 7.5.2

यज्ञो बभूव स आ बभूव स प्र जज्ञे स उ वावृधे पुनः । स देवानाम् अधिपतिर् बभूव सो अस्मासु द्रविणम् आ दधातु ॥२॥

yajño babhūva sa ā babhūva sa pra jajñe sa u vāvṛdhe punaḥ | sa devānām adhipatir babhūva so asmāsu draviṇam ā dadhātu ||2||

The sacrifice came to be; it came to be here; it was propagated; it increased again; it became over-lord of the gods; let it assign wealth to us.

Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)

AVŚ 7.5.3

यद् देवा देवान् हविषा ऽयजन्तामर्त्यान् मनसा मर्त्येन । मदेम तत्र परमे व्योमन् पश्येम तद् उदितौ सूर्यस्य ॥३॥

yad devā devān haviṣā 'yajantāmartyān manasā martyena | madema tatra parame vyoman paśyema tad uditau sūryasya ||3||

As the gods sacrificed to the gods with oblation, to immortals, with immortal mind—may we revel there in the highest firmament; may we see that at the rising of the sun.

Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)

AVŚ 7.5.4

यत् पुरुषेण हविषा यज्ञं देवा अतन्वत । अस्ति नु तस्माद् ओजीयो यद् विहव्येनेजिरे ॥४॥

yat puruṣeṇa haviṣā yajñaṃ devā atanvata | asti nu tasmād ojīyo yad vihavyenejire ||4||

When, with man (púruṣa) for oblation, the gods extended the sacrifice—even than that is it of more force that they sacrificed with the vihávya.

Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)

AVŚ 7.5.5

मुग्धा देवा उत शुना ऽयजन्तोत गोर् अङ्गैः पुरुधा ऽयजन्त । य इमं यज्ञं मनसा चिकेत प्र णो वोचस् तम् इहेह ब्रवः ॥५॥

mugdhā devā uta śunā 'yajantota gor aṅgaiḥ purudhā 'yajanta | ya imaṃ yajñaṃ manasā ciketa pra ṇo vocas tam iheha bravaḥ ||5||

The gods, confounded, both sacrificed with a dog and sacrificed variously with limbs of a cow; he who knoweth with the mind this sacrifice—him mayest thou proclaim to us here, here mayest thou speak.

Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)