Mantra 2
Sukta 135
यत् पिबामि सं पिबामि समुद्र इव संपिबः । प्राणानमुष्य संपाय सं पिबामो अमुं वयम्
yát pibā́mi sáṃ pibāmi samudrá iva saṃpibáḥ | prāṇā́n amúṣya saṃpā́ya sáṃ pibāmo amúṃ vayám ||
What I drink, that drink I wholly, like the Ocean drinking all: having drunk up the breaths of that man, we drink him up entire, even we.
Was ich trinke, das trinke ich ganz, wie der Ozean alles in sich aufnimmt. Nachdem wir die prāṇa-s (Lebensatem) jenes Mannes völlig ausgetrunken haben, trinken wir ihn ganz aus — ja, wir.
Rishi: Atharvanic (unspecified in input)
Devata: Prāṇa (vital breath) as operative power; ocean as cosmological analogy
Chandas: Anuṣṭubh (probable)
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