Atharvaveda Samhita — Kanda 11 — Chapter 5

AV 11 5.1

ब्रह्मचारीष्णंश् चरति रोदसी उभे तस्मिन् देवाः संमनसो भवन्ति । स दाधार पृथिवीं दिवं च स आचार्यं तपसा पिपर्ति

brahmacārīṣṇaṃś carati rodasī ubhe tasmin devāḥ saṃmanaso bhavanti | sa dādhāra pṛthivīṃ divaṃ ca sa ācāryaṃ tapasā piparti

The brahmacārin moves, quickening both worlds; in him the gods become of one mind. He has upheld earth and heaven; he fills his teacher with (his) fervour.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

AV 11 5.2

ब्रह्मचारिणं पितरो देवजनाः पृथग् देवा अनुसंयन्ति सर्वे । गन्धर्वा एनम् अन्व् आयन् त्रयस्त्रिंशत् त्रिशताः षट्सहस्राः सर्वान्त् स देवांस् तपसा पिपर्ति

brahmacāriṇaṃ pitaro devajanāḥ pṛthag devā anusaṃyanti sarve | gandharvā enam anv āyan trayastriṃśat triśatāḥ ṣaṭsahasrāḥ sarvānt sa devāṃs tapasā piparti

The fathers, the divine folk, the gods severally, all follow after the brahmacārin. The Gandharvas went after him—three hundred and thirty-three, six thousand; all those gods he fills with (his) fervour.

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AV 11 5.3

आचार्य उपनयमानो ब्रह्मचारिणं कृणुते गर्भम् अन्तः । तं रात्रीस् तिस्र उदरे बिभर्ति तं जातं द्रष्टुम् अभिसंयन्ति देवाः

ācārya upanayamāno brahmacāriṇaṃ kṛṇute garbham antaḥ | taṃ rātrīs tisra udare bibharti taṃ jātaṃ draṣṭum abhisaṃyanti devāḥ

The teacher, initiating (him), makes the brahmacārin an embryo within. Three nights he bears him in his belly; when he is born the gods come together to see him.

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AV 11 5.4

इयं समित् पृथिवी द्यौर् द्वितीयोतान्तरिक्षं समिधा पृणाति । ब्रह्मचारी समिधा मेखलया श्रमेण लोकांस् तपसा पिपर्ति

iyaṃ samit pṛthivī dyaur dvitīyotāntarikṣaṃ samidhā pṛṇāti | brahmacārī samidhā mekhalayā śrameṇa lokāṃs tapasā piparti

This earth is the kindling-stick, the sky the second, and he fills the mid-air too with kindling. The brahmacārin fills the worlds with kindling-stick, with girdle, with toil, with fervour.

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AV 11 5.5

पूर्वो जातो ब्रह्मणो ब्रह्मचारी घर्मं वसानस् तपसोद् अतिष्ठत् । तस्माज् जातं ब्राह्मणं ब्रह्म ज्येष्ठं देवाश् च सर्वे अमृतेन साकम्

pūrvo jāto brahmaṇo brahmacārī gharmaṃ vasānas tapasod atiṣṭhat | tasmāj jātaṃ brāhmaṇaṃ brahma jyeṣṭhaṃ devāś ca sarve amṛtena sākam

Born before brahman, the brahmacārin, clothing himself in heat, stood up by means of tapas. From him was born the brāhmaṇa, brahman the highest, and all the gods together with immortality.

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AV 11 5.6

ब्रह्मचार्य् एति समिधा समिद्धः कार्ष्णं वसानो दीक्षितो दीर्घश्मश्रुः । स सद्य एति पूर्वस्माद् उत्तरं समुद्रं लोकान्त् संगृभ्य मुहुर् आचरिक्रत्

brahmacāry eti samidhā samiddhaḥ kārṣṇaṃ vasāno dīkṣito dīrghaśmaśruḥ | sa sadya eti pūrvasmād uttaraṃ samudraṃ lokānt saṃgṛbhya muhur ācarikrat

The brahmacārin goes, kindled with the kindling-stick, clad in black antelope skin, consecrated, long-bearded. In a single day he goes from the eastern to the northern ocean, having gathered up the worlds, again and again moving about.

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AV 11 5.7

ब्रह्मचारी जनयन् ब्रह्मापो लोकं प्रजापतिं परमेष्ठिनं विराजम् । गर्भो भूत्वामृतस्य योनाव् इन्द्रो ह भूत्वासुरांस् ततर्ह

brahmacārī janayan brahmāpo lokaṃ prajāpatiṃ parameṣṭhinaṃ virājam | garbho bhūtvāmṛtasya yonāv indro ha bhūtvāsurāṃs tatarha

The brahmacārin, generating brahman, the waters, the world, Prajāpati Parameṣṭhin, Virāj—having become an embryo in the womb of immortality, having become Indra, he crushed the Asuras.

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AV 11 5.8

आचार्यस् ततक्ष नभसी उभे इमे उर्वी गम्भीरे पृथिवीं दिवं च । ते रक्षति तपसा ब्रह्मचारी तस्मिन् देवाः संमनसो भवन्ति

ācāryas tatakṣa nabhasī ubhe ime urvī gambhīre pṛthivīṃ divaṃ ca | te rakṣati tapasā brahmacārī tasmin devāḥ saṃmanaso bhavanti

The ācārya fashioned these two vapours, both of them, the wide and deep earth and heaven. Those two the brahmacārin guards with tapas; in him the gods become of one mind.

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AV 11 5.9

इमां भूमिं पृथिवीं ब्रह्मचारी भिक्षाम् आ जभार प्रथमो दिवं च । ते कृत्वा समिधाव् उपास्ते तयोर् आर्पिता भुवनानि विश्वा

imāṃ bhūmiṃ pṛthivīṃ brahmacārī bhikṣām ā jabhāra prathamo divaṃ ca | te kṛtvā samidhāv upāste tayor ārpitā bhuvanāni viśvā

This ground, the earth, the brahmacārin brought as alms, and heaven first of all; having made those two into kindling-sticks he reverences them—on those two all the worlds are fixed.

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AV 11 5.10

अर्वाग् अन्यः परो अन्यो दिवस् पृष्ठाद् गुहा निधी निहितौ ब्राह्मणस्य । तौ रक्षति तपसा ब्रह्मचारी तत् केवलं कृणुते ब्रह्म विद्वान्

arvāg anyaḥ paro anyo divas pṛṣṭhād guhā nidhī nihitau brāhmaṇasya | tau rakṣati tapasā brahmacārī tat kevalaṃ kṛṇute brahma vidvān

One on this side, the other beyond the back of heaven—two treasures of the brāhmaṇa are laid down in secret. Those two the brahmacārin guards with tapas; that brahman, knowing it, he makes wholly his own.

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AV 11 5.11

अर्वाग् अन्य इतो अन्यः पृथिव्या अग्नी समेतो नभसी अन्तरेमे । तयोः श्रयन्ते रश्मयो ऽधि दृढास् तान् आ तिष्ठति तपसा ब्रह्मचारी

arvāg anya ito anyaḥ pṛthivyā agnī sameto nabhasī antareme | tayoḥ śrayante raśmayo 'dhi dṛḍhās tān ā tiṣṭhati tapasā brahmacārī

One on this side, the other from the earth—the two fires have come together between these two vapours. On those two the rays rest, firmly fixed; upon them the brahmacārin stands by tapas.

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AV 11 5.12

अभिक्रन्दन् स्तनयन्न् अरुणः शितिङ्गो बृहच् छेपो ऽनु भूमौ जभार । ब्रह्मचारी सिञ्चति सानौ रेतः पृथिव्यां तेन जीवन्ति प्रदिशश् चतस्रः

abhikrandan stanayann aruṇaḥ śitiṅgo bṛhac chepo 'nu bhūmau jabhāra | brahmacārī siñcati sānau retaḥ pṛthivyāṃ tena jīvanti pradiśaś catasraḥ

Roaring, thundering, ruddy, white-limbed, he has borne a great member over the earth; the brahmacārin pours seed on the height, upon the earth; by that the four quarters live.

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AV 11 5.13

अग्नौ सूर्ये चन्द्रमसि मातरिश्वन् ब्रह्मचार्य् अप्सु समिधम् आ दधाति । तासाम् अर्चींषि पृथग् अभ्रे चरन्ति तासाम् आज्यं पुरुषो वर्षम् आपः

agnau sūrye candramasi mātariśvan brahmacāry apsu samidham ā dadhāti | tāsām arcīṃṣi pṛthag abhre caranti tāsām ājyaṃ puruṣo varṣam āpaḥ

In fire, in the sun, in the moon, in Mātariśvan, in the waters the brahmacārin lays the kindling-stick. Their flames move separately in the cloud; their melted butter is man, rain, the waters.

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AV 11 5.14

आचार्यो मृत्युर् वरुणः सोम ओषधयः पयः । जीमूता आसन्त् सत्वानस् तैर् इदं स्वर् आभृतम्

ācāryo mṛtyur varuṇaḥ soma oṣadhayaḥ payaḥ | jīmūtā āsant satvānas tair idaṃ svar ābhṛtam

The ācārya is death, Varuṇa, Soma, the plants, milk. The thunder-clouds were the fighting men; by them this sun-world was brought here.

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AV 11 5.15

अमा घृतं कृणुते केवलम् आचार्यो भूत्वा वरुणः । यद्यद् ऐछत् प्रजापतौ तद् ब्रह्मचारी प्रायछत् स्वान् मित्रो अध्य् आत्मनः

amā ghṛtaṃ kṛṇute kevalam ācāryo bhūtvā varuṇaḥ | yadyad aichat prajāpatau tad brahmacārī prāyachat svān mitro adhy ātmanaḥ

At home he makes the ghee his own, having become the ācārya, Varuṇa. Whatever he wished for in Prajāpati, that the brahmacārin, as Mitra, gave out of his own self.

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AV 11 5.16

आचार्यो ब्रह्मचारी ब्रह्मचारी प्रजापतिः । प्रजापतिर् वि राजति विराड् इन्द्रो ऽभवद् वशी

ācāryo brahmacārī brahmacārī prajāpatiḥ | prajāpatir vi rājati virāḍ indro 'bhavad vaśī

The ācārya is the brahmacārin, the brahmacārin is Prajāpati. Prajāpati rules; Virāj became Indra, the master.

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AV 11 5.17

ब्रह्मचर्येण तपसा राजा राष्ट्रं वि रक्षति । आचार्यो ब्रह्मचर्येण ब्रह्मचारिणम् इछते

brahmacaryeṇa tapasā rājā rāṣṭraṃ vi rakṣati | ācāryo brahmacaryeṇa brahmacāriṇam ichate

By brahmacarya, by tapas, the king guards his kingdom. By brahmacarya the ācārya seeks a brahmacārin.

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AV 11 5.18

ब्रह्मचर्येण कन्या युवानं विन्दते पतिम् । अनड्वान् ब्रह्मचर्येणाश्वो घासं जिगीषति

brahmacaryeṇa kanyā yuvānaṃ vindate patim | anaḍvān brahmacaryeṇāśvo ghāsaṃ jigīṣati

By brahmacarya a maiden finds a young husband. By brahmacarya the draught-ox, the horse, seeks to win its fodder.

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AV 11 5.19

ब्रह्मचर्येण तपसा देवा मृत्युम् अपाघ्नत । इन्द्रो ह ब्रह्मचर्येण देवेभ्यः स्वर् आभरत्

brahmacaryeṇa tapasā devā mṛtyum apāghnata | indro ha brahmacaryeṇa devebhyaḥ svar ābharat

By brahmacarya, by tapas, the gods beat death away. Indra indeed by brahmacarya brought the sun-world to the gods.

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AV 11 5.20

ओषधयो भूतभव्यम् अहोरात्रे वनस्पतिः । संवत्सरः सह ऋतुभिस् ते जाता ब्रह्मचारिणः

oṣadhayo bhūtabhavyam ahorātre vanaspatiḥ | saṃvatsaraḥ saha ṛtubhis te jātā brahmacāriṇaḥ

The plants, what has been and what will be, day and night, the forest tree, the year with the seasons—these were born of the brahmacārin.

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AV 11 5.21

पार्थिवा दिव्याः पशव आरण्या ग्राम्याश् च ये । अपक्षाः पक्षिणश् च ये ते जाता ब्रह्मचारिणः

pārthivā divyāḥ paśava āraṇyā grāmyāś ca ye | apakṣāḥ pakṣiṇaś ca ye te jātā brahmacāriṇaḥ

The earthly and the heavenly animals, those of the wilderness and those of the village, and those that are wingless and winged—these were born of the brahmacārin.

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AV 11 5.22

पृथक् सर्वे प्राजापत्याः प्राणान् आत्मसु बिभ्रति । तान्त् सर्वान् ब्रह्म रक्षति ब्रह्मचारिण्य् आभृतम्

pṛthak sarve prājāpatyāḥ prāṇān ātmasu bibhrati | tānt sarvān brahma rakṣati brahmacāriṇy ābhṛtam

Separately they all, offspring of Prajāpati, bear the breaths within themselves. All those brahman guards, (brahman) that is gathered in the brahmacārin.

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AV 11 5.23

देवानाम् एतत् परिषूतम् अनभ्यारूढं चरति रोचमानम् । तस्माज् जातं ब्राह्मणं ब्रह्म ज्येष्ठं देवाश् च सर्वे अमृतेन साकम्

devānām etat pariṣūtam anabhyārūḍhaṃ carati rocamānam | tasmāj jātaṃ brāhmaṇaṃ brahma jyeṣṭhaṃ devāś ca sarve amṛtena sākam

This of the gods, impelled about, unmounted, moves shining. From it was born the brāhmaṇa, brahman the highest, and all the gods together with immortality.

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AV 11 5.24

ब्रह्मचारी ब्रह्म भ्राजद् बिभर्ति तस्मिन् देवा अधि विश्वे समोताः । प्राणापानौ जनयन्न् आद् व्यानं वाचं मनो हृदयं ब्रह्म मेधाम्

brahmacārī brahma bhrājad bibharti tasmin devā adhi viśve samotāḥ | prāṇāpānau janayann ād vyānaṃ vācaṃ mano hṛdayaṃ brahma medhām

The brahmacārin bears brahman, blazing; in him all the gods are woven together. Generating in-breath and out-breath, then the diffused breath, speech, mind, heart, brahman, insight.

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AV 11 5.25

चक्षुः श्रोत्रं यशो अस्मासु धेह्य् अन्नं रेतो लोहितम् उदरम्

cakṣuḥ śrotraṃ yaśo asmāsu dhehy annaṃ reto lohitam udaram

Place in us sight, hearing, glory, food, seed, blood, a belly.

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AV 11 5.26

तानि कल्पन् ब्रह्मचारी सलिलस्य पृष्ठे तपो ऽतिष्ठत् तप्यमानः समुद्रे । स स्नातो बभ्रुः पिङ्गलः पृथिव्यां बहु रोचते

tāni kalpan brahmacārī salilasya pṛṣṭhe tapo 'tiṣṭhat tapyamānaḥ samudre | sa snāto babhruḥ piṅgalaḥ pṛthivyāṃ bahu rocate

Arranging these, the brahmacārin stood in fervour (tapas) on the back of the waters, heating himself in the sea. He, bathed, brown, tawny, shines much upon the earth.

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