Mantra 19

Sukta 96

Sanskrit (Devanagari)

हृदयात् ते परि क्लोम्नो हलीक्ष्णात् पार्श्वाभ्याम्। यक्ष्मं मतस्नाभ्यां प्लीह्नो यक्नस्ते वि वृहामसि

IAST Transliteration

hṛ́dayāt te pári klómno hālīkṣṇā́t pārśvā́bhyām | yákṣmaṃ matásnābhyāṃ plī́hno yáknas te ví vṛhāmasi

English Translation (Griffith/Whitney)

From thy heart, from about the kloman, from the hālīkṣṇa, from thy sides—yakṣma from the inner parts, from the spleen, from the liver, from thee we tear it utterly forth.

Word by Word

हृदयात्from the heart

तेof you/your

परिaround; away from (as a preverb)

क्लोम्नःof the kloman (a visceral organ; often taken as lung/‘midriff’ organ)

हलीक्ष्णात्from the hālīkṣṇa (a bodily part/organ; AV anatomical term)

पार्श्वाभ्याम्with/from the two sides (flanks)

यक्ष्मम्consumption; wasting disease (yakṣma)

मतस्नाभ्याम्with/from the two ‘mat-snā’ parts (AV anatomical term; lit. ‘flesh-bath’—a bodily tissue/part)

प्लीह्नःof the spleen

यक्नःof the liver

तेof you/your

विapart; asunder; out (intensifying/separative preverb)

वृहामसिwe tear out; we uproot (remove)

Attribution

Rishi: Atharvanic healer-seer tradition (variable).

Devata: Yakṣma (as disease-demon) / healing efficacy of mantra.

Chandas: Anuṣṭubh

Mantra Rasa

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