Atharva Veda 3.7.6: Kanda 3, Anuvaka 1, Sukta 7, Mantra 6

Sukta 7

Sanskrit (Devanagari)

यदा॑सु॒तेः क्रि॒यमा॑णायाः क्षेत्रि॒यं त्वा॑ व्यान॒शे। वेदा॒हं तस्य॑ भेष॒जं क्षे॑त्रि॒यं ना॑शयामि॒ त्वत्

Recitation with translationAtharva Veda 3.7.6

IAST Transliteration

yádā́sutéḥ kriyámāṇāyāḥ kṣetríyaṃ tvā́ vyānaśé | védā́háṃ tásya bheṣajáṃ kṣétriyaṃ nā́śayāmi tvát ||

English Translation (Griffith/Whitney)

When the pressing is a-doing, when the operation is in act, thee, O Kṣetriya, I overtake and encompass. I know the medicine thereof: the Kṣetriya I destroy—away from thee.

Translation

Wenn das Pressen (Soma-Pressung) vollzogen wird, wenn die Handlung im Gange ist, dich, o Kṣetriya, erreiche und umfasse ich. Ich kenne das Heilmittel dafür: den Kṣetriya vernichte ich — fort von dir.

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Word by Word

• यदा: when
• यदा: Adhikaraṇa
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: यदा (अव्यय)

• असुतेः: of the pressing/extraction (i.e., at the time of producing)
• असुतेः: Sambandha (genitive relation)
• Type: Noun
• Root: असुति- (प्रातिपदिक; √सु ‘to press/extract’ → असुति ‘pressing/extraction/production’)

• क्रियमाणायाः: being done/being performed
• क्रियमाणायाः: Viśeṣaṇa (qualifier) of असुतेः
• Type: Participle (verbal adjective)
• Root: √कृ (कृ-धातु) → क्रियमाण (वर्तमान-कर्तरि/कर्मणि कृदन्त; here passive) + स्त्री-प्रत्यय

• क्षेत्रियम्: the kṣetriya-disease/field-born affliction
• क्षेत्रियम्: Karma
• Type: Noun/Adjective
• Root: क्षेत्रिय- (प्रातिपदिक)

• त्वा: you
• त्वा: Karma (of व्यानशे)
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: युष्मद् (सर्वनाम)

• व्यानशे: has reached/has come upon
• व्यानशे: Kriyā (verbal predicate)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √नश् (नश्/अश् ‘to reach, attain, come upon’) with vi-

• वेद: I know
• वेद: Kriyā (verbal predicate)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √विद् (to know)

• अहम्: I
• अहम्: Kartā (of वेद/नाशयामि)
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: अहम् (सर्वनाम)

• तस्य: of that (affliction)
• तस्य: Sambandha (genitive relation)
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद् (सर्वनाम)

• भेषजम्: remedy, medicine
• भेषजम्: Karma (of वेद: ‘know (as) the remedy’)
• Type: Noun
• Root: भेषज- (प्रातिपदिक)

• क्षेत्रियम्: the kṣetriya-disease/field-born affliction
• क्षेत्रियम्: Karma (of नाशयामि)
• Type: Noun/Adjective
• Root: क्षेत्रिय- (प्रातिपदिक)

• नाशयामि: I destroy, I drive away
• नाशयामि: Kriyā (verbal predicate)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √नश्/नाशय् (causative of √नश्/√नाश् ‘to perish’ → ‘to destroy’)

• त्वत्: from you
• त्वत्: Apādāna
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: युष्मद् (सर्वनाम)

Attribution

Rishi: Atharvanic tradition (attribution varies by anukramaṇī for this healing cycle)

Devata: Bheṣajá / expulsion of Kṣetriya (disease-demon)

Chandas: Anuṣṭubh (probable; common for concise healing charms)

Mantra Rasa

Primary: shanta

Secondary: vira