Atharvaveda Samhita — Kanda 19 — Chapter 32

AV 19 32.1

शतकाण्डो दुश्च्यवनः सहस्रपर्ण उत्तिरः । दर्भो य उग्र ओषधिस् तं ते बध्नाम्य् आयुषे

śatakāṇḍo duścyavanaḥ sahasraparṇa uttiraḥ | darbho ya ugra oṣadhis taṃ te badhnāmy āyuṣe

Hundred-jointed, hard to shake down, thousand-leaved, surpassing — the darbha that is a fierce plant, that one I bind on you for (long) life.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

AV 19 32.2

नास्य केशान् प्र वपन्ति नोरसि ताडम् आ घ्नते । यस्मा अछिन्नपर्णेन दर्भेन शर्म यछति

nāsya keśān pra vapanti norasi tāḍam ā ghnate | yasmā achinnaparṇena darbhena śarma yachati

They do not shear off his hair, nor do they strike a blow upon his chest, for whom (the darbha) grants shelter with its uncut leaf.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

AV 19 32.3

दिवि ते तूलम् ओषधे पृथिव्याम् असि निष्ठितः । त्वया सहस्रकाण्डेनायुः प्र वर्धयामहे

divi te tūlam oṣadhe pṛthivyām asi niṣṭhitaḥ | tvayā sahasrakāṇḍenāyuḥ pra vardhayāmahe

In heaven is your tuft, O plant; on the earth you are set firm. By you, the thousand-jointed, we make our lifetime grow.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

AV 19 32.4

तिस्रो दिवो अत्य् अतृणत् तिस्र इमाः पृथिवीर् उत । त्वयाहं दुर्हार्दो जिह्वां नि तृणद्मि वचांसि

tisro divo aty atṛṇat tisra imāḥ pṛthivīr uta | tvayāhaṃ durhārdo jihvāṃ ni tṛṇadmi vacāṃsi

It has split through the three heavens and these three earths as well. By you I split down the tongue and the words of the ill-hearted one.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

AV 19 32.5

त्वम् असि सहमानो ऽहम् अस्मि सहस्वान् । उभौ सहस्वन्तौ भूत्वा सपत्नान् सहिषीवहि

tvam asi sahamāno 'ham asmi sahasvān | ubhau sahasvantau bhūtvā sapatnān sahiṣīvahi

You are one who overpowers, I am one possessed of overpowering might; both of us, having become possessed of might, let us overpower our rivals.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

AV 19 32.6

सहस्व नो अभिमातिं सहस्व पृतनायतः । सहस्व सर्वान् दुर्हार्दः सुहार्दो मे बहून् कृधि

sahasva no abhimātiṃ sahasva pṛtanāyataḥ | sahasva sarvān durhārdaḥ suhārdo me bahūn kṛdhi

Overpower for us the one who plots against us, overpower those who fight against (us); overpower all the ill-hearted, and make many well-hearted toward me.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

AV 19 32.7

दर्भेण देवजातेन दिवि ष्टम्भेन शश्वद् इत् । तेनाहं शश्वतो जनाꣳ असनं सनवानि च

darbheṇa devajātena divi ṣṭambhena śaśvad it | tenāhaṃ śaśvato janāṁ asanaṃ sanavāni ca

With the darbha, god-born, the prop in heaven, unfailingly indeed — by it I have won and may I win unfailing peoples.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain

AV 19 32.8

प्रियं मा दर्भ कृणु ब्रह्मराजन्याभ्याम् शूद्राय चार्याय च । यस्मै च कामयामहे सर्वस्मै च विपश्यते

priyaṃ mā darbha kṛṇu brahmarājanyābhyām śūdrāya cāryāya ca | yasmai ca kāmayāmahe sarvasmai ca vipaśyate

Make me dear, O darbha, to brahman and rājanya, to śūdra and to ārya, and to him for whom we wish it, and to everyone who looks on.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

AV 19 32.9

यो जायमानः पृथिवीम् अदृंहद् यो अस्तभ्नाद् अन्तरिक्षं दिवं च । यं बिभ्रतं ननु पाप्मा विवेद स नो ऽयं दर्भो वरुणो दिवा कः

yo jāyamānaḥ pṛthivīm adṛṃhad yo astabhnād antarikṣaṃ divaṃ ca | yaṃ bibhrataṃ nanu pāpmā viveda sa no 'yaṃ darbho varuṇo divā kaḥ

He who, while being born, made the earth firm, who propped up the midspace and the sky, whom, when one carries him, evil has never found out — may this darbha of ours, (as) Varuṇa, act by day (for us).

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain

AV 19 32.10

सपत्नहा शतकाण्डः सहस्वान् ओषधीनां प्रथमः सं बभूव । स नो ऽयं दर्भः परि पातु विश्वतस् तेन साक्षीय पृतनाः पृतन्यतः

sapatnahā śatakāṇḍaḥ sahasvān oṣadhīnāṃ prathamaḥ saṃ babhūva | sa no 'yaṃ darbhaḥ pari pātu viśvatas tena sākṣīya pṛtanāḥ pṛtanyataḥ

Slayer of rivals, hundred-jointed, possessed of overpowering might, it has come into being as the first of the plants. May this darbha of ours protect us on all sides; by it may I overcome the battle-lines of him who fights against me.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition