Mantra 4

Sukta 23

Sanskrit (Devanagari)

अस्थिजस्य किलासस्य तनूजस्य च यत् त्वचि। दूष्या कृतस्य ब्रह्मणा लक्ष्म श्वेतमनीनशम्

IAST Transliteration

asthijásya kilā́sasya tanūjásya ca yát tvací | dū́ṣyā́ kṛtásya bráhmaṇā lákṣma śvetám anīnaśam ||

English Translation (Griffith/Whitney)

Whatsoever of bone-begotten, of kilāsa, and of body-begotten (ill) is upon the skin—O blemish—by the spell-power, as of a thing wrought (and imposed), that white mark have I made to vanish.

Translation

وكلُّ ما على الجلد من كِلَاسا مولودٍ من العظم، ومن علّةٍ مولودةٍ من الجسد—يا وصمة—بقوّة التعاويذ (بْرَهْمَن)، كأنّه شيءٌ مصنوعٌ مُلصَق، قد جعلتُ تلك العلامةَ البيضاء تزول.

Word by Word

• अस्थिजस्य: of (the disease/affliction) arising from bone
• अस्थिजस्य: सम्बन्ध (genitive relation)
• Type: Noun/Adjective
• Root: अस्थिज (प्रातिपदिक; अस्थि + ज ‘जन्म/उत्पत्ति’)

• किलासस्य: of leucoderma/skin-discoloration (kīlāsa)
• किलासस्य: सम्बन्ध
• Type: Noun
• Root: किलास (प्रातिपदिक)

• तनूजस्य: of that born in the body / congenital
• तनूजस्य: सम्बन्ध
• Type: Noun/Adjective
• Root: तनूज (प्रातिपदिक; तनू + ज)

• च: and
• च: —
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च

• यत्: whatever (that which)
• यत्: कर्म (नीनशम् इत्यस्य) / सम्बन्धक
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: यद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)

• त्वचि: in/on the skin
• त्वचि: अधिकारण
• Type: Noun
• Root: त्वच् (प्रातिपदिक)

• दूष्या: to be defiled; defiling/tainting
• दूष्या: कर्म (नीनशम् इत्यस्य) / विशेषण
• Type: Adjective
• Root: दूष्य (कृदन्त-प्रातिपदिक; √दूष् ‘दूषण’ + य)

• कृतस्य: of what is done/made (produced)
• कृतस्य: सम्बन्ध (ब्रह्मणा इत्यस्य सह—‘of the done/produced’)
• Type: Adjective/Participle
• Root: कृत (कृदन्त-प्रातिपदिक; √कृ ‘करण’ क्त)

• ब्रह्मणा: by (the power of) sacred utterance / brahman (spell)
• ब्रह्मणा: करण
• Type: Noun
• Root: ब्रह्मन् (प्रातिपदिक)

• लक्ष्म: O Lakṣmī—(here:) O blemish/mark of disease
• लक्ष्म: सम्बोधन
• Type: Noun
• Root: लक्ष्मी/लक्ष्मन् (प्रातिपदिक; AV में ‘लक्ष्म’ = दुष्ट-लक्षण/रोग-चिह्न)

• श्वेतम्: white
• श्वेतम्: कर्म (नीनशम् इत्यस्य) / विशेषण
• Type: Adjective
• Root: श्वेत (प्रातिपदिक)

• अनीनशम्: I drive away / I remove
• अनीनशम्: कर्तृ (अहं/मन्त्रः निहितः)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √नश्/नश् (वेद. ‘नाशयति/अपनयति’), with reduplication (अ-नी-नश्)

Attribution

Rishi: Atharvanic tradition (often transmitted under Atharvan/Angiras lineages for bhaiṣajya hymns; specific r̥ṣi attribution depends on Anukramaṇī tradition for AVŚ 1.23)

Devata: Lakṣmī as ‘blemish/mark’ (personified pathology); implicitly Brahman (spell-power) as the effective agency

Chandas: Anuṣṭubh (probable; to be confirmed against pada-count in the edition used)

Mantra Rasa

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