Atharva Veda 18.2.40: Kanda 18, Anuvaka 1, Sukta 2, Mantra 40

Sukta 2

Sanskrit (Devanagari)

अपे॒मां मात्रां॑ मिमीमहे॒ यथाप॑रं॒ न मासा॑तै । श॒ते श॒रत्सु॒ नो पु॒रा

IAST Transliteration

apémā́ṃ mā́trāṃ mimīmahe yáthā́paraṃ ná mā́sātai | śaté śáratsu no purā́

English Translation (Griffith/Whitney)

Away this measure we do mete, that it be not thereafter spent in months: a hundred autumns—so for us, as in the days of old.

Translation

Fort dieses Maß messen wir ab, damit es hernach nicht in Monaten aufgezehrt werde: hundert Herbste — so sei es uns, wie in den Tagen von einst.

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Word by Word

• अप: away, off (prefix)
• अप: —
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: अप (उपसर्ग/अव्यय)

• इमाम्: this (f.)
• इमाम्: कर्म
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: इदम् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)

• मात्राम्: measure, limit
• मात्राम्: कर्म
• Type: Noun
• Root: मात्रा (प्रातिपदिक)

• मिमीमहे: we measure / we mete out
• मिमीमहे: —
• Type: Verb
• Root: √मा (माने/मिमीत्; ‘to measure’)

• यथा: so that, as
• यथा: —
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: यथा (अव्यय)

• अपरम्: further, later, next
• अपरम्: —
• Type: Adjective
• Root: अपर (प्रातिपदिक)

• न: not
• न: —
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: न (अव्यय)

• मासातै: from a month / than a month
• मासातै: अपादान
• Type: Noun (ablatival form)
• Root: मास (प्रातिपदिक) + अत् (तद्धित; ‘from/than’)

• शते: in a hundred
• शते: अधिकारण
• Type: Numeral/Adjective
• Root: शत (प्रातिपदिक)

• शरत्सु: in (many) autumns/years
• शरत्सु: अधिकारण
• Type: Noun
• Root: शरद् (प्रातिपदिक)

• नः: of us, our
• नः: सम्बन्ध
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: अस्मद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)

• पुरा: formerly, before
• पुरा: —
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: पुरा (अव्यय)

Attribution

Rishi: Atharvanic tradition (variable anukramaṇī attribution)

Devata: Āyus / apotropaic removal of āyur-hāni

Chandas: Anuṣṭubh (refrain-form)

Mantra Rasa

Primary: shanta

Secondary: vira