Atharva-Veda Samhita/Book XVI/Paryaya 9

9. Paryāya the ninth.

[catvāri vāi vacanāni. 1. prājāpatyā; 2. mantroktabahudevatyā; 3, 4. sāurye. 1. ārcy anuṣṭubh; 2. ārcy uṣṇih; 3. sāmnī pan̄kti; 4. paroṣṇih.]

Translated: Griffith, ii. 208.

1. Ours [is] what is conquered, ours what has shot up; I have withstood all fighters, niggards.

The verse is identical with the first part of x. 5. 36; and its second part, with vs. 2, is found in MS. i. 5. 3 (reading abhy àsthām).

2. That Agni says; that, too, Soma says: may Pūshan set me in the world of the well-done.

The two pādas are second and fourth pādas of a verse in MS. i. 5. 3 (which rectifies the meter by reading na ā́ dhāt in place of mā dhāt: our own text probably ought to read mā́, i.e. mā ā́). With either of these readings, we have two faultless triṣṭubh pādas; but the Anukr. sanctions only 21 syllables. The first pāda is also found as viii. 5. 5 a and xix. 24. 8 c.

3. We have gone to heaven (svàr); to heaven have we gone; we have united (sam-gam) with the sun's light;—

The first half is the beginning also of TS. i. 6. 6. In Kāuç. 6. 16, the verse is used in the parvan ceremonies, while one looks at the sun; but according to Dārila, this verse with the next is to be so used: ⌊and his view is accepted by SPP. (iii. 350¹⁶) and is supported by the suspension of the sense (see note to vs. 4)⌋. In Vāit. 24. 5, it is used, together with a RV. verse, to accompany the coming up from the bath in the agniṣṭoma ceremony. ⌊For the general import of this vs., see p. 792, ¶ 2.⌋

4. In order to becoming better (vásyas-). Rich in good (vásu-) [is] the sacrifice; good may I win (van); rich in good may I be; good put thou in me.

The first word seems to belong in sense rather to the preceding verse; ⌊see note thereon⌋. All the mss. read vaṅçiṣīya, and the edition follows them; but we ought unquestionably to have emended to vinṣiṣīya. There is even probably a play on words intended between vásu and vaṅs-. ⌊Yet SPP. reads vaṅçiṣīya without note of variant: as to the form, see Gram. § 914 b.⌋ ⌊For use by Kāuç., see under vs. 3.⌋

⌊Here ends the second anuvāka, with 5 paryāyas and 71 avasānarcas: but see the summations at p. 793 and cf. p. 798 and p. 801. The piece here quoted from the Old Anukr. is pañcaparyāya uttaraḥ: see p. 792.⌋

⌊Here ends the thirty-first prapāṭhaka.⌋