Atharvaveda Samhita — Kanda 10 — Chapter 4

AV 10 4.1

इन्द्रस्य प्रथमो रथो देवानाम् अपरो रथो वरुणस्य तृतीय इत् । अहीनाम् अपमा रथ स्थानुम् आरद् अथार्षत्

indrasya prathamo ratho devānām aparo ratho varuṇasya tṛtīya it | ahīnām apamā ratha sthānum ārad athārṣat

Indra's is the first chariot, the gods' the next chariot, Varuṇa's indeed the third; the serpents' is the last chariot. It reached the post and then sped on.

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AV 10 4.2

दर्भः शोचिस् तरूणकम् अश्वस्य वारः परुषस्य वारः । रथस्य बन्धुरम्

darbhaḥ śocis tarūṇakam aśvasya vāraḥ paruṣasya vāraḥ | rathasya bandhuram

Darbha grass, the flame(?), the little sprout, the hair of a horse, the hair of the rough one, the seat of the chariot.

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AV 10 4.3

अव श्वेत पदा जहि पूर्वेण चापरेण च । उदप्लुतम् इव दार्व् अहीनाम् अरसं विषं वार् उग्रम्

ava śveta padā jahi pūrveṇa cāpareṇa ca | udaplutam iva dārv ahīnām arasaṃ viṣaṃ vār ugram

Strike down, O white one, with the fore foot and with the hind foot; like wood floating on water, the serpents' poison is sapless — fierce water(?).

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AV 10 4.4

अरंघुषो निमज्योन्मज पुनर् अब्रवीत् । उदप्लुतम् इव दार्व् अहीनाम् अरसं विषं वार् उग्रम्

araṃghuṣo nimajyonmaja punar abravīt | udaplutam iva dārv ahīnām arasaṃ viṣaṃ vār ugram

Araṃghuṣa said again: 'Having dived down, come up!' Like wood floating on water, the serpents' poison is sapless — fierce water(?).

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AV 10 4.5

पैद्वो हन्ति कसर्णीलं पैद्वः श्वित्रम् उतासितम् । पैद्वो रथर्व्याः शिरः सं बिभेद पृदाक्वाः

paidvo hanti kasarṇīlaṃ paidvaḥ śvitram utāsitam | paidvo ratharvyāḥ śiraḥ saṃ bibheda pṛdākvāḥ

Paidva slays the kasarṇīla, Paidva (slays) the white one and the black one; Paidva has split apart the head of the ratharvī and of the pṛdāku (viper).

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AV 10 4.6

पैद्व प्रेहि प्रथमो ऽनु त्वा वयम् एमसि । अहीन् व्य् अस्यतात् पथो येन स्मा वयम् एमसि

paidva prehi prathamo 'nu tvā vayam emasi | ahīn vy asyatāt patho yena smā vayam emasi

Go forth, O Paidva, as the first; we follow after you. Cast the serpents off the road by which we travel.

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AV 10 4.7

इदं पैद्वो अजायतेदम् अस्य परायणम् । इमान्य् अर्वतः पदाहिघ्न्यो वाजिनीवतः

idaṃ paidvo ajāyatedam asya parāyaṇam | imāny arvataḥ padāhighnyo vājinīvataḥ

Here Paidva was born, this is his going forth; these are the tracks of the serpent-slaying, prize-winning steed.

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AV 10 4.8

संयतं न वि ष्परद् व्यात्तं न सं यमत् । अस्मिन् क्षेत्रे द्वाव् अही स्त्री च पुमांश् च ताव् उभाव् अरसा

saṃyataṃ na vi ṣparad vyāttaṃ na saṃ yamat | asmin kṣetre dvāv ahī strī ca pumāṃś ca tāv ubhāv arasā

May he not open what is held shut, may he not shut what is opened. In this field there are two serpents, a female and a male: both of them are sapless.

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AV 10 4.9

अरसास इहाहयो ये अन्ति ये च दूरके । घनेन हन्मि वृश्चिकम् अहिं दण्डेनागतम्

arasāsa ihāhayo ye anti ye ca dūrake | ghanena hanmi vṛścikam ahiṃ daṇḍenāgatam

Sapless are the serpents here, those that are near and those that are far off. I slay the scorpion with a crushing-stone, the serpent that has come with a stick.

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AV 10 4.10

अघाश्वस्येदं भेषजम् उभयो स्वजस्य च । इन्द्रो मे ऽहिम् अघायन्तम् अहिं पैद्वो अरन्धयत्

aghāśvasyedaṃ bheṣajam ubhayo svajasya ca | indro me 'him aghāyantam ahiṃ paidvo arandhayat

This is the remedy for both the aghāśva and the constrictor. Indra, (and) Paidva, made the malicious serpent subject to me.

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AV 10 4.11

पैद्वस्य मन्महे वयं स्थिरस्य स्थिरधाम्नः । इमे पश्चा पृदाकवः प्रदीध्यत आसते

paidvasya manmahe vayaṃ sthirasya sthiradhāmnaḥ | ime paścā pṛdākavaḥ pradīdhyata āsate

We think upon Paidva, the firm one, of firm abode; these vipers sit behind, gazing intently.

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AV 10 4.12

नष्टासवो नष्टविषा हता इन्द्रेण वज्रिणा । जघानेन्द्रो जघ्निमा वयम्

naṣṭāsavo naṣṭaviṣā hatā indreṇa vajriṇā | jaghānendro jaghnimā vayam

With their breath lost, their poison lost, slain by Indra with the thunderbolt: Indra has slain (them), we have slain (them).

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AV 10 4.13

हतास् तिरश्चिराजयो निपिष्टासः पृदाकवः । दर्विं करिक्रतं श्वित्रं दर्भेष्व् असितं जहि

hatās tiraścirājayo nipiṣṭāsaḥ pṛdākavaḥ | darviṃ karikrataṃ śvitraṃ darbheṣv asitaṃ jahi

Slain are the cross-striped ones, crushed are the vipers; slay the white one that keeps making a hood, (and) the black one among the darbha grasses.

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AV 10 4.14

कैरातिका कुमारिका सका खनति भेषजम् । हिरण्ययीभिर् अभ्रिभिर् गिरीनाम् उप सानुषु

kairātikā kumārikā sakā khanati bheṣajam | hiraṇyayībhir abhribhir girīnām upa sānuṣu

The little Kirāta girl, she digs the remedy with golden spades upon the ridges of the mountains.

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AV 10 4.15

आयम् अगन् युवा भिषक् पृश्निहापराजितः । स वै स्वजस्य जम्भन उभयोर् वृश्चिकस्य च

āyam agan yuvā bhiṣak pṛśnihāparājitaḥ | sa vai svajasya jambhana ubhayor vṛścikasya ca

Here has come the young physician, slayer of the speckled (snake), unconquered. He indeed is the crusher of both — of the svaja (snake) and of the scorpion.

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AV 10 4.16

इन्द्रो मे ऽहिम् अरन्धयन् मित्रश् च वरुणश् च । वातापर्जन्योभा

indro me 'him arandhayan mitraś ca varuṇaś ca | vātāparjanyobhā

Indra has made the snake subject to me, and Mitra and Varuṇa, and Vāta and Parjanya, the two.

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AV 10 4.17

इन्द्रो मे ऽहिम् अरन्धयत् पृदाकुं च पृदाक्वम् । स्वजं तिरश्चिराजिं कसर्णीलं दशोनसिम्

indro me 'him arandhayat pṛdākuṃ ca pṛdākvam | svajaṃ tiraścirājiṃ kasarṇīlaṃ daśonasim

Indra has made the snake subject to me: the pṛdāku and the female pṛdāku, the svaja, the cross-striped one, the kasarṇīla, the daśonasi.

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AV 10 4.18

इन्द्रो जघान प्रथमं जनितारम् अहे तव । तेषाम् उ तृह्यमाणानां कः स्वित् तेषाम् असद् रसः

indro jaghāna prathamaṃ janitāram ahe tava | teṣām u tṛhyamāṇānāṃ kaḥ svit teṣām asad rasaḥ

Indra slew the first begetter of thee, O snake; and of those, when they are being crushed, what sap could there be of them?

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AV 10 4.19

सं हि शीर्षाण्य् अग्रभं पौञ्जिष्ठ इव कर्वरम् । सिन्धोर् मध्यं परेत्य व्य् अनिजम् अहेर् विषम्

saṃ hi śīrṣāṇy agrabhaṃ pauñjiṣṭha iva karvaram | sindhor madhyaṃ paretya vy anijam aher viṣam

For I have grasped together the heads, as a fisherman the karvara; having gone into the middle of the river I have washed away the snake's poison.

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AV 10 4.20

अहीनां सर्वेषां विषं परा वहन्तु सिन्धवः । हतास् तिरश्चिराजयो निपिष्टासः पृदाकवः

ahīnāṃ sarveṣāṃ viṣaṃ parā vahantu sindhavaḥ | hatās tiraścirājayo nipiṣṭāsaḥ pṛdākavaḥ

Let the rivers carry off the poison of all the snakes. Slain are the cross-striped ones, crushed the pṛdākus.

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AV 10 4.21

ओषधीनाम् अहं वृण उर्वरीर् इव साधुया । नयाम्य् अर्वतीर् इवाहे निरैतु विषम्

oṣadhīnām ahaṃ vṛṇa urvarīr iva sādhuyā | nayāmy arvatīr ivāhe niraitu viṣam

I choose (the best) of the plants, as (one chooses) fertile fields, successfully; I lead (them) as (one leads) mares. O snake, let the poison go out.

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AV 10 4.22

यद् अग्नौ सूर्ये विषं पृथिव्याम् ओषधीषु यत् । कान्दाविषं कनक्नकं निरैत्व् ऐतु ते विषम्

yad agnau sūrye viṣaṃ pṛthivyām oṣadhīṣu yat | kāndāviṣaṃ kanaknakaṃ niraitv aitu te viṣam

What poison there is in Agni, in the sun, in the earth, in the plants; the kāndā-poison, the glittering one — let it go out, let thy poison come forth.

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AV 10 4.23

ये अग्निजा ओषधिजा अहीनां ये अप्सुजा विद्युत आबभूवुः । येषां जातानि बहुधा महान्ति तेभ्यः सर्पेभ्यो नमसा विधेम

ye agnijā oṣadhijā ahīnāṃ ye apsujā vidyuta ābabhūvuḥ | yeṣāṃ jātāni bahudhā mahānti tebhyaḥ sarpebhyo namasā vidhema

Those (poisons) of the snakes that are fire-born, plant-born, water-born, that have come into being as lightnings; whose births are manifold and great — to those serpents let us pay homage with reverence.

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AV 10 4.24

तौदी नामासि कन्या घृताची नाम वा असि । अधस्पदेन ते पदम् आ ददे विषदूषणम्

taudī nāmāsi kanyā ghṛtācī nāma vā asi | adhaspadena te padam ā dade viṣadūṣaṇam

Taudī by name art thou, a maiden; or Ghṛtācī by name art thou. From beneath thy foot I take up the poison-spoiler.

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AV 10 4.25

अङ्गादङ्गात् प्र च्यावय हृदयम् परि वर्जय । अधा विषस्य यत् तेजो ऽवाचीनं तद् एतु ते

aṅgādaṅgāt pra cyāvaya hṛdayam pari varjaya | adhā viṣasya yat tejo 'vācīnaṃ tad etu te

Make (the poison) fall away from limb after limb; keep it away from the heart. Then whatever fierce force there is of the poison, let it go downward from thee.

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AV 10 4.26

आरे अभूद् विषम् अरौद् विषे विषम् अप्राग् अपि । अग्निर् विषम् अहेर् निर् अधात् सोमो निर् अणयीत् । दंष्टारम् अन्व् अगाद् विषम् अहिर् अमृत

āre abhūd viṣam araud viṣe viṣam aprāg api | agnir viṣam aher nir adhāt somo nir aṇayīt | daṃṣṭāram anv agād viṣam ahir amṛta

The poison has become distant; it has ...; poison has entered into poison. Agni has taken away the snake's poison; Soma has led it out. The poison has gone back after the biter; the snake has died.

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