Atharvaveda Samhita — Kanda 4 — Chapter 34

AV 4 34.1

ब्रह्मास्य शीर्षं बृहद् अस्य पृष्ठं वामदेव्यम् उदरम् ओदनस्य । छन्दांसि पक्षौ मुखम् अस्य सत्यं विष्टारी जातस् तपसोऽधि यज्ञः

brahmāsya śīrṣaṃ bṛhad asya pṛṣṭhaṃ vāmadevyam udaram odanasya | chandāṃsi pakṣau mukham asya satyaṃ viṣṭārī jātas tapaso'dhi yajñaḥ

The brahman is its head, the bṛhat its back, the vāmadevya the belly of the rice-porridge; the metres are its two wings, its mouth is truth; the far-spreading (porridge), born out of ascetic heat, is the sacrifice.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

AV 4 34.2

अनस्थाः पूताः पवनेन शुद्धाः शुचयः शुचिम् अपि यन्ति लोकम् । नैषां शिश्नं प्र दहति जातवेदाः स्वर्गे लोके बहु स्त्रैणम् एषाम्

anasthāḥ pūtāḥ pavanena śuddhāḥ śucayaḥ śucim api yanti lokam | naiṣāṃ śiśnaṃ pra dahati jātavedāḥ svarge loke bahu straiṇam eṣām

Boneless, purified, cleansed by the winnowing-wind, the pure ones go to the pure world; Jātavedas does not burn up their member: in the heavenly world much womanhood is theirs.

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

AV 4 34.3

विष्टारिणम् ओदनं ये पचन्ति नैनान् अवर्तिः सचते कदा चन । आस्ते यम उप याति देवान्त् सं गन्धर्वैर् मदते सोम्येभिः

viṣṭāriṇam odanaṃ ye pacanti nainān avartiḥ sacate kadā cana | āste yama upa yāti devānt saṃ gandharvair madate somyebhiḥ

Those who cook the far-spreading rice-porridge — want never attends them; Yama sits (with them), he goes to the gods, he rejoices together with the Soma-drinking Gandharvas.

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

AV 4 34.4

विष्टारिणम् ओदनम् ये पचन्ति नैनान् यमः परि मुष्णाति रेतः । रथी ह भूत्वा रथयान ईयते पक्षी ह भूत्वाति दिवः सम् एति

viṣṭāriṇam odanam ye pacanti nainān yamaḥ pari muṣṇāti retaḥ | rathī ha bhūtvā rathayāna īyate pakṣī ha bhūtvāti divaḥ sam eti

Those who cook the far-spreading rice-porridge — Yama does not steal away their seed; having become a chariot-owner, he travels riding a chariot; having become winged, he passes beyond the sky.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

AV 4 34.5

एष यज्ञानां विततो वहिष्ठो विष्टारिणं पक्त्वा दिवम् आ विवेश । आण्डीकं कुमुदं सं तनोति बिसं शालूकं शफको मुलाली । एतास् त्वा धारा उप यन्तु सर्वाः स्वर्गे लोके मधुमत् पिन्वमाना उप त्वा तिष्ठन्तु पुष्करिणीः समन्ताः

eṣa yajñānāṃ vitato vahiṣṭho viṣṭāriṇaṃ paktvā divam ā viveśa | āṇḍīkaṃ kumudaṃ saṃ tanoti bisaṃ śālūkaṃ śaphako mulālī | etās tvā dhārā upa yantu sarvāḥ svarge loke madhumat pinvamānā upa tvā tiṣṭhantu puṣkariṇīḥ samantāḥ

This, the best-carrying, extended one of the sacrifices, having cooked the far-spreading (porridge), has entered heaven. The egg-like lotus-flower spreads itself out, the lotus-stalk, the lotus-root, the śaphaka, the mulālī. Let all these streams come to thee, swelling with honey in the heavenly world; let the lotus-pools stand about thee on every side.

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

AV 4 34.6

घृतह्रदा मधुकूलाः सुरोदकाः क्षीरेण पूर्णा उदकेन दध्ना । एतास् त्वा धारा उप यन्तु सर्वाः स्वर्गे लोके मधुमत् पिन्वमाना उप त्वा तिष्ठन्तु पुष्करिणीः समन्ताः

ghṛtahradā madhukūlāḥ surodakāḥ kṣīreṇa pūrṇā udakena dadhnā | etās tvā dhārā upa yantu sarvāḥ svarge loke madhumat pinvamānā upa tvā tiṣṭhantu puṣkariṇīḥ samantāḥ

With pools of ghee, banks of honey, waters of liquor, filled with milk, with water, with curds — let all these streams come to thee, swelling with honey in the heavenly world; let the lotus-pools stand about thee on every side.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

AV 4 34.7

चतुरः कुम्भांश् चतुर्धा ददामि क्षीरेण पूर्नाꣳ उदकेन दध्ना । एतास् त्वा धारा उप यन्तु सर्वाः स्वर्गे लोके मधुमत् पिन्वमाना उप त्वा तिष्ठन्तु पुष्करिणीः समन्ताः

caturaḥ kumbhāṃś caturdhā dadāmi kṣīreṇa pūrnāṁ udakena dadhnā | etās tvā dhārā upa yantu sarvāḥ svarge loke madhumat pinvamānā upa tvā tiṣṭhantu puṣkariṇīḥ samantāḥ

Four jars I give in fourfold fashion, filled with milk, with water, with curds — let all these streams come to thee, swelling with honey in the heavenly world; let the lotus-pools stand about thee on every side.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

AV 4 34.8

इमम् ओदनं नि दधे ब्राह्मणेषु विष्टारिणं लोकजितं स्वर्गम् । स मे मा क्षेष्ट स्वधया पिन्वमानो विश्वरूपा धेनुः कामदुघा मे अस्तु

imam odanaṃ ni dadhe brāhmaṇeṣu viṣṭāriṇaṃ lokajitaṃ svargam | sa me mā kṣeṣṭa svadhayā pinvamāno viśvarūpā dhenuḥ kāmadughā me astu

This rice-porridge I deposit among the Brahmans, the far-spreading, world-conquering, heavenly one. Let it not be exhausted for me, swelling with its own power; let it be for me an all-formed cow that milks out wishes.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition