Atharva-Veda Samhita/Book VII/Hymn 8 (9)

8 (9). For some one's success.

[Uparibabhrava.—bārhaspatyam. trāiṣṭubham.]

Found also in Pāipp. xx. Kāuç. (42. 1) prescribes its use when setting out upon a business journey; and the comm. quotes it from Cānti Kalpa 15, as accompanying various ceremonies for Bṛhaspati.

Translated: Ludwig, p. 431; Henry, 4, 52; Griffith, i. 331.

1. Go thou forth from what is excellent to what is better; be Brihaspati thy forerunner. Then do thou make this man, on the width of this earth, remote from foes, with all his heroes.

Literally (d) 'having his foes at a distance, having his heroes whole.' The verse occurs also in TS. (i. 2. 3³), ÇÇS. (v. 6. 2), and AÇS. (iv. 4. 2), with abhí for ádhi in a, and, as c, d, áthe ’m áva sya vára ā́ pṛthivyā́ āré çátrūn kṛṇuhi sárvavīraḥ; and its pratīka (with abhi) in KB. (vii. 10), and Āp. (x. 19. 8); and compare MB. ii. 1. 13. The comm. takes āre and çatrum as two independent words. Ppp. shows no variants. The first pāda lacks three syllables of being triṣṭubh.